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EES Distinguished Speaker Series - Fall 2026

The Distinguised Speaker Series is the Department of
Earth and Environmental Sciences Weekly Seminar

Meets* on Fridays at 12:30 PM
in Natural Sciences Building Rm  204

*unless noted otherwise

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
September 4 Steven Loheide University of Wisconsin - Madison Dary Lecture: Trees are Groundwater Stakeholders Too Kendall/Zarnetske
September 18 Nita Sahai University of Akron Mineral-promoted Prebiotic Chemistry in the Origins of Life Meghan Elwood Madden
September 25 Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert Arizona State University Life in the Atmosphere: Exploring Earth’s Largest Potential Ecosystem Matthew Schrenk
October 2 Michael A. Velbel Michigan State University From Earth to Mars: Terrestrial analogs as a framework for interpreting Martian clay minerals and ancient Mars  
October 9 Jianhua Gong Indiana University Microseismicity and Fault Slip of Oceanic Transform Fault Shawn Wei
October 30 Joe Moysiuk Manitoba Museum The Burgess Shale and the evolution of animal body plans Katie Maloney
November 13 Gerard Schuster University of Utah SEG Lecture: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with AI in Geosciences Tyrone Rooney
December 4 Erin Todd U.S. Geological Survey – Alaska Science Center Transitional melting regimes in the Seventymile ophiolite; new constraints on late Paleozoic to early Mesozoic tectonics of the northern Cordillera Tyrone Rooney

EES Graduate Student PhD Dissertation and MS Thesis Defenses

Date Student Event Title Time and Location
TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

MSU Seminars of Possible Interest to Earth and Environmental Sciences Department Staff and Students

Date Speaker and Affiliation Title Host Time and Location
TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD