Current SES Seminar Series
Spring 2019 seminars
Unless otherwise noted, Spring 2019 seminars will be held on Tuesdays, 4-5pm, in Geology 103.
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Date | Speaker | Title |
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1/22/2019 | Devon Marjorie Burr | Flowing and Blowing: vignettes in planetary geomorphology |
1/29 | Steve Romaniello, ASU | Astronaut pee in the mass spec: a new way to track bone calcium loss during space flight |
2/5 | Lisa Skinner, SES | Replacing the Passive Textbook: Digital Online Learning to Enhance Science Courses |
2/13 (WEDS) 11:30-12:30 in GLG 103 | Jim Wittke, SES | Evidence for an Airburst at 12,800 BP from Abu Hureyra Tell, Syria |
2/19 | Kurt Sundell | New insights into the Cenozoic Altiplano stratigraphy of southern Peru through application of novel detrital zircon data visualization and quantitative interpretation methods |
2/26 | Richard Telford | A test of the reproducibility of high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions |
3/5 | Joe Mihaljevic, SICCS | Understanding infectious disease dynamics by confronting models with data |
3/12 | Debbie Huntzinger, SES | Endpoints and Pathways: Do models get the land Carbon sink correct and for the right reasons? |
3/19 | SPRING BREAK | |
3/26 | John Doherty of Watermark Numerical Software (Darcy Lecturer) National Groundwater Association | Starting from the problem and working backwards |
4/2 | Darcy Hitchcock | The Sustainability End-Game |
4/9 | Jeffery Stone | A Holocene Record of Diatom Evolution and Hydroclimate Variability from Cumbres Bog |
4/16 | Wayne Ranney | |
4/19 | Mike Darin, SES | PhD Defense Seminar |
4/23 | Carrie Joseph | |
4/45 (THURS) 4-5pm | Ulf Becker | |
4/30 | Jeffrey Amato | The Eruptive History of the Late Eocene Schoolhouse Mountain Caldera, Mogollon-Datil Volcanic Field, New Mexico |
Fall 2018 seminars
Unless otherwise noted, Fall 2018 seminars will be held on Wednesdays, 11:30am-12:30pm, in Physical Sciences 103.
Date | Speaker | Organization | Title |
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M 8/27, 4pm, PS 103 | Donna Shillington | Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University | Diet affects behavior: how ingested fluids and sediments control Alaska subduction zone earthquakes |
T 8/28, 12:30pm, GLG 223 | James Gaherty | Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University | An ocean-bottom view of mantle flow and lithosphere formation beneath Earths largest tectonic plate |
9/5 | Chloe Bonamici | New Mexico Tech | Intragrain oxygen-isotope zoning as a new tool for geospeedometry and thermochronometry |
9/12 | Laura Wasylenki | SES | What Ni isotopes can and cannot tell us about Earth’s mid-life crisis (Great Oxidation Event) |
9/19 | Tom Sisk | SES/Landscape Conservation Initiative | Cross-border Conservation: Case Studies in Science, Policy, and Landscape-level Change |
9/26 | Charles Yackulic | USGS Southwest Biological Science Center | Drivers of the aquatic ecosystem in the Grand Canyon: the future of water temperatures and the underappreciated significance of phosphorous |
10/3 | Manette Sandor | Landscape Conservation Initiative | Birds and berries: projecting the responses of seed dispersal networks to climate change |
10/10 | Peter Friederici | NAU Communication/Sustainable Communities | Are Our Communication Habits Threatening the World? |
Th 10/18, 4pm, ARD Large Pod | Jason Raucci | Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc. | Doing the Dirty Work: Case Studies from Environmental Consulting |
10/24 | Brian Petersen | NAU Geography/Sustainable Communities | Climate change and contradictions: rethinking solutions |
M 10/29, 12pm, Bldg 90 Rm 223, co-sponsored with SICCS | Tony Chang | Conservation Science Partners | Opportunities and challenges for Deep Learning in the Environmental Sciences |
10/31 | Cathy Propper | NAU Biology | From Molecular Biology to Populations: the Complexity of Understanding Environmental Contamination |
11/7 | Helen Rowe | SES | The Power of Citizen Scientists: A collaboration to deliver conservation outcomes using education, research and monitoring |
11/14 | Erika Nowak | SES | Collaborative and Student-led Research Assists Snake Conservation |
T 11/20, 1pm, GLG 223 | Kirk Schleiffarth | SES | Dissertation Defense: The origins and spatial-temporal patterns of Cretaceous-Quaternary magmatism during collisions, trench retreat, and escape tectonics in central Anatolia, Turkey |
12/5 | Ted Kennedy | USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center | Go with the Bug Flow: Colorado River ecosystem response to the 2018 Bug Flow experiment at Glen Canyon Dam |
Past Seminar Series
Spring 2018
Unless otherwise noted, Spring 2018 seminars will be held on Wednesdays, 11:30am-12:30pm, in Geology 103.
Date | Speaker | Organization | Title |
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01/21 | Cody Routson | SESES | Mid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene |
01/29 (ARD large pod) | Kevin Gurney | ASU | The new science of carbon footprinting and its application to carbon science, urbanization and climate policy |
02/07 | Kelsey Winsor | SESES | Indirect dating of rock glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
02/14 | Micheal Erb | SESES | Exploring drought and climate over the past 1000 years through paleoclimate data assimilation |
02/21 | Mark Salvatore | NAU Physics and Astrophysics | Exploring drought and climate over the past 1000 years through paleoclimate data assimilation |
02/28 | Denielle Perry | SESES | Dragons, Dams, and Dinosaurs: the Evolution of China's River Principles and Policies |
03/07 | Mellisa Yin | SESES, Society of Women Engineers | Arizona Hydrological Society Intern Scholarship Information Session |
03/12 (GLG 223) | Craig Lundstrom | Department of Geology, University of Illinois | A new view of water in magmatic systems: implications for ore deposit formation, climate control and eruption triggering |
03/28 | Marina Fisher-Phelps | NAU's Foster Lab | Mobile acoustic transects detect more bat activity than stationary acoustic point counts in a semi-arid and agricultural landscape |
04/04 | Sara Souther | LCI | Digging deeper: Population-level dynamics influence ginseng response to climate change |
04/13 | Todd Halihan | McEllhiney Lecturer | The Future of Water: Data or Instincts? |
04/18 | Robert K. Shriver | USGS Southwest Biological Science Center | From individuals to ecosystems: how environmental variability shapes ecological processes in water-limited ecosystems |
04/23 (4pm) | Masaki Hayashi | University of Calgary | Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World |
04/25 | Steven Semken | Arizona State University | Place-Based Geoscience Education: Theory, Research, Practice, and Assessment |
05/02 | Sasha Stortz and Clare Aslan | LCI | The Greater Grand Canyon Landscape Assessment: Outcomes and Futures |