NIU Professor of Geology to speak at Knox

Dr. Eugene C. Perry, professor of Geology at Northern Illinois University, will give a talk about his research on the groundwater of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, at 4 p.m., Tuesday, October 2 in Ferris Lounge, Seymour Hall, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. The event is free and open to the public.

"Aspects of the hydrogeology of the northern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico [Sounding cenotes and muddling among the Maya]," is the title of Perry's talk, who earned his PhD from MIT.

A member of the faculty at NIU since 1972, Perry teaches a variety of courses for undergraduates and graduates majoring in geology. He has traveled extensively and has been studying the Yucatan, its people and its customs for many years.

For years Perry has been acquiring geochemical data from the karst aquifer of the northern Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, that can be used for groundwater model calibration.

The event is sponsored by the Department of Environmental Studies.