Each week, the Department of Earth Sciences invites an expert guest to share their research in a talk that is held on Thursday from noon to 1:20 pm in 115 Lawrence Hall.
Fall 2024 Weekly Seminar Schedule
October 10: Earth Sciences Faculty, University of Oregon
Not-quite lightning talks - department faculty update us on their current musings
October 17: Johan (Yoshi) Gilchrist, University of Oregon
The collapse dynamics of the largest explosive eruption columns on Earth
October 24: Pieter-Ewald Share, Oregon State University
A magnetotelluric (MT) investigation of the Salton Trough
October 31: David Schmidt, University of Washington
Slow Slip Behavior near the Lateral Edge of the Subducting Plate in Southernmost Cascadia
November 7: Henry Fricke, Colorado College
Under the feet of dinosaurs: A new view of Late Cretaceous landscapes along the margin of the Western Interior Seaway
November 14: Fred Lam, University of Oregon
Numerical simulation of subaerial and submarine explosive eruptions
November 21: Katie Biegel, University of Oregon
Whose Fault? Source Studies of Induced Seismicity in Western Canada
November 28: No Seminar for Thanksgiving holiday
December 5: Amanda Thomas, University of Oregon
TBA
Spring 2024 Weekly Seminar Schedule
April 4: David Grossnickle, Oregon Tech
Did the ecological radiation of mammals begin at the K-Pg boundary
April 11: Valère Lambert, UC Santa Cruz
Understanding fault failure processes: Bridging insight from the lab and field through physics-based modeling
April 18: Mai Sas, Western Washington University
A glimpse into the magmatic system of Middle Sister and South Sister volcanoes, Oregon Cascades
April 25: Paul Byrne, WU St. Louis
Europa’s Modern-Day Seafloor is Likely Mechanically Strong and Geologically Inert
May 2: Simon Carn, Michigan Technological University
From Pinatubo to Hunga: the sulfur budget of global volcanism revealed by satellite remote sensing
May 9: Maureen (Mo) Walczak, Oregon State University
The Pacific and Global Climate
May 16: Anta-Clarisse Sarr, University of Oregon
Modeling past climate and ocean
May 23: Morgan Cable, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Titan Cryomineralogy: Laboratory Investigations and Implications for Dragonfly
May 30: George Bergantz, University of Washington
Forces, Friction and Fabric: Macro-Meso-and-Micro Scale Controls on Magmatic Processes in Crystal-Rich Systems
June 6: Jim Watkins, University of Oregon
Stable isotopes in carbonates: A climate archive built upon disequilibrium
Winter 2024 Weekly Seminar Schedule
January 11: Ching-Yao Lai, Stanford University
Changing ice for a warming climate
January 18: Maureen Walczak, Oregon State University cancelled due to inclement weather
January 25: Brad Lipovsky, University of Washington
New Earth Science Discoveries Enabled by Distributed Acoustic Sensing
February 1: Rajashree Tri Datta, University of Colorado
Tracing Extreme Events from the Ocean to the Surface of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
February 8: Max Rudolph, UC Davis
Cooling cracks and the origin of Enceladus' "tiger stripes"
February 15: John Cottle, UC Santa Barbara
New Perspectives On The Tectonic Evolution of the Himalaya
February 22: Doug Toomey, University of Oregon, Oregon Hazards Lab
Team OHAZ: Accomplishments, Aspirations, and Alliances
February 29: Melodie French, Rice University
Geology and Deformation at Slow Slip Conditions in Subduction Zones
March 7: Ignacio Sepulveda Oyarzun, San Diego State University
Unveiling the role of unconventional tsunamigenic sources and compounding processes in tsunami hazard assessments
March 14: Rachel Abercrombie, Boston University
Probing fault stress heterogeneity using spatio-temporal variation in earthquake source properties