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November 2025
Monday, November 3rd, 2025
8:45am
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12:30pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Assembling supercontinent Rodinia and tracking its development in the late Proterozoic"
Yiming Zhang,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Institute of Rock Magnetism, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities,
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unorthodox planet-disk interaction: Eccentricity, Turbulence and Winds
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Decoding Fault Stress Evolution from Ambient Seismic Noise
Dr. Nader Shakibay Senobari,
Project Scientist and Lecturer in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Creating Certainty in an Uncertain Universe
Forest Rohwer,
San Diego State University,
Friday, November 7th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Continental below-Moho earthquakes: How to find them, and what do they signify?
Simon Klemperer,
Professor of Geophysics, and of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Stanford University,
Monday, November 10th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Finding an answer to the 'phosphate problem of the origin of life'"
David Catling,
Professor of Earth and Space Sciences,
College of the Environment,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Kepler's Legacy: Planet formation as revealed by orbital dynamics and planetary system architectures
Greg Gilbert,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Earthquake clustering and stress inversion in the Mendocino Triple Junction region
Yu-Fang Hsu,
Graduate Student,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field-Based Evaluation of Regional Climate Model Fidelity for Meltwater Infiltration in Greenland Firn
Joel Harper,
University of Montana,
Friday, November 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Effects of Glacial Forcing on Plate Motion and Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading
Tao Yuan,
University of Colorado,
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing Earth's early subaerial environments via process-informed comparative sedimentology
Mathieu Lapôtre,
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and, by courtesy, of Geophysics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Earth & Planetary Sciences,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
A New Global Database of Secular Horizontal GNSS Velocities
Guo Cheng,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Eddy Generation Mechanisms in the Surf Zone
Christine Baker,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Thirteen Years in the Dust: How a Robot Showed that Mars Was Once Habitable, with Ashwin Vasavada
Ashwin Vasavada,
project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Recent Advances in 3D Gas+Dust Dynamics Modeling in Protoplanetary Disks
Hui Li,
Scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Friday, November 21st, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The "plume-thermal dichotomy" and possible effects of mineral phase transitions on mantle convection in Venus
Madeleine Kerr,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Monday, November 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
How Meteorite Impacts Shaped Early Life: Disturbance-Recovery Cycles in the Archean
Nadja Drabon,
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets
Roberto Tejada Arevalo,
PhD Student,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
How Earthquakes Begin and Converse: Precursory Slow Slip in Continental Swarms and Tear-Fault Doublets in Subduction Zones
Yu Jiang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nevada Seismological Laboratory,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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