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Current SES Seminar Series<\/h1>\n

The seminar schedule (from Fall 2025 to present) can be found here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars during Spring Semester 2026 will be 4-5p on Tuesdays in Geology 103.<\/p>\n

Want to receive weekly seminar announcements via email? Join our seminar listserv<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Past Seminar Series<\/h2>\n

Spring 2025 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date, Time, Location<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
21-Jan, 4-5p Science Annex Rm 106<\/td>Deborah Huntzinger, NAU SES<\/td>Polar Explorer: A Place-Based Virtual Learning Environment to Improve STEM Undergraduate Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28-Jan<\/td>Emma Lodes, Arizona State University<\/td>Climate controls on river incision Examples from Chile and Hawaii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-Feb<\/td>Veronica Prush, New Mexico Tech<\/td>Mechanical conditions for throughgoing rupture of fault complexities: A case study from the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10-Feb, Monday, 4-5p, Geology 223<\/td>Grant Ferguson, 2025 NGWA Darcy Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan<\/td>Deep Groundwater and Deep Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11-Feb<\/td>Melanie Barboni, Arizona State University<\/td>Moonstruck: blessing and curse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18-Feb<\/td>Rebecca Best, NAU SES<\/td>Past and future climate impacts on riparian forests of the Southwest: adaptation and acclimation in Fremont cottonwood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25-Feb<\/td>Harold Tobin, University of Washington<\/td>Megathrust\u2026 Or Bust? The Saga of the IODP NanTroSEIZE Subduction Zone Ultradeep Drilling Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-Feb, Weds, 10-11, Geology 109<\/td>Harold Tobin, University of Washington<\/td>Evidence of shallow megathrust locking and coseismic slip in the Cascadia subduction zone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-Feb, Weds, 11:30-12:30, Geology 103<\/td>Heather Elliott, Arizona Hydrological Society<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-March<\/td>Camila Donatti, Conservation International<\/td>The critical role of nature in climate change adaptation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11-March<\/td>SPRING BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18-March<\/td>Christine Regalla, NAU SES<\/td>A journey to the bottom of the sea: Understanding the causes of the 2011 Tohoku Japan tsunami through deep sea drilling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-March, Weds, 5:30p, Mother Road Brewery. Register here<\/a><\/td>Heather Elliott, NAU<\/td>2024 Charles C. Avery Intern Scholarship Experience Talk <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1-April<\/td>TBA<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8-April<\/td>Tom Lamont, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/td>Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15-April<\/td>Margaret Moore, NAU, Sch of Forestry<\/td>Long-term (80+ years) mapped quadrat data provide evidence about plant population and community change from Montana to Arizona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22-April<\/td>TBA<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29-April<\/td>Victor Ramos Sanchez, NAU, Dept. of Chemistry<\/td>Valorization strategies for biomass waste management: My academic life between Pecans and Sotol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6-May<\/td>All-Grad-Student Summit<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2024 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date, Time, Location<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
4-Sept<\/td>Drew Eppehimer, USGS<\/td>Drought, water storage, and an invasion: Designer flows to stop the establishment of smallmouth bass in the Grand Canyon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11-Sept<\/td>Eduardo Contreras-Reyes, University of Chile, Chile<\/td>Vp\/Vs structure across oceanic ridges in the Pacific from active seismic constraints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18-Sept<\/td>Aubrey LaPlante, NAU SES<\/td>Grad School 101: Tips and tricks to a successful application. Couldn't attend? Click here to check out the presentation!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25-Sept<\/td>Gianmarco del Piccolo, University of Padova, Italy<\/td>P-wave imaging of stress and dike patterns at Etna volcano<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-Oct<\/td>Mark Salvatore, NAU Astronomy and Planetary Science<\/td>Into the cold: Uncovering the unique geological and ecological processes at work in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9-Oct<\/td>Neha Gupta, University of Arizona<\/td> Supporting Arizona Water Resources Management through the Arizona Tri-University Recharge and Water Reliability Project. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16-Oct<\/td>Steve Blackwell, Desert Botanical Garden<\/td>Caring for the Rare: Conservation Efforts to Save Threatened and Endangered Plants at the Desert Botanical Garden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23-Oct<\/td>Colin Dundas, USGS<\/td>Coming up dry: Testing aqueous origins for active features on Mars
