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Online Seminars & Events

Upcoming seminars
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
GPS Division Seminar
4:00 pm
DIX Planetary Science Seminar
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm
Geoclub Seminar Series
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Seismo Lab Seminar
4:00 pm
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Brown Bag Seminar

Friday - 12:00pm - Benioff Conference Room (254 South Mudd)

For more information, please contact: Amir Bagheri

Seminars will not be held on the following dates due to holidays, AGU, etc.: 3/19/25, and 3/26/25.

Division Seminar

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall (Arms 155)

"Exploring New Frontiers in Planetary Science: From Magma Oceans to Liquid-Water Worlds"

Renyu Hu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Monday, April 28, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall (Arms 155)

"Probing the limits of individual amino acid isotope data: toward multi- million year biogeochemical and ecological reconstruction using marine fossils"

Matthew McCarthy
University of California, Santa Cruz

For more information, please contact: Leticia Calderon

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Tuesday, 15, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Salvatori Room (S Mudd 365)

"JWST Spectroscopy of the Small Satellites of Uranus and Neptune"

Ryleigh Davis & Matthew Belyakov
Caltech

For more information, please contact: Sandra Tran

NOTE: Planetary Science Seminar will be fully in-person this year unless otherwise specified. The seminar will be recorded and uploaded afterwards if you are unable to attend.

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 4:00 pm - Salvatori Room (265 S. Mudd)

"Paleoclimate and Historical Perspectives on Modern Climate Sensitivity"

Vince Cooper
University of Washington

For more information, please contact: Bronagh Glaser

Environment & Sustainability Breakfast Exchange

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 - 9:00am - Benioff Conference Room (254 South Mudd)

"Air quality changes during and after the Eaton fire in LA"

Haroula Baliaka
ESE Graduate Student

For more information, please contact: Andy Thompson

Geoclub Seminar Series

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 4:00pm - Buwalda Room (Arms 151)

"Messinian flash floods & Mediterranean Gateway changes detected by plant biomarkers along the S Iberian Margin"

Sarah Feakins
University of Southern California

For more information, please contact: Elizabeth Heiny

Seismo Lab Seminar

Friday, April 25, 2025- 4:00pm - Benioff Room (254 South Mudd)

"Machine-learning observed and simulated ground motions for engineering applications"

Dr. Domniki Asimaki
Caltech

For more information, please contact Seismo Seminar Committee.

Thesis Defense Seminar

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 1:00pm - Salvatori Room


"Flocculation and transport of mud in rivers and deltas"

Justin Nghiem

Members of the Ph.D. examining committee are:  Woody Fischer (chair), Mike Lamb (thesis advisor), Andy Thompson, Gen Li (non-Caltech, UCSB)

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 - 9:00am - Salvatori Room

"Crystalline records of mafic arc magmas across the Sierra Nevada batholith, California"

Juliet Ryan-Davis

Members of the Ph.D. examining committee are: Paul Asimow (chair), Claire Bucholz (thesis advisor), John Eiler, Ed Stolper

Thurday, May 1, 2025 - 1:30pm - Salvatori Room

"From pure cultures to particles:Tracing microbial metabolism through amino acid 2H/1H ratios"

Shaelyn Silverman

Members of the Ph.D. examining committee are: Victoria Orphan (chair), Alex Sessions (thesis advisor), Dianne Newman, Jared Leadbetter

For more information, please contact Julie Lee; [email protected]