ConocoPhillips- 彩神vlll争霸 Geological Sciences Seminar Series

The Department of Geological Sciences hosts an active program for geology seminars.  Our seminar series was made possible by ConocoPhillips Alaska, through their generous donation to 彩神vlll争霸 Geological Sciences.

  • Spring 2025 Seminar Series

     Presentations are on Thursdays at 3:00 PM by Zoom. Using the , you can attend the virtual lectures.

    Date Presenter Seminar Title/Topic
    1/23

    Robert Loeffler

    		 彩神vlll争霸, Economic Geology
    1/30

    Amy Moser 

    		 MIT, Coastal Shear Zone
    2/6

    Skye Kushner

    		 彩神vlll争霸, Volcanic Mercury
    2/13

    Sophie Giffard-Roisin

    		 Universit茅 Grenoble Alpes, Machine learning in geosciences
    2/20

    Francisco Apen

    		 Northern Arizona University, Formation and evolution of the
    continental lithosphere
    2/27

    Rob Witter

    		 US Geolgical Survey, Paleoseismologic lake records of the
    1964 Great Alaska earthquake
    3/6

    Lauren Somers

    		 Dalhousie University, Groundwater
    3/13

    NO SEMINAR

    		 SPRING BREAK
    3/20

    Suoya Fan

    University of Pittsburgh, Active tectonics of the Aleutian forearc
    3/27

    -Caroline Aubrey-Wake

    Utrecht University, Mountain groundwater
    4/3

    Theron Finley

    University of Victoria, Active faults in the Yukon
    4/10

    Tarryn Cawood

    UBC Okanagan, Critical Mineral deposits and shear zones
    4/17 Graduate Students Showcase Various Topics
  • Fall 2022 Seminar Series

     Presentations are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM by Zoom. Meeting ID: 871 2732 8035 Passcode: 152627

    Please check back, additional presentations will be added for this semester!

    Date Presenter Seminar Title/Topic
    9/8

    Jamey Jones

    United States Geological Survey (USGS)

    		 Alaska鈥檚 critical mineral resources
    9/15

    Trevor Waldien

    South Dakota School of Mines

    		 Interactions among inherited plate boundaries, slip rate gradients, and lithospheric structure in the Alaska Range, southern Alaska
    9/29

    Emily Cahoon

    Oregon State University

    		 Geoscience Careers: Academia vs Industry (what pays the bills, what advances your career, & what makes you happy)
    10/13

    Adrian Bender

    United States Geological Survey (USGS)

    		 Rapid active thrust faulting at the northern Alaska Range front
    10/20

    Robert McDermott

    United States Geological Survey (USGS)

    		 Deciphering (a)seismic slip mechanisms on hematite fault mirrors with (U-Th)/He thermochronometry and microtextures
    10/27

    Philipp Ruprecht

    University of Nevada-Reno

    		 From magma generation to eruption: New insights from the 2018 Veniaminof eruption
    11/3

    Arijit Mitra

    ConocoPhillips

    		 Why a Geoscientist is critical to successful oil & gas exploration and development
    11/10

    Sonia Nagorski

    University of Alaska Southeast

    		 Mercury sources, transport, and fate in southeast Alaskan watersheds
    11/17

    Thomas Monecke

    Colorado School of Mines

    Geological Exploration Guidelines for VMS Deposits
    12/1 Graduate Students Show Case Cameron Kuhle, Logan Wieland, Robin Van Auken

     

  • Spring 2022 Seminar Series

     Presentations are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM by Zoom.

     Please check back, additional presentations will be added for this semester!

    Date Presenter Seminar Title/Topic
    1/20

    Shannon MacKenzie

    Johns Hopkin APL

    		 Saturn鈥檚 moon Titan and the Dragonfly mission
    1/27

    Amanda Garcia

    University of Wisconsin Madison

    		 Biogeology and ancestral protein reconstruction
    2/3

    Adrian Bender

    United States Geological Survey (USGS)

    		 Alaska geomorphology and neotectonics
    2/10

    Jen Scully

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    		 Asteroid geology and analog experiments
    2/17

    Simon Zwieback

    University of Alaska-Fairbanks

    		  Remote Sensing in the interior of Alaska
    2/24

    Melissa Anderson

    University of Toronto

    		 Economic geology and seafloor remote sensing
    3/3

    Juan Lora

    Yale University

    		 Atmospheric rivers and circulation models
    3/17

    Karl Butler

    University of New Brunswick

    		 Near-surface geophysics and applications to civil engineering and hydrogeology
    3/24

    Kynan Hughson

    University of Alaska-Anchorage

    Geophysical and remote sensing studies of pingo with applications to planetary science
    3/31

    Winnie Chu

    Georgia Tech University

    		 Glaciology and ice mechanics
    4/7

    Gabe Eggers

    Lunar and Planetary Institute

    		 Volcanism throughout the solar system
    4/14

    Mackenzie Day

    University of California-LA

    		 Aeolian processes and dunefield mechanics
    4/21 Graduate Student Showcase Graduate Student Showcase
  • Fall 2021 Seminar Series
    Date Presenter Seminar Title
    9/2
    Barb Tewksbury

