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 2025
March 13, 2025 – 12:20pm
Dr. Joshua Garber
Penn State University
Title: Recovering paleo-environmental information from phosphorites using U-Pb isotopes and trace elements
April 3, 2025 – 12:20pm
Liz Lantzsch (’10) and Sean Murphy (’11)
Title: From Classmates to Colleagues: Career Pathways of Two Friends from Van Wickle
April 3, 2025 – 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Williams Center for the Arts
People: Eric Hupe, William Wylie, Rico Reyes, Tamara Carley, and Lafayette Geology RUMBLE students
Title: Pompeii revealed through the lens
May 1, 2025 – 12:20pm
Dr. Lissie Connors (’18)
USGS
Title: Micron-scale approaches to understanding magmatism from source to surface in the East African Rift System
May 15, 2025 – 11:00 am
Morgan Merritt (’25)
Title: A geothermobarometric investigation of silicic nunataks at Þórðarhyrna (Thordarhyrna), Iceland
May 16, 2025 – 1:00 pm
Beck Knittel (’25)
Title: Volcanic provenance of moraine materials at Jökulsárlón: Tracing contributions from Öræfajökull, Esjufjöll, and bedrock through isotopic analysis
May 16, 2025 – 1:00 pm
Harper Will (’25)
Title: Understanding Behavior of Silicic Magmas at Þórðarhyrna, Iceland: Apatite Geochemistry and Petrography
Past seminars can be found here.