Current SES Seminar Series
Spring 2021 seminars
All seminars will be offered remotely at 4pm on Tuesdays unless otherwise noted.
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| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/13/21 1pm WEDNESDAY | Earth Water Fire Seminar Series | GOOD FIRE: Reinstating a natural process in dry forest ecosystems |
| 1/19/21 | Justin Estep, NAU SES | The Evolution of Oceanic Crust and its Role in Earth Systems |
| 1/20/21 1pm WEDNESDAY | Earth Water Fire Seminar Series | Defending our Federal Lands |
| 1/27/21 1pm WEDNESDAY | Earth Water Fire Seminar Series | World Leadership for Conservation: The 30x30 Campaign |
| 2/2/21 | Michael Erb, NAU SES | Reconstructing global temperature of the past 12,000 years using a network of proxy records |
| 2/9/21 | Lucas Bair, USGS | Integrated assessment of ecosystem management and hydropower generation in endangered species recovery |
| 2/16/21 | Chris Atchison | Moving beyond tradition: Universally-designed, field-focused teaching and learning in the geosciences |
| 2/23/21 | Jenny Suckale, CIG Distinguished Speaker | TBA |
| 3/2/21 | Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Arizona | TBA |
| 3/9/21 | D&I Film Screening | Picture a Scientist |
| 3/16/21 | Joe Colgan, USGS Denver | |
| 3/23/21 | William Hawley, Columbia University | TBA |
| 3/30/21 | ||
| 4/6/21 | Sebastián Ballari, CONICET, Argentina | TBA |
| 4/13/21 | Hannah Abuzaineh, The North Face | |
| 4/20/21 | Emily Schottenfels, NAU SES |
Past Seminar Series
Fall 2020 seminars
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9/8/20 | Andrew Christ, University of Vermont | A multi-million-year record of glaciation and vegetation preserved beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, northwestern Greenland |
| 9/15/20 | Abe Springer, NAU SES | Making your science impactful beyond the community of scholars |
| 9/22/20 | Meghann Jarchow, University of South Dakota | Western Corn Belt: Climate Change and Policy Conflicts |
| 9/29/20 | Nels Iverson, NM Bureau of Geology | Antarctic Volcanism: How volcanoes, ice, and climate interact |
| 10/1/20 THURSDAY | Jani Ingram, NAU Chemistry & Biochemistry | Environmental Health Studies on Navajo Lands |
| 10/6/20 | Emerson Lynch, NAU SES | TBA |
| 10/13/20 | Peter Friederici, NAU Sustainable Communities | TBA |
| 10/20/20 | Brian Richter, NAU | Is my Burger Killing a River? The Roots of Water Scarcity in the Colorado River |
| 10/27/20 | Meghan McCarroll, University of Denver | TBA |
| 11/3/20 | Michael Ort, NAU SES | TBA |
| 11/10/20 | SES Diversity Committee | Diversity & Inclusion in SES: Graduate Survey Results and Updates |
| 11/17/20 | Julie Brigham-Grette, UMass Amherst/Distinguished Lecturer with Continental Scientific Drilling Division | The Impact of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia, on our Knowledge of Polar Climate: this changes everything |
Spring 2020 seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/21 | Hilairy Hartnett, ASU | Chasing Carbon down the Colorado River: Characterization and Consequences |
| 1/28 | Doug Rumble | Clumping of 13C-D in methane, 17O-18O in oxygen, and 15N15N in nitrogen: Geological and Biogeochemical Applications. What can isotope clumping in gas molecules do for your research interests? |
| 2/4 | Ryan Crow, USGS | The birth and early evolution of the lower Colorado River |
| 2/11 | Patrick Roehrdanz & Mariano González-Roglich, Conservation International | Tools for monitoring and planning for nature conservation with sustainable development |
| 2/18 | Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Tech | What creates the unique topography of East Africa? |
| 2/25 | Jut Wynne, NAU Biological Sciences | Addressing knowledge shortfalls in subterranean biology |
| 3/5, 12:45pm, Student Union Havasupai Rm AB | Stephen Porder | Campus Change to Fight Climate Change: Moving Universities Off Fossil Fuels |
| 3/6, 12pm, GLG 223 | Tristan Dicke, USGS and Arizona Hydrological Society Intern Scholar | Opportunities with the Arizona Hydrological Society |
| 3/12, 4pm, GLG Annex 304 | Jonathan Delph, University of Oregon | Controls on the spatial distribution of deep non-volcanic tremor along the Cascadia margin |
| 3/17 | NO SEMINAR: | SPRING BREAK |
| 3/24 | Travis Gabriel | postponed (COVID-19) |
| 3/31 | Megan Mueller, Rocky Mountain Wild | postponed (COVID-19) |
| 4/7, 2pm | Bo Stevens, NAU School of Earth & Sustainability | Dissertation defense: What can the Matrix teach us about the future of science? (on Zoom) |
| 4/14 | Darrell Kaufman | The sixth IPCC assessment report and the role of paleoscience (on Zoom) |
| 4/28 | SES 5 min Up-Goer talks | (on Zoom) |
Fall 2019 seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| T 9/3, 4pm, GLG 111 | Gary Hix, McEllhiney Lecture | Drilling disasters and what we can learn |
| 9/11 | NO SEMINAR: | BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU |
| 9/18 | Kevin Gurney | From the Globe to Building: Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Information System |
| F 9/27, 1pm, GLG 103 | Maddy Schreiber | Biogeochemical and hydrologic drivers of manganese behavior in freshwaters |
| 10/2 | Michael Bogan | Drought, resilience, and reincarnation in aridland streams |
| 10/9, 4pm, GLG 103 | Wayne Ranney | NAU to exotic landscapes: Alternative careers in informal science education |
| 10/16 | NO SEMINAR | |
| 10/23 | Benjamin Blonder | Remote sensing of genotypes, and genotype-dependent mortality in quaking aspen |
| 10/30 | Hanna Breetz | Sustainable energy transitions and the social dimension |
| 11/6 | NO SEMINAR | |
| 11/13 | Charles Yackulic | Past, present and future drivers of aquatic ecosystems in the Grand Canyon: the roles of water quality and water policy responses to climate change |
| 11/20 | Norman Kent | |
| 11/27 | NO SEMINAR: | THANKSGIVING |
| 12/4 | Ian Harrison | Assessing biodiversity for conservation and management of freshwater resources |
Spring 2019 seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | CANCELED | |
| 4/19 | Mike Darin, SES | PhD Defense Seminar: Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Sivas Basin from Subduction to Collision to Escape in Central Anatolia, Turkey |
| 4/23 | Carrie Joseph | The effects of climate and ecological processes on engineered uranium disposal cell performance with respect to nearby subsistence-based Indigenous communities |
| 4/25 (THURS) 3-4pm in GLG 223 | Ulf Becker | Geographic information technologies across the petroleum industry |
| 4/26 (FRI) 2-3pm in GLG 103 | Casey Tierney | PhD Defense Seminar: Crystal-liquid insights into time scales and conditions of magma assembly preceding eruption of the Youngest Toba Tuff, Indonesia |
| 4/30 | Jeffrey Amato | The Eruptive History of the Late Eocene Schoolhouse Mountain Caldera, Mogollon-Datil Volcanic Field, New Mexico |
Fall 2018 seminars
| Date | Speaker | Organization | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Organization | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |