Events Calendar

  • April 18, 2009 - Focus the Nation 2009. Focus the Nation website. If you are interested in participating, please e-mail ei@lehigh.edu.

  • April 22, 2009 - EARTH DAY! - No Events. Events held on April 15

  • April 25, 2009 - Saint Michael's Cemetary Clean Up - wear appropriate shoes! 9am - 2pm. Click Here for a flyer.

  • April 25-26, 2009 - Lehigh Gap Nature Center volunteering at the Palmerton Superfund site. 9am-3pm each day. Volunteers will be planting one species of experimental native forbs at a time in a 10 meter by 10 meter square area. If you want to volunteer, contact LGNC at 610-760-8889 or lgnc@ptd.net

  • May 2, 2009 - Lehigh Gap Nature Center volunteering at the Palmerton Superfund site. 9am-3pm each day. Volunteers will be planting one species of experimental native forbs at a time in a 10 meter by 10 meter square area. If you want to volunteer, contact LGNC at 610-760-8889 or lgnc@ptd.net

  • June 6, 2009 - “Travel the Towpath,” a celebration of Bethlehem’s most popular trail – the Lehigh Canal Towpath (a.k.a. the D&L Trail) – will take place along more than two miles of the historic trail from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
    Click Here for a flyer.

  • Thursdays, June-Sept. - Bethlehem Farmers' Market The Bethlehem Farmers' Market will run at the intersection of New and Morton Streets from noon until 5pm.

  • First Friday of Every Month - First Fridays in South Bethlehem! Stop by and enjoy the live music, food, entertainment and in store specials the first friday of every month from 6 - 10pm http://www.bethlehem.info/entertainment/events

 

George Yasko

LEO Field Projects Manager

George Yasko is the Field Projects and Laboratory Manager for the Lehigh University’s Lehigh Earth Observatory (LEO) www.leo.lehigh.edu. George joined the Lehigh staff in 1982 as a Laboratory Technician with the Geological Sciences Department. Starting in 1991 he was the Instrument Technician for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department (EES), which was formed through the merger of faculty from the Geological Sciences and Biology Departments. He participated in the pilot program for the Lehigh Earth Observatory (LEO) in 1997. When LEO began official operation in 1999 he joined the LEO staff. While with EES George designed and built a variety of instruments. He also has participated in a number of research projects, which include a dive on ALVIN (http://www.whoi.edu/marops/vehicles/alvin/). With LEO, George is responsible for directing the student internship program, technical operations and LEO in general. He provides instruction to student interns on laboratory, field, data collection and analysis techniques. He develops student projects with external partners and also continues to design and build instrumentation.

George is a graduate of Ryder Technical Institute. He spent 9 years employed by Ingersoll Rand Corporation’s Turbo Division’s Development Instrumentation Group. There he developed, designed and built instrumentation systems and also instrumented steam turbines, axial flow compressors, compressor blades and jet engines for a variety of vibration, stress and performance measurements.

George has been a middle and high school football coach for 31 years. He is an avid cyclist and enjoys attempting to play the piano! At anytime of the year he can tell you how many shopping days until Christmas!