Earth Sciences Palmer Lecture Series
The Department of Earth Sciences welcomes guest speakers on Fridays in room 234 at 12:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | Interview Talk |
| Jan. 24 | Interview Talk |
| Feb. 2 | Graduate Student Spring Reviews - no colloquium |
| Feb. 9 | Graduate Student Spring Reviews - no colloquium |
| Feb. 16 | Dr. Andrew Steen, University of Tennessee - Deep dark secrets: Insights into life in the subsurface lifestyle from microbial extracellular enzymes |
| Feb. 23 | Dr. Donald Penman, Utah State University and U.S. Science Support Program Ocean Discovery Lecturer - Carbon and Silica Cycle Coupling During Cenozoic Warm Periods |
| Mar. 1 | Faculty meeting - no colloquium |
| Mar. 8 | Open |
| Mar. 15 | Alumni - Kiersten Duroe (MS), Mary Plauche (MS), Dulcinea Avouris (PhD) |
| Mar. 22 | No colloquium |
| Mar. 29 | Spring break |
| Apr. 5 | Open |
| Apr. 12 | Dr. Brian Stewart, University of Pittsburgh - Rare earth elements in acidic coal mine drainage: Sources, sinks, and opportunities |
| Apr. 19 | Dr. Shelby Rader, Indiana University - From rocks to stalks: Understanding and applications of metal mobility within the critical zone |
| Apr. 26 | Dr. Brian Kelly, Penn State |
| May 3 | Faculty meeting - no colloquium |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Aug. 25 | Faculty meeting/no colloquium |
| Sept. 1 | Grad student lunch |
| Sept. 8 | Grad student presentations |
| Sept. 15 | Dr. Dorothy Vesper, University of West Virginia - Caver in a coal mine |
| Sept. 22 | Dr. Tyler Doane, Indiana University - Topographic roughness as an archive of geomorphic processes and weather events |
| Sept. 29 | Dr. Nicole Gasparini, Tulane University - What's more important for controlling mountain river erosion - water or rock? |
| Oct. 6 | Fall Break/no colloquium |
| Oct. 13 | Dr. Nalaka Ranasinghe, Lake Superior State University - Indian Ocean Dynamics and Humanity |
| Oct. 20 | Faculty meeting/no colloquium |
| Oct. 27 | Dr. Reza Soltaian, University of Cincinnati - Spatiotemporal dynamics of solute mixing and redox dynamics in riparian floodplains |
| Nov. 3 | Dr. Justin Dodd, Northern Illinois University - Biogenic opal oxygen isotope values, diagenesis and brine formation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica during the Pliocene |
| Nov. 10 | Veteran's Day |
| Nov. 17 | Dr. Isabel Fendley, Penn State University - Understanding Earth's largest volcanic eruptions: Large Igneous Province gas emissions and environmental effects |
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec. 1 | Open |
| Dec.8 | Faculty meeting/no colloquium |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Jan. 27 | Faculty Interview Talk (11:00 a.m.) |
| Feb. 3 | Faculty Interview Talk |
| Feb. 10 | Faculty Interview Talk |
| Feb. 15 | Faculty Interview Talk (Wednesday) |
| Feb. 17 | Faculty Interview Talk |
| Feb. 24 | Faculty Interview Talk |
| Mar. 3 | Faculty Interview Talk |
| Mar. 8 | Faculty Interview Talk (Wednesday) |
| Mar. 10 | Faculty Meeting |
| Mar. 17 | Dr. Andy Montgomery, Montana State University |
| Mar. 24 | No Colloquium |
| Mar. 31 | Spring Break |
| Apr. 7 | Open |
| Apr. 14 | Dr. Ann Dunlea, ODL, Woods Hole |
| Apr. 21 | PhD Presentations |
| Apr. 28 | Faculty Meeting |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Aug 26 | Faculty meeting/no colloquium |
| Sept 2 | open |
| Sept 9 | Grad student presentations; Nageen Farooq (Ph.D), Emily Mehta (M.S.), Shahidul Muzemder (Ph.D) |
| Sept 16 | Dr. Allyson Tessin, Kent State University; Unlocking the secrets beneath the seafloor. |
| Sept 23 | Dr. David Hacker, Kent State University; Catastrophic Landslides in Volcanic Terrains |
| Sept 30 | Dr. Jonathan Overpeck, University of Michigan, AGU-Discovery Lecture Series (virtual); Climate Change, Drought and Global Aridification: Understanding Confidence. |
| Oct 7 | open |
| Oct 14 | Fall Break |
| Oct 21 | Dr. Ashley Burkett, Oklahoma State University; Seafloor experimentation: how modern analogue studies inform paleoceanographic reconstructions. |
| Oct 28 | Faculty meeting/no colloquium |
| Nov 4 | Dr. Megan Flansburg, Oberlin College; Structurally integrated U-Pb and (U-Th)/He dating on the margins of the Colorado River extensional corridor (SE California, USA) |
| Nov 11 | Veterans Day/no colloquium |
| Nov 18 | Dr. Caitlin Colleary, Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Getting Blood from a Stone and Other Adventures in Molecular Paleontology |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec 2 | 2nd year MS student meeting |
| Dec 9 | Faculty meeting/no colloquium |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Jan. 21 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Jan. 28 | Terry McGlynn, California Desert Studies Consortium; Creating effective recruitment and research opportunities for minoritized undergraduates (virtual) |
