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April 2026
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Tectonic pump closes the evolutionary loop for long-buried subseafloor microbes
Zhengze Li,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heuristics of Plant Water-Use and the Problem of Scale
Emma Reich,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Dynamics of orogeny and continental lithosphere
Thorsten Becker,
Professor; Distinguished Chair in Geophysics,
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin),
Monday, April 6th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Meteorology Meets Mineralogy: Extreme Weather from Jupiter to Super-Jupiters"
Xi Zhang,
Professor of Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of California - Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
From Compact to Fuzzy: The New Interior Paradigm for Jupiter, Saturn, and Giant Exoplanets
Ankan Sur,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric Gravity Waves: New Observations, High-Resolution Simulations, and Data-Informed Methods
Aditi Sheshadri,
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
LLM Applications in Seismology
Mostafa Mousavi,
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
Monday, April 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Hongfeng Yang,
Professor, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Director, Aerospace Science and Earth Informatics + X Programme,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"When Did the Earth's Dynamo Begin?"
Benjamin Weiss,
Chair, Program in Planetary Science, Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
An Era of Planetary Seismology?"
Chris Mankovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Integrating Multi-Scale Data to Constrain Forest Biomass Stocks and Dynamics
Xiangtao Xu,
Cornell University,
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Formation and Evolution of Small Bodies: Insights from Space Missions and Numerical Simulations"
Monday, April 20th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Seismo Lab Seminar
How earthquakes stop and scale: Insights from near-fault observations and dynamic rupture modeling
Yoshihiro Kaneko,
Professor of Geophysics,
Kyoto University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Frequency-dependent viscoelastic magma transport and deformation signatures at Kīlauea volcano
Leif Karlstrom,
Professor,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Variability and Controversy: What can we resolve from observations of small earthquake sources?
Rachel Abercrombie,
Professor,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Dynamics in Extreme Environments: From Lava to Tatooine Planets
Mohammad Farhat,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, April 24th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unlocking the Solar System: Exploring Planetary Interiors to Orbital Motion"
Ryan Park,
Senior Research Scientist,,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The Lunar Environmental Monitoring Station for Artemis (LEMS)
Nicholas Schmerr,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geology,
University of Maryland,
Saturday, April 25th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, April 27th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"A global discrepancy in atmospheric humidity trends between models and observations"
Isla Simpson,
Scientist 3, Section CAS Head,
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory,
University Corporation of Atmospheric Research,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"How is the Neptune Desert Populated? Insights from 21 Newly Validated Exoplanets" & "A First Look at the 3-12 µm Spectrum of the Bare-rock Exoplanet LHS 3844 b"
Jonathan Gomez Barrientos & Kimberly Paragas,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Monica Kohler,
Research Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Thermodynamic Control of Hydroclimate Change in the Western United States and Its Consequences
Alex Hall,
Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Faculty Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
UCLA,