SRL/JEDI Seminars

Soft Rock Lunch (SRL) and JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) seminars are hosted on Mondays at 12:10 p.m in Tate 401-20. Announcements 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 seminars, please contact Katsumi Matsumoto ([email protected]).

Spring 2025 Schedule
    *indicates JEDI Talk
 

September 8
XCT team presentation (Fox, Makovicky, Whitney, Kang), Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
XCT applications in the Earth Sciences

September 15
Aaron Hirsch, MGS, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Geophysical datasets across Minnesota
 

September 22
Sam Shaheen, Postdoc, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Humans as hydrogeochemical agents

September 29
Peter Makovicky, Faculty, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Missouri Cretaceous vertebrates
 

October 6
Jared Asselta, Madison Rafter, other students, Grad Students, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
GSA practice talks
 

October 13
Guy Evans, Postdoc, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Experimental Reproduction of Acidic Ultramafic-hosted Hydrothermal Fluids

October 20
No SRL - GSA Week

October 27
Clark Ward, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Scan Me Baby One More Time: Using a Portable XRF Device to Guide Destructive Isotopic Sampling

November 3
Josep Pares, Visiting Faculty, CENIEH, Burgos, Spain
New views on an old move: Magnetostratigraphy and the earliest European hominid sites

November 10
Shauna Capron, Grad Student, WRS, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
TBD

November 17
Anna Graber, Assistant Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, HST, University of Minnesota
Motherland of the Elephant: Mammoths in Russian Climate and Imperial Narratives

November 24
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
A Landscape Under a Kilometer of Ice Revealed by a 1966 Sediment Core at Camp Century, Greenland

December 1
Tony Runkel, Lead Geologist, MGS, University of Minnesota
Geoscience-Guided Drinking Water Protection in Minnesota’s Vulnerable Karstic Region: The Challenge of Putting Current Understanding of a Complex System into Regulatory Practice

December 8
Ally Jacoby, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Disentangling Streamflow Response to Climate Change in the Glacierized Tropics