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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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DateSpeakerTitle
1/22/2019Devon Marjorie BurrFlowing and Blowing: vignettes in planetary geomorphology
1/29Steve Romaniello, ASUAstronaut pee in the mass spec: a new way to track bone calcium loss during space flight
2/5Lisa Skinner, SESReplacing the Passive Textbook: Digital Online Learning to Enhance Science Courses
2/13 (WEDS) 11:30-12:30 in GLG 103Jim Wittke, SESEvidence for an Airburst at 12,800 BP from Abu Hureyra Tell, Syria
2/19Kurt SundellNew insights into the Cenozoic Altiplano stratigraphy of southern Peru through application of novel detrital zircon data visualization and quantitative interpretation methods
2/26Richard TelfordA test of the reproducibility of high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
3/5Joe Mihaljevic, SICCSUnderstanding infectious disease dynamics by confronting models with data
3/12Debbie Huntzinger, SESEndpoints and Pathways: Do models get the land Carbon sink correct and for the right reasons?
3/19SPRING BREAK
3/26John Doherty of Watermark Numerical Software (Darcy Lecturer) National Groundwater AssociationStarting from the problem and working backwards
4/2Darcy HitchcockThe Sustainability End-Game
4/9Jeffery StoneA Holocene Record of Diatom Evolution and Hydroclimate Variability from Cumbres Bog
4/16Wayne Ranney
4/19Mike Darin, SESPhD Defense Seminar
4/23Carrie Joseph
4/45 (THURS) 4-5pmUlf Becker
4/30Jeffrey AmatoThe 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.

DateSpeakerOrganizationTitle
M 8/27, 4pm, PS 103Donna ShillingtonLamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia UniversityDiet affects behavior: how ingested fluids and sediments control Alaska subduction zone earthquakes
T 8/28, 12:30pm, GLG 223James GahertyLamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia UniversityAn ocean-bottom view of mantle flow and lithosphere formation beneath Earth’s largest tectonic plate
9/5Chloe BonamiciNew Mexico TechIntragrain oxygen-isotope zoning as a new tool for geospeedometry and thermochronometry
9/12Laura WasylenkiSESWhat Ni isotopes can and cannot tell us about Earth’s mid-life crisis (Great Oxidation Event)
9/19Tom SiskSES/Landscape Conservation InitiativeCross-border Conservation: Case Studies in Science, Policy, and Landscape-level Change
9/26Charles YackulicUSGS Southwest Biological Science CenterDrivers of the aquatic ecosystem in the Grand Canyon: the future of water temperatures and the underappreciated significance of phosphorous
10/3Manette SandorLandscape Conservation InitiativeBirds and berries: projecting the responses of seed dispersal networks to climate change
10/10Peter FriedericiNAU Communication/Sustainable CommunitiesAre Our Communication Habits Threatening the World?
Th 10/18, 4pm, ARD Large PodJason RaucciDaniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc.Doing the Dirty Work: Case Studies from Environmental Consulting
10/24Brian PetersenNAU Geography/Sustainable CommunitiesClimate change and contradictions: rethinking solutions
M 10/29, 12pm, Bldg 90 Rm 223, co-sponsored with SICCSTony ChangConservation Science PartnersOpportunities and challenges for Deep Learning in the Environmental Sciences
10/31Cathy PropperNAU BiologyFrom Molecular Biology to Populations: the Complexity of Understanding Environmental Contamination
11/7Helen RoweSESThe Power of Citizen Scientists: A collaboration to deliver conservation outcomes using education, research and monitoring
11/14Erika NowakSESCollaborative and Student-led Research Assists Snake Conservation
T 11/20, 1pm, GLG 223Kirk SchleiffarthSESDissertation Defense: The origins and spatial-temporal patterns of Cretaceous-Quaternary magmatism during collisions, trench retreat, and escape tectonics in central Anatolia, Turkey
12/5Ted KennedyUSGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research CenterGo 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.

DateSpeakerOrganizationTitle
01/21Cody RoutsonSESES Mid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene
01/29 (ARD large pod)Kevin GurneyASU The new science of carbon footprinting and its application to carbon science, urbanization and climate policy
02/07Kelsey WinsorSESESIndirect dating of rock glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
02/14Micheal ErbSESESExploring drought and climate over the past 1000 years through paleoclimate data assimilation
02/21Mark SalvatoreNAU Physics and AstrophysicsExploring drought and climate over the past 1000 years through paleoclimate data assimilation
02/28Denielle PerrySESESDragons, Dams, and Dinosaurs: the Evolution of China's River Principles and Policies
03/07Mellisa YinSESES, Society of Women EngineersArizona Hydrological Society Intern Scholarship Information Session
03/12 (GLG 223)Craig LundstromDepartment of Geology, University of IllinoisA new view of water in magmatic systems: implications for ore deposit formation, climate control and eruption triggering
03/28Marina Fisher-PhelpsNAU's Foster Lab Mobile acoustic transects detect more bat activity than stationary acoustic point counts in a semi-arid and agricultural landscape
04/04Sara SoutherLCIDigging deeper: Population-level dynamics influence ginseng response to climate change
04/13Todd HalihanMcEllhiney LecturerThe Future of Water: Data or Instincts?
04/18Robert K. ShriverUSGS Southwest Biological Science CenterFrom individuals to ecosystems: how environmental variability shapes ecological processes in water-limited ecosystems
04/23 (4pm)Masaki HayashiUniversity of CalgaryAlpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World
04/25Steven SemkenArizona State UniversityPlace-Based Geoscience Education: Theory, Research, Practice, and Assessment
05/02Sasha Stortz and Clare AslanLCI The Greater Grand Canyon Landscape Assessment: Outcomes and Futures

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