| Feb. 4 | Sarah Fortner, Carlton College; Collective Action to advance equity & justice: Strategies from Geoscience Education & GeoHealth (virtual) |
| Feb. 11 | John Peck, University of Akron; Sediment studies of environmental change in NE Ohio: Implications for watershed management |
| Feb. 18 | Graduate student spring reviews/No colloquium |
| Feb. 25 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Mar. 4 | Kennedy Okioghene Doro, University of Toledo; Scaling understanding of subsurface hydrological and biogeochemical processes using geophysics (virtual) |
| Mar. 11 | Kimberly Meehan, University of Buffalo; Freshwater and marine microfossils as signals of ancient flooding events with epeiric basins (virtual) |
| Mar. 18 | Robert Mahon, University of New Orleans; Promoting open and accessible inquiry using live online community experiments |
| Mar. 25 | No colloquium |
| Apr. 1 | Spring Break |
| Apr. 8 | Katherine Glover, University of Maine; Climate and Ecosystem State Changes in North America during the Late Quaternary. |
| Apr. 15 | Mark Jacobson, Stanford University (virtual); Transitioning the world to 100% clean, renewable energy and storage for everything. |
| Apr. 22 | Applied Geology PhD graduate student presentations. Max Barczok: Geochemical controls over phosphorus bioavailability as a function of redox sensitive iron-oxides. Nathan Rohrbaugh: Utilizing Hyperspectral Remote Sensing to Detect Changes in Organic Carbon and Other Soil Properties. |
| Apr. 29 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
Fall 2021 (Remote)
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Aug.27 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Sept.3 | Michael Petronis (Alum), New Mexico Highlands University - Investigating ancient ice ages in the present day Arctic. |
| Sept.10 | Ashley Bulseco, Eckerd College |
| Sept.17 | Graduate Student Presentations, Kyle Smart (PhD), Kortney Cole (MS), Erika Hiwiller (MS) |
| Sept.24 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Oct.1 | Kathleen Bridges, Post-Doc Scholar, Ohio State University & Srabani Das, Post-Doc Scholar, Ohio State University; Stark Sustainable Soil Initiative: an on-farm research collaboration |
| Oct.8 | Alumni Employment Panel - Kevin Engle, Kimm Jarden, Mandy Razzano, Ashleigh Sload |
| Oct.15 | Fall Break |
| Oct.22 | Rebecca Vanderleest, Oberlin - Investigating the thermal effects of Cordilleran processes on a retroarc foreland basin, Patagonian Andes, Magallanes-Austral Basin |
| Oct.29 | Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, NASA - Surface Biology and Geology - a NASA study for future hyperspectral and thermal satellites to measure climate change impacts |
| Nov.5 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Nov.12 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Earth Sciences, Joseph Ortiz, Allyson Tessin, Tatiana Fernandez-Perez, Spencer Williams, Kelly Thomasson |
| Nov.19 | Owen Jensen (Alum), PhD candidate University of South Carolina. Linking boron to magma sources in Aleutian volcanic rocks. |
| Nov.26 | Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec.3 | 2nd year MS student meeting |
| Dec.10 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
Spring 2021 (Remote)
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Jan.22 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Jan.29 | David Hacker, Kent State University. Catastrophic gravity sliding of volcanic fields; insights from the Cenozoic Marysvale Gravity Slide Complex, Southwest Utah |
| Feb.5 | Carrie Schweitzer, Kent State University. The Enigmatic Cyclida: who they are and their life and times |
| Feb.12 | Jeanette Davis, NOAA. Science is Everywhere, Science is for Everyone: The Art of Storytelling & Inclusion. |
| Feb.19 | Graduate Student Spring Reviews |
| Feb.26 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Mar.5 | Cynthia Hall, West Chester University. Characterization of Lead Particles in Contaminated, Urban Soils as an Assessment of Public Health Risk |
| Mar.12 | Natasha Sekhon, UT Austin. A study of seasonal hydroclimate variability in southwestern United States: Geochemical insights from stalagmites and karst monitoring |
| Mar.19 | Jenine McCutcheon, University of Waterloo. Microbe-mineral-fluid interactions: Small-scale processes with large-scale impacts |
| Mar.26 | Daniel Holm, Kent State University. A Gigayear of Continental Growth, Overprinting, and Stabilization in the upper Great Lakes region during the so-called Boring Billion |
| Apr.2 | Andrea Pain, University of Maryland, Horn Point Laboratory. Riverine export of carbon and nutrients from deglaciating Arctic landscapes: Implications for past and future climate transitions |
| Apr.9 | No colloquium |
| Apr.16 | Spring Break/No colloquium |
| Apr.23 | PhD Student Presentations: Md Abu Raihan Chowdhury, Zia Ul Hassan |
| Apr.30 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
Fall 2020 (Remote)
