Current SES Seminar Series

The seminar schedule (from Fall 2025 to present) can be found here.

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

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Past Seminar Series

Spring 2025 seminars

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

Fall 2024 seminars

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

Spring 2024 seminars

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

Fall 2023 seminars

Date, Time, Location	Speaker, Affiliation	Title
6-Sept, 11:15a-12:15p, SHB 105	Joey Nelson, Heirloom Carbon Technologies	Locking Contaminants in Minerals and Unlocking LGBTQIA+ Potential in STEM and Climate Fields
13-Sept	Diana Calvo, NAU Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering	Community-based and Translational Research: Water Security in Indigenous Communities
20-Sept	Tom Fleischner, Prescott College	Why Natural History Matters
27-Sept	Joe Little, NAU College of Business	Interdisciplinary Research Tales from the 49th State: An Economist’s Experience with the Challenges and Pitfalls of Conducting Integrated Research in Alaska
4-Oct	Abe Springer, NAU	Stories told by springs, caves, and lectures from sabbatical
11-Oct	Margaret Redsteer, University of Washington Bothell	Defining Environmental Challenges Through Transdisciplinary Approaches, a Case Example from the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau
19-Oct, 4-5p, Geology 223	Demian Saffer, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics	Wiring Plate Boundary Faults Beneath the Ocean: Recurring and Triggered Slow Earthquakes Near the Trench
26-Oct, Thursday	Dave Cook, Aspect Consulting	A Career of Geohazards: Come have a conversation with Environmental Geologist Dave Cook (MS ‘91) about environmental consulting, geohazards, contaminant cleanups, water scarcity, and a story or two about Colorado Plateau geology and river rafting.
1-Nov	Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State University	Engaging Water Managers in the Future of the Colorado River Basin
6-Nov, Monday	Jane Willenbring, Stanford University	TBA
15-Nov	Deborah Tosline, Bureau of Reclamation	Nature-Based Infrastructure to Manage Stormwater Flows, Optimize Water Resources and Support Ecosystems
22-Nov	No Seminar
29-Nov	Jamie Awe, NAU Department of Anthropology	Long-term Drought, Human Responses, and Consequences: Comparing the Ancient Maya with Modern Brazil, Spain, and the American Southwest
6-Dec	María de los Reyes Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier	Palaeoecological insights in coastal landscape evolution - Late Holocene vegetation changes in Southern California

Spring 2023 seminars

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

Fall 2022 seminars

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Title
14-Sep	Alexander Bartels	Identifying areas of future volcanic activity for safe long-term storage of high-level radioactive waste
21-Sep	Katherine Stewart, U of Saskatchewan	Recovery and restoration of biological soil crust communities and function in disturbed northern soils
28-Sep	Joseph Byrnes, NAU	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
4-Oct (TUE 4-5pm)	Helen Janiszewski, U of Hawaii	Imaging Trans-Crustal Magmatic Systems with Receiver Functions: A Path Towards Linking Tectonic and Eruptive Processes
10-Oct (MON 4-5pm)	Lauren Pharr	Wings of Change: climate change, woodpeckers and science communication!
19-Oct	John Giordanengo, AloTerra Restoration Services	Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (to a sustainable state)
26-Oct	Daniel Portner, ASU	Trials and tribulations of seismically imaging the magma plumbing system
2-Nov (Zoom only)	Kenneth Ridgway, Purdue U	Cenozoic 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 Consulting	Strange Natures: Conservation of Nature in the era of synthetic biology
16-Nov	Ian Harrison, Conservation International	Integrative Solutions for Freshwater Conservation
23-Nov	THANKSGIVING
30-Nov (Zoom only)	Rebecca Gruby, Colorado State U	More than funders: Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance
7-Dec	Brian Healy, USGS	Responses of large river fishes to conservation actions: the potential role of tributaries in maintaining imperiled species’ populations

Spring 2022 seminars

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	Connecting Conservation on the Colorado Plateau Globally
Apr-5	Allison Cluett, SES	Evaluating past climate-ice sheet sensitivity on Greenland with precipitation isotope proxies
Apr-12	Laura Larocca, SES	The Holocene history of Arctic glaciers: Insights into past climate and the future evolution of Earth’s cryosphere
Apr-19	Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, University of Arizona	Cultivating Science, Justice, and Action through Participatory Research
Apr-26	Peter La Femina, Penn State University	Magma-Tectonic Interactions in Central America

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
11/10/21	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, The Nature Conservancy	Reconstructing Late Holocene coastal climate and extreme events using multi-proxy records

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	To slide or to flow: Studying extremes in different natural systems sheds light on common physical processes
3/2/21	Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Arizona	Methane, Monsoons, and Milankovitch Modulation of Millennial-scale Climate Variability
3/9/21	D&I Film Screening	Picture a Scientist
3/16/21	Joe Colgan, USGS Denver	Tectonic evolution of the Basin and Range and Yellowstone hotspot
3/23/21	William Hawley, Columbia University	Examining the connection between mantle flow, plate evolution, and surface tectonics in the Pacific Northwest
3/30/21
4/6/21	Sebastián Ballari, CONICET, Argentina	Ecology and conservation in Patagonia: challenges and opportunities
4/13/21	Hannah Abuzaineh, The North Face	Inclusivity in the Outdoors
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 Earth’s 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