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30-Oct<\/td>Susan Beck, University of Arizona<\/td>Oceanic Ridge Subduction along the South America Convergent Margin \u2013 What Do We Know?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6-Nov<\/td>Madison Myers, Montana State University<\/td>Reconstructing a Supereruption from the field<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13-Nov<\/td>Laura Wasylenki, NAU SES<\/td>The modern marine cycle of nickel (a crucial micronutrient) and how nickel isotopes are helping us learn how it works<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15-Nov, 12-1p, Geology Rm 103<\/td>Geraldo Wilson Fernandes<\/td>A Broader Perspective: Biodiversity and Conservation Beyond the Amazon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20-Nov<\/td>Marine Denolle, University of Washington<\/td>Tracking temporal changes in the subsurface structure near faults and populated areas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27-Nov<\/td>NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-Dec<\/td>Richard Rushforth, NAU SICCS<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2024 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date, Time, Location<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
23-Jan<\/td>Steven Sempken, ASU<\/td>Comparative Studies of Learning Outcomes of Place-Based Virtual and In-Person Field Experiences in Geoscience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-Feb, 11:30-12:30, GLG223<\/td>Matt Beck, CSU Long Beach<\/td>Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing as a Window on Subsurface Flow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5-Feb, 11:15-12:15, Physical Sciences 103<\/td>Karletta Chief, ASU<\/td>University-Community Research Response to COVID-19 amplified food, energy, and water (FEW) insecurities on the Navajo Nation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9-Feb, 11:30-12:30, Geology 223<\/td>Suzanne Affinati, NAU<\/td>Fluid infiltration of the continental crust during Laramide flat-slab subduction: Preliminary findings and project goals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13-Feb<\/td>Gordon Haxe<\/td>Oceanic Peridotite in the Desert \u2014 Arizona\u2019s Laramide Low-Angle Subduction Channel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20-Feb<\/td>Gabe Epstein<\/td>Fluid Flow in Subduction Zones
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27-Feb<\/td>Eva Baransky, Phoenix Eskridge-Aldama, and Leah Marshall<\/td>SES JEDI survey - annual results and discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3-March<\/td>Jack Williams, UW Madison<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12-March<\/td>SPRING BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19-March<\/td>Don Bills, Arizona Hydrological Society<\/td>2023 AHS Intern Scholarship review and presentation of the 2024 intern and academic scholarship programs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-March<\/td>Mark Windschitl, University of Washington<\/td>Teaching Climate Change: Fostering Understanding, Resilience, and a Commitment to Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-April<\/td>Estella Atekwana, UC Davis<\/td>Biogeophysics: Geophysical Sensors for Biogeochemical Hotspots and the Search for Life<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3-April, 11:30-12:30, Physical Sciences Room 103<\/td>Estella Atekwana, UC Davis<\/td>Preparing a just, equitable, diverse and inclusive 21st century geoscience workforce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8-April, 3:30-4:30p, Physical Sciences Room 103<\/td>Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert, ASU<\/td>What lies beneath: Who lives miles beneath the seafloor and what are they up to?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19-April, 11:30-12:30, Geology 223<\/td>Ralph Hopkins<\/td>Great Voyages \u2013 Adventures with the National Geographic Fleet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23-April<\/td>Ben Rostron, U Alberta<\/td>Geology and hydrogeology at AQUISTORE: Canada\u2019s first CO2 storage project associated with a commercial-scale coal-fired power plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30-April
\n<\/td>		Jim Sample, NAU<\/td>My Year of Water<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2023 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date, Time, Location<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
