Seminars

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.

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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    
The role of Rapid fault healing in the dynamics of deep slow slip events 


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