Past Events
2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures Public Lecture: The NASA Psyche Mission: First Visit to an Unknown World
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Public Lecture: "The NASA Psyche Mission: First Visit to an Unknown World"
Whitaker 100 | Free and open to the public
2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures Colloquium: The NASA Psyche Mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Colloquium: "The NASA Psyche Mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object"
Whitaker 100 | Refreshments in Whitaker Hall Atrium | 3:30 pm
Brown Bag: Paige Havener / Hugh Chou
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering (CASE) Distinguished Lecture: Professor Paul Wennberg
Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering (CASE) Distinguished Lecture featuring Professor Paul Wennberg, California Institute of Technology
Whitaker Hall | Room 100
EEPS Colloquium: Kiya Riverman
Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Portland
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Event Canceled - EEPS Colloquium: Morgan Cable
Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Venus: the St. Louis Astronomical Society October Meeting
Paul Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting "Venus" at the October meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
Brown Bag: Bavan Rajan / Lauren Wratchford
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Stefano Nerozzi
Research Professor and Planetary Geologist, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Dissertation Defense: Emily Millman
"Selective Absorption of Amino Acids to Smectite and Serpentine Clays under Varying Fluid Conditions"
Rudolph Hall 301
EEPS Dissertation Defense: Andrew Flaim
"Hydroclimate Dynamics from the North Atlantic to the Tropical Pacific: Perspectives from Water Isotopes in Proxy Data and Climate Models from the Last Millennium through the 21st Century"
Rudolph Hall 301
Brown Bag: Zhihua Xiong
Diffusive Isotope Fractionation In Minerals: Implications for the Thermal and Chemical Evolution of Planetary Bodies
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Environmental Studies Knight Distinguished Lecture
Karen C. Seto
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization
Faculty Director, Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability, Co-Director, Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions, Affiliated faculty, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of the Environment
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations
Umrath Lounge | Danforth Campus
International Observe the Moon Night
Join us to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night
Crow Observatory, Crow Hall
Brown Bag: Skandalaris Center
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Jonathan Lunine
Chief Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Undergraduate Meeting
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Meeting
Rudolph Hall 301
Brown Bag: Xuanyu Liu / Megan Broussard
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Yang Liu
Larry Haskin Memorial Lecture
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Equinox Party: Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap is hosting an Equinox Party with Mikhail Tikhonov and Zifan Lin from WashU
Urban Chestnut - The Grove
The Roman Space Telescope: The Roman View of Strong Lenses: the St. Louis Astronomical Society September meeting
Tansu Daylan, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting "The Roman View of Strong Lenses" at the September meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
Brown Bag: Alex Meyer / Skandalaris Center
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Professor William Holt
Professor of Geophysics, Stony Brook University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Brown Bag: Eric Hiatt
Constraints on the Early Mars Paleoclimate Through Observed Geomorphology and Groundwater Modeling
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Jonathan Aurnou
Jonathan Aurnou Professor of geophysics and planetary physics and Chair of the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: David Fike
Glassberg/Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Open House
Rudolph Hall
EEPS Colloquium: Mark Jellinek
How do explosive eruptions through water change climate and why does it matter?
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Dissertation Defense: Patrick Matulka
“Studies of seismicity in the Alaska subduction zone and Antarctica"
Rudolph Hall 301
A Journey to the Ring Giant - The Legacy of Cassini Huygens
Megan Dickson, University of Missouri, St. Louis, will be presenting "A Journey to the Ring Giant - The Legacy of Cassini Huygens" at the August meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
The Search for Interstellar Objects of Technological Origin: St. Louis Astronomical Society July Meeting
Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Harvard University, will be presenting "The Search for Interstellar Objects of Technological Origin"
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
Fall 2025 Major-Minor Fair
The Variable High Energy Sky: St. Louis Astronomical Society June Meeting
Mike Nowak, Washington University, will be presenting "The Variable High Energy Sky"
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
EEPS Dissertation Defense: Thomas Condus
"Spectral Mixture Analyses of Hematite-Rich and Clay-Bearing Terrains in Meridiani and Oxia Planum, Mars"
Rudolph Hall Room 301
MCSS 50th Anniversary Symposium
Join us for our 50th Anniversary Symposium!
The Knight Center
EEPS Commencement Reception
Join us by the Mars Rover at noon on Commencement Day to celebrate all of our 2025 EEPS department graduates.
