Earth Sciences Seminars
Thank you for your participation in our seminar series! Your attendance at the weekly seminars is very much appreciated by the students and faculty of Earth Sciences.
Seminar takes place each Thursday from 12:15-1:15pm in Byker Auditorium (CBB 3). Please contact the department at [email protected] with any questions.
Spring 2024 Schedule
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Topic |
1/18 |
Beth Nelson |
Bridging the Human-Environment Divide: A Geographic Examination of Energy, Migration, Politics, and Climate Change |
1/25 |
Dr. Robbie Parks |
Climate Change and Public Health: From Research to Action |
2/1 |
Mark Skidmore |
Greenland Ice Sheet biogeochemical processes |
2/8 |
Hannah Dietterich |
Remote sensing for volcano monitoring and eruption dynamics in Alaska |
2/15 | Dr. Jeremy Patterson, Hydrogeologist -Earth, Environmental, Planetary Sciences at Rice University |
Stiff, Smooth, and Solid?: Challenging Our Assumptions of Fluid Flow Through Fractured Rock |
2/22 | Dr. Phillip Gopon, Senior Lecturer in Geology & Economic Geology, University of Leoben |
Hidden in plain sight: Sulfides minerals and mine waste as a source of invisible metals |
2/27 - Tuesday in Traphagen 225 @ 12:15pm |
Dr. Zachary F. Murguía Burton, Assistant Professor of Earth Materials, Bates College |
Stories in sand: Climatic extremes and critical resources in Earth's deserts and oceans |
2/29 | Sam Tuttle | How well do we know snow? Emerging techniques to monitor snow and snowmelt |
3/7 | Dr. Narcisa G. Pricope Associate Vice President for Research and Professor in the Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University |
Transformative Terrains: Navigating Change and Resilience Trhough Geospatial Sciences |
3/14 - Spring Break | NONE | NONE |
3/21 | Dr. Nic Lee, MIT |
Endless Ecosystems: Designing a world without waste |
3/28 | Chuck Bailey | TBA |
4/4 | Behnaz Hosseini | TBA |
4/11 |
Brennan Radulski |
TBA |
4/18 | Brian Pickles | TBA |
4/25 | Sebastian Dalman | New Ceratopsid dinosaurs (ornithischia: ceratopsidae) from the upper cretaceous de-na-zin member of the Kirtland formation, New Mexico: Evidence for high taxonomic diversity |
5/2 |
Juan Carlos de Obeso |
MSA Distinguished Lecture Series |
5/9 | Gene Humphreys | TBA |
Please check back frequently for updates to the seminar schedule.
To request disability accommodation or inform us of special needs, please contact Claudia Albrecht at [email protected] or 406-994-3331.