Please see our EVENTS CALENDAR for the most up-to-date schedule and other upcoming department events and seminars.
Winter 2025 Colloquium Schedule
Held in-person on Thursdays in JHN 075 at 3:30 pm. Recordings will be available for internal use or uploaded on our YouTube channel.
Recordings with an asterisk (*) are only available to people with a UW NetID.
1/8/2026
Beth Bartel (United States Geological Survey)
If only we could know for sure: Natural hazard risk reduction for humans
1/15/2026
Cancelled
1/22/2026
Sydney Dybing (UW ESS)
Evaluating GFAST-PGD’s Contributions to ShakeAlert® System Performance for Simulated Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes
1/29/2026
Marine Denolle (UW ESS)
Listening to the Earth’s Skin: Seismic Insights into Soil, Water, and Hazards
2/5/2026
Brad Lipovsky (UW ESS)
New Observations from the Bookends of Ice Sheet Glaciology
2/12/2026
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Small bodies, small planets, and small steps toward unveiling the prevalence of life in the universe
2/19/2026
Greg Hirth (Brown University)
Rheology of the Interface between the Mantle Wedge and the Subducting Slab
2/26/2026
Mindlin Lecture: Chris Glein (Southwest Research Institute)
Bridging the Solar System-Exoplanets Divide: The Sub-Neptune Opportunity
3/5/2026
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach (Western Washington University) and Christine Smith (Northwest Navigation)
The Tracy Arm Landslide: Scientific and Personal Perspectives on the Second Largest Landslide Tsunami Ever Recorded
3/12/2026
Sue Debari (Western Washington University)
Marine tephra records tell big stories – highly explosive volcanism in and rifting in paradise (the Hellenic Arc, Greece)