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Aug.28 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Sept.4 | Tim Gallagher, Kent State University, Paleosols on the Loess Plateau: Monsoons and solid carbon cycling in a warmer world |
| Sept.11 | Graduate Student Presentations: Angela Lewis, Shahidul Muzemder, Cody Kale |
| Sept.18 | Anne Jefferson, Kent State University, Are we doing enough to manage stormwater and protect urban streams? |
| Sept.25 | Graduate Student Career Advising; Evan Faidley |
| Oct.2 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Oct.9 | Open |
| Oct.16 | Joseph Ortiz, Kent State University, Gaining clarity from muddy waters: Spectral unmixing of optically complex waters |
| Oct.23 | Allyson Tessin, Kent State University, The role of continental margin sediments in Arctic biogeochemical cycling as sea ice retreats. |
| Oct.30 | Jeremy Williams, Kent State University, Understanding the Inevitable: The Great Dying Event |
| Nov.6 | Program Review/No colloquium |
| Nov.13 | David Singer, Kent State University, Legacy lead (Pb) in urban soils: An ongoing source of exposure. |
| Nov.20 | 2nd year MS student meeting |
| Nov.27 | Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec.4 | Open |
| Dec.11 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Jan.17 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Jan.24 | Graduate Student Presentations |
| Jan.31 | Amy Townsend-Small, University of Cincinnati; Isotopic constraints on methane emissions from natural gas production: Will fugitive methane emissions overwhelm the climate benefits of a natural gas energy future? |
| Feb.7 | Dulcinea Avouris, Kent State University; Application of remote sensing imagery to natural hazard monitoring. |
| Feb.14 | Carrie Davis Todd, Baldwin Wallace University; Re-examining the Johnstown (PA) Flood of 1889 using historical accounts, field measurements, and hydrologic modeling. |
| Feb.21 | 1:00 pm - Steven Lyon, Ohio State University; Tracking the movement of water through the landscape. |
| Feb.28 | Jonathan Duncan, Penn State; Urban Watershed Resilience and Water Quality Management |
| Mar.6 | Anjali Fernandes, University of Denison; Backwater Controls on the Kinematics and Sedimentary Records of Large Rivers and Deltas |
| Mar.13 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Mar.20 | No colloquium |
| Mar.27 | Spring Break |
| Apr.3 | Open |
| Apr.10 | Kent State University Graduate Student Research Symposium |
| Apr.17 | Sarah Fortner, Wittenberg University - CANCELLED |
| Apr.24 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Aug. 22 | FAC Meeting |
| Aug. 30 | No colloquium |
| Sept. 6 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
| Sept. 13 | Graduate Student Presentations: Jacob Bradley, Raihan Chowdhury, Zack Loffer |
| Sept. 20 | Jeff Myers, BJAAM Environmental; Employment skill sets and opportunities in Environmental Geology/Earth Science |
| Sept. 27 | Kuldeep Singh, Kent State University; Role of slip in "slippery" Darcy Law |
| Oct. 4 | Faculty and Ad Hoc committee meetings/No colloquium |
| Oct. 11 | Fall Break |
| Oct. 18 | Alex Crawford, The College of Wooster; Using satellites to understand the impact of Arctic sea ice decline on marine phytoplankton |
| Oct. 25 | Celebrating College Teaching (KSC 8:30 am - 3:30 pm) |
| Nov. 1 | Derek Sawyer, Ohio State University; Earthquakes and Submarine Landslides on Continental Margins: Seismic Strengthening Versus Rapid Sedimentation |
| Nov. 8 | Sarah Carmichael, Appalachian State University; CSI: Devonian - deciphering Late Devonian mass extinctions in different paleoenvironments |
| Nov. 15 | Richard Becker, University of Toledo; Great Lakes water quality and coastline failures from remote sensing |
| Nov. 22 | Kevin Befus, University of Wyoming; Groundwater responses to sea-level rise and associated hazards |
| Nov. 29 | Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec. 6 | Faculty Meeting/No colloquium |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker/Event |
|---|---|
| Jan. 18 | Faculty Meeting/No Colloquium |
| Jan. 25 | Grad student research presentations: Max Barczok and Lindsey Yazbek |
| Feb. 1 | TBA |
| Feb. 8 | TBA |
| Feb. 15 | TBA |
| Feb. 22 | TBA |
| Mar. 1 | Nick Sutfin, Case Western Reserve, Quantifying carbon storage along river corridors from floodplain sediment residence times to microbial decomposition |
| Mar. 15 | Kate Campbell, USGS, Mining, Microbes, and Models: integrating microbial Fe(II) oxidation, hydrolysis, precipitation, and biogeochemical modeling in acid mine drainage |
| Mar. 20 | Environmental Science, Research and Design Symposium Mar 20-21 |
| Apr. 5 | KSU Grad Student Research Symposium |
| Apr. 12 | Angelica Vazquez-Ortega, BGSU, The role of soil organic matter in agriculture: implications on nutrient retention and soil health |
| Apr. 19 | TBA |
| Apr. 26 | TBA |
| May 3 | Faculty meeting |