Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond
Laura Kreidberg, Director, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
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The Holocene record of the Lake Izabal Basin – Peeking into one of the longest continental records of the northern Neotropics
Jonathan Obrist Farner, Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Triggers, conditions and nature of the seismic rupture. What do we really know about mantle seismicity?
Thomas Ferrand, Freie Universitat Berlin
Cosmolocation: Using meteorites to reconstruct the architecture of the early Solar System
Gregory Brennecka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The landscape legacy of extreme weather events
Brian Yanites, Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Gas Pipeline Reform: Spire STL Case Study
Natalie Karas, Environmental Defense Fund
Seconds After Impact: Insights into Impact Processes from Ultra-High Temperature Experiments
Catherine Macris, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Colloquium: Fast Radio Bursts
Victoria Kaspi, Professor, McGill University and Director, McGill Space Institute
New views on the lowermost mantle from seismic tomography
Karin Sigloch, Université Côte d'Azur
How do we form granite on Mars without plate tectonics?
Arya Udry, Associate Professor, Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The behavior of dunes and ripples under changing flow conditions: modern, experimental, and stratigraphic analyses
Paul Myrow, Professor, Colorado College
Senior Thesis Presentations and Research Symposium
Rowan Behnke, Flora Perlmutter, Maria Schmeer, Judy Zhang
Emerging Constraints on the Chemical Composition of the Entire Earth
John Hernlund, Vice Director of the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Career celebration for Raymond E. Arvidson
Join the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences for a celebration of Arvidson's scholarly and educational contributions throughout his 48 years at WashU.
Mars: From Warm and Wet to Cold and Dry as Shown During the Curiosity Rover’s Ascent of Mount Sharp
In this colloquium, Raymond E. Arvidson, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, will discuss the red planet's transition from warm and wet to cold and dry conditions based on evidence collected by the Curiosity rover. A departmental open house will precede Arvidson's talk.
Colloquium: OSIRIS-REx and Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu - Returning a Sample of the Early Solar System
Dante Lauretta, Regents Professor at The University of Arizona and Principal Investigator of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission will present the 2022 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures.
Collecting Samples of Mars: The NASA Perseverance Rover’s role in Mars Sample Return
Professor Chris Herd, University of Alberta
Mantle dynamics and structure from coupled geodynamic and seismological modeling
Manuele Faccenda, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
Monsoons and climate change: A paleoclimate perspective from Southeast Asia
Kathleen R. Johnson, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Waterfalls, river profiles, and the potential to obscure geologic history
Joel Scheingross, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Reno
Understanding and addressing local to global impacts of permafrost thaw
Dr. Susan Natali, Arctic Program Director and Senior Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center
Next-generation Lunar Sample Science
Assistant Professor Jessica Barnes, University of Arizona