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 generally take place on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in E130 Howe-Russell-Kniffen unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served before lectures at approximately 3:00 in the Clarence Cazalot Marathon Oil Atrium.
Spring 2023 Schedule
"*" Network with us! Marquee events included a pre (~3:15pm) and post seminar (immediately after discussion) receptions!"
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker(s) | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 20 | "Lessons Learned from Global CO2 Storage Projects" |
Dr. Kathryn Denommee Dr. Ganesh Dasari |
Dr. Juan Lorenzo |
| Jan. 27 | "Part I: Energy Exploration: Applied Sedimentology; Part II: The Louisiana Geological Survey: Past, Present, and the Vision for the Future" | Dr. Clare Falcon | Dr. Karen Luttrell |
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Feb. 3 *Begins at 4:30 pm* |
"Forum on Energy and the Energy Transition" Panelists include: Clarence Cazalot, Retired CEO of Marathon Oil |
LSUGG Alumni Panel | Dr. Darrell Henry |
| Feb. 10 | "Probing Earth’s Seafloor to Understand Space: Impact Craters, Plumes, and True Polar Wander" | Dr. Sonia Tikoo | Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Feb. 17 | "Linking Sedimentary Processes to The Formation Of Wind-Blown Microbial Landscapes for Biosignature Exploration on Other Worlds" | Dr. Ryan Ewing | Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Feb. 24 | "The Climate Crisis: Where are We, What Can We Do" | * Dr. Maureen Raymo | Dr. Peter Clift |
| Mar. 10 |
Computer simulations of magmatic melts for structural and dynamical insights |
Dr. Bijaya Karki | Dr. Jianwei Wang |
| Mar. 24 | "Icy Secrets and Retreating Glaciers: Past, Present, and Future" | * Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson | Dr. Peter Doran |
| Mar. 31 | "The Exploration of Mars: From Mariner to Mars 2020 and Sample Return" | * Dr. Scott McLennan | Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Apr. 14 | "Out of (Chemical) Equilibrium and into Metamorphic Depths: Mineral Inclusions in Garnets and Elastic Thermobarometers Reveal True Crystallization Depths" | Dr. Jay Thomas | Dr. Darrell Henry |
| Apr. 21 |
Environmental Impact of Nuclear Fuel Cycle: 'Entanglement' of Science, Engineering, and the Social Sciences" |
* Dr. Rodney Ewing | Dr. Barb Dutrow |
Fall 2022 Schedule
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker(s) | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 26 | "LSU Campus Mounds: The Oldest Extant Man-made Structures in North America"Live Recording Available - Watch Now! |
Dr. Brooks Ellwood Geology and Geophysics, LSU |
Dr. Sam Bentley |
| Sep. 2 |
Themed Seminar: “Planetary sojourns on Earth,” the two perspectives of ongoing and upcoming research are entitled: Wheel-based seismic acquisition system for a planetary rover Exploring a serendipitous Mars analog serpentine zone in Sri Lanka |
Drs. Juan Lorenzo & Suniti Karunatillake Geology and Geophysics, LSU |
Dr. Darrell Henry |
| Sep. 9 |
"Stories and Highlights of Summer Research" The two narratives, a first in highlighting the experiential aspects of research are entitled: “Mineralogical riches from Lyon, France to Elba Island, Italy” by Dr. Barb Dutrow "Travails with a seismic payload in a Mars-analog Alaskan permafrost tunnel" by Dr. Lorenzo |
Drs. Barb Dutrow, Juan Lorenzo Geology and Geophysics, LSU |
Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Sep. 16 |
"Moderate, Localized Water Scarcity Possible in the Willamette Basin, Oregon, Over Next 80 years: Results from a Coupled Climate – Physical – Biological – Socioeconomic Model" |
Dr. Roy Haggerty Executive Vice President and Provost, LSU |
Dr. Darrell Henry |
| Sep. 23 |
Voyage to Another Planet: The Ocean Floor of the Western Pacific |
Dr. Jon Snow Geology and Geophysics, LSU |
Dr. Karen Luttrell |
| Sep. 30 | "Insight into the recent fluvial and tectonic development of the Telavi Region of the Western Kura Fold-Thrust Belt: Active deformation in the “Napa Valley” of Georgia" |
Dr. Lasha Sukhishvili Ilia State University in T'blisi, Georgia |
Dr. Adam Forte |
| Oct. 7 | "Connecting Patterns to Processes in Martian Boulder Fields" |
Dr. Don Hood Department of Geosciences, Baylor University |
Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Oct. 21 | "Sediment dispersal, accumulation, and transformation into stratigraphy: Interpreting environmental changes across time and space for fluvial-deltaic landscapes" |
Dr. Jeff Nittrouer Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University |
Dr. Carol Wilson |
| Oct. 28 |
"Petrochronology: Tools that can Elucidate Tectonic Histories" |
Dr. Harold Stowell Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama |
Dr. Darrell Henry |
| Nov. 4 |
"Interrogating the El Nino-Southern Oscillation's Impacts on U.S. Hydroclimate over the Last Millennium" |
Dr. Sylvia Dee Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University |
Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Nov. 11 | "Earth-Shattering: Gravitational Evidence of Impact-Induced Porosity" |
Dr. Peter James Department of Geoscience, Baylor University |
Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |
| Nov. 18 | "Earth’s Unique Continents" |
Dr. Roberta Rudnick Earth Science, University of California at Santa Barbara |
Dr. Jon Snow |
| Dec. 2 |
"Aqua Incognita', The Nature of Waters Underlying the Baton Rouge Aquifers to a Crustal Depth of 40,000 Feet" |
Dr. Jeff Hanor Geology and Geophysics, LSU |
Dr. Darrell Henry |
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Dec. 9 |
Terrestrial adventures of an originally celestial isotope signature" |
Dr. Huiming Bao International Center for Isotopics Effects Research, Nanjing University, China |
Dr. Suniti Karunatillake |