Friday, 10 October 2025 2:00pm - 4:30pm Mountain Time
GEOLOGY OF ROCK AND ROLL
Geology and Rock Music just seem to go together, and what better place to collide these topics than Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado! Join us for a live and in person event on October 10, 2025 where panelists will teach and share stories connecting geoscience and rock-n-roll.
We are thrilled to have the live music performance by Lesli Wood and her band from Golden, Colorado! With luck, you'll hear some of the songs played that are listed on the back of the "Side A - Side B" commemorative T-shirt. Rock On!
Official discussion topics include:
The geologic framework of Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Fountain Formation.
Converting seismic data into music with examples, "Listening to Geophysics"
"Metallica-Quake" recorded on May 7, 2025.
Chances are, there'll be some unofficial discussions too, LOL
Schedule:
Friday, October 10, 2025 2:00pm - 4:30pm Mountain Time
Series:
Part of our "Geology Of" event series
Co-Hosted By:
AAPG Women's Network, Association for Women Geoscientists Lone Star Chapter, and Midwest GeoSciences Group
Event Format:
Live In-Person
Cost:
$99 (USD)
Location:
Red Rocks Amphitheater Red Rock Room Morrison CO
Expert Panelists:
Sally Sutton, Lesli Wood, Paolo Dell'Aversana, Martin Chapman and Maddie Schreiber
Duration:
2.5 hours
In-Person Event Perks...
Event experience at Red Rocks Amphitheater
Free Music
Free Appetizers
Free Commemorative Guitar Pick (shown below)
Free Commemorative Sticker (shown below)
Free Commemorative Certificate showing "I was there!"
Cash Bar
Engaging Discussions with likeminded Professionals
Some Event Items...
Geology of Rock & Roll "World Tour" T-Shirt
$45.00 (USD)
(get a set of 3 Guitar Picks with each order)
Geology of Rock & Roll "Side 1 / 2" T-Shirt
$45.00 (USD)
(get a set of 3 Guitar Picks with each order)
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.
Lesli in Action...
Organized By
Association for Women Geoscientists Lone Star Chapter
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