    Hamilton College

    		 Enigma in the Desert: Discovery of an Extensive Network of Non-Tectonic Synclines in Eocene Limestone in Egypt and the Search for a Plausible Origin
    9/9
    Melinda Webster

    UAF

    		 Characterizing the spatio-temporal evolution of melt ponds on the MOSAiC expedition
    9/16
    Folarin (Fola) Kolawole

    BP America

    		 When Continents Stretch, Their Cracks Grow: Insights from Juvenile Rifting in East Africa
    9/23
    Caitlin Ahrens

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    		 Mysterious, Marvelous Cryogeology across the Solar System
    9/30
    Hannah Dieterich
    USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory
    		 Cloudy with a chance of lava flows: forecasting lava flow dynamics at K墨lauea Volcano with remote sensing
    10/07
    Daniel Stockli
    University of Texas at Austin
    		 Along the road of bones: Geology in the Verkhoyansk fold and thrust belt, E. Siberia
    10/14
    Cathy Busby
    University of California, Davis
    		 Tectonic Evolution of the Ancestral Cascades Arc and Walker Lane, California
    10/21
    Dallam Masterson
    Consulting Geologist
    		 Petroleum Systems of the Central Alaskan North Slope
    10/28
    James Muirhead

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    		 Impact of magma, volatiles and climate on continental rift development
    11/4
    Stephen Holtkamp
    Alaska Earthquake Center, UAF
    		 Not just a seismology shop: Multidisciplinary response to the Simeanof and Chignik megathrust earthquakes at the Alaska Earthquake Center
    11/11
    Scott Bennett
    USGS
    		 The Most Recent Earthquake On The Mount Hood Fault Zone: Implications For Cascading Earthquake, Landslide, And Flood Multi-Hazards In The Columbia River
    11/18
    Joshua Long

    USGS

    		 Stratigraphic Architecture and Depositional Facies of the Late Cretaceous Tuluvak Formation, Central North Slope of Alaska
    11/25
    Thanksgiving
    12/2
    Graduate Students
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  • Spring 2021 Seminar Series
    Date Presenter Seminar Title
    1/14
    Bob Bodnar

    Virginia Tech

    		 A new paradigm for pegmatite formation: Generation of pegmatitic textures in a closed, isochoric system
    1/21
    John Eichelberger

    UAF

    		 Drilling to Magma
    1/28
    John Cottle

    UCSB

    		 Using Petrochronology to Unravel the Metamorphic and Magmatic Development of Orogenic Systems
    2/4
    Jenna Adams

    Colorado School of Mines

    		 Unusual isotopes and inclusions breathe life into our understanding of the role of sediment recycling in ocean island magma genesis
    2/11
    Peter Haeussler

    USGS

    		 Glacial history, retreat, and hazard of southcentral Alaska
    2/18
    Rachel Lauer

    University of Calgary

    		 Submarine hydrogeology: from the ridge flank to the Middle America trench, Costa Rica
    2/25
    Lucy McGee

    University of Adelaide

    		 The geochemistry of tiny volcanoes: answering big questions about mantle melting
    3/4
     
    Zhyhang Li
    彩神vlll争霸
    		 Constraining the Effects of Dynamic Topography on the Development of Late Cretaceous Cordilleran Foreland Basin, Western United States
    3/18
    Adam Simon
    University of Michigan
    		 The Formation of Iron Oxide - Apatite (IOA) and Iron Oxide - Copper - Gold (IOCG) Mineral Deposits: Implications for Sustainable Development
    3/25
    Stephen Elardo
    University of Florida
    		 Planetary Accretion and Differentiation as Witnessed by Iron Isotopes
    4/1
    Linda Daniele 
    University of Chile
    		 Constraining Groundwater Circulation in the Chilean Andes
    4/8
    Simon Kattenhorn
    彩神vlll争霸
    		  
    4/15
    John Mavrogenes
    Australian National University
    		  
    4/22
    Graduate Students
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  • Spring 2020 Seminar Series 

    All seminars are located in the Social Sciences Building, RM 118 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm unless otherwise noted.

    Date

    Presenter

    Seminar Title
    1/22

    5:15-6:30
    Cynthia Palomares
    Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists

    Hazardous Waste Management

    01/30
    Julie Dumoulin

    USGS

    Nature, Origin, and History of the Farewell Terrane, Interior Alaska

    02/06
    Gabrielle Tepp

    AVO

    Detecting and Characterizing Submarine Volcanic Eruptions from Land and Sea

    02/13
    Zhiyang Li

    彩神vlll争霸

    Sedimentary and petrographic characteristics of some offshore mudstones in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

    02/20
    Lindsay Lowe Worthington
    University of New Mexico

    (Ocean Discovery Lecture)

    Buried Alive? How sediments shut down faults in the Gulf of Alaska

    02/27
    Munk & Klein (EPSCOR)

