The fourth season of the Noble Foundation's Public Lectures in Science series continues on Thursday, Jan. 19, with a presentation by Lance Wood entitled How to Get a Dinosaur in Your Gas Tank.

Wood, laboratory manager for the Valero refinery in Ardmore, Okla., will explain how decaying organic matter becomes crude oil and how refinement transforms oil into gasoline and other petroleum-based products.

The lecture, which is free to the public, will be held at 7 p.m. in the Kruse Auditorium of the Noble Foundation, located at 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, Okla., and will be followed by a reception.

The Public Lectures in Science series, hosted by Dr. Marilyn Roossinck, began in 2002 with the goal of communicating scientific concepts to the community in easy-to-understand language.

For more information, call the Foundation at (580) 223-5810.

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The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. (www.noble.org), headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a nonprofit organization conducting agricultural, forage improvement and plant biology research; assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs; and providing grants to nonprofit charitable, educational and health organizations.