Earth Science Colloquium
Each Thursday we hold a colloquium talk for the department and students in our colloquium series course held in Webb 1100. Speakers include members of UCSB, local scholars or scholars from across the country.
Fall 2024
September 26, 2024
Kathleen Campbell
The University of Auckland
Paleoenvironmental Context in the Search for Past Life on Mars
October 3, 2024
Julien Middleton
UC Santa Barbara
Rewriting history: Isotopically-fractionating ion exchange
& the fidelity of barium isotopes records
October 10, 2024
Monica Kohler
Caltech
Basin Amplification and Damage Detection in Buildings due to Earthquakes: What Dense, Low-Cost, Seismic Network Data are Revealing
October 17, 2024 ***CANCELLED*** due to hurricanes in Florida
Tom Bianchi
University of Florida
Carbon Processing in Aquatic Critical Zones: Biogeochemical Challenges in the 21st Century
October 17, 2024
Yaakov Weiss
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Diamond-forming fluids—the next frontier
October 24, 2024
Susannah Porter
UC Santa Barbara
Early Eukaryote Diversity: A Review and A Reinterpretation
October 31, 2024
Claire Divola and Ryan Eden
UC Santa Barbara
Records of Relative Sea-Level Changes during Earthquakes along the northern San Andreas Fault, Tomales Bay, California
Sillimanite grade syn-kinematic metamorphism in the Cordilleran Intra-Arc associated with a Mesozoic Pluton, eastern Silurian Hills, CA
November 7, 2024
Distinguished Alumni Talks
Wayne Sawka: Digital Solid State Propulsion
Dawn Wright:
Abstract
November 14, 2024
Sal Maldonado and Molly Crotteau
UC Santa Barbara
Deep-Sea Anoxic Brine Pools: A natural laboratory in the Gulf of Mexico to study petroleum and microbial interactions
The origin and fate of organic sulfur in Santa Barbara Basin, CA
November 21, 2024
Amanda Hunt and Aaron Martinez
UC Santa Barbara
Abstract
November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 5, 2024
Cristhian Salas
UC Santa Barbara
Abstract
Winter 2025
Coming soon!
Spring 2025
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