| Date | Time | Candidate and Dissertation Title | Location |
| Friday, August 26 | 1:00 pm | Jonathan Delph. Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure of the Anatolian Plate: Imaging the Effects of Subduction Termination and Continental Collision with Seismic Techniques. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Thursday, September 1 | 2:00 pm | Kevin M. Ward. Imaging the Lithospheric Structure of the Central Andes from the Joint Inversion of Multiple Seismic Data Sets. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Monday, November 14 | 10:00 am | Andrew Laskowski. Tectonic Evolution of the Yarlung Suture Zone in Lopu Range and Lazi Regions, Central Southern Tibet. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Friday, December 2 | 1:30 pm | Shaunna Morrison. Crystal chemistry of Martian minerals. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Wednesday, February 1 | 1:00 pm | Steven Brewster Malevich. Cool-Season Moisture Delivery and Multi-Basin Streamflow Anomalies in the Western United States. | Bryant Bannister (Tree-Ring) 110 |
| Thursday, April 6 | 9:00 am | Caleb King. Igneous Petrology, Geochronology, Alteration, and Mineralization Associated with Eocene Hydrothermal Systems in the Battle Mountain District, Nevada. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Friday, April 14 | 3:00 pm | Benjamin Schumer. Mineralogy of Copper Sulfides in Porphyry Copper and Related Deposits. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
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Monday, May 1 |
1:00 pm | Luke Parsons. Sources and Impacts of Modeled and Observed Low-Frequency Climate Variability. |
ENR2 (new building) S215 |
| Friday, June 23 | 2:00 pm |
Jordon Bright. Multi-disciplinary paleoenvironmental context for the integration of the lower Colorado River corridor, the Bouse Formation, CA-AZ, USA, and Late Pleistocene human evolution, the Koora Plain, southern Kenya. |
Bryant Bannister (Tree Ring) 424 |
| Wednesday, July 5 | 2:00 pm |
Simone Runyon. Deep hydrothermal alteration in porphyry copper systems: insights from the Laramide arc
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ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Monday, August 14 | 2:00 pm |
James Broermann. Alignment of post-Atlantic-rifting Volcanic Features on the Guinea Plateau, West Africa, and Present-day Deformation in the Southwest United States from GPS Geodesy. |
G-S 228A |
| Thursday, August 17 | 9:00 am | Andrea Stevens. Regional Exhumation and Basinal Evolution of the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. | ENR (USGS) 253 |
| Thursday, August 17 | 2:00 pm | James Worthington. Paleozoic-Cenozoic Tectonics of Central Asia. |
ENR (USGS) 253 |
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