Seminars

The Department of Earth Science seminar series is a weekly one-hour long seminar open to the public that involves invited speakers from a wide variety of other institutions. The Fall '24 seminar will be in-person and on Zoom.  If you would like information on meeting location or Zoom link please contact Professor Slotznick, the 2023-2024 seminar series organizer. If you would like to schedule a meeting with the guest speaker, contact the Faculty Host mentioned below. Information about individual seminar events can also be viewed on our main page calendar.

CURRENT SEMINARS

Spring 2024

Seminar is from 1:10-2:10pm (unless otherwise noted) room TBA.

  • March 28, 2024
    Dr. Julia WIlcots - Princeton University; Faculty Host Brenhin Keller
    Title: TBA
  • April 4, 2024
    Dr. Ilissa Ocko - Environmental Defense Fund; Faculty Host Wil Leavitt
    Title: TBA
  • April 11, 2024
    Dr. John Slack - USGS (Emeritus); Faculty Host Justin Strauss
    Title: TBA
  • April 18, 2024
    TBA - ; PROF Search (zoom)
    Title: TBA
  • April 25, 2024
    TBA - ; PROF Search (zoom)
    Title: TBA
  • May 5, 2024
    TBA - ; PROF Search (zoom)
    Title: TBA
  • May 9, 2024
    TBA - ; Faculty Host
    Title: TBA
  • May 16, 2024
    TBA - ; Faculty Host
    Title: TBA
  • May 23, 2024
    Dr. Marianne Haseloff - UW Madison ; Postdoc Host Kasia Warburton
    Title: TBA
  • May 30, 2024
    Dr. Billy Armstrong - Appalachian State University; Faculty Host Bob Hawley
    Title: TBA
Recent Seminars

Winter 2024

  • February 15, 2024
    Dr. Jim Kirchner - ETH Zürich; Faculty Host Xiahong Feng
     
  • February 22, 2024
    Dr. Madison Douglas - MIT/UC Berkeley; Faculty Host Marisa Palucis
     "Mechanics of permafrost river migration and its effects on floodplain biogeochemical cycling"
  • February 29, 2024
    Dr. Bärbel Hönisch - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Faculty Host Meredith Kelly
     "Reconstructions of Cenozoic atmospheric CO2 and ocean carbon cycle perturbations"
  • March 7, 2024
    Dr. Natalya Gomez - McGill University; Faculty Host Mathieu Morlighem
     "Interactions between the ice, ocean and solid Earth in Antarctica and their implications for global sea levels"

Fall 2023

  • September 14, 2023
    Dr. Elizabeth Swanner - Iowa State University; Faculty Host Sarah Slotznick
    A look at meromictic, Holocene-aged midwestern lakes and what they can tell us about early ocean processes
  • September 21, 2023
    Dr. Yongsong Huang - Brown University; Faculty Host Wil Leavitt
    Beyond UK37': unlocking the hidden treasure trove of alkenone-producing haptophytes
  • September 28, 2023
    Dr. Christoph Geiss - Trinity College; Faculty Host Sarah Slotznick
    Understanding the magnetic properties of a New Hampshire spodic soil to improve reconstructions of past continental climates
  • October 5, 2023
    Dr. Winnie Chu - Georgia Tech; Faculty Host Bob Hawley
    Observing evolving ice sheet condition using multi-temporal radar sounding
  • October 12, 2023
    Dr. Elizabeth Niespolo - Princeton University; Faculty Host Brenhin Keller
    230Th/U burial dating of avian eggshells
  • October 19, 2023
    Dr. David Koweek - Ocean Visions; Faculty Host Mukul Sharma
    Accelerating solutions at the ocean-climate nexus
  • October 26, 2023
    Dr. Nick Holschuh - Amherst College; Faculty Host Erich Osterberg
    Understanding the history and mechanics of Greenland's basal ice using ice penetrating radar
  • November 2, 2023
    Dr. Gavin Piccione - UCSC; Faculty Host Graham Edwards
    Using Antarctic subglacial archives to investigate the links between climate change and ice motion
  • November 9, 2023
    Dr. Laura Reynolds - Worchester State University; Faculty Host Meredith Kelly
    Winter Limnology: Using community data to understand lakes and reservoirs in a changing world
  • November 16, 2023
    Dr. Jose Constantine - Williams College; Faculty Host Carl Renshaw
    The origin and evolution of meandering rivers

SPRING 2023

  • March 31, 2023 - a Friday not Thursday lecture, 2:10-3:10pm
    Dr. Edward Young - UCLA
    Earth Shaped by Primordial H2 Atmospheres
  • April 13, 2023
    Dr. Sarah Shackleton - Princeton
    Quantitative constraints on Earth's past climate from inert gases in ice
  • April 20, 2023
    Dr. Kimberly Hill - University of Minnesota
    Investigations of climate vs lithology on changing debris flow hazards on alluvial fans
  • April 27, 2023
    Dr. Laura Levey - Cal Poly Humbolt
    Coring in California: New insights into the timing of glacier fluctuations and the age and volume of peatlands
  • May 4, 2023
    Dr. Alex Morgan - Planetary Science Institute
    Fluvial erosion on early Mars was intermittent but occasionally intense
  • May 11, 2023
    Dr. Alexis Templeton - University of Colorado Boulder
    How our undertanding of the geology, geochemistry and biology of ultramafic rock systems play an essential role in the development of Hydrogen as a future clean energy source
  • May 18, 2023
    Dr. Nathan Yee - Rutgers
    A Sulfur Story: From Continental Weathering to Assimilation by Microbial Life