Scott Rice-Snow, visiting professor to Island Studies from Ball State University in Indiana, will make a public presentation on "protecting high-quality groundwater from petroleum development." Dr. Rice-Snow will discuss his research on this topic, gained from studying landscape and aquifer interactions near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The presentation and discussion will be in the Faculty Lounge in Main Building, UPEI, beginning at 7:00 pm Thursday, December 13. Dr. Rice-Snow is Chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at Ball State University, and is a Research Associate of the UPEI Institute of Island Studies. His specialties are in geomorphology and hydrology, with research focusing on natural landscapes sculpted by rivers, groundwater, and glaciers. In addition to Prince Edward Island, his field investigations take him to the central and western U.S. and Caribbean. He has published more than 20 research articles on landscape form and process, and has also made contributions in geoscience education, geoarchaeology, and paleoclimatology. For more information contact Island Studies at 566-0386, or inovaczek@upei.ca.