6-Sept, 11:15a-12:15p, SHB 105<\/td>Joey Nelson, Heirloom Carbon Technologies<\/td>Locking Contaminants in Minerals and Unlocking LGBTQIA+ Potential in STEM and Climate Fields<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13-Sept<\/td>Diana Calvo, NAU Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering<\/td>Community-based and Translational Research: Water Security in Indigenous Communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20-Sept<\/td>Tom Fleischner, Prescott College<\/td>Why Natural History Matters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27-Sept<\/td>Joe Little, NAU College of Business<\/td>Interdisciplinary Research Tales from the 49th State: An Economist\u2019s Experience with the Challenges and Pitfalls of Conducting Integrated Research in Alaska<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-Oct<\/td>Abe Springer, NAU<\/td>Stories told by springs, caves, and lectures from sabbatical<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11-Oct<\/td>Margaret Redsteer, University of Washington Bothell<\/td>Defining Environmental Challenges Through Transdisciplinary Approaches, a Case Example from the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19-Oct, 4-5p, Geology 223<\/td>Demian Saffer, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics<\/td>Wiring Plate Boundary Faults Beneath the Ocean: Recurring and Triggered Slow Earthquakes Near the Trench<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-Oct, Thursday<\/td>Dave Cook, Aspect Consulting<\/td>A Career of Geohazards: Come have a conversation with Environmental Geologist Dave Cook (MS \u201891) about environmental consulting, geohazards, contaminant cleanups, water scarcity, and a story or two about Colorado Plateau geology and river
\nrafting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1-Nov<\/td>Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State University<\/td>Engaging Water Managers in the Future of the Colorado River Basin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6-Nov, Monday<\/td>Jane Willenbring, Stanford University<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15-Nov<\/td>Deborah Tosline, Bureau of Reclamation<\/td>Nature-Based Infrastructure to Manage Stormwater Flows, Optimize Water Resources and Support Ecosystems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22-Nov<\/td>No Seminar<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29-Nov<\/td>Jamie Awe, NAU Department of Anthropology<\/td>Long-term Drought, Human Responses, and Consequences: Comparing the Ancient Maya with Modern Brazil, Spain, and the American Southwest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6-Dec<\/td>Mar\u00eda de los Reyes Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier<\/td>Palaeoecological insights in coastal landscape evolution - Late Holocene vegetation changes in Southern California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2023 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
24-Jan<\/td>Sarah Praskievicz, UNC Greensboro<\/td>Living rivers: Ecohydrology and biogeomorphology of rivers in the Southeast US<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31-Jan<\/td>SES Graduate Students<\/td>Diversity & Inclusion in SES: Annual Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Survey Results<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7-Feb<\/td>Kerry Grimm, SES and Ecoculture<\/td>Human dimensions of blue carbon ecosystems: Managers, communities, and funders of mangroves and seagrass conservation and restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14-Feb<\/td>SNOWSTORM: Eric Scholl postponed to Th, Mar 9<\/td>NO SPEAKER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21-Feb<\/td>Matthew Sprague, Arizona Hydrological Society undergrad intern<\/td>The Charles C. Avery Internship Experience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28-Feb<\/td>Jeffrey Templeton, Western Oregon U<\/td>Evidence for dynamic magmatic processes at Newberry Volcano, Central Oregon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7-Mar<\/td>Natalie Koch<\/td>Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9-Mar (THU 4-5pm)<\/td>Eric Scholl, USGS<\/td>Understanding connections between geomorphology, animal communities, and food webs in large riverscapes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14-Mar<\/td>SPRING BREAK<\/td>NO SPEAKER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21-Mar<\/td>Vernon Morris, ASU<\/td>POSTPONED<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28-Mar<\/td>Catalina Morales-Y\u00e1\u00f1ez, Fundaci\u00f3n Geonautas<\/td>Inclusion of Women in Scientific Spaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3-Apr (MON 3-4pm)<\/td>Paloma Medina, UC Santa Cruz<\/td>Looking for Marla: At the Intersection of Sex Chromosome Evolution, Culture, and Gender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-Apr<\/td>Jesse Lewis, ASU<\/td>Wildlife populations across ecological gradients: case studies in urbanization and fire ecology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11-Apr<\/td>Israel Borokini, UC Berkeley<\/td>Models of species niche and distributions as scientific tools for hypothesis testing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18-Apr<\/td>WATER SYMPOSIUM<\/td>NO SPEAKER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25-Apr<\/td>Emily Hite<\/td>Hydrosocial territories of climate governance: examining the Indigenous-hydropower nexus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-May<\/td>Tom Fleischner<\/td>Why Natural History Matters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2022 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
