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Seminar Schedule
Looking to attend geological, geomechanical and/or environment related seminars? The department sponsors several seminars throughout the year, bringing notable speakers from around the northeast. 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, Thomas Weber by email at t.weber@rochester.edu
| Date | Location/Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 6 | TBA | TBA | |
| September 13 | Lander Auditorium | Zunli Lu Syracuse University | Earth History of Oxygen and the iProxy (Host – Weber) |
| September 20 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| September 27 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| October 4 (Meliora Weekend) | Lander Auditorium 5 p.m. | Drew Shindell Duke University | Fairchild Colloquium Lecture: "Evaluating the Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation" |
| October 11 | Lander Auditorium | Scott McLennan University of Rochester | Testing the Snowball Earth Hypothesis with High Precision Geochronology |
October 18 (Student Seminar) | Hoyt Auditorium | Scott Hull
Ian Szumila | Computational Modeling of Tungsten Metal-Silicate Partitioning in Primordial Magma Oceans Chemical and Structural Investigations of a Synthetically Shocked Zircon-Sanidine Mixture |
| October 25 | Sloan Auditorium (Goergen 101) | Hanika Rizo Carleton University | This seminar has been postponed until the Spring. |
| November 1 | Sloan Auditorium (Goergen 101) | Kat Allen University of Maine | The End of an Ice Age and the Rise of CO2 (Host – Borrelli) |
| November 8 | Hubbell Auditorium (Hutchison 141) | Alan Rooney Yale University | New age constraints for the biological innovations and geochemical and climatic perturbations of the Neoproterozoic (Host – Ibanez-Mejia) |
| November 15—canceled | Lander Auditorium | Kristen Corbosiero SUNY Albany | Hurricane Dynamics and Forecasting (Host – Weber) |
| November 22 | Lander Auditorium | Anne Hofmeister Washington University, St. Louis | New Mechanisms for Plate Tectonics, Lunar Drift, and Earth's Differential Rotation (Host – Nakajima) |
| November 29 (Thanksgiving) | TBA | No Speaker | TBA |
| December 6 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| December 13 (Reading Week) | TBA | No Speaker | TBA |