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 to 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.
FALL 2025
*Thursday's between August 28th and November 20th
12:30-1:30pm
FASB 295
*No lecture on October 9th (Fall Break) or October 23rd (GSA Conference Week)
If approved by the speaker, lectures will be recorded and posted on our Youtube page.
SCHEDULE
| Date | Presenter | Organization | Title |
| 8/28 | Parade of Rock Stars (FacultySlam) Part 1 - watch the recording! | University of Utah Geology & Geophysics Faculty | |
| 9/4 | Parade of Rock Stars (FacultySlam) Part 2- watch the recording! | University of Utah Geology & Geophysics Faculty | |
| 9/11 | Brenda Bowen | University of Utah Geology and Geophysics | Making and breaking the Bonneville Salt Flats |
| 9/18 | Elliott Mueller | University of Colorado Boulder | Small Metabolites as Windows into the Carbon Cycle |
| 9/25 | Kurt Sundell - watch the recording! | Idaho State University | Global Compilations of Zircon Geochemistry: A Biased View Into Earth’s Deep Past |
| 10/2 | Kate Freeman | Penn State | New Dimensions of Molecular Carbon Isotope Signatures of Ancient Life, Climate, and our Cosmic Origins |
| 10/16 | Ed Young - watch the recording! | UCLA | Earth in a Galactic Context |
| 10/30 | Tonie van Dam | University of Utah Geology and Geophysics | An Afternoon with Tonie van Dam |
| 11/6 | Brian Romans - watch the recording! | VA Tech | Arctic and Antarctic Paleoceanography and Ice-Sheet History from Continental Slope Archives |
| 11/13 | Bayani Cardenas - watch the recording! | University of Texas Austin - GSA Hydrology Lectureship "Birdsall-Driess and LaMoreaux lecture" | Insights on groundwater renewability from age and residence time analysis |
| 11/20 | Cari Johnson | University of Utah Geology and Geophysics | Sediment Stories from the Glen Canyon Dam "Experiment" |
Previous Lectures
Check out our YouTube channel to watch past lectures (starting in 2019).