The following is an archive of all Colloquium Series from Fall 2020 - Spring 2023. Not all talks have video recordings.


Geosciences Colloquium Series Spring 2023

DATE

 SPEAKER

TITLE
     
January 19, 2023 Dr. Mike Eddy (Purdue)

"Hunting for Fossil Magma Reservoirs in the Geologic Record"

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"

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"

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)
Brown Bag Seminar 12:00-1:00pm
Gould-Simpson Room 228A

Dr. Zachary Michels (Manager, SEM Lab)
4:00-5:00pm
Gould-Simpson Room 228A

"Lagrangian Trajectory Prediction for the HyperNAV Ocean Color Satellite Calibration Platform"



"Rates without dates – filling the gap with microstructure"
 

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

 

 

Geosciences Colloquium Series Fall 2022

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE
     

September 1, 2022

Dr. Annie Bauer (Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences; University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The tectonic regimes of the earliest continents

 

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"

 

September 15, 2022

 

Dr. Pranabendu Moitra (Research Scientist, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona)

"Causes and consequence of violently explosive basaltic eruptions"

September 22, 2022

Hartwig Fremmel (Professor; University of Würzberg)

"Paleoclimate and Mineral Deposits"

September 29, 2022

Dr. Advait Jukar (Lecturer, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona)

"Climate, humans, and the assembly of the South Asian herbivore guild"

 

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"

 

October 13, 2022

No Talk This Week

October 20, 2022

Sarah Ivory (Asst. Prof.; Penn State University)

"Spatial and temporal dynamics of abrupt change in tropical African forests"

 

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"

 

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. "

 

November 10, 2022

 Oliver Jagoutz (Professor; MIT)

 "Understanding the connection between tectonics and climate variability from studying the Himalayan collision"

 

November 17, 2022

Dr. William Struble

“Landslides across scales: Bedrock landslide initiation mechanisms and landscape evolution by debris flows."

 

November 24, 2022

Thanksgiving Holiday

 

December 1, 2022

 

Dr. John Grotzinger (Harold Brown Professor Of Geology; CalTech)

 "Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Diagenesis of a Martian Lacustrine Deposit, Gale Crater, Mars"

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

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
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

 NOT AVAILABLE

January 27, 2022 Dr. Andrew Walters Postdoc, The University of Arizona)

Orbital forcing of western North American hydroclimate during the early Eocene greenhouse.

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February 3, 2022 Dr. Gilby Jepson(Postdoc, The University of Arizona)

The relationship among climate, tectonics, and erosion

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February 10, 2022 Dr. Sarah Lambart (Assistant Professor, The University of Utah)

Melt2Mantle: How to identify the mantle heterogeneity

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February 16, 2022 Dr. Doug Wiens (Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor, Washington University)

The water cycle in subduction zones.

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February 17, 2022

Dr. Cailey Condit(Assistant Professor, University of Washington)

The geology, petrology, and rheology of deep slow slip subduction zones.

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March 3, 2022  Dr. Melanie Barboni (Assistant Professor, Arizona State University)

 "Discovering lost Lunar magmas using Apollo zircons"

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April 21, 2022  

Dr. Yair Rosenthal(Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University)

"Neogene climate change: revisiting the silica weathering hypothesis"

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April 28, 2022  

Dr. Sarah George(Postdoc, The University of Arizona)

"Upper crustal responses to ridge subduction and flat slab subduction"

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May 5, 2022  

Dr. Frances Rivera-Hernández (Georgia Tech)

"From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales "

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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)  "

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Geosciences Colloquium Series Fall 2021

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

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"

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)

 

“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”

November 11, 2021

Veteran's Day Holiday

“In observance of Veteran's Day, there is no talked scheduled.”

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"

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Geosciences Colloquium Series - Fall 2020

 
Date
SPeaker
TITLE
August 27, 2020
Jon Pelletier

“Designing mine-site reclamations that minimize erosion"

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September 3, 2020
No colloquium  
September 10, 2020
Jay Quade
"Resetting Southern Tibet: The serious challenge of obtaining primary

records of Paleoaltimetry"

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September 17, 2020
Susan Beck

"A Tale of Two Modern Flat Slabs along the South America Subduction Zone"

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September 24, 2020
Tim Jull

"Annual carbon-14 variability in tree-rings: Implications for the calibration curve and rapid solar events"

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October 1, 2020
Eric Kiser

“Conjugate Faulting, Lower Mantle Seismicity, and Slab Settling Associated with the 2015 Bonin Islands Deep-Focus Earthquake”

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October 8, 2020
Luke McGuire

"Fires, Floods, and Debris Flows: Geomorphic Impacts of an Increasingly Disturbed World"

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October 15, 2020
   
October 22, 2020
Jessica Tierney

“The Last Glacial Maximum revisited: New perspectives from paleoclimate data assimilation"

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October 29, 2020
Jianjun Yin

“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
Barbara Carrapa

"Deciphering tectonics and climatic signatures from sedimentary archives"

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November 12, 2020
Joellen Russell

"The Future of the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: Robot Floats, Supercomputers and Satellites"

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November 19, 2020
Jack Holt

“Alaskan Glaciers - Canary in a Coal Mine”

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November 26, 2020
No colloquium --- Thanksgiving
 
December 3, 2020
Mark Barton

“Gold, black gold, and heresy: crustal extension, alkaline lakes and the origin of the world’s second greatest gold province”

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