Earth Sciences Palmer Lecture Series
The Palmer Earth Sciences Lecture Series is made possible by an endowment from Dr. and Mrs. Donald and Anne Palmer. Dr. Palmer is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth Sciences and former Chair of the Department of Geology and Dean of the Honors College. This endowment supports a visiting lecture series dedicated to major issues and advances in Geology/Earth Sciences and Environmental Science.
The Department of Earth Sciences welcomes guest speakers on Fridays in room 234 at 12:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).
Spring 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER/EVENT |
|---|---|
| Jan. 17 | Evan Solomon, University of Washington; Geochemical constraints on forearc dewatering, megathrust pore fluid pressure, and slow slip at the Hikurangi subduction zone, offshore New Zealand |
| Jan. 24 | Faculty meeting, no colloquium |
| Jan. 31 | Joel Johnson, IODP Lecturer, University of New Hampshire; Embrace Diagenesis: The Rose of Methane in Carbon and Sulfur Sequestration in Marine Sediments |
| Feb. 7 | Spring reviews, no colloquium |
| Feb. 14 | Open |
| Feb. 21 | Metin Eren, Kent State University Anthropology: Were 13,500-year-old Clovis Fluted Points Silver Bullets to Proboscideans? |
| Feb. 28 | Christopher Daniel, Bucknell University: A Mesoproterozoic ca. 1.4 Ga Conundrum: Concurrent Trans-Laurentian Ferroan Magmatism and the Picuris Orogeny |
| Mar. 3 | MONDAY 4:00 PM Bayani Cardenas, Birdsall-Dreiss and LaMoreaux lecturer - How a river's periodic pulse affects its liver: hyporheic zones in the Anthropocene |
| Mar. 7 | Faculty meeting, no colloquium |
| Mar. 14 | Spring break, no colloquium |
| Mar. 21 | Bridget Mulvey, Kent State University - What Makes Mentorship Work: A close examination of mentorship in a STEMM research group |
| Mar. 28 | Steven Pekar, City University of New York - Ice-Volume Changes During Times of Elevated Atmospheric CO2: Looking Back to Our Future? |
| Apr. 4 | He Yin, Kent State University, Geography - Cropland abandonment: A nature-based solution to address environmental challenges? |
| Apr. 11 | George Guice, Towson University - From Wisconsin to Lapland: What Can Rare Fragments of Earth's Long-Gone Oceans Tell us About Plate Tectonics 1900 million years ago? |
| Apr. 18 | Faculty meeting, no colloquium |
| Apr. 25 | Brian Huber, Smithsonian Institute - Asteroid impact at the end of the dinosaur era |
| May 1 | Keynote Speaker for Law Day |
| May 2 | Faculty meeting, no colloquium |
Fall 2024
| DATE | SPEAKER/EVENT |
|---|---|
| Aug. 23 | Faculty meeting - No colloquium |
| Aug. 30 | Grad student lunch - No colloquium |
| Sept. 6 | open |
| Sept. 13 | Grad student presentations |
| Sept. 20 | Dr. Myron Lard, PhD Student, Louisiana State University, Investigating Soil-Bound Toxicants Present in Samples Collected in the Wake of the East Palestine Train Derailment |
| Sept. 27 | GSA - No colloquium |
| Oct. 4 | Fall Break - No colloquium |
| Oct. 11 | Faculty meeting - No colloquium |
| Oct. 17 | Dr. Timothy Walker, Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (4PM - MCG 302), Climate Change and Historical Research: Extracting Global Maritime Weather Data from Age-of-Sail Ships' Logbooks (1740-1960 |
| Oct. 18 | Dr. Caitlin Hodges, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, Exploring the significance of redox interfaces in soils across scales |
| Oct. 25 | Dr. Miquela Ingalls, Assistant Professor, Penn State, Diagenesis and disequilibrium in the terrestrial carbonate record |
| Nov. 1 | open |
| Nov. 8 | Dr. Evan Ramos, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, How lithology regulates the carbon cycle |
| Nov. 15 | Dr. Evan Soloman, Professor, University of Washington, Geochemical constraints on forearc dewatering, megathrust pore fluid pressure, and slow slip at the Hikurangi subduction zone, offshore New Zealand |
| Nov. 22 | Faculty meeting - No colloquium |
| Nov. 29 | Thanksgiving - No colloquium |
| Dec. 6 | 2nd year MS meeting |
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 - Triassic reef recovery and biodiversification in the ocean’s mesophotic and twilight zones: implications for the origin of metazoan ecosystems and coral reef conservation |
| 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 |