Although Frances C. Moore ’06, Geosociety social chair, beamed over SuperVolcano’s generous depiction of geologists, she said that the flick’s creators could have given them an even higher pedestal.
“I more particularly favor those [films] where the geologists save the world. But the geologists were definitely prominent,” said Moore, an aspiring geologist herself.
The Harvard Geosociety was founded at the start of this school year in order to bring together EPS concentrators as well as other students with a passing interest in geology, according to President Kristian J. Bergen ’06.
The Discovery Channel offered free screenings of SuperVolcano at several other colleges as well, Bergen said.
Although Hoffman assured several members of the crowd that the U.S. was safe from such an enormous eruption, a few students left incredulous.
“I think it’s a smart way to go about creating awareness,” Thomas R. Noriega ’07 said. “I’m scared to death now.”
—Staff writer Matthew S. Meisel can be reached at meisel@fas.harvard.edu.