Geology & Geophysics Lecture Series
Special lectures are hosted by the department to help expand student's access to a wide range of topics and distinguished academics. Financial support for the lecture series is provided by the LJ Wilbert Endowment, Grover E. Murray Educational Fund, and the Marathon Oil Distinguished Speaker Series Fund.
All lectures will take place on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in E137 Howe-Russell-Kniffen unless otherwise noted. Coffee and cookies are served before lectures at 3:15 in the Clarence Cazalot Marathon Oil Atrium.
Fall 2021 Schedule
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 27 | "Monsoons, Empires and the History of Civilizations in Asia" | Peter Clift LSU |
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| Sept. 3 | "From Present to the Archean: Insight from Self-consistent Geodynamic Models" | Gabriele Morra ULL |
Peter Clift |
| Sept. 10 | "From macro-scale plateau uplift to molecular isotopic effects: data-driven integration of multiple disciplines in geoscience" | Guangsheng Zhuang LSU |
Peter Clift |
| Sept. 17 | “Code Red Louisiana: Climate Change - Air, Water, Land, and Health” | LTG Russel Honore' US Army |
Carol Wilson |
| Sept. 24 | "Earthquake Ground-Motion Predictions and Hazard Studies from Southern California to Myanmar" | Patricia Persaud LSU |
Peter Clift |
| Oct. 1 | "Geothermal Energy Now: Opportunities in grid power, direct heat, and energy storage" | John Holbrook TCU |
Peter Clift |
| Oct. 8 | "Wetland doomsday story" | Torbjorn Tornqvist Tulane |
Carol Wilson / Sam Bentley |
| Oct. 15 | "Un-subducting lost tectonic plates in Earth’s mantle to rewind Deep Time" | Jonny Wu UH |
Jon Snow |
| Oct. 29 | "Planet of the Apes: Reconstructing the Miocene paleoenvironments in which our earliest primate ancestors evolved from the Turkana Basin, Kenya" | Catherine Beck Hamilton University |
Adam Forte / Dominique Garello |
| Nov. 5 | "The impact of grain size on the hydromechanical behavior of mudstones" | Julia Reece TAMU |
Peter Clift |
| Nov. 12 | "Mechanics of low-angle normal faults: Ways to skin (or just shave?) a cat" | Gary Axen NMT |
Amy Luther |
| Nov. 19 | "Establishing the budgets of life-essential volatile elements on Earth and other rocky bodies" | Rajdeep Dasgupta Rice |
Jon Snow |
| Dec. 3 | TBD | Ann Dunlea WHOI |
Carol Wilson |