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	Rachel E. Bernard, Amherst College
March 19	Distinguished Alumni Colloquium Susan E. Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; University of California, Irvine.	Radiocarbon constraints on the land carbon cycle
March 26	Graduate Students First Year Colloquium
April 2	Christopher Jackson, Imperial College London
April 9	Lola Fatoyinbo Agueh, NASA/Goddard Flight Center
April 16	Jacques Laskar, The Paris Observatory
April 23	J. Maarten de Moor, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

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