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May 2025: 
Dr. Kerrigan finishes his eleventh year at Pitt-Johnstown.

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This Semester (Fall 2024) I will be teaching:
   GEO-0300 Geodynamics 
   GEO-0900 Mineralogy

Next Semester (Spring 2025) I am teaching:
   GEO-0092 Geology of National Parks
    GEO-0220 Fossil Fuels and Economic Geology
   GEO-1260 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

Full list of classes taught at Pitt-Johnstown:
  
GEO-0100 Physical Geology
   GEO-0061 Historical Geology
    GEO-0092 Geology of National Parks - next taught Spring 26
   GEO-0093 Geology and Cinema - next taught Spring 27
   GEO-0220 Fossil Fuels and Economic Geology - next taught Spring 26
    GEO-0300 Geodynamics - taught every fall   
   GEO-0900 Mineralogy - next taught Fall 27
   GEO-0930 Geochemisty - next taught Spring 27
   
GEO-1000 Structural Geology - next taught Fall 26
    GEO-1260 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology - next taught Spring 26
   GEO-1305 Senior Capstone - next taught Spring 27
    GEO-1350 Geologic Field Methods - next taught Summer 27

UPJ Geology Newsletters:
   1982 UPJ Geology Newsletter
    1983 UPJ Geology Newsletter
   1985 UPJ Geology Newsletter
    1990 UPJ Geology Newsletter
   2023 UPJ Geology Newsletter
    2024 UPJ Geology Newsletter
   
Top images (left to right): Teaching kindergarteners about geology; the rock cycle; Field camp classroom Upper Taylor River, Gunnison Natl. Forest, CO; IUGS Mafic rock classification triangle; Field camp students at Starr Peak, Gunnision Natl. Forest, CO
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