Colloquium Recordings
Spring 2025
Wednesday, March 19th 2025
Dr. Nick Swanson-Hysell
University of Minnesota, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Topic: Rapid Mesoproterozoic plate motion stalled by the Grenvillian orogeny and the assembly of Rodinia.
Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Dr. Dan Coe
Washington Geological Survey
Topic: The Art of Visualizing Earth Science Data.
Wednesday, March 5th 2025
Dr. Andrew Du
Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University
Topic: The effects of time-averaging on ecological inference in large mammal fossil assemblages.
Wednesday, February 26th 2025
Dr. Jimmy Atterholt
Colorado School of Mines
Topic: Imaging Big Things at Fine Scales with Fiber-Measured Earthquake Wavefields.
Wednesday, February 19th 2025
Lightning Talks:
Dr. Liam Courtney-Davies
CU Boulder
Topic:Dating Snowball Earth Meltwater Events in Colorado: Implications for Cryogenian Ice Sheet Extent and Erosional Histories in Rodina
Dr. Elliot Mueller
CU Boulder
Topic: Unveiling invisible metabolisms: The search for microbial fermentation in the Precambrian rock record
Dr. Cat Ross
CU Boulder
Topic: Lesson learned from drilling the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (again)
Wednesday, February 12th 2025
Dr. Sean Gaynor
USGS - Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
Topic: A Metal Rhythm: Magmatic Evolution of the Santa Rita Porphyry Cu Deposit, NM, USA from High-Precision Zircon Geochronology and Geochemistry.
Wednesday, January 29th 2025
Dr. Joanna Millstein
Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines
Topic: From Crevasse to Iceberg: Investigating fracture processes and calving on Antarctic ice shelves
Fall 2024
Wednesday, November 13th 2024
Dr. Sylvia Nicovich
USGS Denver
Topic: Tracing the 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake earthquake sediment record in four nearby lakes, West Yellowstone region, USA.
Wednesday, November 6th 2024
Dr. Emily Cooperdock
Brown University
Topic: Does Mantle Weathering Help Maintain a Habitable Planet?
Wednesday, October 30th 2024
Dr. David Vetsch
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Topic: How much river dynamics can humans bear - how much the fish?
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Dr. Shawn McGlynn
Earth-Life Science Institute/Institute of Science Tokyo
Topic: Metabolic and molecular inquiries into the geochemistry and biochemistry of early life.
Wednesday, October 16th 2024
Dr. Arya Udry
UNLV
Topic: How do we study the martian interior and surficial magmatic processes?
Wednesday, September 18th 2024
Dr. Peter Roopnarine
California Academy of Sciences
Topic: Modeling the dynamics of ancient communities: Ecological persistence, extinction, and change.
Spring 2024
Wednesday, May 1st 2024
Dr. Eirini Poulaki
University of Miami
Topic: Underplating and the Effects of Fluids on the Subduction Plate Interface
Wednesday, April 24th 2024
Dr. Jordan Wostbrock
Yale
Topic: Reconstructing paleoenvironments using triple oxygen isotope values
Wednesday, April 17th 2024
Dr. Theresa Schwartz
USGS
Topic: Late Triassic paleogeography of southern Laurentia and its fringing arcs: Insights from detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry, Auld Lang Syne basin (Nevada, USA)
Wednesday, April 10th 2024
Dr. Miquela Ingalls
Penn State
Topic: Diagenesis, disequilibrium, and the terrestrial carbonate record
Wednesday, March 6th 2024
Lightning Talks:
Dr. Craig Jones
CU Boulder
Topic:Consequences of the Mojave Waistland
Dr. Roger Bilham
CU Boulder
Topic: The 1886 Magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Charleston: uplift, buckled railroads and a relationship between dynamic strain and Mercalli Intensity
Wednesday, February 28th 2024
Dr. Basil Tikoff
UW Madison University
Topic: The hit-and-run model for the Cretaceous-Paleogene North American Cordillera: The role of alternative hypotheses
Wednesday, February 21st 2024
Dr. Jeffrey McKenzie
McGill University
Topic: Cryohydrogeology: The Cool Frontier in Groundwater Research
Wednesday, February 14th 2024
Dr. Will Yeck
USGS-NEIC
Topic: NEIC The Next Generation: Global Earthquake Monitoring at the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center
Wednesday, February 7th 2024
Dr. Ittai Gavrieli
Geological Survey of Israel
Topic: The Dead Sea: Past Present and Future
Wednesday, January 31st 2024
Dr. Bärbel Hönisch
Columbia University (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Topic: Reconstructions of Cenozoic atmospheric CO2 and ocean carbon cycle perturbations
Wednesday, January 24th 2024
Dr. Aaron Bell
CU Boulder
Topic: Angrites – Exploring the Origins of the Most Unusual Basalts in the Solar System