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January 2026
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Deciphering Evidence of Extant and Extinct Cellular Preservation in Evaporites
Scott Perl,
Research Scientist,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi,
Caltech,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The 2020-2021 Alaska Peninsula Earthquake Sequence and Megathrust Earthquake Cycle
Jeffrey Freymueller,
Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department Chair,
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Michigan State University,
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Laboratory Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences of Ice and Organics – Towards Understanding the Origin of Life on Earth and Elsewhere"
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
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Cancelled: DIX Planetary Science Seminar
An Era of Planetary Seismology?
Chris Mankovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Facility to Basin Scales Using Imaging Spectrometry
Steven Wofsy,
Harvard,
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
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Geoclub Seminar Series
Himalayan Leucogranites: The Story They Tell About Partial Melting
Pranjit Hazarika,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
Friday, January 16th, 2026
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The Friction of Dense Granular Flows
Emily Brodsky,
Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NAS,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Geophysical bridges between the present-day interiors and long-term evolution of icy and rocky solar system bodies
Amirhossein Bagheri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Analytical Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Information Content from Satellite Data
Hannah Nesser,
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,
JPL,
7:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot
Francois Tissot,
professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
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Geoclub Seminar Series
Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation
Amy Hoffman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Adventures in Measuring Variations in High-Frequency Radiation for Small to Moderate Earthquakes
Peter Shearer,
Professor of Geophysics,
University of California, San Diego,
Monday, January 26th, 2026
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
HOW TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE 3D LANDSCAPE OF FIELD-SCALE FLUVIAL CATCHMENTS FROM 2D PIXEL-BASED NETWORKS
Gary Parker,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Composition Gradients and Convective Layers in Coffees and Giant Planets
J. Rafael Fuentes,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A World Tour of Nitrite: Revealing the Ocean's Invisible Chemistry
Mariana Bif,
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science,
University of Miami,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
4:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series
Insights into catalysts of environmental methane oxidation across landscapes
John Magyar,
Research Scientist in Geobiology,
Geological and Planetary Science,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
Friday, January 30th, 2026
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