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.
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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”
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February 6 | Hubbell Auditorium, 141 Hutchison Hall | Alice Chau University of Rochester |
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February 13 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Adam Sarafian Corning Inc. |
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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 |
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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 |
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April 10 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Peter Ivatt University of Rochester |
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April 17 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Christy Tyler RIT |
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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 |
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