Meet our faculty – 2 minute introductions

Wednesday, September 6, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
watch seminar

Changing Climate, Changing Ocean, Changing Data

Dr. Claudie Beaulieu
Associate Professor – University of California, Santa Cruz
Ocean Sciences Department
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, September 20, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422

Matt Duke wearing a pink button up shirt under a navy blazer, smiling at the camera

The Future is Lower Carbon

Matt Duke
General Manager – Chevron Technical Center
Subsurface Geology
Host: Dr. Matthew Weingarten

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422 (speaker will be virtual)
watch Matt’s talk

What lurks beneath: Biogeochemical cycling in the Salton Sea and implications for ecological and human health

Dr. Tim Lyons
Distinguished Professor of Biogeochemistry – University of California, Riverside
Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Tim’s talk

77 Million Years of Mass Extinction, Climate Change, Solar System Chaos, and Metal Contamination in the Early Mesozoic of the Colorado Plateau

Dr. Paul Olsen
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor – Columbia University
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Paul’s talk

Water and sediment problems along the US-Mexico Border region: Monitoring, magnitudes, and management

Dr. Trent Biggs
Professor – San Diego State University
Geography
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422

Analyzing rapid, high resolution active rift processes in the Corinth Rift, Greece

Dr. Lisa McNeill
Professor – University of Southampton
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, November 8, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422 (speaker will be virtual)

Combining earthquake source observations with physics-based models and geological constraints to infer crustal strength

Dr. Rebecca Harrington
Professor and Chair of Hydrogeomechanics – Ruhr University Bochum
Host: Dr. Matthew Weingarten

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
3:30 pm – CSL 422
watch Rebecca’s talk

Art in the Service of Science: Visual paths to science literacy

Victor Leshyk
Director, Science and Art – Northern Arizona University
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422 (speaker will be virtual)
watch Victor’s talk

Kate Rychert wearing a fleece jacket standing in front of a research vessel

A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: The PI-LAB experiment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and a global perspective

Dr. Kate Rychert
Associate Scientist – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Geology & Geophysics
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422