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

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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