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.
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
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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 | "The role of giant impacts in the solar system: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Earth as study cases" |
February 13 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Adam Sarafian Corning Inc. | “Fast kinetics in glass: hydration and redox reactions” |
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 | "Modeling the Fate and Transport of Plastic Pollution in Great (and Small) Lakes" |
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 | "Atmospheric Sulfur from Phytoplankton and Volcanoes: Overlooked Sources and Changing Chemistry" |
April 10 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Peter Ivatt University of Rochester | "Making Machine Learning Behave in Atmospheric Models: Stability, Maintainability, and GPUs" |
April 17 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Christy Tyler RIT | "Plastic pollution in the Lake Ontario basin: input, fate, and impacts" |
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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