EPS Seminars

The Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) Seminars are a cornerstone of our department’s academic life, offering a vibrant platform for learning, connection, and inspiration. Held on Tuesdays from 11:30 am to 1 pm in Geology Corner, these seminars run during the Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters of each academic year. Each session features renowned speakers and leading researchers presenting on a wide range of topics in Earth and planetary sciences. 

EPS seminars are designed to spark meaningful discussions and strengthen our community’s engagement with the latest scientific advances.

Our lineup for the Winter Quarter'26

  • Jan 6: Dr. Jordan Wostbrock – Reconstructing paleoenvironments using triple oxygen isotope values – Yale University
  • Jan 13: Dr. Andrew Leslie – Comparing apples and oranges: understanding the evolution of morphological diversity in plant reproductive structures – Stanford University (EPS)
  • Jan 20: Dr. Laura Schaefer –Connecting the Early Solar System to Current Observations of Small Exoplanets – Stanford University (EPS)
  • Jan 27: Dr. Doug Schouten – Muon Tomography for Improving Outcomes in Mining – Ideon
  • Feb 3: Dr. Amy East – Understanding physical landscape effects of climate change: how much do we know, and what are we doing about it – U.S. Geological Survey
  • Feb 10: Dr. Lydia Jennings – The Missing Layer in Soil Science: Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty Rethinking Sustainability, Evidence, and Stewardship – Dartmouth College
  • Feb 17: Dr. Tamara Pico – Out of the ice age: Insights into past sea level and ice sheets from Beringia to Antarctica – University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Feb 24: Dr. Mathieu Lapotre – Reconstructing Earth’s early subaerial environments via process-informed comparative sedimentology – Stanford University (EPS)
  • Mar 3: Dr. Dan Mills – Geobiology – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Mar 10: Dr. Genna Chiaro – Geochronology and igneous petrology – U.S. Geological Survey
  • Mar 17: Dr. Chris Poulsen – Low-temperature geochemistry and modeling – University of Oregon

Our lineup for the Spring Quarter'26

  • Mar 31: Dr. Devon Orme – Initiation and early evolution of the Great Valley Forearc basin, California – Montana State University
  • Apr 7: Dr. Kelvin Whipple – New Perspectives on Landscape Evolution on the Hawaiian Islands – Arizona State University
  • Apr 14: Dr. Glenn Gaetani – Experimental constraints on the damp peridotite solidus and potential temperature of the oceanic mantle – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Apr 21: Dr. Scott Evans – From the Australian Outback to the Mountains of NW Canada: Ediacaran fossils and the early record of animal life  – American Museum of Natural History
  • Apr 28: Dr. Sam Birch – Evolution of Titan’s Coastlines – Brown University
  • May 5: Dr. Daven Quinn – Macrostrat and the “Digital Crust" – University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • May 12: Dr. Katie Kelley – Natural sample constraints on H2O, CO2, and melts in the oceanic upper mantle – University of Rhode Island
  • May 19: Dr. Julia Tejada – What can the chemistry of ancient bones and plants tell us about the evolution of ecosystems and the fate of one of Earth's most vital biomes? – California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  • May 26: Dr. Damanveer Grewal – Using iron meteorites to trace the earliest protoplanetary disk chemistry – Yale University
  • Jun 2: Dr. Kuan-Yu Lin – Record of on-axis gabbro emplacement at the Atlantis Massif oceanic core complex and its tectonic and hydrothermal implications – Smithsonian Institution

Our lineup for the Fall Quarter'26

  • Sept 29: Joshua Goodwin, PG, CEG – Geologist-in-Training (GIT): Pathway to the California Professional Geologist License – Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists
  • Oct 6: Dr. Margorie Chan – Red Rocks from Earth to Mars: Stories of science, crime, art – University of Utah
  • Oct 13: TBD
  • Oct 20: Dr. Tamara Pico - Geomorphology/GIA - UC Santa Cruz 
  • Oct 27: Dr. Ben Mirus – Landslides/Hazards - USGS
  • Nov 3: Dr. Ben Gill - Sedimentary geochemistry - Virginia Tech 
  • Nov 10: Dr. Sarah Lambart – Volcanology/Igneaous petrology – University of Utah
  • Nov 17: Dr. Peng Ni – High P/T Geochemistry – UCLA
  • Dec 1: Dr. Esteban Gazel - Igneous Petrology - Cornell University 

 

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