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 Jake Bailey ([email protected]) or Vera Pospelova ([email protected])

Spring 2026 Schedule
    *indicates JEDI Talk
 

September 28
Michael Chiappone, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Go with the Flow: A Novel Quantitative Method for Determining Transportability of Bones in River Flows

October 5
Grad Students, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
GSA Practice Talks

October 12
No SRL - GSA

October 19
Sandy McLachlan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Mesozoic microcosm of the eastern North Pacific: Dinoflagellate cysts and sporomorphs from the Jurassic–Cretaceous of Grassy Island, BC, Canada


October 26
Clark Ward, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
The Early Miocene of Nebraska


November 2
Vincy Winifred, Grad Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Distributions of dinoflagellate cysts and geochemical indicators of primary productivity in surface sediments from the northern Bering Sea

November 9
Max Bezada, Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Trying to use distributed acoustic sensing to characterize suspended sediment

November 16
Vera Pospelova, Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
TBD

November 23
No SRL - Thanksgiving week

November 30
Jake Bailey, Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
TBD

December 7
No SRL - AGU