Each semester the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences hosts a seminar series of invited speakers.

All presentations are on days and times noted, in Van Wickle 108.

SPRING SEMESTER 2026

February 6, 2026 (Friday) – 2:30pm
John Kammerer ’26
Lafayette College – Mid-year Thesis Presentation
Title:  Exploring Icelandic Subglacial Volcanoes for Systematic Variations in Storage Conditions and Magma Evolution using Geothermobarometry

March 27, 2026 (Friday) – 12:30pm
Dr. Jordan Abell
Lehigh University
Title:  Helium Isotopes from Deep Space to the Deep Sea:  Illuminating the Earth System Across Eras

 

April 3, 2026 (Friday) – 12:30pm
Dr. Freya Morris (’17)
Hamilton College
Title:  Snowballs in the Desert:  The Deglaciation of the Marinoan Snowball Earth in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia

 

April 9, 2026 (Thursday) – 12:20pm
Ally Peccia
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Title:  How catastrophic eruptions shape the world: insights from the 43 BCE eruption of Okmok Volcano, Alaska

Past seminars can be found here.