The Spring 2021 Department Seminars will be hosted virtually via Zoom and will take place on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. The Zoom link for each individual seminar will be sent out in the weekly seminar announcement. If you do not receive these announcements and would like to join us for our virtual seminar, please send us an email so we may send you the appropriate Zoom webinar link. If you would like to be added to the seminar announcement list, please contact Jennifer Petrie at japetrie@umn.edu.
January 21
Dr. Donna Whitney, Department Head, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Welcome to Spring 2021
January 28
Morgan Monz & Mary Sabuda, Graduate Students, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Advocates for change: Learning how to talk to our policy makers about important issues in STEM
February 4
Drs. Peter Kang & Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
ESCI Hydrogeology Groups
February 11
Dr. Marc Hirschmann, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Losing the carbon: from too much to just enough during formation of habitable worlds
February 18
Dr. Jake Bailey, Kathryn Hobart, Dalton Leprich, Chris Schuler, and Shreya Strivastava, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
ESCI Geobiology Groups
February 25
Dr. Hima Hassenruck-Gudipati, University of Texas-Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences
Reach-scale controls on local deposition: fluvial morphodynamics and natural levees as internal deltas
March 4
*AWG Hosted seminar speaker*
Dr. Tamie Jovanelly, Berry College, Department of Physics Astronomy and Geology
Exploring the water quality of the world’s major river systems: Lessons learned in communicating conservation
March 11
Dr. Myriam Telus, UC-Santa Cruz, Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
Meteorites as analogs for planetesimals in extrasolar systems
March 18
Dr. Alexis Ault, Utah State University, Department of Geology
Earthquakes and slow slip documented with hematite microtextures and fault rock thermochronometry
March 25
Dr. Dan Hikuroa, University of Auckland
Weaving Indigenous Knowledge and Science
April 1
No seminar
April 8
No seminar-Spring break
April 15
Dr. Anjali Fernandes, Denison College, Department of Geosciences
Title:TBA
April 22
Eric Barefoot, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Title:TBA
April 29
Dr. Rachel Bernard, Amherst College, Department of Geology
Title:TBA