Please see our EVENTS CALENDAR for the most up-to-date schedule and other upcoming department events and seminars.
Autumn 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.
9/25/2025
Chair’s Welcome
10/2/2025
Bruce Jakosky (University of Colorado Boulder)
The history of CO2 and H2O on Mars
10/9/2025
No Colloquium
10/16/2025
No Colloquium
10/23/2025
Dave Montgomery (UW ESS)
What Your Food Ate
10/30/2025
Tianhaozhe Sun (Geological Survey of Canada, University of Victoria)
A Thin and Weak Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB) Beneath the Oceanic Lithosphere and its Effects on Subduction Earthquake Cycle Deformation
11/6/2025
Jana Simo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
A Geologist in the Other Wild: Navigating a Career in Earth Science Research Beyond Academia
11/13/2025
Lucien Nana Yobo (Texas A&M University)
Earth’s Fiery Past: Large Igneous Provinces, Anomalous CO2, and their Environmental Impacts
11/20/2025
Eric Steig (UW ESS)
Water isotopes are magical: fundamental things isotope records from ice cores tell us about climate variability and ice sheet change across timescales from decades to millennia
12/4/2025
Hannah Shamloo (Central Washington University)
Timing is Everything:
Pre-eruptive magmatic processes and timescales for Mount Baker volcanism, Cascades USA