Guy F. Atkinson Distinguished Lecture Series
We are please to announce the lineup for our 2020-21 academic year Distinguished Lecture Series! Lectures are held on most Thursdays at 4:00 pm. They are free and open to the public.
The University of Utah is currently operating in a reduced capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, lectures will be done via Zoom: https://utah.zoom.us/j/96851056253, password: FALLDLS.
As much as possible, we will also do a Facebook Live for each lecture.
Meet and Greet: Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join in a meet and greet with each DLS speaker. This is a great opportunity to informally chat with the guest speaker about their career and research. Meet and greets will be done via Zoom: https://utah.zoom.us/j/96851056253, password: FALLDLS. Due to varying speaker schedules, meet and greets will be held based on the speaker's availability; the day and time will be shared on FB, via emails, and in the table below.
Watch Previous Lectures: Check out our YouTube channel to watch past lectures (starting in 2019): U of U Geology and Geophysics YouTube Channel
| Day | Date | Presenter | Institution | Presentation | Meet and Greet |
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| TH | 9/3 | Zachary Ross | Caltech | "3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms" | n/a |
| TH | 9/10 | Mark Torres | Rice University | "Rivers flow not past, but through: a fluvial perspective on Earth's carbon cycle" | 9/11 @ noon |
| TH | 9/17 | Shi (Joyce) Sim | Georgia Tech | "Melt Transport at Mid-Ocean Ridges" | 9/18 @ noon |
| TH | 9/24 | Ellen Thomas | Yale University | "The Oceanic Carbon Cycle in a Greenhouse World: Oceanic Export and Primary Productivity" |
9/24 @ 3pm |
| TH | 10/1 | Enrique Merino | Indiana University | “Replacement reveals metasomatism dynamics that is hidden from geochemists: Two nonlinear, self-accelerating replacements, brucite-for-periclase in marbles and serpentinization of peridotites” | 10/2 @ noon |
| TH | 10/8 | Kate Freeman | Penn State | "Wildfires and Environmental Upheavals in the Cenozoic Era" | 10/8 @ 3pm |
| TH | 10/15 | Parvathy Prem | Johns Hopkins University | "The Origins and Transport of Water on the Moon" | 10/16 @ noon |
| TH | 10/22 | Asmaa Boujibar | Carnegie Science, Geophysics Laboratory | "The origin of Mercury's large core, volatile content and heat production, insights from high pressure experiments and spacecraft data." | 10/22 @ 3pm |
| TH | 10/29 | Jane Willenbring | Stanford | "Forged Signatures: Tectonic versus climatic control on mountain heights and shape" | 10/29 @ 3pm |
| TH | 11/5 | Zack Spica | University of Michigan | "Distributed Acoustic Sensing: a new playground for seismology" | 11/5 @ 3pm |
| TH | 11/12 | Kayla Iacovino | NASA Johnson Space Center | "What drives volcanic eruptions? Determining eruption triggers and magma sources with gas chemistry and thermodynamic modeling" | 11/12 @ 3pm |
| TH | 11/19 |
Naomi E. Levin
Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Michigan
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Special Alumni Presenter as part of our 11/19 Virtual Alumni Social! "Rare and overlooked, but mighty: developing 17O for the paleoclimate toolkit" |
11/20 @ noon |