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
Spring 2025
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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) | |
| February 6, 2025 | Ryan Glaubke (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geosciences, UofA) | |
| February 13, 2025 | Emily Cooperdock (Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown University) | |
| February 20, 2025 | Dr. Jon Spencer (Senior Geologist, Arizona Geological Survey) | 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) | |
| March 6, 2025 | Michael Dinniman (Senior Research Scientists, Old Dominion University) | |
| March 13, 2025 | ***No Talk, Spring Break*** | |
| March 20, 2025 | Julie Eber (SARSEF) | |
| 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) | |
| April 10, 2025 | TBD | |
| April 17, 2025 |
Mattia Pistone (Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Georgia Athens) |
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| April 24, 2025 | Francisco Apen (Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU) | |
| May 1, 2025 | Dr. Guleed Ali (IDEA Fellow in Sustainable Climate and Solutions, Stony Brook University) |
Fall 2024
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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 |
Spring 2024
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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January 11, 2024 |
Dr. Peter DeCelles (Professor, Tectonics, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology) |
Why the Central Andes are Bigger than the Himalaya |
| January 18, 2024 |
Dr. Jordan Abell (Geosciences Postdoctoral Research Associate) |
How space dust can rock our understanding of past climates: A Pliocene story of North Pacific productivity, dustiness, and iron fertilization. |
| January 25, 2024 | No Talk | |
| February 1, 2024 | Dr. Marc Hirschmann (Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Minnesota) | The Deep Earth Oxygen Cycle |
| February 8, 2024 | Alan Juarez-Zuniga (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Arizona Department of Geosciences) | Elucidating the Interaction Between Aquifers and Faults from Geophysical Datasets |
| February 15, 2024 | Alicia Cruz-Uribe (Edward Sturgis Grew Associate Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, The University of Maine) | Prospects and challenges for in situ beta decay geochronology |
| February 22, 2024 | Dr. Jeremy Tsung-Jui Wu (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno) |
Subduction Velocity Control on Arc Magmatism along Western Pacific Convergent margins. |
| February 29, 2024 | Dr. Ari Matmon (Professor, Head of the Earth Science Institute, Hebrew University) |
A new look at an old landscape: The chronology of the Kalahari Group sediments |
| March 7, 2024 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 14, 2024 | No Talk | |
| March 21, 2024 | GeoDaze - No Speaker | |
| March 28, 2024 | Dr. John Douglass (Paradise Valley Community College) | Discovery of beach sand, beachrock, and capping tufa on Balakai Mesa: Implications for the Bidahochi Formation and the overflow origin of the Grand Canyon |
| April 4, 2024 | ||
| April 11, 2024 | Harriet Lau (Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown University) | Evolving Solid Earth Dynamics across the Mid Pleistocene Transition |
| April 18, 2024 | Ryan Venturelli (Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines) |
Retreat, Recovery, and Subglacial Radiocarbon: Untangling past [in]stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| April 25, 2024 | TBD | |
| May 1, 2024 | TBD |