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EES Distinguished Speaker Series - Spring 2025

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

Meets* on Thursdays at 3:00 PM, Room NS 145
*unless noted otherwise

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
January 23 Libby Ashby MSU Geology Club Fieldtrip Show and Tell  
January 30 Reserved for Faculty Candidate     Shawn Wei
February 6 Reserved for Faculty Candidate     Shawn Wei
February 20 Matt Pritchard Cornell University The outrageous surface changes from the rhyolite eruption of Cordón Caulle, Chile: 2011-2012 to now Julie Elliott
February 27 Reserved for Faculty Candidate     Shawn Wei
March 13 Isabella Oleksy University of Colorado TBD Kelly Aho
March 20 Nicole Nie Massachusetts Institute of Technology Geochemical insights into lunar formation and surface evolution Seth Jacobson
March 27 Cole McCormick Pennsylvania State University Recent advancements in the characterization of dolomite Dalton Hardisty
April 3 Harold Tobin University of Washington Ocean Discovery Lecture: TBD Shawn Wei and Jeffrey Freymueller
April 10 TBD TBD TBD TBD
April 17 Emily Fairfax University of Minnesota TBD Anthony Kendall
April 24 Zach Burton Montana State University TBD Michael Velbel

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

Date Speaker and Affiliation Title Host Time and Location
January 22 Allyson Bieryla
Harvard University & Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Exoplanets and Solar Eclipses for Research and Community Engagement Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1:30 pm in BPS Rm 1400
January 31 Michiel Lambrechts
University of Copenhagen
TBD Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1:30 pm in BPS Rm 1400
January 31 Sara Peasron
Michigan Geological Survey
Michigan Geological Survey: Progress, Partnerships, and Plans for the Future Quidders
Quaternary Landscapes Research Group
4 pm in Geography Bldg Rm 126
February 12 Rafael Luque
University of Chicago
Exoplanets Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1:30 pm in BPS Rm 1400
February 14

Randy Schaetzl
Michigan State University

A newly-discovered, Late-Pleistocene(?) advance of the Lake Michigan Lobe in northern Michigan Quidders Seminar Series 4 pm in Geography Bldg Rm 126
February 19 Aaron Bello-Arufe
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Exoplanet atmospheres Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1:30 pm in BPS Rm 1400
March 13 Dong Lai
Cornell University
Hot Jupiters and super-Earths: spin-orbit dynamics in exoplanetary systems Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Department of Physics and Astronomy
3:30 pm in BPS Rm 1415
March 21 Jim Selegean
US Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' sediment mission within the Great Lakes Quidders
Quaternary Landscapes Research Group
4 pm in Geography Bldg Rm 126
April 4 Michael Velbel
Michigan State University
Reworking of Sand by Wind on a Terrestrial Periglacial Polygonal Patterned Ground Landscape? Grain Shape Analysis from Three Post-Glacial Landforms Quidders
Quaternary Landscapes Research Group
4 pm in Geography Bldg Rm 126
April 9 Bertram BitschUniversity College Cork Planetary dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1:30 pm in BPS Rm 1400
April 17 Jessie Christiansen
California Institute of Technology
Exoplanets Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Department of Physics and Astronomy
3:30 pm in BPS Rm 1415
April 24 Katherine de Kleer
California Institute of Technology
All Io Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Department of Physics and Astronomy
3:30 pm in BPS Rm 1415
May 2 Eldiiar Duulatov
Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic
Landslide hazard characterization in Kyrgyzstan Quidders
Quaternary Landscapes Research Group
4 pm in Geography Bldg Rm 126