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 Crystal Ng at gcng@umn.edu.
Spring 2022 Schedule
*indicates JEDI Talk
January 24 *
Jabari Jones, Lindsey Kenyon, Valerie Fox, Kat Cantner, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee members, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Inclusive teaching session 1
January 31 *
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Open Meeting
February 7
Dr. Carrie Jennings, Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Freshwater Research & Policy Director, Freshwater Society
Groundwater Governance in the Great Lakes Region: Results of 25 Tribal Interviews
February 14
Dr. Michael J Dockry, Department of Forest Resources
An Indigenous Model of Sustainability
February 21
Jake Bailey, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Polyphosphate-accumulating bacteria: from big bacteria to dental biofilms.
February 28
TBD
March 7
No Seminar - Spring Break
March 14
TBD
March 21
URGE Subcommittee
"Unlearning Racism" Action Plan
March 28
No SRL this week
April 4
Julia Andreason, Grad student, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences,
Polar Impact
April 11
Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, Professor, Purdue School of Science at IUPUI
Using community engagement and citizen science to overcome environmental injustices
April 18
Maddy Nyblade, Grad student, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
First, We Must Consider Manoomin/Psiŋ: Stories and Science from a Tribal-University Research Collaboration Studying Wild Rice
April 25
Michael Chen, Post doc, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Inertia flow controls on mixing and reaction in fractures and porous media
May 2
Sang Lee, Grad student, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Fungi-enhanced bioremediation: A Microfludics Study