14-Sep<\/td>Alexander Bartels<\/td>Identifying areas of future volcanic activity for safe long-term storage of high-level radioactive waste<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21-Sep<\/td>Katherine Stewart, U of Saskatchewan<\/td>Recovery and restoration of biological soil crust communities and function in disturbed northern soils<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28-Sep<\/td>Joseph Byrnes, NAU<\/td>Seismic 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 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-Oct (TUE 4-5pm)<\/td>Helen Janiszewski, U of Hawaii<\/td>Imaging Trans-Crustal Magmatic Systems with Receiver Functions: A Path Towards Linking Tectonic and Eruptive Processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10-Oct (MON 4-5pm)<\/td>Lauren Pharr<\/td>Wings of Change: climate change, woodpeckers and science communication!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19-Oct<\/td>John Giordanengo, AloTerra Restoration Services<\/td>Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (to a sustainable state) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-Oct<\/td>Daniel Portner, ASU<\/td>Trials and tribulations of seismically imaging the magma plumbing system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-Nov (Zoom only)<\/td>Kenneth Ridgway, Purdue U<\/td>Cenozoic flat-slab subduction processes and the tectonic development of southern Alaska; emphasizing STEM engagement with Native American students and their communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9-Nov (WED 4-5pm, Science Annex 106)<\/td>Kent Redford, Archipelago Consulting<\/td>Strange Natures: Conservation of Nature in the era of synthetic biology <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16-Nov<\/td>Ian Harrison, Conservation International<\/td>Integrative Solutions for Freshwater Conservation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23-Nov<\/td>THANKSGIVING<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30-Nov (Zoom only)<\/td>Rebecca Gruby, Colorado State U<\/td>More than funders: Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7-Dec<\/td>Brian Healy, USGS<\/td>Responses of large river fishes to conservation actions: the potential role of tributaries in maintaining imperiled species\u2019 populations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2022 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Jan-25<\/td>Abe Springer, SES<\/td>Upland Land Management Influences on Hydrogeologic Processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb-1<\/td>Joellen Russell, University of Arizona<\/td>Changing Climate, Winds and the Deep Blue Sea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb-8<\/td>Ryan Porter \/ Mike Smith, SES<\/td>Sabbatical talks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb-15<\/td>Larry Stevens, Springs Stewardship Institute<\/td>Ecology and Sustainability of Spring Ecosystems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb-22<\/td>Nancy Johnson \/ Nick McKay, SES<\/td>Sabbatical talks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar-1<\/td>Barbara Carrapa, University of Arizona<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar-8<\/td>Benjamin Keisling, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar-15<\/td>SPRING BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar-22<\/td>Mallory Rakowski, Arizona Hydrological Society Mentorship Report<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar-29<\/td>Duan Biggs, Olajos-Goslow Chair in Environmental Science and Policy, SES<\/td>Connecting Conservation on the Colorado Plateau Globally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr-5<\/td>Allison Cluett, SES<\/td>Evaluating past climate-ice sheet sensitivity on Greenland with precipitation isotope proxies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr-12<\/td>Laura Larocca, SES<\/td>The Holocene history of Arctic glaciers: Insights into past climate and the future evolution of Earth\u2019s cryosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr-19<\/td>M\u00f3nica Ram\u00edrez-Andreotta, University of Arizona<\/td>Cultivating Science, Justice, and Action through Participatory Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr-26<\/td>Peter La Femina, Penn State University<\/td>Magma-Tectonic Interactions in Central America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2021 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
9\/8\/21<\/td>Justin Hagerty
