2020-2021 Earth Science Colloquium Schedule

SPRING 2021

This semester, all Colloquia will be given virtually through Zoom. Colloquium will begin at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday afternoons.

January 22		Gerard Schuster, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology		Semi-universal Geo- Crack Detention by Machine Learning
January 29		Asmeret Asefaw-Berhe, University of California, Merced		What's soil got to do with climate change: let’s dig deeper
February 5		Alex Whiting, Environmental Director for the Native Village of Kotzebue, AK Bobby Shaeffer, Elder from the community, Kotzebue, AK; Chris Zappa (LDEO); Andy Mahoney (UA Fairbanks); Revkin (EI)		Incorporating Alaskan Native Voices in Arctic Research
February 12		Emily Fischer, Colorado State University		WE-CAN Know More about Smoke: An Overview of the Summer 2018 Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN)
February 19 3:00 PM		Mathilde Cannat, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)		On magma supply and spreading modes at slow and ultraslow mid-ocean ridges
February 26 1:00 PM		Helen K. Coxall, Stockholm University		Modes of overturning circulation through the Cenozoic: a tentative history for the past 50 million years
March 5		Spring Recess
March 12		No colloquium
March 19		Distinguished Alumni Colloquium Susan E. Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry		Radiocarbon constraints on the land carbon cycle
March 26		TBD
April 2		TBD
April 9		Cacelled
April 16		Jacques Laskar, The Paris Observatory		The AstroGeo project: Bringing the long term astronomical solutions to a next level
April 23		J. Maarten de Moor, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica		Observations of a Breathing Subduction Zone
Monday May 3		Graduate Students First Year Colloquium

FALL 2020

September 18		Thaddeus Pawlowski, Columbia University		Lessons from the Resilience Accelerator
September 25		Gerd Masselink, University of Plymouth		Importance of Wave Directionality on Storm Impacts
October 2		Nanna Karlsson, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)		Beneath the ice surface: Ice-penetrating radar for climate information on Earth and Mars (Recording not available)
October 9		Kirsteen Tinto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory		From sky to seafloor - Airborne observations to understand ice sheet change with Operation IceBridge and Rosetta-Ice
October 16		Víctor Manuel Cruz-Atienza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México		How Stable is Unstable? Chatting between Silent and Devastating Earthquakes
October 23		Clara Desser, UCAR		Understanding evolving global patterns of climate response to anthropogenic aerosols with single-forcing climate model experiments
October 30		Aradhna Tripati, University of California, Los Angeles		Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
November 6		Jasquelin Peña, University of California, Davis		Nature’s most potent oxidants: Understanding redox processes in manganese oxides
November 13		Xavier Le Pichon, Collège de France		Pangea, absolute motion and whole mantle convection
November 20		Diversity Seminar Kathryn Clancy, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign		Course corrections in addressing sexual harassment in academia
November 27		Thanksgiving Break
December 4		Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico		Inferences from paleoclimate data on the possible impact of warming on the Earth’s ‘rainfall belt’
December 11		J. Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia		Zombies, Sports, and Cola: The challenges of communicating complex science topics