Lecture Series

Spring 2023 Lecture Series

Departmental Seminar Series: Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held at 4:25 pm.  NOTE: This year's seminar series will be a mix of in-person and virtual. Contact Samantha Oyler at 513-529-3216 or radersc@miamioh.edu for information about accessing the talks.

Monday, February 6, 2023 - 152 Shideler 

Brian Yanites (Indiana University)

"The landscape legacy of extreme weather events"

Monday, February 13, 2023 - 152 Shideler 

Jay Cavender (Ohio EPA - Retired; Miami University Geology BA ‘82)

“Environmental Regulatory Careers”

Monday, February 20, 2023 - via Zoom

Timmons Erickson (NASA)
“Accessories to the facts: The lunar record from apatite, baddeleyite and zircon”

Monday, February 27 - canceled

Monday, March 6, 2023- 152 Shideler

John Encarnacion (Saint Louis University)

 “Antarctica's Ross Orogen and Gondwana's Pacific Margin”

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 152 Shideler Hall

Broxton Bird (IUPUI) 
“Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Late Holocene Climate-Flood Relationships in the Midcontinental United States”

Monday, March 20, 2023

Spring Break

Monday, March 27, 2023 - 152 Shideler Hall and via Zoom       

Craig Dietsch (University of Cincinnati)

“The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District: A nexus of crustal-scale faulting, mantlederived igneous rocks, regional fluid flow, fluorite mineralization, and petroleum migration”

Monday, April 3, 2023 - students only

Hiram Ramirez (Miami University OIDI)
  Anti-Racism workshop for students

Monday, April 10, 2023- via Zoom

Jen Glass (Georgia Institute of Technology)

“Ironing out Life’s First Breaths”

Thursday, April 13, 2023  6pm -  152 Shideler Hall and via Zoom   Baldwin Lecture Series        

George H Davis (Regents Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus, University of Arizona)

"Experiencing Archaeology in Relation to Geology, Tectonics, and Atmospheric Phenomena:  Sanctuary of Zeus, Mt Lykaion, the Peloponnese, Greece"

Reception follows immediately in Shideler Hall Lobby. 

Monday, April 17, 2023- 152 Shideler Hall and via Zoom

Betty Swanner (Iowa State University)

“Iron cycling on early Earth: lessons from lakes”

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 152 Shideler Hall and via zoom

GLG Student Research Symposium

Monday, May 1, 2023

TBD (last week of classes)

 

Notice:
If you would like to be added to our seminar notice mailing list, please contact Samantha Oyler by phone at 513-529-3216 or via email: radersc@miamioh.edu.