Earth Science Colloquium 

Each Thursday we hold a colloquium talk for the department and students in our colloquium series course held in Webb 1100. Speakers include members of UCSB, local scholars or scholars from across the country. 

Fall 2024

September 26, 2024
Kathleen Campbell
The University of Auckland
Paleoenvironmental Context in the Search for Past Life on Mars


October 3, 2024
Julien Middleton
UC Santa Barbara
Rewriting history: Isotopically-fractionating ion exchange
& the fidelity of barium isotopes records

 

October 10, 2024
Monica Kohler
Caltech
Basin Amplification and Damage Detection in Buildings due to Earthquakes: What Dense, Low-Cost, Seismic Network Data are Revealing
 

October 17, 2024 ***CANCELLED*** due to hurricanes in Florida
Tom Bianchi
University of Florida
Carbon Processing in Aquatic Critical Zones: Biogeochemical Challenges in the 21st Century


October 17, 2024
Yaakov Weiss
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Diamond-forming fluids—the next frontier

 

October 24, 2024
Susannah Porter
UC Santa Barbara
Early Eukaryote Diversity: A Review and A Reinterpretation


October 31, 2024
Claire Divola and Ryan Eden
UC Santa Barbara
Records of Relative Sea-Level Changes during Earthquakes along the northern San Andreas Fault, Tomales Bay, California 
Sillimanite grade syn-kinematic metamorphism in the Cordilleran Intra-Arc associated with a Mesozoic Pluton, eastern Silurian Hills, CA

 

November 7, 2024
Distinguished Alumni Talks
Wayne Sawka: Digital Solid State Propulsion
Dawn Wright: 
Abstract

November 14, 2024
Sal Maldonado and Molly Crotteau
UC Santa Barbara
Deep-Sea Anoxic Brine Pools: A natural laboratory in the Gulf of Mexico to study petroleum and microbial interactions
The origin and fate of organic sulfur in Santa Barbara Basin, CA

 

November 21, 2024
Amanda Hunt
UC Santa Barbara
How do Over-Steepened Slopes Fail? Excess Topography Consumed by Seismically Induced Landslides

Aaron Martinez
UC Santa Barbara
Orca Basin and Beyond: biomass based marine climate interventions

 

November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Holiday

December 5, 2024
Cristhian Salas
UC Santa Barbara
Inference of thermodynamic state of the upper mantle beneath Alaska by using
teleseismic body-wave velocity and attenuation tomography

 

 

Winter 2025

Coming soon! 

Spring 2025

Coming soon!