K.D. Nelson Lecture Series
Our weekly colloquium, the K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, features scientific talks by outstanding invited investigators from all over the world. The talks are generally one hour in length at 4:00 PM Thursday afternoons, followed by a reception. The lecture series is named for a beloved former faculty member and department chair, K. Douglas Nelson, who passed away in 2002.
There are no events in this category right now, but please check the University calendar for many other options.
Upcoming Events
Ongoing Events
January 25: Faculty Roundtable
February 1: No Seminar
February 8: No Seminar
February 15: No Seminar
February 21: No Seminar
February 29: No Seminar
March 7: No Seminar
March 14: No Seminar – Spring Break
March 21: Xinyuan Zheng – University of Minnesota
March 28: Adriane Lam – SUNY Binghamton
April 4: Julia Guimond - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
April 11: Jay Zarnetske – Michigan State University
April 18: Boswell Wing – CU Boulder
April 25: William Quinton – Wilfred Laurier University
September 7: Tripti Bhattacharya – Syracuse University
September 14: No Seminar
September 21: HOLMES LECTURE John Gurche – Cornell – 6:30 pm HGL Aud.
September 28: Chris Yakymchuk – University of Waterloo
October 5: No Seminar
October 12: Allison Jacobel – Middlebury College
October 19: No Seminar
October 26: No Seminar
November 2: Jessica Lundquist – University of Washington
November 9: Juliane Dannberg – University of Florida
November 13 (Monday): Christopher Roos – Southern Methodist - 2 pm Eggers 220
November 23: No Seminar
November 30: Kennet Flores – UNC Chapel Hill
December 7: Faculty Roundtable
January 26: Eric Sproles – Montana State University
February 2: No Seminar
February 9: No Seminar
February 16: Faculty-Only Roundtable
February 22 (Wednesday): Kenneth Belitz – United States Geological Survey
March 2: Allison Karp – Yale University
March 9: Russ Pysklywec – University of Toronto
March 16: Spring Break – No Seminar
March 23: Mallory Ringham – Stony Brook University
March 31 (Friday): Ananya Mallik – University of Arizona
April 6: Justin Mankin – Dartmouth College
April 13: Catherine Davis – North Carolina State University
April 20: Dan Ibarra – Brown University
April 27: Yige Zhang – Texas A&M
September 8: Marissa Tremblay – Purdue University
September 15: No Nelson Seminar
September 22: Angie Pendergrass - Cornell University
September 29: Dr. Folarin Kolawole - Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
October 6: Peter Douglas – McGill University
October 13: TBA
October 20 (Seltzer Lecture): Cathy Whitlock – Montana State University
October 27: Pedro Val - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
November 3: Jay Thomas – Syracuse University
November 10: TBA
November 17: Ben Cook – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
November 24: Thanksgiving – no Nelson Seminar
December 1: Jackie Austermann - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
December 8: TBA
September 2: Gregory D. Hoke - Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
September 9: Patrick Fulton - Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
September 23: Megan Holycross - Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
September 30: Sylvia Lee - US Environmental Protection Agency
October 19: Aubrey Zerkle and Mark Claire - University of St Andrews
November 4: Rachel Glade - University of Rochester
November 11: Beatrice Magnani - Southern Methodist University
December 2: James Fulton - Baylor University
August 29 - Alejandro Flores - Boise State University - Modeling Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Environments at Human-Relevant Scales with High Fidelity
September 05 - Cristo Ramirez – Syracuse University - Crustal Structure of West Antarctica Inferred from Receiver Functions
September 12 - Donna Shillington - Lamount Doherty Earth Observatory
October 03 - Jessica Creveling, Donath Medalist for 2019 - Oregon State University - A Library of Early Cambrian Chemostratigraphic Correlations from a Reproducible Algorithm
October 10 - Brian Huber - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution - The Rise and Fall of the Hot Cretaceous Greenhouse Climate
October 17 - Willian Ausich - The Ohio State University - Biosphere Collapse and Recovery -- Lessons from the Fossil Record
October 24 - Tamara Carley - Layfayette College - Investigating Proto-Continental Crust Construction Using Very Young (Icelandic) and Very Old (Hadean) Zircon
October 31 - Jonathan Lees - University of North Carolina - Infrasonic (Bal)Looney Tunes: Ocean-Atmosphere Collusion in the Heavens
November 7 - Rowan Martindale - University of Texas - Extinctions, Anoxic Events, and Life in the Oceans During the Early Jurassic
November 14 - Tolulope Olugboli - University of Rochester - The Softness in Earth’s Stiffest Rocks from Probabilistic Earth Imaging with Ground Vibrations
November 21 - Kenneth Ridgway - Purdue University
November 28 - Happy Thanksgiving - No Lecture
December 05 - Jaroslaw Majka – Uppsala University
January 17 - Michael Manga - University of California at Berkeley; Earthquakes and Water (and why the Lusi Eruption was not caused by an Earthquake)
January 24 - Christopher McRoberts - State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland; The end-Triassic Mass Extinction: Disaster Species and the Collapse and Recovery of Marine Ecosystems
January 29 - Manfred Strecker - University of Potsdam; GSA Distinguished International Lecturer Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes (TUESDAY, HGL rm 102)
February 14 - Christopher Spencer - Institute of Geoscience Research, Curtin University; Kickstarting the Modern Era: Cascading State Shifts in the Paleoproterozoic Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Lithosphere
February 21 - Larisa DeSantis - Vanderbilt University; Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecturer Causes and Consequences of Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions
February 28 - Jane Gilotti - University of Iowa; High-Pressure and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism in NE Greenland: the Critical Role of the UPPER Plate in the Caledonian Orogen
March 7 - Sarah Feakins - University of Southern California; International Ocean Discovery Distinguished Lecturer Climate Change and Ecosystem Transformation: Plant Wax Evidence from Indian Ocean Drilling
March 21 - HOLMES LECTURE - (7 PM, Heroy Geology Auditorium) Roberta Rudnick – University of California Santa Barbara; Earth's Unique Continents
March 28 - Natalie Burls - George Mason University; Contrasting the Hydrological Cycle in Past and Future Warm Climates - with implications for Ocean Overturning Circulation
April 4 - Justin Gillis - (New York Times Science Writer)
April 18 - Miki Nakajima - University of Rochester; Origin of the Earth, Moon and Martian Moons
April 25 - Suzanne Baldwin - Syracuse University; The (U)HP terrane of southeastern Papua New Guinea: a modern analogue for (U)HP terranes globally
August 30—Chris Junium
September 6— Miriam Reiss (Yale) "Seismic anisotropy: how to decipher the earth's interior with shear-wave splitting".
