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 Thirumalai, Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia, and Jonny Wu.
Geosciences Colloquium Series 2024-2025
Fall 2025
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |