Fall 2026 Earth & Planetary Sciences Colloquium Series

DATESPEAKERUniversity/AffiliationTITLE
Aug 21All EPS Faculty, Staff, StudentsDepartment Welcome
Aug 28Sean PetersMiddlebury CollegeTBD: Experimental/planetary volcanology
Sep 4Evan RamosUniversity of PittsburghClay mineral formation and impacts on the global carbon cycle
Sep 11Chris LoweryUniversity of Texas at AustinPlankton Recovery after the K/Pg mass extinction
Sep 18Glenn SpinelliNew Mexico TechHydrothermal circulation in crust approaching the Cascadia subduction zone
Sep 25Hannah BauschSandia National LabThermoelastic properties of MgO up to Earth’s core conditions
Oct 2Gary TrublLawrence Livermore National LabFrom Viral Seed Banks to Active Infection: Resolving Soil Virus Dynamics with SIP-Enabled Meta-omics
Oct 9FALL BREAKNO COLLOQUIUM
Oct 16GSANO COLLOQUIUM
Oct 23Northrop Distinguished Lecture: Mary DroserUC Riverside
Oct 30Lizzy TrowerUniversity of Colorado BoulderDiurnal microbial carbon cycling: How a short timescale process can impact geological C isotope records
Nov 6Payton GardnerUniversity of MontanaInside the Water Towers - Mountain Aquifer Hydrogeolgy
Nov 13Ángel GarciaJames Madison UniversityIntersection of Karst and Society
Nov 20Kelsey PrisselPurdueMantle Sources and Thermal Histories of Lunar Magmas
Nov 27THANKSGIVINGNO COLLOQUIUM
Dec 4Undergraduate ResearchersUndergraduate Research Symposium