HRL/JEDI Seminars

Hard Rock Lunch (HRL) and JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) seminars are hosted  on Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m. in Tate hall room 401-20. The details for each individual seminar will be sent out internally by the HRL/JEDI coordinator. If you do not receive these announcements and would like to join us, please contact Donna Whitney ([email protected]) or Marc Hirschmann ([email protected]).

Spring 2025 Schedule
    *indicates JEDI Talk
 

September 10
XCT team presentation (Fox, Makovicky, Whitney, Kang),ESCI, University of Minnesota
XCT applications in the Earth Sciences
 

September 17
Jennifer Mitchell, ESCI/CharFac, University of Minnesota
UMin Meteorites Update and a New Piece of Mars
 

September 24
Diede Hein, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Fun with Attenuation Mechanism Maps

October 1
Ikuko Wada, Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Fluid migration in the subducting slabs

October 8
Jeremiah McElwee, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Numerical Modeling of Reaction-Induced Fracture Practice Talk
 

October 15
Hannah Tebbens, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
TBD

October 22
Emmett Ela, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Low-temperature Plasticity of Plagioclase

October 29
Max Bezada, Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
The Appalachian anomalies 

November 5
Daoheng Wang, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Temperature and composition dependence of magmatic iron-redox

November 12
Ryan Murata, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
SXES as a tool for measuring transition metal oxidation states

November 19
Nick Swanson-Hysell, Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Rapid Duluth Complex emplacement from a SW Laurentia plume

November 26
No Seminar - Fall Break

December 3
Marc Hirschmann, Ruipeng Zhao, Soisiri Charin, Sara Hanel, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Special K

December 10
Sarah Brandt, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
From hot to cold: changing P-T-fluid conditions recorded by a colossal block of metabasalt in the Franciscan subduction complex, California