Colloquia
Department of Geological Sciences
2025
Lectures Presented by the Department of Geological
Sciences and the Geology Club
Upcoming Speakers
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April 22,听2025 1PM - 2PM |
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听 Centro de Investigaci贸n Cient铆fica y de Educaci贸n (CICESE) Talk Title: Seismic Energy Radiated by Earthquakes in the Gulf of California, Mexico |
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April 30, 2025 1PM - 2PM |
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UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: The highly variable motion of the Nazca plate. |
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October 24, 2025 2:30 - 3:30 PM |
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UC Santa Barbara Title: TBA Location: TBA |
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Past Speakers
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April 15, 2025 1PM - 2PM |
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Virginia Tech Talk Title:听Geodetic Evidence of Magma Reservoir Evolution Beneath Ol Doinyo Lengai |
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February 25, 2025 1PM - 2PM |
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Annelisa Moe Heal the Bay Topic: Caving and Mapping听in the Philippines Talk Title: Cave Exploration and Cartography in Mindanao, Phillipines |
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November 12, 2024 1PM - 2PM |
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, Assistant Professor UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Observations and Simulations of Small-Scale Convection Beneath the Oceanic Plates |
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October 22, 2024 1PM - 2PM |
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Dr. Cristo Ramirez, CSU Northridge Post-Doctoral Researcher Talk Title: Using Love and Rayleigh Wave Velocity Models to Investigate the Seismic and Volcanic Variation along the Alaskan Subduction Zone |
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December 5, 2023 |
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USGS Talk Title:听Voluminous Pliocene eruptions from northern California volcanoes and their ash-bed archive in marine sediments |
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May 2, 2023 12:30PM to听1:30PM |
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, Professor of Geology and Geophysics California Institute of Technology Talk Title:听From Rifting to Subduction Initiation: Cenozoic Tectonics South of New Zealand Research Interests:听Plate tectonics; structural geology; evolution of plate boundaries; stress and deformation in the lithosphere; physical volcanology; tectonics and regional structure of the Pacific-North America and Pacific-Australia plate boundaries; active volcanism and CO2 emissions; tectonics of Venus. |
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 11:30AM to听12:30PM |
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, Public Affairs Associate Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Talk Title:听Drought, Flood, or Bust? Navigating Water Supply Challenges in an Increasingly Unpredictable Climate |
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 12:30PM to听1:30PM Location: LO1212 |
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Dr. Carolina Ortiz Guerrero, Post-Doctoral Researcher 快活林性息 Talk Title:听Timescales and conditions for decoupled crustal flow in the Pioneer Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex 听 |
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 12:30 PM to听1:30 PM Location: LO1227 |
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, Assistant Professor California State University Long Beach Bio:听Dr. Alyssa Abbey is an Assistant Professor in the department of Geoscience at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). She studied Geology and French at the University of Arizona and then completed her PhD at the University of Michigan researching continental rifting and fault growth using various geological dating methods. Her postdoctoral work, at the University of California, Berkeley, took her into new fields, studying active faults in Argentina, and water-rock interactions combining geochemistry, geochronology, and modeling. At CSULB, her research is split into research on tectonics and fault processes as well as geoscience education accessibility. Check out her children鈥檚 graphic novel on how mountains are made and change over time! (More information can be found on her website: alyssalabbey.com) Talk Title:听Neogene to Present Landscape Evolution in the southern Colorado Rockies: Insights from Geo- and Thermochronology |
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12:30 PM to听1:30 PM |
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, Associate Professor Utah State University, Department of Geosciences Talk Title: Shallow, transient slow slip in the southern San Andreas fault system: insights from natural and experimental hematite and hematite-clay slip surfaces |
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12:30 PM to听1:30 PM |
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, Associate Professor Humboldt State University, Department of Chemistry Talk Title: Global Iron Cycling: Linking Earth's crust, oceans, and food webs 听 |
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:30 PM to听1:30 PM |
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, Associate Professor University of California Riverside, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Talk Title: New measurements of seismic attenuation across the East African Rift support a model of rift-dominated melting |
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 12:30 PM to听1:30 PM Location: via ZOOM (contact for link) |
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, Professor San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science Research Interests: Understanding the processes responsible for long-term changes in climate through the use of observations and atmospheric models. Talk Title:听The role of climate change education on individual lifetime carbon emissions |
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 12:30 PM to听1:30 PM |
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, Assistant Professor University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Interests: Isotope systems as tracers of weathering and geologic history, geochemical techniques to determine paleo dust provenance and transport pathway, and tracing modern dust sources and nutrient composition. Talk Title:听The role of dust on Earth's climate: insights from the paleoclimate record & modern ecosystems |
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 12:30 PM to听1:30 PM |
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, Distinguished Professor & Mary Ringwood, PhD Candidate University of California Santa Barbara Research Interests:听Geochemistry and Petrology, Continent Formation and Evolution Talk Title:听TBA |
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