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
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
Wednesday, Feb 8th 2023
Dr. Sean Gallen
CSU
Topic:Slab-mantle Interactions Control Forearc Uplift During Subduction Retreat in the Central Mediterranean
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
Wednesday, Jan 25th 2023
Dr. Elle Chimiak
CU Boulder
Topic:Predicting Prebiotic Syntheses on Meteorite Parent Bodies
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
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
Wednesday, Nov 9th 2022
Dr. Angela Marusiak
USGS
Topic:Exploration of Ocean Worlds Using Seismology
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
Wednesday, Oct 26th 2022
Alexis Templeton & Tristan Caro
CU Boulder
Topic:The Rock-Hosted Biosphere
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?
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
Wednesday, Sept 28th 2022
Lisa Mayhew
CU Boulder
Topic: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover team work, publications
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
Wednesday, Sept 7th 2022
Russel Shapiro
CSU Chico
Topic: Recovering altered biosignatures from metamorphic rocks
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)