The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar series is a weekly hour-long seminar open to the public that involves invited speakers from other institutions. The '26-'27 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 Emily Lacroix, the 2026-2027 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.
Seminars run from from 1:15-2:15 pm on Thursdays (unless otherwise noted); Room TBD.
Fall '26 - TBD
| 4/9/2026 | Bill McClelland | Dartmouth | Justin Strauss | The role of strike-slip faults in the tectonic evolution of the circum-Arctic region: Linking the Caledonides with the Cordillera |
| 4/16/2026 | Isla Castañeda | UMass Amherst | Meredith Kelly | Large temperature changes characterized mid-Pleistocene glacial-interglacial transitions in continental tropical Africa |
| 4/23/2026 | Edward Young | UCLA | Marisa Palucis | Stories Told by Ice, Real and Imagined: 15N15N in Ancient Ice Cores as a Proxy for Biological Nitrogen Cycling, and a Reimagining of Neptune and Uranus |
| 4/30/2026 | Sophie Nowicki | Univ. at Buffalo | Mathieu Morlighem | Committed to Change: Ice Sheets in an Uncertain Climate Future |
| 5/7/2026 | Seth Campbell | U Maine | Erich Osterberg | The Legacy and Future of the Juneau Icefield Research Program |
| 5/14/2026 | Andrea (Andi) Jilling | U South Carolina | Emily Lacroix | Fast-Cycling Mineral-Associated Organic Matter: Emerging Evidence and Unresolved Questions |
| 5/21/2025 | Emily Geyman | Caltech | Graduate students (Benjy) | Using meandering rivers to study the present and future carbon fluxes from Arctic landscapes. |