Thursdays 2:00 PM
Spring 2024
May 30
TBA
Nick McKay
Northern Arizona University
May 23
No Colloquium
May 1
TBA
Natalya Evans
UC Santa Barbara
May 9
TBA
Hailie Kittner
UC Santa Barbara
TBA
Elizabeth Horton
UC Santa Barbara
May 2
TBA
Chris Everett
UC Santa Barbara
TBA
Sunna Harðardottir
UC Santa Barbara
April 25
TBA
Scott Wing
Smithsonian Institution
April 18
Sediment-wave interactions
and their implications for sea level on the central California coast: a Late Quaternary perspective
Elisa Medri
UC Santa Barbara
April 11
Methane cycling and methylotrophic
activity within a California coastal wetland
Sebastian Krause
UC Santa Barbara
April 4
Decarbonizing cement
using calcium from silicate rocks
Jeff Prancevic
Brimstone
Winter 2024
March 14
Past Climates Inform our Future
Jessica Tierney
University of Arizona
March 7
Forging Signatures:
Climate’s Limited Role
in Shaping Mountains
Jane Willenbring
Stanford University
February 29
What can low-frequency earthquakes tell us
about the boundaries between tectonic plates?
William Frank
MIT
February 22
Santa Paula Creek Fecal Indicator Bacteria Source Identification Water Quality Study
Menso deJong
Rincon Consultants
February 15
New Images of the Radially Anisotropic
Uppermost Mantle Beneath the Continental U.S.
Anant Hariharan
UC Santa Barbara
February 8
Opportunities for Earth Scientists
and Engineers in the Ocean Environment (It’s Booming!)
Ed Saade
EJS Solutions LLC
February 1
3D relationship between structure, fluid-flow, and slope failure within the Santa Barbara Basin
Jared Kluesner
USGS
January 25
Earth’s accretion and early differentiation
as seen by noble gas isotopes
Rita Parai
Washington University in Saint Louis
January 18
Calcium isotope fractionation during continental weathering
Utpalendu Haldar
Indian Institute of Sciences
January 11
The Energy Transition, the Minerals Industry
and Climate Change Mitigation; an unlikely relationship?
Simon Jovitt
University of Nevada Reno
Fall 2023
December 7
Testing the recipe for continental crust using petrology, field geology and geochemistry of mafic plutons
Juliet Ryan-Davis
Caltech
November 30
Bridging the Gap Between Deep Crustal Tectonics
and Hinterland Landscapes
in the Himalayan Orogenic Wedge
Suoya Fan
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
November 16
High-resolution mapping of earthquake
and landslide history offshore southern California
Jillian Maloney
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
San Diego State University
November 9
Distinguished Alumni Awards
Gretchen Mullendore
Microscale Meteorology Laboratory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Javier Santillan
Failure Analysis Strategic Initiatives Group
Apple, Inc.
November 2
Earth’s super continental
climate control
Mark Jellinek
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
University of British Columbia
October 26
Slab-mantle interactions
pace forearc rock uplift
during subduction retreat
Nikki Seymour
Department of Geology
Occidental College
October 19
Global 3D model of mantle attenuation
using seismic normal modes and surface waves
Sujania Talavera-Soza
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego
October 5
Fault creep:
what is it, how do we find it,
and what does it mean?
Gareth Funning
Earth and Planetary Sciences
UC Riverside
September 28
Mountain high, valley low, river wide:
biogeochemical insights into the relationship between weathering and climate
Preston Kemeny
Department of Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
Spring 2023
June 1
Precession Pacing of
Late Pleistocene Glacial Terminations
Bets Hobart
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
Ocean Sediment Core Age Models, Stacks, and δ18O Lags
Devin Rand
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
May 25
Barium isotopes in ocean island basalts
as tracers of mantle processes
Ruixia (Rita) Bai
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
No Ice Ages During a Snowball:
Onset and Timescales of Marinoan Glaciomarine Sedimentation
Adrian Tasistro-Hart
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
May 18
What mantle plumes
tell us about the Earth
Catherine Chauvel
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
May 11
Organic matter sulfurization and pyrite formation
as pathways of enhanced carbon storage in blue carbon ecosystems
Lena Capece
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
Carbonatite metasomatism in
Tanzanian cratonic peridotites
Lindsay Buff
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
May 4
Subsurface Analysis and Geologic History of Campus Lagoon, Santa Barbara, California
Ryan Owings
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
Sounds of the Pacific:
Infrasound Noise Generated by Crashing Surf
Jeremy Francoeur
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
April 27
New insights into the Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation instabilities
during the last glacial cycle
Yuxin Zhou
Department of Earth Science
UC Santa Barbara
April 20
A Tale of Two Lakes:
Chemical Stratification and Records of Life in Mesoproterozoic and Modern Times
Sarah P. Slotznick
Department of Earth Sciences
Dartmouth University
April 6
Subseafloor Hydrogeology: Moving Beyond Watersheds
Alicia Wilson
School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of South Carolina.
Winter 2023
January 12
Will AIs ever be one of us?
Deborah Khider
Department of Earth Sciences
USC
January 19
TBA
Dan Lathrop
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
January 26
TBA
Esteban Gazel
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University
February 2
TBA
Aaron Bufe
German Research Centre for Geosciences
Hemholtz Centre Postdam
February 9
TBA
Emily Cooperdock
Department of Earth Sciences
USC
February 16
TBA
Alyssa Griffin
Earth and Planetary Sciences
UC Davis
February 23
TBA
Scott Johnson
Physics Department
Cal Poly
March 2
Faculty Recruitment Talk
TBA
March 9
TBA
Brehin Keller
Department of Earth Science
Dartmouth University
