Colloquia
Department of Geological Sciences
Summer/Fall 2024
Lectures Presented by the Department of Geological
Sciences and the Geology Club
Upcoming Speakers
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| TBA | Check back soon! |
Past Speakers
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December 5, 2023 |
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USGS Talk Title: Voluminous Pliocene eruptions from northern California volcanoes and their ash-bed archive in marine sediments |
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May 2, 2023 12:30PM to 1:30PM |
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Dr. Joann Stock, Professor of Geology and Geophysics California Institute of Technology Talk Title: From Rifting to Subduction Initiation: Cenozoic Tectonics South of New Zealand Research Interests: Plate tectonics; structural geology; evolution of plate boundaries; stress and deformation in the lithosphere; physical volcanology; tectonics and regional structure of the Pacific-North America and Pacific-Australia plate boundaries; active volcanism and CO2 emissions; tectonics of Venus. |
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 11:30AM to 12:30PM |
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Ricki Clark, Public Affairs Associate Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Talk Title: Drought, Flood, or Bust? Navigating Water Supply Challenges in an Increasingly Unpredictable Climate |
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 12:30PM to 1:30PM Location: LO1212 |
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Dr. Carolina Ortiz Guerrero, Post-Doctoral Researcher California State University Northridge Talk Title: Timescales and conditions for decoupled crustal flow in the Pioneer Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex |
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Location: LO1227 |
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Dr. Alyssa Abbey, Assistant Professor California State University Long Beach Bio: Dr. Alyssa Abbey is an Assistant Professor in the department of Geoscience at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). She studied Geology and French at the University of Arizona and then completed her PhD at the University of Michigan researching continental rifting and fault growth using various geological dating methods. Her postdoctoral work, at the University of California, Berkeley, took her into new fields, studying active faults in Argentina, and water-rock interactions combining geochemistry, geochronology, and modeling. At CSULB, her research is split into research on tectonics and fault processes as well as geoscience education accessibility. Check out her children’s graphic novel on how mountains are made and change over time! (More information can be found on her website: alyssalabbey.com) Talk Title: Neogene to Present Landscape Evolution in the southern Colorado Rockies: Insights from Geo- and Thermochronology |
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12:30 PM to 1:30 PM |
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Dr. Alexis Ault, Associate Professor Utah State University, Department of Geosciences Talk Title: Shallow, transient slow slip in the southern San Andreas fault system: insights from natural and experimental hematite and hematite-clay slip surfaces |
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12:30 PM to 1:30 PM |
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Dr. Claire Till, Associate Professor Humboldt State University, Department of Chemistry Talk Title: Global Iron Cycling: Linking Earth's crust, oceans, and food webs |
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM |
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Dr. Heather Ford, Associate Professor University of California Riverside, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Talk Title: New measurements of seismic attenuation across the East African Rift support a model of rift-dominated melting |
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Location: via ZOOM (contact for link) |
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Dr. Eugene Cordero, Professor San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science Research Interests: Understanding the processes responsible for long-term changes in climate through the use of observations and atmospheric models. Talk Title: The role of climate change education on individual lifetime carbon emissions |
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM |
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Dr. Sarah Aarons, Assistant Professor University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Interests: Isotope systems as tracers of weathering and geologic history, geochemical techniques to determine paleo dust provenance and transport pathway, and tracing modern dust sources and nutrient composition. Talk Title: The role of dust on Earth's climate: insights from the paleoclimate record & modern ecosystems |
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM |
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Dr. Roberta Rudnick, Distinguished Professor & Mary Ringwood, PhD Candidate University of California Santa Barbara Research Interests: Geochemistry and Petrology, Continent Formation and Evolution Talk Title: TBA |
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