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Seminars

The Department of Earth Science seminar series is a weekly hr-long seminar open to the public that involves invited speakers from other institutions. The Fall '24 seminar will be in-person with no remote option.  If you would like information on the meeting location or have any additional questions please contact Professor Strauss, the 2024-2025 seminar series organizer. If you would like to schedule a meeting with the guest speaker, contact the Faculty Host mentioned below next to each invited speaker.

CURRENT SEMINARS

FALL 2024

Seminar is from 1:10-2:10pm on Thursdays (unless otherwise noted) in Steele 006.

  • September 26, 2024
    Dr. Alex Robel - Georgia Tech; Faculty Host Mathieu Morlighem
    "New theories on the role of water in driving rapid ice sheet change"
  • October 3, 2024
    Dr. Marissa Trembley - Purdue University; Faculty Host Brenhin Keller
    "From the Alps to Outer Space: Advancing our Understanding Earth and Planetary Processes Using Noble Gases"
  • October 10, 2024
    Dr. Victor Tsai - Brown University; Faculty Host Sarah Slotznick
    "Predicting Earthquake and Ice Sheet Behavior"
  • October 17, 2024
    Dr. Adrian Castro - Wellesley College; Graduate Students Host
    "Beyond Monazite: The limits of accessory phase geochronology during long-lived orogenesis"
  • October 24, 2024
    Dr. Will Amidon - Middlebury College; Faculty Host Justin Strauss
    "When did New England become mountainous? Evidence for post-rift tectonism"
  • October 31, 2024
    Dr. Jena Johnson - University of Michigan; Faculty Host Wil Leavitt
    "Identifying the mineral signals of early iron-cycling life through (bio)geochemical experiements"
  • November 7, 2024
    Dr. Jon Woodruff - University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Faculty Host Carl Renshaw
    "Sediment sourcing in the northeastern coastal zones and its contribution to salt marsh resilience"
  • November 14, 2024
    Dr. Greg de Wet - Smith College; Faculty Host Sarah Slotznick
    "The brGDGT paleotemperature proxy "Hype Cycle" – from the Trough of Disillusionment to the Plateau of Productivity"
Recent Seminars

SPRING 2024

  • March 28, 2024
    Dr. Julia WIlcots - Princeton University; Faculty Host Brenhin Keller
    "Dolomite clumped isotopes reveal cooling into snowball glaciation"
  • April 4, 2024
    Dr. Ilissa Ocko - Environmental Defense Fund; Faculty Host Wil Leavitt
    "Ensuring the climate integrity of hydrogen energy systems: From science to action"
  • April 11, 2024
    Dr. John Slack - USGS (Emeritus); Faculty Host Justin Strauss
    "Seeing through metamorphism at the Elizabeth (Vermont) copper deposit: Insights from mineralogy, geochemistry, and stable isotopes"
  • April 25, 2024
    Dr. Diana Dumit - MIT ; PROF Search (zoom)
    "Microbial Fossils for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction"
  • May 5, 2024
    Dr. Shanti Penprase - University of Minnesota; PROF Search (zoom)
    "Axe vs Ice Age: Quantifying Euro-American settlement impact on late Quaternary erosion rates in the Whitewater River Valley, upper Mississippi River Basin, USA"
  • May 9, 2024
    Dr. Jennifer Kasbohm - Carnegie Institution for Science; Faculty Host Sarah Slotznick
    "Calibrating timescales and measuring pCO2 to test the role of Columbia River Basalt volcanism in the Miocene Climate Optimum"
  • May 16, 2024
    Dr. Nathan Bangs - University of Texas at Austin; Faculty Host Meredith Kelly
    "Links between fluids and megathrust slip behavior inferred from seismic imaging of subduction zones"
  • May 23, 2024
    Dr. Marianne Haseloff - UW Madison ; Postdoc Host Kasia Warburton
    "Subglacial hydrology modulates marine ice sheet dynamics: from thermally driven oscillations to steady-streaming and slow creep"
  • May 30, 2024
    Dr. Billy Armstrong - Appalachian State University; Faculty Host Bob Hawley
    "Evolving glacier dynamics modulate glacier change in a warming climate"