LEWISTON - The chairman of the civil and environmental engineering department at Princeton University will give a talk at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at Bates College.

Michael Celia will present "Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option" in Room 204, Carnegie Science Building, 44 Campus Ave.

Celia is giving the lecture at colleges and universities across the country thanks to the Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series in Ground Water Science, sponsored by the Ohio-based National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation. Presented at Bates by the environmental studies program, the lecture is open to the public at no cost. For more information, call 207-786-6464.