Geology Colloquium Series Archive

Dr. Emily Martin - "Estimating regolith thickness on Saturn's Moon Enceladus"

Dr. Avishek Dutta - "Understanding life in the deep dark biosphere" 

Dr. Srimanti Dutta Gupta - "Knowing the unknowns - Chemicals of emerging concern in hydrosphere and lithosphere".

Dr. Jessica Cook Hale - "Sea Changes: the current state of submerged paleolandscape prospection and assessments, inside and outside the private sector" 

Dr. Guilherme Gualda - "The Rhyolite Factory: Integrating plutonic and volcanic perspectives using rhyolite-MELTS"

Dr. Lukas Baumgartner - "What metamorphic petrology can say about pressure in mountain building Are the Alps really a typical subduction orogen"

Dr. Glenn Gaetani - "Magma reservoir depths, pre-eruptive volatiles, and ascent rates: Insights from olivine-hosted melt inclusions"

Dr. Franziska Lechleitner - "Caves as windows into the Critical Zone carbon cycle across spatial and temporal scales"

Dr. Daniel A. Frost - "Constraining the history of the inner core with seismic anisotropy" 

Dr. Abdou Abouelmagd - "Water Resources Management and Sustainability in the arid/semi arid environments: Case study from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region"

Dr. Paul A. Schroeder - "Clay mineral production and feedbacks to global exogenic cycles"

Dr. Jay B. Thamos - "Truths, mirages, and shifting sands: parting Earth’s curtains using trace elements in mineral thermobarometers to reveal crystallization conditions of felsic rocks"

Dr. Rene Gassmoeller - "Understanding the Connections between Plate Tectonics and the Deep Earth: Models, Observations, and Modern Research Software"

Dr. Amy Ryan - "Melt migration in mushy volcanic systems: insights from high-temperature, high-pressure deformation experiments"

Dr. Logan King - "The Digital Brain of Non-Avian Dinosaurs: Developmental and Evolutionary Trends"

Dr. Stephanie Drumheller-Horton - "How to Make a Dinosaur Mummy: Applying Forensic Principles to a Paleontological Quandry"

Dr. Matthew Carrano - "The importance of vertebrate microfossil bonebeds in understanding the fossil record: examples from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous)"

Dr. Debra Willard - "Holocene hydroclimate and wetland development in the mid-Atlantic United States: vegetation and fire regimes of Great Dismal Swamp"

Dr. Yuanzhi Tang - "Characterization of rare earth element speciation in complex matrices and recovery from waste streams"

Scott Harris - "Evidence for a Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Comet Air Burst over the Northern Atacama Desert (Chile)"

Garrett Vice - "Using Spatial Thinking to Become a Better Geoscientist"

Ted Lord - "Industrial Minerals and Geologic Exploration in the Ceramic Industry"

Dr. Clark Alexander - "Drones in the Coastal Zone: Beaches, Berms and Barrier Islands"

Dr. Christopher Zahasky - "The role of the vadose zone on the fate and timing of PFAS contamination in groundwater systems"

Dr. Paulo Hidalgo - "REU-IRES: Scientific Results of Mentored Domestic and International Research Experiences. Solving Tectonic and Volcanic Problems to Cultivate JEDI in the Geosciences."

Richard Wooten PG - "Debris Flows, Big Slow Movers, and Rockslides: Assembling the Geospatial Legacy of Landslides using Lidar, Drones and Boots on the Ground."

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Samuel Oxhorn - "Silica, Stopes, and Sulfides; Hard Rock Mining and the Geosciences"

Dr. Corliss Kin - MSA Distinguished Lecturer - "Enigmatic archives of magmatic processes: decoding mineral zoning and melt inclusions with Fe–Mg isotopes"

Dr. Nathan Jud - "Paleobotany of the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming"

Dr. Scott Wing - "Effects of sudden global warming on terrestrial ecosystems - an example from 56 mya"

Dr. Connor Parker - "From environmental waste to radioisotope R&D: the life cycle of transuranic materials"

Dr. Eric Kirby - "Tectonic significance of topography along the Cascadia forearc."

Dr. Ian Bourg - "Clay, water, and salt: controls on the hydrology and mechanics of fine-grained soils, sediments, and sedimentary rocks."

Dr. Amy Williams - "The search for life on Mars: challenges and opportunities in current and future Mars exploration"

Dr. Alan Fryar - "Checking the Pulse and Taking the Temperature: How Do Springs Respond to Environmental Stresses?" 

Dr. Richard (Greg) Vaughan - "Characterizing Yellowstone’s thermal areas using remote sensing data"

Dr. Peter Vrolijk - IODP Distinguished Lecturer - "Massive earthquakes and tsunamis: contributing factors revealed by IODP Expedition 362"

Dr. Paul Spry - "Critical Minerals and Green Energy"

Dr. Richard Esposito and Dr. Ben Wernette - "The Fundamentals of Carbon Capture and Storage"

Heather Qualman - "CCS - An Integrated Approach"

Dr. Charlotte Garing - "Improving Understanding of CO2 Trapping Mechanisms in Geologic Storage Systems"

Dr. Jake Loewenstern - "The Challenge of Volcano Monitoring, Eruption Forecasting, and Protecting Vulnerable Populations"

Dr. Mattia Pistone - "Moho Mission to the Foundation of Continents: The ICDP DIVE Drilling Project"

Dr. Bridget Scanlon - "Evaluating Approaches towards more Sustainable Global Water Resources Management"

Dr. Chen Zhu - "How mineral-water interactions relate to critical minerals, carbon sequestration, and water resources"

Dr. Peter Kang - "Understanding Fluid Flow and Reactive Transport in Fractured Media Across Scales"

Madison Borelli - "Hot Breakfast: Formation of "Pancake Dome" Volcanoes on Venus"

Dr. Hamed Soroush - "Innovating the Subsurface: Advancing Geothermal Energy and Thermal Storage for a Low-Carbon Future"

Dr. Madhavi Martin - "Leveraging High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy for Solutions to Bio-geo-chemistry, Biomass, and Environmental Characterization"

Dr. Marek Locmelis - "Removing Materials from the ‘Critical Minerals List’"

Dr. Simon Jowitt - "Modern Society, Mining, and the Energy Transition; understanding key relationships and the importance of geoscience and the minerals industry"

Dr. Noah Randolph-Flagg - "Rain falling on hot rocks: how critical mineral deposits and hazards emerge from hydrothermal processes"

Dr. Nigel Hughes - "TBD"