Seminar Schedule Fall 2024
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers its seminars on most Friday mornings during the fall and spring semesters. For more information regarding seminars please visit the seminars resource page.
Time: Seminars are held on most Fridays 11-12 PM.
Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule
In Fall 2024 we will support both in-person and virtual seminars. Check the format of individual seminars on the schedule below. In-person seminars will be held in Room 634, SR1 unless otherwise noted.
To participate in virtual seminars, use Zoom Meeting ID: 829 1660 9186 and Passcode 764132. The same code will work for all virtual seminars.
Pre-seminar coffee will be canceled. After-seminar lunch replaces pre-seminar coffee to facilitate interactions between EAS and speaker. After-seminar lunch will be held in Rm 223 unless otherwise noted and is open for everyone who wishes to attend.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
Format
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Host
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| 8/23/2024 | EAS Faculty Lightning Talks | University of Houston | NA | In person | Seminar Committee |
| 8/30/2024 | Aditi Pandey | Lunar and Planetary Institute/Johnson Space Center | Synchrotron Spectromicroscopic Analyses of Mars Analog X-ray Amorphous Phases | In person | Patrick Casbeer |
| 9/6/2024 | Steve Shirey | Carnegie Institution for Science | Subducting slabs: fluids, diamonds, and deep earthquakes (may change) | In person | Yingcai Zheng |
| 9/13/2024 | Student 3-min thesis competition | University of Houston | NA | In person | Shuhab Khan |
| 9/20/2024 | Behrooz Ferdowsi | University of Houston Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | From Granular Rheology to Geohazards: Understanding Slip-Dependent Friction in Earthquakes and Landslides | In person | Lucille Baker-Stahl |
| 9/27/2024 | Catie Donahue | Murphy | Chasing Lithium: Oil Field Brine and Petroleum Correlations as an Assessment Workflow for Subsurface Geoscientists | In person | Julia Wellner |
| 10/4/2024 | Yina Liu | Texas A&M University | The Sticky Problem of the Forever Chemicals – New Challenges in Environmental Exposome | In person | Jagos Radovic |
| 10/11/2024 | Kai Zhang | SUNY Albany | Air Pollution, Built Environment, and Disasters: A Comprehensive View on Houston | In person | Yuxuan Wang |
| 10/18/2024 | Boniface Fosu | Mississippi State University | Correcting the Impact of Tropical Interbasin SST Interaction Biases on the Simulation of US Precipitation: Friend or Foe? | In person | Honghai Zhang |
| 10/25/2024 | Suraj Chauhan | University of Houston | A geochemical and Ca, Sr, Nd isotopic study of the mantle: case studies of Kimberlites, Ophiolites and Abyssal Peridotites | In person | Michael Antonelli |
| 11/1/2024 | Mark Torres | Rice University | River flow not past, but through: a riverine perspective on Earth's elemental cycles | In person | Caroline Mandujano |
| 11/8/2024 | Yue Zhang | Texas A&M University | Combining laboratory experiments with field study to examine the physicochemical properties and impacts of atmospheric organic particles and gases | In person | Jimmy Flynn |
| 11/15/2024 | Marianne Karplus | UT El Paso | Echoes from the edge of Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica: from tectonics to ice flow dynamics | In person | Julia Wellner |
| 11/22/2024 | Lucien Nana Yobo | Department of Geology & Geophysics | Texas A&M University | Ocean deoxygenation during OAE 2 and PETM | In person | Ny Riavo Voarintsoa |