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 2023 Schedule
    *indicates JEDI Talk

January 23
 

January 30
 

February 6  
John Barry, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Karst Characterization at Bear Spring, Olmsted County, Minnesota

February 13
Paul Burley, PhD Candidate, DEES, University of Minnesota
Geomorphologic controls and astronomic alignments of the Cranborne Chase Neolithic cultural landscape
 

February 20 
No seminar - Faculty search 
 

February 27
Michael Berndt, Department of Natural Resources
Iron and sulfate in ground and surface waters: Focus on Minntac Iron Mine in NE Minnesota

March 6
No Seminar - Spring Break

March 13
No seminar - Rescheduled May 1

March 20*
Confronting Colonization Working Group
Report out on departmental reflection worksheet activity

March 27*
Keisha Varma, Assistant Vice Provost, Equity & Diversity; Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
North Star STEM Alliance

April 3
Tony Runkel, Minnesota Geological Survey
What's new with the groundwater nitrate problem in SE MN?


April 10*
Maddy Nyblade and Jabari Jones, PhD Students, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
The 3 Rs: Re-search, re-flect and re-imagine. Community-based science in ESCI

April 17
Warren Barrash, Emeritus Research Professor, Boise State University
Heterogeneity, Hydraulic Tomography, and Fractured Aquifer Hydrology

April 24
David Fox, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Quantifying estimates of C4 fractions in diets of fossil mammals using a compilation of plant d13C values and a Monte Carlo model to propagate uncertainties

May 1
Bill Tate, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
The first DAS deployment in a flowing stream: a recent deployment in Clear Creek in Golden, CO