Seminar Schedule

Looking to attend geology and environmental sciences seminars? The department sponsors several seminars throughout the year, bringing notable speakers from around the country. Check out the seminar schedule below for this year’s presentations.

Seminars take place Fridays at 3 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) at the locations noted in the schedule below. Seminars are free and open to the public. Please direct any questions about this schedule to the seminar coordinator, Miki Nakajima by email at mnakajima@rochester.edu.



Spring 2026
(Every Friday at 3 p.m. unless otherwise noted)
DateLocationSpeakerTopic

January 30

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Alex Jasko

University of Rochester

and

Gracie Creed

University of Rochester

"Studying Magma Oceans through Shock Experiments on (Mg,Fe)O and Pyrolite"

  

“Understanding the efficient biological pump in ocean oxygen minimum zones”

 

February 6

Hubbell Auditorium, 141 Hutchison Hall

Alice Chau

University of Rochester

 

February 13

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Adam Sarafian

Corning Inc.

 

February 20

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Kevin Righter

University of Rochester

"The OSIRIS-REx sample return mission to asteroid Bennu:  what have the samples revealed"

March 6

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Matthew Hoffman

RIT

 

March 27

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Jessica Mejia

Syracuse University

"How Water Moves Ice:  Insights into Greenland Ice Sheet Hydrology and Dynamics"

April 3

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Ursula Jongebloed

MIT

 

April 10

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Peter Ivatt

University of Rochester

 

April 17

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Christy Tyler

RIT

 

April 24

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Andressa Alves

University of Rochester

"Reconstructing deep ocean temperature, the carbonate system, and continental ice volume changes from benthic foraminiferal δ18O and Mg-Sr-B-Li/Ca, from the last 77 Ma"

May 1

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

TBD