Fall 2024 SEMINAR SCHEDULE – Global Challenges

Statewide California Earthquake Center or SCEC logo.  Outline of the state of California with concentric blue circles expanding outwards and the letters SCEC

SCEC practice poster presentations for students and faculty

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422


Geological Society of America annual Connects 2024 meeting  in Anaheim CA on September 22-25

GSA practice poster presentations for students and faculty

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422


Dr. Laura-Isobel McCall wearing a blue and white striped tank top smiling

Spatial metabolomics-guided insights into urbanization and environmental exposure

Dr. Laura-Isobel McCall
Associate Professor – SDSU
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, October 2, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Laura-Isobel’s talk


Dr. Dan Gregory wearing a blue baseball hat with sunglasses resting on the bill, a black T-shirt and smiling

Tracing redox chemistry in several environments using the mineral pyrite

Dr. Dan Gregory
Assistant Professor – University of Toronto
Department of Earth Sciences
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, October 9, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Dan’s talk


Shawn Cheshire wearing a Nike team USA polo shirt.

Blind Athlete & Adventure Seeker

Shawn Cheshire
Host: Dr. Dave Kimbrough

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422

Dr. Tom Rockwell wearing a black button up collard shirt, tan baseball hat and black aviator style sunglasses

1100 years of large earthquakes in the southern San Andreas fault system: The effects of lake loading on local and regional seismicity on a fast-slipping plate boundary

Dr. Tom Rockwell
Professor – SDSU
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Tom’s talk


Bradley Keith wearing a tan carhart beanie style hat and blue fleece pullover

Exploring earth’s last great frontier: nextGEN approaches to mapping the global seafloor

Bradley Keith
Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific Expeditionary Unmanned Systems
Host: Dr. Jillian Maloney

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Bradley’s talk


Tying the Knot between Environmental Restoration and the Geosciences: A Consultant’s Perspective

Damon DeYoung and Rick Cramer
Professional Geologist
Geosyntec
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Damon and Rick’s talk


Dr. Tom Gernon wearing black rimmed glasses and a grey and white tweed suit jacket over a grey button up collard shirt

Mantle waves and their impact on biogeochemical cycles

Dr. Tom Gernon
Professorial Fellow (Research) – University of Southampton
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Tom’s talk


Early Dinosaur Evolution: from the Paleo-Equator to the Pole

Dr. Nathan Smith
Gretchen Augustyn Director Curator, Dinosaur Institute
Natural History Museum – Los Angeles County
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
or via zoom


The tropical icehouse: A 300-million-year-old record of climate and ecosystem change

Dr. Randy Irmis
Curator of Paleontology
Natural History Museum of Utah
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
1 pm – CSL 422
or via zoom


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