Fall 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE – Global Challenges
Meet our faculty – 2 minute introductions
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
watch seminar
Changing Climate, Changing Ocean, Changing Data
Dr. Claudie Beaulieu
Associate Professor – University of California, Santa Cruz
Ocean Sciences Department
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
watch Claudie’s talk
The Future is Lower Carbon
Matt Duke
General Manager – Chevron Technical Center
Subsurface Geology
Host: Dr. Matthew Weingarten
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422 (speaker will be virtual)
watch Matt’s talk
What lurks beneath: Biogeochemical cycling in the Salton Sea and implications for ecological and human health
Dr. Tim Lyons
Distinguished Professor of Biogeochemistry – University of California, Riverside
Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
or via zoom
77 Million Years of Mass Extinction, Climate Change, Solar System Chaos, and Metal Contamination in the Early Mesozoic of the Colorado Plateau
Dr. Paul Olsen
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor – Columbia University
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
or via zoom
Water and sediment problems along the US-Mexico Border region: Monitoring, magnitudes, and management
Dr. Trent Biggs
Professor – San Diego State University
Geography
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
or via zoom
Analyzing rapid, high resolution active rift processes in the Corinth Rift, Greece
Dr. Lisa McNeill
Professor – University of Southampton
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422 (speaker will be virtual)
or via zoom
Art in the Service of Science: Visual paths to science literacy
Victor Leshyk
Director, Science and Art – Northern Arizona University
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422 (speaker will be virtual)
or via zoom
A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: The PI-LAB experiment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and a global perspective
Dr. Kate Rychert
Associate Scientist – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Geology & Geophysics
Host: Dr. Jessica Whiteside
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
1 pm – CSL 422
or via zoom