HRL/JEDI Seminars

Hard Rock Lunch (HRL) and JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) seminars are hosted virtually via Zoom and are held on Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m. The Zoom link for each individual seminar will be sent out in the weekly seminar announcement. If you do not receive these announcements and would like to join us for our virtual seminar, please contact Marc Hirschmann at mmh@umn.edu.

Fall 2021 Schedule
         *indicates JEDI Talk 

September 8
No Seminar


September 15*
DEI Committee open meeting and kick-off

September 22    
Max Bezada, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Lithospheric Divots, what are they, and why do they exist?

September 29
Avishek Rudra, Graduate Student, Experimental Petrology, Hirschmann, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Oxidation state of the asthenospheric mantle in light of basalt petrogenesis

October 6
Deide Hein, Graduate Student, Rock & Mineral Physics, Hansen, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Microstructural evolution of calcite along complex strain paths during equal channel angular pressing

October 13 - No Seminar, Annual GSA Meeting

October 20
Natalie Raia, Graduate Student, Tectonics and Metamorphic Petrology, Whitney & Teyssier, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Themed mini-talk series: Subduction from beginning to end and top to bottom

October 27
Marc Hirschmann, Gunn Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coupled iron-chromium redox in magma oceans and planetary mantles 

November 3*
Maddy Nyblade, Jabari Jones
Community-Engagement workshop

 
November 10
Lars Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Thermal hardening of forsterite at high strain rates

November 17
Geodynamics AGU Practices

November 24

December 1
Jennifer Taylor, Graduate Student, Tectonics and Metamorphic Petrology, Teyssier & Whitney, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

December 8
Amy Ryan, Researcher, Rock and Mineral Physics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
An experimental study of melt migration in crystal-rich manmas and mushes

December 15
No Seminar - AGU