The following is an archive of all Colloquium Series from Fall 2020 - Spring 2023. Not all talks have video recordings.
Fall 2023
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August 24, 2023 |
Dr. George H. Davis (Regents' Professor Emeritus, Geosciences) |
"The Geological home of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Greece, and the Vibes He Brought to the Montaintop" |
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August 31, 2023
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Dr. Frankie Pavia (Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar, CalTech) |
"TBA" |
| September 7, 2023 | C2C Showcase (Kaustubh Thirumalai, Assistant Professor, Geosciences & Andrew Cohen, Professor, Geosciences) | Clouds 2 Core Discussion: NSF-REU at UA GEOS - lessons from 2023 and looking ahead for 2024 |
| September 14, 2023 | Dr. Paul Asimow (Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, CalTech) | "Compositional variation within granitoid plutons — what does it mean?" |
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September 21, 2023
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Seminar - Dr. Elias Bloch (Researcher/Scientist, University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Laboratory) | "Multispecies diffusion in garnet and zircon and implications for applications of diffusion data to natural systems" |
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September 28, 2023
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Dr. Madeline Lewis (Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming) | "To erupt or not to erupt: Evolution of magma storage conditions before and after caldera-forming eruptions" |
| October 5, 2023 |
Dr. Samantha Bova (Assistant Professor, San Diego State University) |
"Common modes of western Pacific hydroclimate variability across the last two interglacials" |
| October 12, 2023 | Dr. Laura Kerber (Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology) |
"Lavas on the Moon: Insights, Challenges, and Opportunities for Future Exploration" |
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October 19, 2023
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*** No Colloquium (GSA) *** |
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| October 26, 2023 | Dr. Andrés Echaurren (Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales) |
"Orogenic growth and magmatic arc flareup during the Cretaceous evolution of the North Patagonian Andes" |
| November 2, 2023 | *** No Colloquium *** |
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| November 9, 2023 | Dr. Sean Gulick (Research Professor, University of Texas at Austin) |
"Life and Death by Impact: Drilling for Clues" |
| November 16, 2023 | Alan Rooney (Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University) |
"TBA" |
| November 23, 2023 | *** Thanksgiving Holiday *** |
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| November 30, 2023 | Dr. Aaron Velasco (Professor, UTEP) |
"Using collective impact to change how we conduct geoscience and broaden participation" |
| December 1, 2023 | Seismology Brown Bag Talk | The 2017 Mw 8.2 Tehuantepec, Mexico earthquake: Using Machine Learning and a RAPID network to enlighten the rupture characteristics. |
| December 6, 2023 | Dr. Prosenjit Ghosh (Professor, Indian Institute of Science) | Chasing the thermal state of the Indian Ocean during theMiocene using carbonate-clumped isotope thermometry |
| December 7, 2023 | *** Reading Day *** |
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Geosciences Colloquium Series Spring 2023
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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| January 19, 2023 | Dr. Mike Eddy (Purdue) |
"Hunting for Fossil Magma Reservoirs in the Geologic Record" |
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January 26, 2023 |
Dr. Laurent Jolivet |
"Hot vs cold Mediterranean MCCs and syn-kinematic granite emplacement" |
| February 2, 2023 |
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz (Professor, Georgia Tech) |
"The North Atlantic Nutrient Stream: A 20,000 Year Perspective" |
| February 8, 2023 | Jay Thomas (Associate Professor, Syracuse University, and MSA Distinguished Lecturer) | "Out of (chemical) equilibrium and into metamorphic depths: mineral inclusions in garnets and elastic thermobarometers reveal true crystallization depths" |
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February 16, 2023 |
Liviu Giosan (Geoscientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
"When the desert was a lake: Tectonics, climate, river piracy and hominids in the Kalahari" |
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February 23, 2023 |
Dr. Patrick A. Rafter (University of California, Irvine) |
"Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age" |
| March 7, 2023 |
Dr. Cisco Werner (Head of NOAA Fisheries) |
"Climate and Fisheries: Next steps and challenges within an Earth System framework" |
| April 13, 2023 |
Dr. Paul Chamberlain (Postdoctoral Scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Dr. Zachary Michels (Manager, SEM Lab) |
"Lagrangian Trajectory Prediction for the HyperNAV Ocean Color Satellite Calibration Platform" |
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April 27, 2023 |
Carolina Mallol (Associate Professor,Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) |
"Climate-human interactions reconstructed from the microstratigraphic and biomolecular archaeological record" |
| May 4, 2023 | No Speaker |
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Geosciences Colloquium Series Fall 2022
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September 1, 2022 |
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 |
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 |
Hartwig Fremmel (Professor; University of Würzberg) |
"Paleoclimate and Mineral Deposits" |
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September 29, 2022 |
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 |
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 |
No Talk This Week |
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October 20, 2022 |
Sarah Ivory (Asst. Prof.; Penn State University) |
"Spatial and temporal dynamics of abrupt change in tropical African forests"
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October 27, 2022 |
Aleisha Johnson (Postdoctoral Researcher; University of Arizona" |
"Titanium isotopes as a new tool for probing the formation and evolution of the continental crust"
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November 3, 2022 |
Yang Song (Asst. Prof; Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences (HAS); University of Arizona) |
"Mitigating uncertainty in predicting climate-carbon feedback from the perspective of biosphere-climate interaction. "
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November 10, 2022 |
Oliver Jagoutz (Professor; MIT) |
"Understanding the connection between tectonics and climate variability from studying the Himalayan collision"
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November 17, 2022 |
Dr. William Struble |
“Landslides across scales: Bedrock landslide initiation mechanisms and landscape evolution by debris flows."
