The Symposium features five short talks and then a longer one:

• Marsha Allen, Mount Holyoke College: Deciphering the untold stories of a fractured rock aquifer.
• Greg De Wet, Smith College: The brGDGT Hype Cycle - Can we take this paleotemperature proxy from the Trough of Disillusionment to the Plateau of Productivity?
• Nick Holschuh, Amherst College: Between the surface and the substrate: measuring glacier deformation and sliding in real time.
• Matt Winnick, University of Massachusetts: Hydrologic controls on greenhouse gas emissions from rivers and streams.
• Steven Roof, Hampshire College: More evidence of rapid Arctic climate change: Lake ice changes on Lake Linne (Svalbard) over the past 20 years
• John Reid Speaker - Al Werner, Mount Holyoke College: Cyclical Sedimentation in the Portland Formation on the Campus of Mount Holyoke College: evidence of environmental change in the late Jurassic.