Past Events

Categories
UPCOMING EVENTS

EEPS Colloquium: Sherilyn Fritz

Dr. Sherilyn Fritz, George Holmes University Professor
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Biological Sciences
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Earth Data Challenge Overview
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Anne Hofmeister Retirement Lecture

Research Professor Emeritus of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Jacob Jordan

Dr. Jacob Jordan, Chief Science Officer at Mati Carbon
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Planets with Two Suns: The St. Louis Astronomical Society January Meeting

Ekrem Esmer, Washington University in St. Louis, will be presenting a talk at the January meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "Planets with Two Suns: What Eclipsing Binaries Can Tell Us About Their Hidden Worlds."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Colloquium: Jeffrey Catalano

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Director of Environmental Studies
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The Ultraview Effect: The St. Louis Astronomical Society December Meeting

Deana Weibel, Grand Valley State University, will be presenting a talk at the December meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "The Ultraview Effect."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

Brown Bag: Kun Wang

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Grace Barcheck

Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The Making of an Enterprise: How Star Trek Helped NASA Dream Big and How NASA Helped Star Trek Survive: The St. Louis Astronomical Society November Meeting

Glen Swanson, historian and author, will be featured at the November meeting of the Saint Louis Astronomical Society.
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

From Variable Stars to Dark Matter – The Expanding Legacy of Henrietta Leavitt

The WashU Departments of Physics & Performing Arts have partnered for a colloquium celebrating the life and contributions of Henrietta Leavitt in honor of the upcoming PAD production of 'Silent Sky' - a play focused on Leavitt's life and discoveries.
Seigle 206

Brown Bag: Yuqi Liu

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Silent Sky

Before Edwin Hubble and Stephen Hawking, there was Henrietta Leavitt. 'Silent Sky' takes audiences on Leavitt’s real-life journey as one of Harvard Observatory’s female “human computers” at the turn of the 20th century.
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

EEPS Colloquium: Joe Guinness

Associate Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Washington University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Running COSMOS.exe: Astronomy on Tap

Yajie Yuan and Alex Chen will be presenting this month's Astronomy on Tap: Running Cosmos.exe — how we use computers to understand the wildest objects in the universe.
Urban Chestnut - The Grove Meeting Room

Brown Bag: Michael O'Grady - Seiler Geospatial

State of the Geospatial Industry
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Nicole Nie

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Brown Bag: Stephanie Zhang / Abby Santis

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

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

We also have current events!