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November 24, 2022 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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December 1, 2022 |
Dr. John Grotzinger (Harold Brown Professor Of Geology; CalTech) |
"Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Diagenesis of a Martian Lacustrine Deposit, Gale Crater, Mars" |
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December 8, 2022 |
Susan Lieb (Curator/Collections Manager; Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum) |
"Temporal Evolution of the Rattlesnake Creek terrane and Implication of Jurassic Construction of Crust in the Western United States" |
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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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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August 26, 2021 |
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September 2, 2021 |
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September 9, 2021 |
Kaustubh Thirumalai (UA GEOS) |
“Methane, Monsoons, and Milankovitch Modulation of Millennial-scale Variability” |
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September 16, 2021 |
Jennifer McIntosh (UA HAS) |
"Geologic evolution of groundwater flow systems & implications for subsurface microbial life" |
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September 23, 2021 |
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 |
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 |
Pierre Haenecour (UA LPL) |
"Simulations of Thermal Processing of Volatile-rich Materials on the Surface of Asteroids" |
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October 21, 2021 |
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 |
Bryan Shuman (UWyoming) |
"The Dynamic Hydroclimate of North America during the Holocene" |
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November 4, 2021 |
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 |
Veteran's Day Holiday |
“In observance of Veteran's Day, there is no talked scheduled.” |
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November 18, 2021 |
Brayn Black (UA Tree-Ring) |
“Multicentennial perspectives on extreme climate and natural disasters in the Northeastern Pacific” |
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December 2, 2021 |
Katherine Giles (UTEP, El Paso) |
"New Paradigms in the Paradox Basin, UT & CO: Re-evaluating the History of Diapirism Based on the Latest Concepts in Salt Tectonics" |
Geosciences Colloquium Series - Fall 2020
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Date
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SPeaker
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TITLE |
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August 27, 2020
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Jon Pelletier
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“Designing mine-site reclamations that minimize erosion" |
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September 3, 2020
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No colloquium | |
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September 10, 2020
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Jay Quade
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"Resetting Southern Tibet: The serious challenge of obtaining primary
records of Paleoaltimetry" |
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September 17, 2020
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Susan Beck
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"A Tale of Two Modern Flat Slabs along the South America Subduction Zone" |
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September 24, 2020
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Tim Jull
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"Annual carbon-14 variability in tree-rings: Implications for the calibration curve and rapid solar events" |
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October 1, 2020
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Eric Kiser
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“Conjugate Faulting, Lower Mantle Seismicity, and Slab Settling Associated with the 2015 Bonin Islands Deep-Focus Earthquake” |
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October 8, 2020
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Luke McGuire
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"Fires, Floods, and Debris Flows: Geomorphic Impacts of an Increasingly Disturbed World" |
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October 15, 2020
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October 22, 2020
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Jessica Tierney
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“The Last Glacial Maximum revisited: New perspectives from paleoclimate data assimilation" |
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October 29, 2020
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Jianjun Yin
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“Sea level rise and storm surge along the U.S. Atlantic coast in recent high-resolution climate model simulations and projections” |
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November 5, 2020
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Barbara Carrapa |
"Deciphering tectonics and climatic signatures from sedimentary archives" |
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November 12, 2020
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Joellen Russell
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"The Future of the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: Robot Floats, Supercomputers and Satellites" |
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November 19, 2020
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Jack Holt
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“Alaskan Glaciers - Canary in a Coal Mine” |
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November 26, 2020
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No colloquium --- Thanksgiving
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December 3, 2020
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Mark Barton |
“Gold, black gold, and heresy: crustal extension, alkaline lakes and the origin of the world’s second greatest gold province” |