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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. in Hutchison 229, unless otherwise noted. Seminars are free and open to the public. Please direct any questions about this schedule to the seminar coordinator, Penny Higgins by email at pennilyn.higgins@rochester.edu.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| August 31 | TBA | TBA |
| September 7 | TBA | TBA |
| September 14 | TBA | TBA |
| September 21 | Matthew Kohn Boise State University | Shear heating in subduction zones resolves hot rocks vs. cold models debate Host: Garzione |
| September 28 | TBA | TBA |
| October 5 (Meliora Weekend) | TBA | TBA |
| October 12 | Katherine Allen University of Maine | When the Ocean Exhaled: Rapid changes in Pacific Ocean carbon storage during the last glacial termination Host: Borrelli CANCELED |
| October 16 (Tuesday) | Charles Estabrook National Science Foundation | Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation: An International Perspective 1:30-2:30 p.m. Goergen Hall Room 101 RSVP requested: https://urceis.wufoo.com/forms/s10qt7360vbqaq2/ |
| October 17 (Wednesday) | Robert Anderson Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Deep-sea oxygen depletion and ocean carbon sequestration during the last ice age 12:45 p.m. Dewey Hall Room 2110E |
| October 19 | TBA | TBA |
| October 26 | TBA | TBA |
| November 2 | Various speakers | GSA Practice Talks |
| November 9 (GSA WEEK) | Clayton Cox Assistant Director for Federal Relations University of Rochester | Science and Policy: Considerations at Multiple Scales of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus |
| November 16 | TBA | TBA |
| November 23 (Thanksgiving) | No Seminar | No Seminar |
| November 30 | TBA | TBA |
| December 7 | Various Speakers | AGU Practice Talks |
| December 14 (AGU WEEK; Reading Week) | TBA | TBA |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| January 25 | Hamilton College | Oligocene magmatism: A key to the dramatic landscapes of the Colorado Plateau Hosts: Garzione and Ibanez |
| January 30 | GSA Thompson Lecturer | Tectonics and climate of the southern Central Andes Host: Garzione WEDNESDAY SEMINAR 1:45 pm in Hutch 229 |
| February 15 | Ken Ridgway Purdue University | Part 1: Cenozoic flat-slab subduction processes and the tectonic development of southern Alaska. Part 2: Increasing diversity in STEM: Outreach to Native American communities 3:00 pm in the Lander Auditorium (Hutch 140) Host: Tarduno |
| March 4 | University of Bayreuth
| Laboratory and Numerical Experiments on MONDAY SEMINAR 2:00 pm in Hutch 229 Host: Nakajima |
| March 8 | A water budget dichotomy of rocky protoplanets from 26Al-heating 3:00 pm in Hutch 229 Host: Nakajima |