Department Seminars will take place in Tate Hall room B20 on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. Email announcements are sent out the Monday before the seminar. If you would like to be added to the seminar announcement list, please contact Kaleigh Swift at [email protected].

* denotes seminars that are closed to the public
 

Fall 2026

September 10*

Dr. Justin Revenaugh

Department Head, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Welcome to the 2026-2027 School year!

September 17

Dr. Andy Wickert

Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
TBD

September 24

Dr. Reid Cooper

Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown Universary
TBD

October 1

Dr. Dani Or

Nevada Engineering Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada Reno and ETH Zurich
TBD

October 2

Dr. Steve Loheide

Professor; Environmental Engineering & Science Associate Chair (CEE), Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
TBD

October 8

Kent Kirkby

Teaching Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
TBD

October 15

Dr. Allison Tune

hydro-biogeochemist, Cascade Climate
TBD

October 22

Yifan Cheng

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
Co-designing Earth System Models with Indigenous Communities: Reflection on Successes and Challenges

October 29

Dr. Kendra Murray

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University
TBD

November 5

Dr. Jeffrey Post

Mineralogist and Curator-in-Charge of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
TBD

November 12

Dr. John Spear

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
TBD

November 19

Dr. Alicia Marie Ruteledge

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Northern Arizona University
TBD

November 26

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break

December 3

Dr. Anne Gothman

Professor of Environmental Studies and Physics, St. Olaf College
TBD

Spring 2027

January 21

January 28

February 4

February 11

February 18

February 25

March 4

March 11

No Seminar - Spring Break

March 18

March 25

April 1

April 8

April 15

April 22

April 29