Rudolph Hall 2nd Floor
Scott Rudolph Professor Bradley L. Jolliff Retirement Lecture
Rock of Ages: Timing of Key Events in the Moon’s Geologic Past
Clark-Fox Forum | Hillman Hall
Dissertation Defense: Emily Culley
From Anorthosite to Silicic Volcanics: photometry, composition, and buoyancy of crustal rock types on the Moon
Rudolph Hall Room 301
Dissertation Defense: Alessandro Mauceri
From the Amazon to the Andes: Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Changes Recorded by Sedimentary Biomarkers Since the Late Pleistocene
Rudolph Hall Room 203
EEPS Brown Bag: Denise Leonard and Eric Fournier, Center for Teaching and Learning
Principles for Effective and Equitable STEM Teaching: Insights from a recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Undergraduate Symposium
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations and Poster Session
Rudolph Hall Room 301
2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures: Colloquium with Priyamvada Natarajan on the Formation of the First Black Holes
Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, will present the 2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures, Colloquium, "New Insights into the Formation of the First Black Holes"
Wilson 214 | Refreshments in Wilson Hall, 3:15pm
EEPS Colloquium: Catherine Johnson
The Enigmatic Innermost Planet: A Magnetic Field Perspective
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Brown Bag: Tyler Meng
Rock Glaciers & The Road Forward: Geophysical Measurement & Monitoring of Mountain Permafrost
EEPS Colloquium: Will Struble
Landslides and Landscapes: Decoding surface processes to reveal tectonics, climate, and hazards
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Brown Bag: Avianna Wooten WashU Libraries
Got Data? We can help you!
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Carl Tolman Memorial Colloquium: Annie Bauer
Coeval stagnant- and mobile-lid tectonic regimes in the Eoarchean
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Undergraduate Student Special Event: Distinguished Alumna Ruth DeFries
Musings on a Path to a Healthy Planet and Healthy People
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Brendan Crowell
Seismogeodesy and GNSS Signals of Opportunity for Hazard Response
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Katherine de Kleer
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io: Tidal heating, mass loss, and chemical evolution
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: John Encarnacion
Subduction initiation and island arcs growth: Examples from the Philippines
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Mike Krawczynski
Volcanism and Io: A comparative planetology perspective
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS New Major/Minor Welcome Event
Enjoy dinner while learning more about the EEPS undergraduate program
Rudolph Hall Room 301
EEPS Brown Bag: Jake Gearon
Fifth year PhD student from Indiana University - Bloomington
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: William McKinnon and Ryan Ogliore
Volcanism on Io and the Prometheus Mission
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Elowyn Yager
The importance of geomorphic and flow history: why preexisting conditions matter
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Tyler Karp
Molecular answers to burning questions: Investigating Ancient Wildfire Dynamics
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Brown Bag: Mark Korver
Geospatial open source tools, data lake (and oceans) and how cloud computing relates to recent hype around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
EEPS Colloquium: Marine Denolle
AI as a new paradigm for Geosciences
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Exploring Stone and Metal: Scott Burton’s Material Choices
Pulitzer Arts Foundation | 3716 Washington Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63108
Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars: St. Louis Astronomical Society January Meeting
Bhupal Dev, Associate Professor of Physics at WashU, will be presenting “Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars”
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
EEPS Colloquium : Scott VanBommel
Dr. Scott VanBommel, Senior Research Scientist, Washington University Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Postcards from the Moon: St. Louis Astronomical Society December Meeting
Robert Reeves, Lunar Photo of the Day, will be presenting “Postcards from the Moon”
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.
Professor Bruce Fegley Retirement Lecture
Professor Bruce Fegley will give a retirement lecture, 50+ Years in Planetary Chemistry, which will be followed by a reception hosted in Holmes Lounge
Holmes Lounge | Ridgley Hall
EEPS Colloquium: Hannah Shamloo/Madison Myers
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
Dissertation Defense: Christopher Jia-Kuan Yen
Next-Generation Compositional and Chronological Sample Analysis of Lunar Low-Ti Basalts and Volcanic Glasses
Rudolph Hall Room 301
EEPS Brown Bag: Kelsey Woody/ Beno Jacob
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Josh Russell
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Cailey Condit
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Prajkta Mane
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Brown Bag: Kimberly Gerik
Rudolph Hall | Room 301
EEPS Colloquium: Paul Wallace
Rudolph hall | Room 301