\nAstrogeology Science Center, USGS<\/td>		The rise of the USGS in space exploration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/15\/21<\/td>Michael Kotutwa Johnson, Hopi Tribe and Native American Agriculture Fund<\/td>Conservation: A Pathway Forward on American Indian Lands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/22\/21<\/td>Tom Finger, Assistant Professor of Environmental History, NAU<\/td>How can knowing our past help build sustainable communities in the future? (Food history and the history of capitalism through an environmental lens)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/29\/21<\/td>Sara Souther, SES, NAU, and the Emory Oak Collaborative Tribal Restoration Initiative<\/td>Conservation of traditional harvest practices in the Southwest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/6\/21<\/td>Alder Saxena, NAU Department of Anthropology<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/13\/21<\/td>Buyung Agusdinata, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/19\/21 (TUES 4-5 pm)<\/td>Jess Tierney, Geosciences, University of Arizona<\/td>Global climate evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum: New perspectives from paleoclimate data assimilation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/20\/21<\/td>Frank von Hippel, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Arizona<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/27\/21<\/td>Britta Jensen, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/10\/21<\/td>Kerry Grimm, SES, NAU, and EcoCulture<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/17\/21<\/td>Nicholas Enwright (BY ZOOM), USGS, Lafayette, LA<\/td>Monitoring and predicting habitat change in dynamic coastal environments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/24\/21<\/td>NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/30\/21 (TUES 4-5 pm)<\/td>Grad Students <\/td>AGU presentations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/1\/21<\/td>Jessie Pearl, The Nature Conservancy<\/td>Reconstructing Late Holocene coastal climate and extreme events using multi-proxy records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2021 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1\/13\/21 1pm WEDNESDAY <\/td>Earth Water Fire Seminar Series<\/td>GOOD FIRE: Reinstating a natural process in dry forest ecosystems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/19\/21<\/td>Justin Estep, NAU SES<\/td>The Evolution of Oceanic Crust and its Role in Earth Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/20\/21 1pm WEDNESDAY <\/td>Earth Water Fire Seminar Series<\/td>Defending our Federal Lands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/27\/21 1pm WEDNESDAY <\/td>Earth Water Fire Seminar Series<\/td>World Leadership for Conservation: The 30x30 Campaign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/2\/21<\/td>Michael Erb, NAU SES<\/td>Reconstructing global temperature of the past 12,000 years using a network of proxy records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/9\/21<\/td>Lucas Bair, USGS<\/td>Integrated assessment of ecosystem management and hydropower generation in endangered species recovery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/16\/21<\/td>Chris Atchison<\/td>Moving beyond tradition: Universally-designed, field-focused teaching and learning in the geosciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/23\/21<\/td>Jenny Suckale, CIG Distinguished Speaker<\/td>To slide or to flow: Studying extremes in different natural systems sheds light on common physical processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/2\/21<\/td>Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Arizona<\/td>Methane, Monsoons, and Milankovitch Modulation of Millennial-scale Climate Variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/9\/21<\/td>D&I Film Screening<\/td>Picture a Scientist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/16\/21<\/td>Joe Colgan, USGS Denver<\/td>Tectonic evolution of the Basin and Range and Yellowstone hotspot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/23\/21<\/td>William Hawley, Columbia University<\/td>Examining the connection between mantle flow, plate evolution, and surface tectonics in the Pacific Northwest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/30\/21<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/6\/21<\/td>Sebasti\u00e1n Ballari, CONICET, Argentina<\/td>Ecology and conservation in Patagonia: challenges and opportunities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/13\/21<\/td>Hannah Abuzaineh, The North Face<\/td>Inclusivity in the Outdoors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/20\/21<\/td>Emily Schottenfels, NAU SES<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2020 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker, Affiliation<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
