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.
Past Events
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
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
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
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