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 | TBD | Anthony Kendall |
| Feburary 27 | Warren Wood | Michigan State University | TBD | |
| 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| 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 |