Figen Mekik

Associate Professor of Geology

Grand Valley State University

616-331-3020

mekikf@gvsu.edu

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VITA

 

RESEARCH 

INTERESTS

 

TEACHING

PUBLICATIONS/REPRINTS

FIELD TRIPS

CRUISES

RADIOLARIANS

Favorite Links

 

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OUTREACH activities

 

 

Weather Station Papa [50N, 145W] 

September, 2006

 

Teaching Honor: Last Lecture Series Speaker, Nov. 29, 2007. LastLecture.pdf

Thanks to all my wonderful students who nominated me and who came to hear the talks this year. It is our students who make our jobs worth doing! 

    Graduation Marshals for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, April 25, 2009: 

Karen Libman (right) and Figen Mekik

The Lanthorn has a story on our NSF-funded project!!

Our Angus cruise made the Lanthorn!!  Read here.      

  

Outreach:

About Climate Science

[1] Global Warming is Your Fault!

A talk I gave for the Center for Inquiry in Grand Rapids, Michigan

January 14, 2009

Press for the Talk

 

[2] Blogs on www.realclimate.org:

Sweatin' the Mediterranean Heat

Ozone Hole Leaks and Other Tales

[3] Climate Science podcasts in Turkish! Iklim Gerçekleri

 

 

Outreach:

About pre-college science education:

Jessica Woudstra's ocean science lesson plans and exercises  

for elementary school teachers. 

 

 

 

And here is my favorite song from my favorite alternative rock band

Derin (Lyrics and music by Can Mekik, my nephew)  

San Sebastian turbidites, Spain, 2004

 

 

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