Geosciences Colloquium Series: Fall 2022
Geosciences Colloquium Series 2021-2022
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 and Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia.
Geosciences Colloquium Series Fall 2022
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September 1, 2022
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Dr. Annie Bauer (Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences; University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
“The tectonic regimes of the earliest continents”
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September 8, 2022
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Dr. Lynn Soreghan (David L. Boren Professor & Director, and Eberly Family Chair of Geosciences; University of Oklahoma) |
"Dust and Loess in Equatorial Pangaea"
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Dr. Pranabendu Moitra (Research Scientist, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona) |
"Causes and consequence of violently explosive basaltic eruptions" |
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September 22, 2022
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Hartwig Fremmel (Professor; University of Würzberg) |
"Paleoclimate and Mineral Deposits" |
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September 29, 2022
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Dr. Advait Jukar (Lecturer, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona) |
"Climate, humans, and the assembly of the South Asian herbivore guild"
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October 6, 2022
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Dr. Rachel E. Bernard (Assistant Professor of Geology; Amherst College) |
"Complexities of olivine and orthopyroxene creep and implications for mantle seismic anisotropy"
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October 13, 2022
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October 20, 2022
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Sarah Ivory (Asst. Prof.; Penn State University) |
"TBA"
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October 27, 2022 |
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November 3, 2022
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Yang Song (Asst. Prof; Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences (HAS); University of Arizona) |
"TBA"
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November 10, 2022
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Oliver Jagoutz (Professor; MIT) |
"TBA"
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November 17, 2021
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“TBA”
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November 24, 2022
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December 1, 2022
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John Grotzinger (Harold Brown Professor Of Geology; CalTech) |
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December 8, 2022
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December 15, 2022
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Geosciences Colloquium Series Spring 2022
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| January 20, 2022 |
Dr. Jeff Warren (Executive Director, North Carolina Policy Collaboratory, & Professor of the Practice, Department of Public Policy, at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
“Science for Hyperpartisan Times” |
| January 27, 2022 | Dr. Andrew Walters ( Postdoc, The University of Arizona) |
“Orbital forcing of western North American hydroclimate during the early Eocene greenhouse.” |
| February 3, 2022 | Dr. Gilby Jepson(Postdoc, The University of Arizona) |
“The relationship among climate, tectonics, and erosion” |
| February 10, 2022 | Dr. Sarah Lambart (Assistant Professor, The University of Utah) |
“Melt2Mantle: How to identify the mantle heterogeneity” |
| February 16, 2022 | Dr. Doug Wiens (Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor, Washington University) |
“The water cycle in subduction zones.” |
| February 17, 2022 |
Dr. Cailey Condit(Assistant Professor, University of Washington) |
“The geology, petrology, and rheology of deep slow slip subduction zones.” |
| March 3, 2022 | Dr. Melanie Barboni (Assistant Professor, Arizona State University) |
"Discovering lost Lunar magmas using Apollo zircons" |
| April 21, 2022 |
Dr. Yair Rosenthal(Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University) |
"Neogene climate change: revisiting the silica weathering hypothesis" |
| April 28, 2022 |
Dr. Sarah George(Postdoc, The University of Arizona) |
"Upper crustal responses to ridge subduction and flat slab subduction" |
| May 5, 2022 |
Dr. Frances Rivera-Hernández (Georgia Tech) |
"From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales " |
| May 12, 2022 |
Dr. Chris Brierley (Department of Geography, University College London) |
"Accessing simulations run for the IPCC, especially from the Paleoclimate Model Inter-comparison Project (PMIP) " |
Geosciences Colloquium Series Fall 2021
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August 26, 2021
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September 2, 2021
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September 9, 2021
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Kaustubh Thirumalai (UA GEOS) |
“Methane, Monsoons, and Milankovitch Modulation of Millennial-scale Variability” |
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September 16, 2021
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Jennifer McIntosh (UA HAS) |
"Geologic evolution of groundwater flow systems & implications for subsurface microbial life" |
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September 23, 2021
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Jessica Tierney (UA GEOS) |
"Assessing climate change: The process and key findings of the IPCC sixth assessment report" |
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September 30, 2021
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Zachary Michels (UA GEOS) |
"Microtectonics of Natural and Experimental Tectonites" |
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October 7, 2021 |
Kevin Anchukaitis (UA Tree-Ring) |
"The woods fill up with snow: multiple paths towards reconstructions of western North American snow droughts" |
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October 14, 2021
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Pierre Haenecour (UA LPL) |
"Simulations of Thermal Processing of Volatile-rich Materials on the Surface of Asteroids" |
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October 21, 2021
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Matthew Lachniet (UNLV, Las Vegas)
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“A Surface Water Isoscape from New Zealand: A Powerful Tool for Paleoclimatic Interpretation” |
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October 28, 2021
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Bryan Shuman (UWyoming) |
"The Dynamic Hydroclimate of North America during the Holocene" |
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November 4, 2021
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Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia (UA Geos) |
“The role of zircon crystallization in the zirconium isotope record of magmatic systems” |
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November 11, 2021
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Veteran's Day Holiday
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“In observance of Veteran's Day, there is no talked scheduled.” |
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November 18, 2021
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Brayn Black (UA Tree-Ring)
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“Multicentennial perspectives on extreme climate and natural disasters in the Northeastern Pacific” |
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December 2, 2021
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Katherine Giles (UTEP, El Paso)
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"New Paradigms in the Paradox Basin, UT & CO: Re-evaluating the History of Diapirism Based on the Latest Concepts in Salt Tectonics" |
For list of Spring 2021 talk titles and video recordings, please click here.