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

April 17, 2026 (Friday) – 12:30pm
Dr. Christopher ‘Chris’ Stohr
Illinois State Geological Survey (retired)
*Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) Jahn’s Lecturer*
Title:  Detailed Image Interpretation of Thermal IR, Orthophotography, and LiDAR Imagery for GIS-based Tracking of Features of Interest on Legacy Landfill Covers

 

April 30, 2026 (Thursday) – 12:20pm
Dr. Adam Ianno
Mineral Resource Analysis
Pennsylvania Geological Survey
Title: Dolomite as a critical mineral: the past and future of “natural cement”

May 6, 2026 (Wednesday) – 12:00 pm
John Kammerer ’26 – Honors Thesis Defense
Title: Exploring Magma Storage Conditions and Magma Evolution using Geothermobarometry at Kverkfjöll volcano, Iceland

May 8, 2026 (Friday) – 1:30pm
Liana Wijetunga ’26 – Honors Thesis Defense
Title:  Taphonomic and Geochemical Investigations of Variegated Bivalves in a Sahbka Paleoenvironment:  The Middle Jurassic Gypsum Springs Formation, Wyoming, USA

 

Past seminars can be found here.