Autumn 2023 Colloquium Schedule

9/28/2023

Eric Steig and Michelle Muth (UW)

Chair’s welcome and new faculty introduction

10/5/2023

Ved Lekic (University of Maryland)

Looking into Mars with InSight

10/12/2023

Peter Crockford (Carleton University)

The Geologic History of Earth’s Biosphere

10/19/2023

Sarah Brownlee (Wayne State University)

Using anisotropy to bring the continental crust into focus

10/26/2023

Earthscope Consortium

National facility for seismic and geodetic data

11/2/2023

Roberta Rudnick (University of California Santa Barbara)

Glacial Diamictites and the Evolving Composition of the Upper Continental Crust

11/9/2023

Folarin Kolawole (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – Columbia University)

How Do Incipient Plate Boundaries Grow? Insights from the East African Rift System

11/16/2023

Kristina Walowski (Western Washington University)

Cinder cone volcanism in the Cascade Arc: from magma genesis to storage and eruption

11/30/2023

Elena Miranda (California State University Northridge)

Making sense of shear zone fabrics that record multiple episodes of deformation: electron backscatter diffraction and crystallographic vorticity axis analysis-enhanced petrochronology

12/7/2023

Lucas Goehring (Nottingham Trent University)

Collective organization in cyanobacteria