Spring 2023

Wednesday, Mar 22nd 2023

Dr. Myriam Telus
UC Santa Cruz

Topic: Short-lived radionuclides in meteorites as a record of the astrophysical environment of solar system formation

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Wednesday, Mar 8th 2023

Lightning Talks

1) Shaily Rahman - CU Boulder     Topic: To Ba or not to Ba? The marine geochemical cycle of Ba and its utility as a biological productivity proxy

2) Robert Kelleher- CU Boulder   Topic: Forams and Lithofacies Reveal the Timing and Effects of Ice Sheet Retreat from Parry Channel

3) Pamela Buzas-Stephens - CU Boulder    Topic: Heavy Metal Forams: Test Analysis Redux

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Wednesday, Feb 8th 2023

Dr. Sean Gallen
CSU

Topic:Slab-mantle Interactions Control Forearc Uplift During Subduction Retreat in the Central Mediterranean

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Wednesday, Feb 1st 2023

Lightning Talks

1) Dr. Jen Stempien - CU Boulder     Topic: Creative Chaos: POGIL Activities In-Class

2) Dr. Brad Markle- CU Boulder   Topic: The Pattern of Antarctic Temperature Change

3) Dr. Carl Simpson - CU Boulder    Topic: Physical Mechanism for the Differential Evolution of Eukaryotic and Bacterial Multicellularity

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Wednesday, Jan 25th 2023

Dr. Elle Chimiak
CU Boulder

Topic:Predicting Prebiotic Syntheses on Meteorite Parent Bodies

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Fall 2022

Wednesday, Nov 30th 2022

Dr. Frank J. Pavia
CalTech

Topic:Extraterrestrial Helium-3: A new proxy for sea ice coverage and ice sheet melt rates

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Wednesday, Nov 16th 2022

Dr. Rita Economos
Southern Methodist University

Topic:Magmatic sulfur and oxygen fugacity evolution of the largest sulfate aerosol release of the common era: the 1257 eruption of Mt. Rinjani, Indonesia

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Wednesday, Nov 9th 2022

Dr. Angela Marusiak
USGS

Topic:Exploration of Ocean Worlds Using Seismology

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Wednesday, Nov 2nd 2022

Dr. Ryan Frazer
USGS

Topic:A view of batholiths in western North America through the lens of high-silica igneous rocks

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Wednesday, Oct 26th 2022

Alexis Templeton & Tristan Caro
CU Boulder

Topic:The Rock-Hosted Biosphere

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Wednesday, Oct 19th 2022

Lightning Talks

1) Matt Mendoza - CIRES/CU Boulder     Topic: Preliminary Analysis of a Distributed Acoustic Sensing Experiment at the Utah FORGE Geothermal Laboratory

2) Robert Anderson - INSTAAR/CU Boulder   Topic: Rock Glaciers, the dirty, dangerous, ugly …and useful ...cousins of true glaciers

3) Roger Bilham - Emeritus CU Boulder    Topic: How does Earth's outer core influence decadal variations in Caribbean seismicity?

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Wednesday, Oct 5th 2022

Lightning Talks

1) Lon Abbott - CU Boulder     Topic: Diachronous exhumation in the Colorado Rockies - A product of serial lithospheric drips?

2) Kevin Rozmiarek - CU Boulder   Topic: Uncrewed aircraft sampling of atmospheric water-vapor isotopes at a Greenland ice core camp

3) William Shinevar - CU Boulder    Topic: The Eclogite-out Seismic Thermobarometer: Interpreting the Himalayan Moho Doublet

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Wednesday, Sept 28th 2022

Lisa Mayhew
CU Boulder

Topic: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover team work, publications

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Wednesday, Sept 14th 2022

Katie Snell
CU Boulder

Topic: Integrating stable isotopes, sedimentology and modern analogs to improve our understanding of paleoenvironmental change in the western US over the last ~100 million years

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Wednesday, Sept 7th 2022

Russel Shapiro
CSU Chico

Topic: Recovering altered biosignatures from metamorphic rocks

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Wednesday, Aug 31st 2022

Lightning Talks

1) Brian Hynek - CU Boulder     Topic: Llamageddon: Tales of fieldwork in the Andes and beyond.

2) Anne Sheehan - CU Boulder   Topic: Rapid tsunami warnings from seafloor pressure and ship position data

3) Carolyn Crow - CU Boulder    Topic: First science results from Chang’e 5 (China’s lunar sample return mission)

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