About the Lecture Series
The Guy F. Atkinson Endowed Distinguished Lecture Series is a free, public, weekly event to which we invite researchers, educators, and communicators from around the world. Here, they present their unique and intriguing contributions to the field of Earth sciences. Our hope is to encourage meaningful discussion, challenge ideas, and spark interest in the creation of a rich and diverse scientific culture that our students, staff, and faculty may carry out to the rest of the world.
SPRING 2026
*Thursday's between January 15th and April 9th
12:30-1:30pm
FASB 295
*No lecture on March 12th (Spring Break).
If approved by the speaker, lectures will be recorded and posted on our Youtube page.
SCHEDULE
| Date | Presenter | Organization | Title - updated regularly |
| 1/15 | Watch GEOSLAM Part 1 | University of Utah Geology & Geophysics Graduate Students | Get to know our new grad students |
| 1/22 | Watch GEOSLAM Part 2 | University of Utah Geology & Geophysics Graduate Students | Get to know our new grad students |
| 1/29 | Leif Anderson | University of Utah Geology & Geophysics |
Last Ice (Age) in Utah: insights from models, isotopes, and geophysics
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| 2/5 | Watch Juli Scamardo's Lecutre | Utah State University | The Causes and Consequences of Floodplain Heterogeneity |
| 2/12 | Watch Jen McIntosh's Lecture | University of Arizona | Hydrologic and geologic drivers of water, life, and critical mineral resources at km-depth: Colorado Plateau |
| 2/19 | Russell Callahan | University of Connecticut | Deep Critical Zone Controls on Hydrologic Processes in Mountain Landscapes |
| 2/26 | Katie Potter | Utah State University | IODP research on the Walvis-Tristan-Gough hotspot track |
| 3/5 | Steven Loheide | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Groundwater Recharge Regimes are in Flux |
| 3/19 | Josh Feinberg | University of Minnesota | |
| 3/26 | Tara Shreve | Utah Geological Survey | |
| 4/2 | Kevin Furlong | Penn State | Outstanding Alumni Award |
| 4/9 | Nick Tosca | University of Cambridge | Green smokers and red BIF: Unraveling the geochemistry of Archean subseafloor hydrothermal systems. |
Previous Lectures
Check out our YouTube channel to watch past lectures (starting in 2019).