Seminar Schedule Fall 2021
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers its seminars on most Friday mornings during the fall and spring semesters. For more information regarding seminars please visit the seminars resource page.
Time: Seminars are held on most Fridays 11-12 PM.
Registration is required to participate in the meeting.
Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule
In Fall 2021 we support both virtual and in-person seminars. Check the format of individual seminars.
To participate virtual seminars, use Zoom Meeting ID: 952 8595 4122 and Passcode 660044, same for all virtual seminars in the semester. In-person seminars are limited to 10 onsite participants and will be livestreamed via Zoom with the same meeting info.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
Format
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Host
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| 3-Sep | Erik Velasco | Molina Center for Energy and the Environment |
Carbon sequestration potential of our urban landscape |
Zoom | Bernhard Rappenglueck |
| 10-Sep | Gretchen Gillis | Saudi Aramco & President of AAPG |
Volunteering: A Key to Networking and Building Skills |
In person | Julia Wellner |
| 17-Sep | Lei Sun | UH EAS |
Active tectonics of the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) based on integration of gravity modeling, tectonic geomorphology, and mapping of active fault traces |
Zoom | Paul Mann |
| 24-Sep | Courtney Sprain | University of Florida |
Understanding the causes and consequences of Mass Extinction Events |
Zoom | Andrew Flynn |
| 1-Oct | Lydian Boschman | ETH Zürich |
Reconstructing plate motions of subducted Panthalassa plates using paleomagnetic data from subduction complexes - with examples from Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and Costa Rica |
Zoom | Jeremy Wu |
| 8-Oct | Pietro Milillo | UH Civil Engineering |
Ice melt near grounding zones of Antarctic glaciers |
In person | Julia Wellner |
| 15-Oct | Arya Udry | University of Nevada Las Vegas |
What can we learn from martian samples? |
In person | Ruby Patterson |
| 22-Oct | Michael Retelle | Bates College |
Lake sediments reveal a recent shift in hydroclimate in the rapidly warming Norwegian high Arctic |
Zoom | Ozzy Tirmizi |
| 29-Oct | Babatunde Rabiu | Centre for Atmospheric Research, National Space Research and Development Agency, Nigeria |
Advances in Atmospheric Research in Nigeria |
Zoom | Bernhard Rappenglueck |
| 5-Nov | Jaime González | Houston Healthy Cities Director - The Nature Conservancy in Texas |
Stories to Save the World: Communications, Storytelling, and Teaching to Fight Climate Change and the Sixth Extinction |
Zoom | Julia Wellner |
| 12-Nov | Marjorie Chan | University of Utah |
Red Rocks from Earth to Mars |
Zoom | Emily Beverly |
| 19-Nov | Jonathan Ajo-Franklin | Rice University |
Exploring the Subsurface with Regional DAS Networks: Results from the Imperial Valley Dark Fiber Project |
In person | Yingcai Zheng |