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 |
|---|---|---|---|
September 11 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Sydney Licata University of Rochester | "Exploring the History of Lunar Silicic Crust Production through Ti Coordination in Zircon" |
September 18 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Tsuyoshi Iizuka University of Tokyo | "Using Hf isotopes to trace fluids on C-asteroids, the Moon, and early Earth" |
October 9 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Kim Tait ROM | “How museum collections can support the planetary science community” |
October 16 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Eileen Martin Colorado School of Mines | "Maximizing environmental seismology data with limited computing resources" |
| October 22 | Lander Auditorium, 140 Hutchison Hall | Jonathan Aurnou UCLA | TBD |
| October 23 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Joseph Levy Colgate University | "Martian Gullies & Antarctic Brines: Putting Water to Work in Cold and Dry Landscapes" |
October 30 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Harrison Todd University of Rochester | "Making the Most of Detrital Zircons: Age, Morphology, and Chemistry" |
November 6 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Meredith Holgerson Cornell University | "Why are ponds biogeochemical hotspots? Examining how waterbody size shapes carbon fluxes" |
November 13 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Annmarie Eldering | "Measuring Methane Plumes from Space: Challenges and Successes" |
November 20 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Schuyler Lockwood University of Rochester | "Atmospheric gas-phase and aerosol chemistry: measuring kinetics of methane oxidation and time-evolution of emissions from biomass burning" |
December 4 | Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall | Sebastian Miller University of Rochester | "Using 14CO to Understand Past, Present, and Future Atmospheric OH" |