Past Events

Past Events

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

EEPS Brown Bag: Clara McLeod

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Liam Peterson

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

GRI Guest: Hamed Alemohammad

The Geospatial Research Initiative and the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences welcome Hamed Alemohammad
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Val Finlayson

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Robert Kostynick/Bill Winston

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Shijie Zhong

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Geospatial Careers Discussion

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Hugh Chou

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

2024 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures: Public Lecture with Harold Levison on Traveling with Lucy on the First Ever Mission to the Trojan Asteroids!

Harold Levison, Institute Scientist, Southwest Research Institute and Principal Investigator of the Lucy mission to tour Jupiter Trojans, will present the 2024 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Public Lecture: "Traveling with Lucy on the First Ever Mission to the Trojan Asteroids!"
McDonnell Hall 162

2024 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures: Colloquium with Harold Levison on Lucy: The First to the Trojans

Harold Levison, Institute Scientist, Southwest Research Institute and Principal Investigator of the Lucy mission to tour Jupiter Trojans, will present the 2024 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Colloquium: "Lucy: The First to the Trojans"
220 Knight Center | Refreshments: 3:15pm | Knight Center, O'Donnell Lounge

EEPS Brown Bag: Claire Masteller and Maggie Limbeck

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Imaging Seminar: Roger Michaelides

Green Hall | Rodin Auditorium L0120

EEPS Colloquium: Amanda Stadermann

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Cesar Lopez/Alexander Nguyen

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Who Discovered the Expanding Universe? Spoiler: Not Hubble!: St. Louis Astronomical Society September Meeting

Joseph Marcus, MD will be presenting "Who Discovered the Expanding Universe? Spoiler: Not Hubble!"
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Colloquium: Eileen Martin

Eileen Martin, Colorado School of Mines
Associate Professor, Geophysics and Applied Math and Statistics
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

International Observe the Moon Night

Join us to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night
Rudolph 301 AND Crow Observatory

Brown Bag: Gabrielle Adams

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Bethany Ehlmann

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Brown Bag: Anne Hofmeister / Alian Wang

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Department Open House

The Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Open House
Rudolph Hall | 2nd Floor Atrium

EEPS Colloquium: Paul Byrne

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Bronwen Konecky

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Bear Beginnings Open House

Learn more about the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at the Undergraduate Open House.
Rudolph Hall | Room 302

How We Stacked a Space Shuttle in Downtown L.A.: St. Louis Astronomical Society August Meeting

Bradley Tsalyuk, Exhibit Designer from the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center of the California Science Center will be presenting "How We Stacked a Space Shuttle in Downtown L.A."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Dissertation Defense: Zongshan Li

Seismic Structure of the Alaska and Mariana Subduction Zones From Amphibious Data
Rudolph Hall Room 301

Public Lecture with Robin Canup on The Origin of the Moon

Robin Canup, Vice President, Solar System Science and Exploration Division of Southwest Research Institute, will present a public lecture, "The Origin of the Moon," as part of the NASA Exploration Science Forum
Graham Chapel

2024 NASA Exploration Science Forum

The NASA Solar System Exploration Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is pleased to announce the 2024 NASA Exploration Science Forum will be held on July 23-25, 2024 at Washington University in St. Louis
Knight Center, Washington University

Io During the Juno Epoch: St. Louis Astronomical Society July Meeting

Dr. Ashley Gerard Davies from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be presenting “Io During the Juno Epoch” at the July meeting of the Saint Louis Astronomical Society.
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.