September 20—D. Boutt (UMass-Amherst) Water and Lithum - The nexus of hydrogeosciences and green energy in the transition from fossil fuels
September 27—Will Nachlas Pressures, Temperatures, and Timescales of Ductility in Continental Shear Zones
October 11—James Witts from the American Museum of Natural History “The life and times of ammonoid cephalopods: evolution, ecology, and extinction in the Late Cretaceous”
October 18—Margaret Zimmer (University of California, Santa Cruz) "More soil, less storage: The influence of soil characteristics on water storage and runoff generation"
October 25—M. Hayashi (University of Calgary) “Alpine hydrogeology: The critical role of groundwater in sourcing the headwaters of the world”
November 1—Steven Kidder (City College New York) Microstructural and Trace Element Constraints on Stress, Temperature and Rheology of the Middle Crust
November 15— James Muirhead Continental Rifting Impacted by Magmatism
November 29—Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado, Boulder) Onset of giant planet migration at ca. 4480 Myr ago
December 6—Dr. Leigh Raymond from Purdue University/Fulbright Scholar at University of Ottawa Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: Carbon Pricing in the U.S. and Canada
February 22—Andrew Smye (Penn State University) “Mineral Scale Constraints on the Geodynamics of Continental Extension”
March 8—Benjamin Black (The City College of New York) "Resolving the Flood Basalt Carbon Quandary"
March 22—Dianne Moore (USGS) "The role of serpentinite in promoting creep in the San Andreas Fault System of central and northern California"
March 29—Morgan Schaller (rensselaer polytechnic institute) "Soil carbonate-hosted fluid inclusions: New constraints on the major gas composition of the ancient atmosphere"
April 5—Robert Darling (SUNY Cortland) “Cristobalite, Stretched Quartz, and Melt Inclusions in Adirondack Garnet.”
April 12—Greg Henkes (Stony Brook) “The temperature and oxygen isotope evolution of Phanerozoic seawater from carbonate clumped isotopes”
April 19—Holmes Lecture - Timothy Lyons (University of California – Riverside) "Are We Alone? — How Earth's Past Guides the Search for Alien Life"
April 26—Estéban Gazel (Cornell University) "The hottest lavas of the Phanerozoic and the survival of deep Earth reservoirs"
9/14 Peter LaFemina (Penn State) Up, Up and Away: Interactions Between Magmatism, Tectonics and Climate in Iceland
9/21 Martin Wong (Colgate University) Are continuous thermal histories derived from MDD modeling of 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar data reliable? Field tests from the U.S. Basin and Range
9/28 Robert Feranec (New York State Museum) Sabertooth Cats! Analyzing development and diet in extinct species
10/05 Bruce Watson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Biosignatures in the metamorphic residue of life?
10/12 Elizabeth Watson (Drexel University) Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands in the U.S. Northeast
10/19 Rachel Valletta (University of Pennsylvania) 10Be/9Be ratios reflect East Antarctic Ice Sheet mass changes: a record offshore the Wilkes Subglacial Basin
11/02 Chris Hamilton (University of Arizona) Planetary Volcanism: Flood Lava Eruptions on Earth and Mars
11/09 Edwin Harvey (U.S National Park Service Water Resources Division, Fort Collins, CO)
11/16 Mauricio Ibanez (University of Rochester) Active crustal foundering in the Northern Volcanic Zone of the Andean Arc
11/30 Will Amidon (Middlebury College) Post-rift rejuvenation of the northeastern U.S. during the late Cretaceous and Miocene
12/07 Jeff Pietras (Binghamton University) Sr and Os Isotopes in Lacustrine Mudstones: Chemostratigraphy, Geochronometry, & Lake Water Provenance: Examples from the Green River Formation