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Current SES Seminar Series

Spring 2023 seminars

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be 4-5pm on Tuesdays in Geology 223.

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DateSpeaker, AffiliationTitle
24-JanSarah Praskievicz, UNC GreensboroLiving rivers: Ecohydrology and biogeomorphology of rivers in the Southeast US
31-JanSES Graduate StudentsDiversity & Inclusion in SES: Annual Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Survey Results
7-FebKerry Grimm, SES and EcocultureHuman dimensions of blue carbon ecosystems: Managers, communities, and funders of mangroves and seagrass conservation and restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean
14-FebEric Scholl, USGS
21-FebTBA
28-FebJeffrey Templeton, Western Oregon UEvidence for dynamic magmatic processes at Newberry Volcano, Central Oregon
7-MarNatalie KochArid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
14-MarSPRING BREAKNO SPEAKER
21-MarVernon Morris, ASU
28-MarCatalina Morales-Yáñez, Fundación Geonautas
4-AprJesse Lewis, ASUWildlife populations across ecological gradients: case studies in urbanization and fire ecology
11-AprIsrael Borokini, UC BerkeleyModels of species niche and distributions as scientific tools for hypothesis testing
18-AprWATER SYMPOSIUMNO SPEAKER
25-AprEmily Hite
2-MayTom FleischnerWhy Natural History Matters

Past Seminar Series

Fall 2022 seminars

DateSpeaker, AffiliationTitle
14-SepAlexander BartelsIdentifying areas of future volcanic activity for safe long-term storage of high-level radioactive waste
21-SepKatherine Stewart, U of SaskatchewanRecovery and restoration of biological soil crust communities and function in disturbed northern soils
28-SepJoseph Byrnes, NAUSeismic architecture of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the western United States from joint inversion of body and surface wave observations: Distribution of partial melt in the asthenosphere
4-Oct (TUE 4-5pm)Helen Janiszewski, U of HawaiiImaging Trans-Crustal Magmatic Systems with Receiver Functions: A Path Towards Linking Tectonic and Eruptive Processes
10-Oct (MON 4-5pm)Lauren PharrWings of Change: climate change, woodpeckers and science communication!
19-OctJohn Giordanengo, AloTerra Restoration ServicesEcosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (to a sustainable state)
26-OctDaniel Portner, ASUTrials and tribulations of seismically imaging the magma plumbing system
2-Nov (Zoom only)Kenneth Ridgway, Purdue UCenozoic flat-slab subduction processes and the tectonic development of southern Alaska; emphasizing STEM engagement with Native American students and their communities
9-Nov (WED 4-5pm, Science Annex 106)Kent Redford, Archipelago ConsultingStrange Natures: Conservation of Nature in the era of synthetic biology
16-NovIan Harrison, Conservation InternationalIntegrative Solutions for Freshwater Conservation
23-NovTHANKSGIVING
30-Nov (Zoom only)Rebecca Gruby, Colorado State UMore than funders: Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance
7-DecBrian Healy, USGSResponses of large river fishes to conservation actions: the potential role of tributaries in maintaining imperiled species’ populations

Spring 2022 seminars

DateSpeaker, AffiliationTitle
Jan-25Abe Springer, SESUpland Land Management Influences on Hydrogeologic Processes
Feb-1Joellen Russell, University of ArizonaChanging Climate, Winds and the Deep Blue Sea
Feb-8Ryan Porter / Mike Smith, SESSabbatical talks
Feb-15Larry Stevens, Springs Stewardship InstituteEcology and Sustainability of Spring Ecosystems
Feb-22Nancy Johnson / Nick McKay, SESSabbatical talks
Mar-1Barbara Carrapa, University of Arizona
Mar-8Benjamin Keisling, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mar-15SPRING BREAK
Mar-22Mallory Rakowski, Arizona Hydrological Society Mentorship Report
Mar-29Duan Biggs, Olajos-Goslow Chair in Environmental Science and Policy, SESConnecting Conservation on the Colorado Plateau Globally
Apr-5Allison Cluett, SESEvaluating past climate-ice sheet sensitivity on Greenland with precipitation isotope proxies
Apr-12Laura Larocca, SESThe Holocene history of Arctic glaciers: Insights into past climate and the future evolution of Earth’s cryosphere
Apr-19Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, University of ArizonaCultivating Science, Justice, and Action through Participatory Research
Apr-26Peter La Femina, Penn State UniversityMagma-Tectonic Interactions in Central America

Fall 2021 seminars

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

Spring 2021 seminars

DateSpeaker, AffiliationTitle
1/13/21 1pm WEDNESDAYEarth Water Fire Seminar SeriesGOOD FIRE: Reinstating a natural process in dry forest ecosystems
1/19/21Justin Estep, NAU SESThe Evolution of Oceanic Crust and its Role in Earth Systems
1/20/21 1pm WEDNESDAYEarth Water Fire Seminar SeriesDefending our Federal Lands
1/27/21 1pm WEDNESDAYEarth Water Fire Seminar SeriesWorld Leadership for Conservation: The 30x30 Campaign
2/2/21Michael Erb, NAU SESReconstructing global temperature of the past 12,000 years using a network of proxy records
2/9/21Lucas Bair, USGSIntegrated assessment of ecosystem management and hydropower generation in endangered species recovery
2/16/21Chris AtchisonMoving beyond tradition: Universally-designed, field-focused teaching and learning in the geosciences
2/23/21Jenny Suckale, CIG Distinguished SpeakerTo slide or to flow: Studying extremes in different natural systems sheds light on common physical processes
3/2/21Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of ArizonaMethane, Monsoons, and Milankovitch Modulation of Millennial-scale Climate Variability
3/9/21D&I Film ScreeningPicture a Scientist
3/16/21Joe Colgan, USGS DenverTectonic evolution of the Basin and Range and Yellowstone hotspot
3/23/21William Hawley, Columbia UniversityExamining the connection between mantle flow, plate evolution, and surface tectonics in the Pacific Northwest
3/30/21
4/6/21Sebastián Ballari, CONICET, ArgentinaEcology and conservation in Patagonia: challenges and opportunities
4/13/21Hannah Abuzaineh, The North FaceInclusivity in the Outdoors
4/20/21Emily Schottenfels, NAU SES