9\/8\/20<\/td>Andrew Christ, University of Vermont<\/td>A multi-million-year record of glaciation and vegetation preserved beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, northwestern Greenland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/15\/20<\/td>Abe Springer, NAU SES<\/td>Making your science impactful beyond the community of scholars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/22\/20<\/td>Meghann Jarchow, University of South Dakota<\/td>Western Corn Belt: Climate Change and Policy Conflicts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/29\/20<\/td>Nels Iverson, NM Bureau of Geology<\/td>Antarctic Volcanism: How volcanoes, ice, and climate interact<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1\/20 THURSDAY<\/td>Jani Ingram, NAU Chemistry & Biochemistry<\/td>Environmental Health Studies on Navajo Lands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/6\/20<\/td>Emerson Lynch, NAU SES<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/13\/20<\/td>Peter Friederici, NAU Sustainable Communities<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/20\/20<\/td>Brian Richter, NAU<\/td>Is my Burger Killing a River? The Roots of Water Scarcity in the Colorado River<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/27\/20<\/td>Meghan McCarroll, University of Denver<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/20<\/td>Michael Ort, NAU SES<\/td>TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/10\/20<\/td>SES Diversity Committee<\/td>Diversity & Inclusion in SES: Graduate Survey Results and Updates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/17\/20<\/td>Julie Brigham-Grette, UMass Amherst\/Distinguished Lecturer with Continental Scientific Drilling Division<\/td>The Impact of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia, on our Knowledge of Polar Climate: this changes everything<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2020 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1\/21<\/td>Hilairy Hartnett, ASU<\/td>Chasing Carbon down the Colorado River: Characterization and Consequences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/28<\/td>Doug Rumble<\/td>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?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/4<\/td>Ryan Crow, USGS<\/td>The birth and early evolution of the lower Colorado River<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/11<\/td>Patrick
\nRoehrdanz & Mariano Gonz\u00e1lez-Roglich, Conservation International<\/td>		Tools for monitoring and planning for nature conservation with sustainable development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/18<\/td>Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Tech<\/td>What creates the unique topography of East Africa? <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/25<\/td>Jut Wynne, NAU Biological Sciences<\/td>Addressing knowledge shortfalls in subterranean biology <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/5, 12:45pm, Student Union Havasupai Rm AB<\/strong><\/td>Stephen Porder<\/td>Campus Change to Fight Climate Change: Moving Universities Off Fossil Fuels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/6, 12pm, GLG 223<\/strong><\/td>Tristan Dicke, USGS and Arizona Hydrological Society Intern Scholar<\/td>Opportunities with the Arizona Hydrological Society <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/12, 4pm, GLG Annex 304<\/strong><\/td>Jonathan Delph, University of Oregon <\/td>Controls on the spatial distribution of deep non-volcanic tremor along the Cascadia margin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/17<\/td>NO SEMINAR:<\/td>SPRING BREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/24<\/td>Travis Gabriel<\/td>postponed (COVID-19)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/31<\/td>Megan Mueller, Rocky Mountain Wild<\/td>postponed (COVID-19)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/7, 2pm<\/strong><\/td>Bo Stevens, NAU School of Earth & Sustainability<\/td>Dissertation defense: What can the Matrix teach us about the future of science? (on Zoom)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/14<\/td>Darrell Kaufman<\/td>The sixth IPCC assessment report and the role of paleoscience (on Zoom)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/28<\/td>SES 5 min Up-Goer talks<\/td>(on Zoom)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2019 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
T 9\/3, 4pm, GLG 111<\/strong><\/td>Gary Hix, McEllhiney Lecture<\/td>Drilling disasters and what we can learn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/11<\/td>NO SEMINAR: <\/td>BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/18<\/td>Kevin Gurney<\/td>From the Globe to Building: Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Information System<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F 9\/27, 1pm, GLG 103<\/strong><\/td>Maddy Schreiber<\/td>Biogeochemical and hydrologic drivers of manganese behavior in freshwaters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/2<\/td>Michael Bogan<\/td>Drought, resilience, and reincarnation in aridland streams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/9, 4pm, GLG 103<\/strong><\/td>Wayne Ranney<\/td>NAU to exotic landscapes: Alternative careers in informal science education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/16<\/td>NO SEMINAR<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/23<\/td>Benjamin Blonder<\/td>Remote sensing of genotypes, and genotype-dependent mortality in quaking aspen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/30<\/td>Hanna Breetz<\/td>Sustainable energy transitions and the social dimension <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/6<\/td>NO