Spring 2024 Schedule

Date

Speaker(s)

Topic
1/18

Beth Nelson
Instructor in the Department of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University

Bridging the Human-Environment Divide: A Geographic Examination of Energy, Migration, Politics, and Climate Change
1/25

Dr. Robbie Parks
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences,
Columbia University

 Climate Change and Public Health: From Research to Action
2/1

Mark Skidmore
Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University 

 Greenland Ice Sheet biogeochemical processes

2/8

Hannah Dietterich
Research Geophysicist,
U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory

 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 Dr. Chuck Bailey
Structural Geologist,
College of William & Mary		 Sole Searching: The Deformation History of the Oman Ophiolite and its Metamorphic Sole
4/4 Behnaz Hosseini,
Ph.D. Candidate Earth Sciences,
Montana State University		 Are we recording? Putting embayment speedometry to the test using high pressure-temperature decompression experiments

4/11

Brennan Radulski,
Ph.D. Candidate Earth Sciences,
Montana State University 

Exploring Climate-Smart Agriculture Outcomes: The Cases of Farm Bill Conversation and California Agricultural Climate Change Policy
4/18 - CANCELLED! Dr. Brian John Pickles 
Associate Professor of Ecology,
University of Reading, UK		 Lichens, Drones, and Dinosaur Bones 
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 
University of Utah

 MSA Distinguished Lecture Series

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