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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

EES Distinguished Speaker Series - Spring 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 Room  304
*unless noted otherwise

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
January 16 Lev Horodyskyj Science Voices Untraditional Pathways:  From High-Tech Labs to Rainforest Makerspaces Tyrone Rooney
January 23 Conel Alexander Carnegie Science Meteorites are guides to the formation of the Solar System and Earth Seth Jacobson
January 30 Dylan Wilmeth Grand Valley State University The Upper Peninsula 2.2 Billion Years Ago: Salty Seas, Giant Fossils, and Carbon Swings Dalton Hardisty
Feburary 6 Tyler Lark Michigan State University Agricultural Land Systems Science: Big-picture approaches to conserving America’s working lands Anthony Kendall
Feburary 27 Warren Wood Michigan State University The Carbon Cycle Model: Aquifers Are the Womb of Weathering, From Which Flow the Ruins of Continents and the Nutrients of Life  
March 13 Megan M McCullen Wayne State University TBD Megan Elwood Madden
March 20 Ryan Shell U.S. Forest Service Paleontology on Michigan's Federal Lands: Unsolved Mysteries Katie Maloney
March 27 June Wicks Johns Hopkins University TBD Susanna Dorfman
April 3 Michael D Gottfried Michigan State University Bird Bones to Beach Cobbles - New Insights into the Geologic History of the Falkland Islands  
April 10 Vedran Lekić University of Maryland TBD  

EES Graduate Student PhD Dissertation and MS Thesis Defenses

Date Student Event Title Time and Location
January 14 Katie Quinlan MS Thesis Defense Variability in groundwater oxidation-reduction potential and its chemical and microbiological implications: a study of the Saginaw Aquifer of Mid-Michigan 1:00 PM in Giltner Rm 275

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 Richard Lenski, Michigan State University Dynamics and repeatability of evolution in a long-term experiment with bacteria Physics and Astronomy Colloquia 3:30 PM in Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) Rm 1415
January 23 Jeffrey Freymueller, Michigan State University Present-day uplift and subsidence caused by glacial isostatic adjustment in the Great Lakes region Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126
February 4 Marvin Morgan, University of Texas, Austin Exoplanets Physics and Astronomy Colloquia 3:30 PM in Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) Rm 1415
February 6 Trent Adams, Michigan Geological Survey Aggregate resource inventory and mapping in northern lower Michigan Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126
February 20 Dave Lusch, Michigan State University Nunataks in the Barryton Sublobe terrain Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126
February 25 Juliette Becker, University of Wisconsin, Madison Exoplanets Physics and Astronomy Colloquia 3:30 PM in Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) Rm 1415
March 12 Dani DellaGiustina, University of Arizona Asteroids Physics and Astronomy Colloquia 3:30 PM in Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) Rm 1415
March 19 Andrew Mann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Exoplanets Physics and Astronomy Colloquia 3:30 PM in Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) Rm 1415
March 20 Rachel Lau, Michigan State University Eco-geomorphology of Great Lakes coastal wetlands Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126
April 8 Merel van 't Hoff Purdue, Purdue University Protoplanetary Disks Physics and Astronomy Colloquia 3:30 PM in Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) Rm 1415
April 10 Mason Rutgers, Michigan State University A Pedological Investigation of Afforested Relict Prairies in Newaygo County, Michigan Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126
April 24 Pat Colgan, Grand Valley State University Update on the Montcalm County, Michigan mapping project Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126
May 1 Alan Arbogast, Michigan State University Human and Holocene time scales collide: 30 years of dune research in Michigan Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (Quidders) Talks 4:00 PM in Geography Rm 126