On-Demand Webinars

Geology and Rock Music just seem to go together, and what better place to collide these topics than Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado! On October 10, 2025, onsite and online panelists taught and shared stories connecting geoscience and rock-n-roll.

May be the best 'stories' were told by Lesli Wood as prelude to her songs. They are captured in the full recording of the event.

Online Event Discussion include:

• Geologic Framework of Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Fountain Formation by Dr. Sally Sutton from Collorado State University
• Converting seismic data into music with examples, "Listening to Geophysics" by Dr. Paolo Dell'Aversana
• "Metallica-Quake" recorded on May 7, 2025 at Virginia Tech by Dr. Martin Chapman with prelude introductory remarks by Dr. Maddie Schrieber

Onsite Event Discussion include:

• Ground water of the Fountain Formation by Dr. Tom Sale, Colorado State University

Music, geologic stories, and Red Rocks insights by:

• Lesli Wood and the Band of Geos!

Event Highlight Video (95 seconds)

Photos from The Rock Room

Full event recording (2:10:00 duration)

"Red Rocks Amphitheater will never be the same after The Geology of Rock-n-Roll!"
  -Alicia Faulker, Red Rocks Amphitheater Meeting Events Manager

"I just kept thinking how excited everyone was to be there!"
  -Lauren Ryan, GeoWoman Extraordinaire

"This is EPIC!!"
  -Katerina Yared, PG PMP CDI.D.

Tommy Thayer

Expert Panelists

	Sally J. Sutton, PhD is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geosciences within the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Dr. Sutton is an accomplished Geologist with research interests that include Sedimentary petrology and geochemistry, shale geology, fluid/rock interaction, chemical weathering, clastic diagenesis. Sally will be contributing remotely from Portugal to this event.
	Lesli Wood, PhD is the Robert Weimer Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology at Colorado School of Mines, Golden. Lesli is recognized internationally for her breakthrough geologic accommplishments and industry consortium, 'SAND', The Sedimentary Analogs Database and Research Program. Her major interests are in morphometrics used in risking & modeling clastics systems, quantitative seismic geomorphology, shale tectonics & martian landscapes & processes. Dr. Wood also plays music with her band & has 2 original albums out. She has a pig named Bartley.
	Paolo Dell'Aversana, Senior Geophysicist, Electromagnetic Team Leader, Senior Data Scientist and Project Manager at Eni SpA, Digital Musician and Multimedia Artist, Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Paolo is a technical leader and senior researcher in eni E&P located in Milan, Italy. His main responsibility is to develop and to apply integrated approaches in geophysics, using electromagnetic methods combined with seismic and gravity. Over the past decade he has been project manager of many projects of electromagnetic data acquisition, modelling, inversion and interpretation. He is expert in Data Science and Machine Learning, in joint inversion of multi-disciplinary geophysical data, in borehole electromagnetic, in rock physics and in seismic tomography.
	Martin Chapman, PhD, is an internationally-recognized Research Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO). in the Department of Geology at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg. Martin's research interests include seismicity and tectonics of plate interiors. He studies geologic causes of earthquakes and the characteristics of seismic wave propagation using data from VTSO stations as well as other seismic stations in eastern North America. As a strong-motion seismologist, he makes extensive use of the world-wide collection of strong motion data from large earthquakes to characterize and predict damaging motions in the near-fault distance range in a variety of tectonic environments.
	Madeline E. Schreiber, PhD, Professor of Hydrogeosciences and Associate Department Head at the Department of Geology at Virginia Tech University. Madeline (Maddie) is an accomplished researcher in chemical hydrogeology developing approaches to make quantitative predictions about solute behavior in natural waters. Maddie combines field observations, laboratory experiments and numerical models to tackle challenging questions about solute behavior, with a practical goal of protecting water quality. Maddie will offer prelude remarks before Martin Chapman shares details about the "Metallica-Quake" that was detected at VTU on May 7, 2025.
	Tom Sale, PhD is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Geosciences within the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Dr. Sale was named the 2024 CSU Innovator of the Year and recently published a landmark book with co-author Joe Scalia through The Groundwater Project, MODERN SUBSURFACE CONTAMINANT HYDROLOGY. Dr. Sale shared a summary about the ground water within the Fountain Formation to the live onsite audience as a prelude to the streaming event.

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