SEMINAR<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/13<\/td>Charles Yackulic<\/td>Past, present and future drivers of aquatic ecosystems in the Grand Canyon: the roles of water quality and water policy responses to climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/20<\/td>Norman Kent<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/27<\/td>NO SEMINAR: <\/td>THANKSGIVING<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/4<\/td>Ian Harrison<\/td>Assessing biodiversity for conservation and management of freshwater resources<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2019 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1\/22\/2019<\/td>Devon Marjorie Burr<\/td>Flowing and Blowing: vignettes in planetary geomorphology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/29<\/td>Steve Romaniello, ASU<\/td>Astronaut pee in the mass spec: a new way to track bone calcium loss during space flight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/5<\/td>Lisa Skinner, SES<\/td>Replacing the Passive Textbook: Digital Online Learning to Enhance Science Courses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/13 (WEDS) 11:30-12:30 in GLG 103<\/td>Jim Wittke, SES<\/td>Evidence for an Airburst at 12,800 BP from Abu Hureyra Tell, Syria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/19<\/td>Kurt Sundell<\/td>New insights into the Cenozoic Altiplano stratigraphy of southern Peru through application of novel detrital zircon data visualization and quantitative interpretation methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/26<\/td>Richard Telford<\/td>A test of the reproducibility of high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/5<\/td>Joe Mihaljevic, SICCS<\/td>Understanding infectious disease dynamics by confronting models with data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/12<\/td>Debbie Huntzinger, SES<\/td>Endpoints and Pathways: Do models get the land Carbon sink correct and for the right reasons?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/19<\/td>SPRING BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/26<\/td>John Doherty of Watermark Numerical Software (Darcy Lecturer) National Groundwater Association<\/td>Starting from the problem and working backwards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/2<\/td>Darcy Hitchcock<\/td>The Sustainability End-Game<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/9<\/td>Jeffery Stone<\/td>A Holocene Record of Diatom Evolution and Hydroclimate Variability from Cumbres Bog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/16<\/td>CANCELED<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/19<\/td>Mike Darin, SES<\/td>PhD Defense Seminar: Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Sivas Basin from Subduction to Collision to Escape in Central Anatolia, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/23<\/td>Carrie Joseph <\/td>The effects of climate and ecological processes on engineered uranium disposal cell performance with respect to nearby subsistence-based Indigenous communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/25 (THURS) 3-4pm in GLG 223<\/td>Ulf Becker<\/td>Geographic information technologies across the petroleum industry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/26 (FRI) 2-3pm in GLG 103<\/td>Casey Tierney<\/td>PhD Defense Seminar: Crystal-liquid insights into time scales and conditions of magma assembly preceding eruption of the Youngest Toba Tuff, Indonesia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/30<\/td>Jeffrey Amato<\/td>The Eruptive History of the Late Eocene Schoolhouse Mountain Caldera, Mogollon-Datil Volcanic Field, New Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2018 seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Organization<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
M 8\/27, 4pm, PS 103<\/strong><\/td>Donna Shillington<\/td>Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory\/Columbia University<\/td>Diet affects behavior: how ingested fluids and sediments control Alaska subduction zone earthquakes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
T 8\/28, 12:30pm, GLG 223<\/strong><\/td>James Gaherty<\/td>Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory\/Columbia University<\/td>An ocean-bottom view of mantle flow and lithosphere formation beneath Earth\u0092s largest tectonic plate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/5<\/td>Chloe Bonamici<\/td>New Mexico Tech<\/td>Intragrain oxygen-isotope zoning as a new tool for geospeedometry and thermochronometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/12<\/td>Laura Wasylenki<\/td>SES<\/td>What Ni isotopes can and cannot tell us about Earth\u2019s mid-life crisis (Great Oxidation Event)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/19<\/td>Tom Sisk<\/td>SES\/Landscape Conservation Initiative<\/td>Cross-border Conservation: Case Studies in Science, Policy, and Landscape-level Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/26<\/td>Charles Yackulic<\/td>USGS Southwest Biological Science Center<\/td>Drivers of the aquatic ecosystem in the Grand Canyon: the future of water temperatures and the underappreciated significance of phosphorous<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/3<\/td>Manette Sandor<\/td>Landscape Conservation Initiative<\/td>Birds and berries: projecting the responses of seed dispersal networks to climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/10<\/td>Peter Friederici<\/td>NAU Communication\/Sustainable Communities<\/td>Are Our Communication Habits Threatening the World?