Seminar Schedule Spring 2025
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers seminars on most Friday mornings, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, during the fall and spring semesters.
We support both in-person and virtual seminars. Check the format of individual seminars
on the schedule below. In-person seminars will be held in Room 634, S&R1, unless
otherwise noted. To participate in virtual seminars, use Zoom Meeting ID: 829 1660
9186 and Passcode 764132. The same code will work for all virtual seminars. Seminars
are not offered in hybrid format.
Lunch is held after seminar to facilitate interactions between all members of EAS,
guests, and the speaker. Lunch will be held in Rm 223 unless otherwise noted. 40
tickets are available at seminar for those who wish to attend lunch. See the seminar
host or the TA for a ticket while they last.
For more information regarding how to host seminars, please visit the seminars resource page.
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series is supported by a generous gift from Shell.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
Format
|
Host
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/17/25 | Dr. Rajdeep Dasgupta | Rice University | Extraction of Life-essential Volatile Elements via Mantle Melting on Earth and Planets | In person | Michael Antonelli |
| 1/24/25 | Dr. BumSoo Kim | NASA Johnson Space Center | From seafloor sediment to astromaterial: Unlocking molecular time-capsules on Earth and beyond | In person | Ali Raza |
| 2/28/25 | Dr. Jeremy Boyce | NASA | Ice, Ice, Maybe? The Perilous Journey Home for Icy Regolith Encountered by Artemis at the Lunar South Pole | CANCELLED | Alex Robinson |
| 3/7/25 | Whitney Schultz | Oxy | Early Career Experience and Projects at Oxy | In person | Christi Sterna |
| 3/21/25 | Dr Alex Bump | BEG, University of Texas | Carbon storage modeling | In person | Mukul Bhatia |
| 3/28/25 | Dr. Deepak Chamlagain | Tribhuvan University, Nepal | Dynamic Characterization and Basement Topography of the Kathmandu Valley Affected by the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake: A Passive Seismological Approach | In person | Anuska Pudasaini |
| 4/4/25 | Dr. Annette Patton | Oregon State University | Landslide risk reduction in rural Southeast Alaska | In person | Will Struble |
| 4/11/25 | Dr. Meng Zhan | University of Houston | Mesoscale Convective Systems in High Resolution Energy Exascale Earth System Model | In person | Youtong Zheng |
| 4/18/25 | Dr. Natasha Sekhon | Occidental College | Using speleothems to unravel the hydroclimate variability in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during periods of past rapid climate change | In person | Ny Riavo Voarintsoa |
| 4/25/25 | Dr. Alexander Iriondo | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Exploring some aspects of the formation of Mexico: A long geological journey since the Paleoproterozoic | In person | Karissa Vermillion |