Spring 2024
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
Fall 2023
Wednesday, November 15th 2023
Lightning Talks:
Dr. Liannie Velázquez Santana
UT Austin
Topic:Characterizing Central Andean Back-Arc Magmatism using Amphibole as a Petrological and Geochemical Tracer
Dr. William Shinevar
CU Boulder
Topic:Mantle thermochemical variations beneath the continental US: Interpretations from Seismic Tomography and Magnetotellurics
Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Dr. Nathalie Vriend
CU Boulder, Mech Engineering
Topic:Bedform dynamics: interaction, attraction and repulsion of dunes
Wednesday, October 11th 2023
Dr. Sebastian Kopf
CU Boulder
Topic:Insane in the Membrane
Wednesday, October 4th 2023
Dr Andreas Teske
UNC Chapel Hill
Topic:From magma to microbe: the deep hot biosphere of Guaymas Basin.
Wednesday, September 13th 2023
Dr. Carolyn Crow
CU Boulder
Topic: What's my age again?