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Current SES Seminar Series

Spring 2022 seminars

All seminars will be 4-5 pm Tuesday in Physical Sciences 103.

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Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Title
Jan-25	Abe Springer, SES	Upland Land Management Influences on Hydrogeologic Processes
Feb-1	Joellen Russell, University of Arizona	Changing Climate, Winds and the Deep Blue Sea
Feb-8	Ryan Porter / Mike Smith, SES	Sabbatical talks
Feb-15	Larry Stevens, Springs Stewardship Institute	Ecology and Sustainability of Spring Ecosystems
Feb-22	Nancy Johnson / Nick McKay, SES	Sabbatical talks
Mar-1	Barbara Carrapa, University of Arizona
Mar-8	Benjamin Keisling, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mar-15	SPRING BREAK
Mar-22	Mallory Rakowski, Arizona Hydrological Society Mentorship Report
Mar-29	Duan Biggs, Olajos-Goslow Chair in Environmental Science and Policy, SES
Apr-5	Allison Cluett, SES
Apr-12	Laura Larocca, SES
Apr-19	Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, University of Arizona
Apr-26	Peter La Femina, Penn State University

Past Seminar Series

Fall 2021 seminars

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Title
9/8/21	Justin Hagerty Astrogeology Science Center, USGS	The rise of the USGS in space exploration
9/15/21	Michael Kotutwa Johnson, Hopi Tribe and Native American Agriculture Fund	Conservation: A Pathway Forward on American Indian Lands
9/22/21	Tom Finger, Assistant Professor of Environmental History, NAU	How can knowing our past help build sustainable communities in the future? (Food history and the history of capitalism through an environmental lens)
9/29/21	Sara Souther, SES, NAU, and the Emory Oak Collaborative Tribal Restoration Initiative	Conservation of traditional harvest practices in the Southwest
10/6/21	Alder Saxena, NAU Department of Anthropology
10/13/21	Buyung Agusdinata, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
10/19/21 (TUES 4-5 pm)	Jess Tierney, Geosciences, University of Arizona	Global climate evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum: New perspectives from paleoclimate data assimilation
10/20/21	Frank von Hippel, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Arizona
10/27/21	Britta Jensen, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
11/3/21	Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona
11/10/21	Kerry Grimm, SES, NAU, and EcoCulture
11/17/21	Nicholas Enwright (BY ZOOM), USGS, Lafayette, LA	Monitoring and predicting habitat change in dynamic coastal environments
11/24/21	NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING
11/30/21 (TUES 4-5 pm)	Grad Students	AGU presentations
12/1/21	Jessie Pearl,Department of Earth and Space Sciences, USGS

Spring 2021 seminars

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

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