Fall 2020 seminars

DateSpeaker, AffiliationTitle
9/8/20Andrew Christ, University of VermontA multi-million-year record of glaciation and vegetation preserved beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, northwestern Greenland
9/15/20Abe Springer, NAU SESMaking your science impactful beyond the community of scholars
9/22/20Meghann Jarchow, University of South DakotaWestern Corn Belt: Climate Change and Policy Conflicts
9/29/20Nels Iverson, NM Bureau of GeologyAntarctic Volcanism: How volcanoes, ice, and climate interact
10/1/20 THURSDAYJani Ingram, NAU Chemistry & BiochemistryEnvironmental Health Studies on Navajo Lands
10/6/20Emerson Lynch, NAU SESTBA
10/13/20Peter Friederici, NAU Sustainable CommunitiesTBA
10/20/20Brian Richter, NAUIs my Burger Killing a River? The Roots of Water Scarcity in the Colorado River
10/27/20Meghan McCarroll, University of DenverTBA
11/3/20Michael Ort, NAU SESTBA
11/10/20SES Diversity CommitteeDiversity & Inclusion in SES: Graduate Survey Results and Updates
11/17/20Julie Brigham-Grette, UMass Amherst/Distinguished Lecturer with Continental Scientific Drilling DivisionThe Impact of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia, on our Knowledge of Polar Climate: this changes everything

Spring 2020 seminars

DateSpeakerTitle
1/21Hilairy Hartnett, ASUChasing Carbon down the Colorado River: Characterization and Consequences
1/28Doug RumbleClumping 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?
2/4Ryan Crow, USGSThe birth and early evolution of the lower Colorado River
2/11Patrick
Roehrdanz & Mariano González-Roglich, Conservation International
Tools for monitoring and planning for nature conservation with sustainable development
2/18Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico TechWhat creates the unique topography of East Africa?
2/25Jut Wynne, NAU Biological SciencesAddressing knowledge shortfalls in subterranean biology
3/5, 12:45pm, Student Union Havasupai Rm ABStephen PorderCampus Change to Fight Climate Change: Moving Universities Off Fossil Fuels
3/6, 12pm, GLG 223Tristan Dicke, USGS and Arizona Hydrological Society Intern ScholarOpportunities with the Arizona Hydrological Society
3/12, 4pm, GLG Annex 304Jonathan Delph, University of OregonControls on the spatial distribution of deep non-volcanic tremor along the Cascadia margin
3/17NO SEMINAR:SPRING BREAK
3/24Travis Gabrielpostponed (COVID-19)
3/31Megan Mueller, Rocky Mountain Wildpostponed (COVID-19)
4/7, 2pmBo Stevens, NAU School of Earth & SustainabilityDissertation defense: What can the Matrix teach us about the future of science? (on Zoom)
4/14Darrell KaufmanThe sixth IPCC assessment report and the role of paleoscience (on Zoom)
4/28SES 5 min Up-Goer talks(on Zoom)

Fall 2019 seminars

DateSpeakerTitle
T 9/3, 4pm, GLG 111Gary Hix, McEllhiney LectureDrilling disasters and what we can learn
9/11NO SEMINAR:BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU
9/18Kevin GurneyFrom the Globe to Building: Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Information System
F 9/27, 1pm, GLG 103Maddy SchreiberBiogeochemical and hydrologic drivers of manganese behavior in freshwaters
10/2Michael BoganDrought, resilience, and reincarnation in aridland streams
10/9, 4pm, GLG 103Wayne RanneyNAU to exotic landscapes: Alternative careers in informal science education
10/16NO SEMINAR
10/23Benjamin BlonderRemote sensing of genotypes, and genotype-dependent mortality in quaking aspen
10/30Hanna BreetzSustainable energy transitions and the social dimension
11/6NO SEMINAR
11/13Charles YackulicPast, present and future drivers of aquatic ecosystems in the Grand Canyon: the roles of water quality and water policy responses to climate change
11/20Norman Kent
11/27NO SEMINAR:THANKSGIVING
12/4Ian HarrisonAssessing biodiversity for conservation and management of freshwater resources

Spring 2019 seminars

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
4/16CANCELED
4/19Mike Darin, SESPhD Defense Seminar: Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Sivas Basin from Subduction to Collision to Escape in Central Anatolia, Turkey
4/23Carrie JosephThe 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 223Ulf BeckerGeographic information technologies across the petroleum industry
4/26 (FRI) 2-3pm in GLG 103Casey TierneyPhD Defense Seminar: Crystal-liquid insights into time scales and conditions of magma assembly preceding eruption of the Youngest Toba Tuff, Indonesia
4/30Jeffrey AmatoThe Eruptive History of the Late Eocene Schoolhouse Mountain Caldera, Mogollon-Datil Volcanic Field, New Mexico

Fall 2018 seminars

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

Spring 2018

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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