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2024-2025 Seminar Series

Spring 2025 Seminars

Apr 04 - Thomas Elliott Arnold, West Chester University
Exploiting Differences in the Hydrogen Isotope Ratios of Leaf Waxes to Reconstruct Paleo-Precipitation Regimes

Apr 11 - Giuseppe Buscarnera, NU-CEE
Learning from Sand: How Natural Extremes can Inspire Adaptive Material Models for Infrastructures and Geosystems

Apr 18 - Debatosh Partha, NU-EEPS
Solid Biofuel Burning Poses Serious Threats to Ambient Air Quality and Human Health: Long-Term Impacts on Global & Regional Scales

Apr 25 - Pouyan Asem, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Hydromechanical-Geochemical Processes Involving Low-Porosity Rocks: Experimental Challenges

May 02 - Carlos Chaves, University of São Paulo
Illuminating the Mantle Transition Zone Complexities: Modeling the Influence of Mantle Heterogeneities on Teleseismic Converted Waves Using the Spectral Element Method

May 09 - Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto*
Water and Life in Earth's Deep Subsurface - Insights for Sustaining Life on the Planet and Beyond
*Time: 5-6:30pm, Location: Segal Visitor Center, RSVP

May 16 - Chris Parendo, NU-EEPS
Hydromechanical-Geochemical Processes Involving Low-Porosity Rocks: Experimental Challenges

May 23 - Angeline Greene Pendergrass, Cornell University
Topic TBA

May 30 - Undergrad Research Roundup, NU-EEPS
An Annual Presentation on the Research & Accomplishments of our Undergraduate Students

Winter 2025 Seminars

Jan 10 - Arjan Mann, Field Museum | CANCELLED

Jan 17 - Dominique Rissolo, University of California San Diego
Visualizing Subterranean Yucatan: Multimodal Digital Documentation of Caves and Cenotes

Jan 24 - Doug Schmitt, Purdue University
The Earth as a Vault: What Is Geological Sequestration of CO2 and How Can We Monitor It?

Feb 28 - Nyree Zerega, NU-PBC
Plants, People, and Planet – Interactions across time and space

Mar 07 - Amanda Oehlert, University of Miami
Elucidating the Role of Ichthyocarbonate in the Global Carbon Cycle

Fall 2024 Seminars

Sept 27 - Sloss Graduate Research Symposium Part 1, NU-EEPS
An Annual Presentation on the Research & Accomplishments of our Graduate Students

Oct 04 - Sloss Graduate Research Symposium Part 2, NU-EEPS
An Annual Presentation on the Research & Accomplishments of our Graduate Students 

Oct 11 - Andrew Jacobson, NU-EEPS
Detecting Deep Time Ocean Acidification Events with Stable Ca and Sr Isotopes

Oct 18 - Ludmilla Aristilde, NU-EEPS
Molecular Insights Into the Role of Biological and Mineral Catalysts in Organic Carbon Cycling

Oct 25 - Arjan Mann, Field Museum | RESCHEDULED to Jan 10
The Carboniferous Radiation of Early Terrestrial Tetrapods: New Discoveries from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte

Nov 01 - Frank Corsetti, University of Southern California
Hanging around Hot Springs to Gain Insight Into Life on Early Earth, or “Dear Reviewer 2: I Am Aware the Proterozoic Ocean Was Not a Hot Spring.”

Nov 08 - Evan Mallen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nature-Based Heat Resilience: A Framework for Data-Driven Policy Design

Nov 15 - Susan Anenberg, The George Washington University
Tracking Worldwide Urban Progress Towards Climate and Environmental Goals

Nov 22 - Isabel P Montañez, University of California, Davis
Copip Consortium for Advancing Paleo-CO Reconstruction and Our Understanding of CO-Climate-Ecosystem Feedbacks of the Past