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Th 10\/18, 4pm, ARD Large Pod<\/strong><\/td>Jason Raucci<\/td>Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc.<\/td>Doing the Dirty Work: Case Studies from Environmental Consulting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/24<\/td>Brian Petersen<\/td>NAU Geography\/Sustainable Communities<\/td>Climate change and contradictions: rethinking solutions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
M 10\/29, 12pm, Bldg 90 Rm 223, co-sponsored with SICCS<\/strong><\/td>Tony Chang<\/td>Conservation Science Partners<\/td>Opportunities and challenges for Deep Learning in the Environmental Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/31<\/td>Cathy Propper<\/td>NAU Biology<\/td>From Molecular Biology to Populations: the Complexity of Understanding Environmental Contamination<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/7<\/td>Helen Rowe<\/td>SES<\/td>The Power of Citizen Scientists: A collaboration to deliver conservation outcomes using education, research and monitoring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14<\/td>Erika Nowak<\/td>SES<\/td>Collaborative and Student-led Research Assists Snake Conservation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
T 11\/20, 1pm, GLG 223<\/strong><\/td>Kirk Schleiffarth<\/td>SES<\/td>Dissertation Defense: The origins and spatial-temporal patterns of Cretaceous-Quaternary magmatism during collisions, trench retreat, and escape tectonics in central Anatolia, Turkey <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/5<\/td>Ted Kennedy<\/td>USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center<\/td>Go with the Bug Flow: Colorado River ecosystem response to the 2018 Bug Flow experiment at Glen Canyon Dam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Organization<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
01\/21<\/td>Cody Routson<\/td>SESES<\/td>\tMid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01\/29 (ARD large pod)<\/td>Kevin Gurney<\/td>ASU<\/td>\tThe new science of carbon footprinting and its application to carbon science, urbanization and climate policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/07<\/td>Kelsey Winsor<\/td>SESES<\/td>Indirect dating of rock glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/14<\/td>Micheal Erb<\/td>SESES<\/td>Exploring drought and climate over the past 1000 years through paleoclimate data assimilation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/21<\/td>Mark Salvatore<\/td>NAU Physics and Astrophysics<\/td>Exploring drought and climate over the past 1000 years through paleoclimate data assimilation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/28<\/td>Denielle Perry<\/td>SESES<\/td>Dragons, Dams, and Dinosaurs: the Evolution of China's River Principles and Policies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/07<\/td>Mellisa Yin<\/td>SESES, Society of Women Engineers<\/td>Arizona Hydrological Society Intern Scholarship Information Session<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/12 (GLG 223)<\/td>Craig Lundstrom<\/td>Department of Geology, University of Illinois<\/td>A new view of water in magmatic systems: implications for ore deposit formation, climate control and eruption triggering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/28<\/td>Marina Fisher-Phelps<\/td>NAU's Foster Lab<\/td>\tMobile acoustic transects detect more bat activity than stationary acoustic point counts in a semi-arid and agricultural landscape<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/04<\/td>Sara Souther<\/td>LCI<\/td>Digging deeper: Population-level dynamics influence ginseng response to climate change
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04\/13<\/td>Todd Halihan<\/td>McEllhiney Lecturer<\/td>The Future of Water: Data or Instincts?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/18<\/td>Robert K. Shriver<\/td>USGS Southwest Biological Science Center<\/td>From individuals to ecosystems: how environmental variability shapes ecological processes in water-limited ecosystems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/23 (4pm)<\/td>Masaki Hayashi<\/td>University of Calgary<\/td>Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/25<\/td>Steven Semken<\/td>Arizona State University<\/td>Place-Based Geoscience Education: Theory, Research, Practice, and Assessment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/02<\/td>Sasha Stortz and Clare Aslan<\/td>LCI<\/td>\tThe Greater Grand Canyon Landscape Assessment: Outcomes and Futures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
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