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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.

Fall 2025
(Every Friday at 3 p.m. unless otherwise noted)
Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
September 12	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Kari Holmes and Mariya Cyriac University of Rochester	Advancing radioisotope methods to further investigatecoastal carbon cycling. Adsorption coefficients of radioisotopes on microplastics: Insights from controlled lab experiments and natural aquatic samples.
September 26	Lander Auditorium, 140 Hutchison Hall	Jim Kaste William & Mary	Bombs & the Bees: The Long Legacy of Nuclear Pollution in Today's Environment.
October 17	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Dustin Harper University of Utah	Reconstructing early Cenozoic Climate and atmospheric CO2 with Bayesian forward proxy system models.
October 31	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Nicole Nie MIT	Isotopic Insights into Lunar Volatile Depletion and Surface Evolution.
November 7	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Tushar Mittal Penn State University	Understanding the climate impacts of Continental Flood basalt volcanism: A multi-disciplinary perspective.
November 14 10:00am - 11:00am	Lander Auditorium, 140 Hutchison Hall	Jie Deng Princeton	Exploring the Hidden Interiors of Super-Earths
November 14 3:00pm - 4:00pm	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Jie Deng Princeton	Mantle heterogeneities originated from the Earth's core: A new Model
November 21	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Nadja Drabon Harvard
December 5	Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall	Yoseph Dres University of Rochester	Understanding the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly Evolution and its relationship with Earth's Deep Interior: Evidence from Archeomagnetism and Paleomagnetism.