SRL/JEDI Seminars

Soft Rock Lunch (SRL) and JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) seminars are hosted as virtual meetings happening via Zoom. Meetings are on Mondays at 12:10 p.m. The Zoom link for each individual seminar will be sent out internally by the SRL/JEDI coordinator. If you do not receive these announcements and would like to join us for one of our virtual seminars, please contact Peter Kang (pkkang@umn.edu) or Michael Chen (chen7007@umn.edu).

Spring 2024 Schedule
    *indicates JEDI Talk 

February 12  
Gregory Park, Director, Office of Biotechnology Activities Oversight
Biosafety compliance requirements for research and teaching activities

February 19
No SRL
 

February 26
Margaret Zimmer, USGS
Why it matters how it leans: The role of hillslope aspect in driving subsurface weathering and water cycling
 

March 11
TBD

March 18*
Inclusive Teaching committee (DEI/Confronting colonization), ESCI

March 25
Iria García-Moreiras, University of Vigo (Spain)
Late Glacial to early Holocene transition in coastal ecosystems from Ría de Arousa (NW Atlantic Iberian Margin)

April 1
Matt Becker, Darcy Lecture 
TBD

April 8
Kenneth N. Mertens & Pjotr Meyvisch, Ifremer (France) & Ghent 
Towards an understanding of the biogeochemical composition of dinoflagellate cysts

April 15
David Kim, UMN 
TBD


April 22
Benoit Cordonnier, European synchrotron (ESRF)
Synchrotron for geoscience imaging

April 29
Charlie Soucey, Grad Student, ESCI, University of Minnesota 
Effects of flow rate on Solute exchange in triple porosity media