Geosciences Colloquium Series: 2024-2025

This year's colloquium series will consist of a mixture of researchers across the University of Arizona along with visiting scientists as well! The colloquium series will be conducted in the Gould-Simpson “Fishbowl” (2nd floor) from 4-5PM on Thursdays. There will be a Zoom option as well to tune in: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/98858976814

Schedule is subject to change.

Organized by Kaustubh ThirumalaiMauricio Ibañez-Mejia, and Jonny Wu.

Geosciences Colloquium Series 2024-2025

Fall 2025

DATE

 SPEAKER

TITLE

August 28, 2025 

Susan Beck (Professor, University of Arizona Department of Geosciences)

TBD

September 4, 2025 Yingcai Zheng (Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston) TBD
September 11, 2025 Speaker TBD  
September 18, 2025 Speaker TBD  
September 25, 2025 Speaker TBD  
October 2, 2025 Francisco Apen (Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU) TBD
October 9, 2025 Speaker TBD  
October 16, 2025 Speaker TBD  
October 23, 2025 ***Not Talk, GSA Week***  
October 30, 2025 Terry Plank (Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School) TBD
November 6, 2025 Emily Beverly (Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston) TBD
November 13, 2025 Speaker TBD  
November 20, 2025 Speaker TBD  
November 27, 2025 ***No talk, Thanksgiving Day***  
December 4, 2025 Speaker TBD  

Spring 2025

DATE

 SPEAKER

TITLE

January 16, 2025 

Brian Horton (Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin)

River drainage evolution in the Amazon foreland basin during uplift of the Andes

January 23, 2025 Donna Shillington (Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU)

Controls on great earthquakes in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone

January 30, 2025 Johannes Hammerli (Assistant Professor, School of the Environment, WSU)

Unraveling Fluid Origins in Mineralized Systems Through Cl/Br Ratios in Scapolite: Advancing from Experimental Studies to Geological Applications

February 6, 2025 Ryan Glaubke (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geosciences, UofA)

Deglaciation and the Deep: The Ocean’s Role in the Last Major Example of Global Climate Change

February 13, 2025 Emily Cooperdock (Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown University)

Is mantle alteration key to maintaining a habitable planet?

February 20, 2025 Jon Spencer (Adjunct Researcher, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona) Reconstruction of Cenozoic tectonic extension and the initial distribution of porphyry copper deposits in the greater Sonoran Desert region, with implications for deposit genesis
February 27, 2025 Lizz Ultee (Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, Middlebury College) Future glacial water resources in a changing climate
March 6, 2025 Michael Dinniman (Senior Research Scientist, Old Dominion University) How the Antarctic Ice Sheet Impacts the Ocean (besides changing sea level)
March 13, 2025 ***No Talk, Spring Break***  
March 20, 2025 Julie Euber (SARSEF) Seventy Years of SARSEF: Creating Arizona’s Future Critical Thinkers and Problem Solvers through Science and Engineering
March 27, 2025 ***No Talk, GeoDaze & Advisory Board Meeting***  
April 3, 2025 Cin-Ty Lee (Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University)

Crustal thickness and its role in planetary habitability

April 10, 2025 M. Akif Sarikaya (Quaternary Geologist, 

Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences)

Glacier-based paleoclimatology in the Anatolian mountains, Türkiye
April 17, 2025

Mattia Pistone (Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Georgia Athens)

Moho Mission to the Foundation of Continents: The ICDP DIVE Drilling Project
April 24, 2025 CANCELLED Francisco Apen (Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU) Record of Eoarchean-Hadean crustal evolution from the Tanzanian craton
May 1, 2025 Guleed Ali (IDEA Fellow in Sustainable Climate and Solutions, Stony Brook University)
 
The Last High Watermark of the Western US Drylands

Fall 2024

DATE

 SPEAKER

TITLE

August 29, 2024 

Jessica Tierney (Professor, University of Arizona Geosciences)

Past Climates Inform Our Future

NOTE: This talk will be located in Koffler Rm 204

September 5, 2024 Esteban Gazel (Cornell University) Oceanic intraplate explosive eruptions fed directly from the mantle
September 12, 2024 Cancelled  
September 19, 2024 Lowell Chair Candidate  
September 26, 2024 **No Talk Due to GSA***  
October 3, 2024 Lowell Chair Candidate  
October 10, 2024 Lowell Chair Candidate  
October 17, 2024 Lowell Chair Candidate  
October 24, 2024 No Talk  
October 31, 2024 Eric Schmidtke (PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University, Canada) Fine-tuning our focus: A clearer vision of the Early Eocene tectonomagmatic evolution of the Pacific Northwest Cordilleran hinterland through high-resolution chronostratigraphy and goechemistry of the Challis-Kamloops group
 
November 7, 2024 Dustin Schroeder (Associate Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University)

Exploring the Subsurface Processes of Ice Sheets and Icy Moons with Ice Penetrating Radar

November 14, 2024 Megan Mueller (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona Geosciences) The Timing, Drivers, and Consequences of Continental Collision
November 21, 2024 Eleanour Snow (Director, Youth and Education Program, USGS) Tucson to Tampa to Austin to DC: A path through academia to public service, centering education, mentoring, and inclusion
November 28, 2024 ***No Talk, Thanksgiving Break***  
December 5, 2024 No Talk