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2026 TRIADS Spring Symposium

The 2026 TRIADS Spring Symposium will bring together interdisciplinary researchers for a fast-paced session of lightning talks spanning data science, health, AI, and social impact. Presentations will explore topics such as opioid use disorder, adolescent mental health, hypertension disparities, AI trust and bias, environmental health risks, and education outcomes. The event will highlight innovative, real-world applications of data-driven research and concluding with a networking lunch.
Clark-Fox Forum | Hillman Hall

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Final Presentations and Awards
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Undergraduate Symposium

Undergraduate thesis presentations will begin at 3PM in Rudolph Hall 301 followed by a poster session with light food and beverages on the 2nd floor. To attend the oral presentations remotely, please use this Zoom link: https://wustl.zoom.us/j/94680199352
Rudolph Hall 301 | Rudolph 2nd Floor Atrium

Special Brown Bag: The state of Creve Coeur Lake under changing environmental pressures, management, and conservation practices

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Weird Stars: St. Louis Astronomical Society April Meeting

Richard Heuermann, St. Louis Astronomical Society, will be presenting "Weird Stars"
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Brown Bag: Hydrology Presentations

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Dissertation Defense: Samuel Patzkowsky

"Evolving Heavy Noble Gas Isotope Compositions of the Ancient Mantle and Atmosphere"
Rudolph Hall 301

Historical insights and new perspectives on Xe nucleosynthesis: from the molecular cloud to the Earth's atmosphere

Guillaume Avice, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, MCSS Visiting Scientist
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Glassberg/Greensfelder Forum

Hosted by EEPS and the Center for the Environment
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Dissertation Defense: Katherine Billings

"Quantitative Microstructural Analysis with Applications to Planetary Lithosphere Deformation"
Rudolph Hall 301

EEPS Colloquium: Tripti Bhattacharya

Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya, Thonis Family Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Jonghan Moon

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Tamlin Pavelsky

Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky, Professor of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Julia Alvarez Lozano - PhD candidate from Universidad Complutense Madrid

Rudolph Hall | Room 301

2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures: Public Lecture with Andrea Ghez on From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole

Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Public Lecture, "From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole"
Whitaker 100

2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures: Colloquium with Andrea Ghez on Our Galactic Center

Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture, Colloquium, "Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes"
Wilson 214 | Reception: 3:45pm

How to Detect & Characterize Exoplanets: The St. Louis Astronomical Society March Meeting

Marc Ollivier, Director, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale - Paris, will be presenting a talk at the March meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "How to Detect & Characterize Exoplanets."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Mid-Semester Check-in
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

The Serengeti Rules: The Regulation and Restoration of Biodiversity

Join us for a guest lecture featuring Sean Carroll, Balo-Simon Endowed Chair and Distinguished University Professor of Biology, University of Maryland- College Park.
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall | Livestream available

EEPS Colloquium - Stephen Zatman Memorial Lecture: Harriet Lau

Dr. Harriet Lau, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar: Assistant Professor Lauren Gillespie

Assistant Professor Lauren Gillespie, Geospatial Data Sciences, Conservation + Restoration, University of Michigan
Rebstock Hall | Room 322

EEPS Brown Bag: Dr. Jacob Fowler - UPenn

Experimental constraints on the rheology of ice stream shear margins
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Sarah Stamps

Dr. Sarah Stamps, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Team Formation and Project Kickoff
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: John Higgins

Dr. John Higgins, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

AI and the Smart Telescope: How Both May Change Amateur Astronomy: The St. Louis Astronomical Society February Meeting

Jesus Ponce de Leon will be presenting a talk at the February meeting of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, "How will (may) AI change Amateur Astronomy."
McDonnell 162 | Also available on Zoom. Contact the St. Louis Astronomical Society for the link.

EEPS Brown Bag

Graduate Student Science Pitches
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Colloquium: Emma "Mickey" MacKie

Dr. Emma "Mickey" MacKie, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Florida
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

EEPS Brown Bag: Earth Data Challenge

Intro to Jupyter, GIT, and Google Earth Engine
Rudolph Hall | Room 301

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.

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

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