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
UC Santa Barbara
How do Over-Steepened Slopes Fail? Excess Topography Consumed by Seismically Induced Landslides
 

Aaron Martinez
UC Santa Barbara
Orca Basin and Beyond: biomass based marine climate interventions

November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Holiday

December 5, 2024
Cristhian Salas
UC Santa Barbara
Inference of thermodynamic state of the upper mantle beneath Alaska by using
teleseismic body-wave velocity and attenuation tomography
 

Spring 2025

April 3, 2025
Anna Trugman
UC Santa Barbara
TBA

April 10, 2025
Valerie De Anda
University of Florida
TBA

April 17, 2025
Karen Viskupic
Boise State University
TBA

April 24, 2025
Katherine Grant
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
TBA

May 1, 2025
David Gold
UC Davis
TBA

May 8, 2025
Erin McParland
Oregon State University
TBA
 

May 15, 2025
TBA
UC Santa Barbara
TBA

May 15, 2025
TBA
UC Santa Barbara
TBA

May 15, 2025
TBA
UC Santa Barbara
TBA

June 5, 2025
Earth Science Awards Ceremony