Colloquium Recordings
Fall 2025
Spring 2025
Wednesday, April 30th 2025
Dr. Dave Whipp
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki
Topic: Can it be all so simple? Challenges and considerations using thermochronology to understand lithospheric dynamics.
Wednesday, April 23rd 2025
Dr. Ana Gonzalez- Nayeck
Baruch College - CUNY, , Department of Natural Sciences
Topic: Where does all the photosynthetic sugar go? Exploring the consequences of sugar exudation on the carbon isotopic composition of microbial biomass.
Wednesday, April 16th 2025
Dr. Erik Hanschen
Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Labs
Topic: The genetics of diploid algae and how they respond to the stress of spaceflight.
Wednesday, April 9th 2025
Lightning Talks:
Dr. Lexie Millikin
CU Boulder
Topic: A new Re-Os age constraint informs the dynamics of the Great Oxidation Event.
Dr. Daniel Gittens
CU Boulder
Topic: A new taxonomy for shallow aseismic slip defined from creepmeters.
Dr. Alta Howells
CU Boulder
Topic: Can a Methanobacterium Carry Out Acetoclastic Methanogenesis? Maybe Under Enceladus Like Conditions…
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