    彩神vlll争霸

    Alaska EPSCoR Fire & Ice Project: Investigating impacts of a shifting climate on coastal and boreal forest ecosystems in Alaska

    03/05
    Matt Loewen 

    AVO

    		 Exploding basalts: Recent eruptions from Bogoslof (2017), Veniaminof (2018), and Shishaldin (2019) in Alaska

    03/05
    Matt Loewen 

    AVO

    		  

    03/19
    Amanda Lanik

    National Park Service

    Managing paleontological resources in Alaska鈥檚 National Parks: challenges, new tools, and the discovery of Paleozoic fossils in Kenai Fjords National Park

    03/26
    Birgit Hagedorn

    Sustainable Earth Research

    Greenland Ice Sheet hydrology and insights from its water chemistry

    04/02
     
    Shuvajit Bhattacharya

    彩神vlll争霸

     

    04/09
    Steve Hasiotis

    University of Kansas

    Integrating Ichnology, Sedimentology, and Paleopedology in Continental Deposits 

    04/16
    Jaime Barnes

    UT-Austin (AWG Distinguished Lecturer)

     

    04/23
    Graduate Student Showcase
    01/03
  • Fall 2019 Seminar Series
    Date/Time Location Presenter Seminar Title
    09/05
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Simon Kattenhorn

    彩神vlll争霸

    		 The Hat Creek Fault, Northern California: Earthquake Hazard from a Segmented Normal Fault System
    09/12
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Tyrone Rooney
    Michigan State University
    		 The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa and its role in the distruction of the African lithosphere.
    09/19
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Richard Lease
    USGS
    		 Patterns, pulses, and periodicity of mountain building processes in Alaska
    09/26
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Mike McCrum
    Bureau of Land Management
    		 A Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study on the Red Devil Mercury Mine, Southwest, Alaska
    10/03
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Matt Haney
    Alaska Vocano Observatory
    		 Earth, wind and fire (and water): Monitoring volcanic eruptions with all flavors of mechanical waves
    10/10
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Laura Gregersen
    Alaska Division of Natural Resources
    		 The History and Areal Distribution of Exploration Drilling Targets Categorized by Play Type, North Slope and Offshore Arctic Alaska
    10/17
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Trent Hubbard
    DGGS
    North Slope Sand and Gravel Resource Assessment: Terrain Unit Mapping and Near-surface Materials Evaluation
    10/24
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Elena Suleimani
    Alaska Earthquake Center
    		 Tsunamis in Alaska and around the world
    10/31
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118 Geology Town Hall   
    11/07
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Jeffrey Urbanus
    Department of Watershed Management
    		 Factors Contributing to the Formation of Aufeis in Anchorage and Strategies for Control and Mitigation
    11/14
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118
    Susan Karl
    USGS
    		 GIS-based analysis of mineral resource portential in Alaska
    11/21
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118 
    Robert Blodgett
    Blodgett & Associates, LLC (Consulting Geologists)
     
    		 "From Russia With Love" or the Siberian and Uralian origins of Alaska's Accreted Terranes
    12/05
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118 Graduate Student showcase  Scott Pantaleone and Dan Coffey
  • Spring 2019 Seminar Series
    Date/Time Location Presenter Seminar Title
    01/24
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Basil Tikoff (University of Wisconsin, Earthscope) The jagged western edge of North America: The profound influence of Precambrian rifting on subsequent mountain building
    01/31
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Dr. Utpal Dutta (Professor, 彩神vlll争霸, Civil Engineering) Seismic Microzonation Program of Anchorage: Analysis of Ground Motions during the 30th November 2018 Anchorage Earthquake
    02/7
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118 John Thornley (Golder Associates) The November 30, 2018 Anchorage Earthquake 鈥� How Geology Turns into Building Code
    02/14
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Brian Tattich (Bristol University, UK) Degassing and Metals: Volcanoes, Geothermal Reservoirs and Ore Deposits
    2/21
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Peter Haeussler (USGS) The monsters under the bed: Active faults and developments in understanding earthquake sources for southcentral Alaska
    2/28
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Dorn Van Dommelen (Professor, 彩神vlll争霸, Geography & Environmental Studies) Teaching with Google Mapping Tools
    3/7
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Hannah Dietterich (AVO) Assessing the eruptive history and volcanic hazards in Harrat Rahat volcanic field, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
    3/21
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Shuvajit Bhattacharya and the Imperial Barrel Award presenters Reservoir Evaluations of Spain 
    3/28
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Marjorie Chan (UofU, EarthCube DL) The Future of Sedimentology on Earth and Mars
    4/4
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Daniel Ibarra (Stanford University) The Neogene climate of western North America
    4/11
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 John Eichelberger (UAF) The Stratified Magma Chamber Myth: Insights from the Great Alaska Eruption of 1912
    4/18
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Nathan Wolf (APU) Stable Isotopes in Animal Ecology: you are what you eat... sort of
    4/25
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Student Showcase  
  • Spring 2018 Seminar Series
    Date/Time Location Presenter Seminar Title
    01/25
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Peter Haeussler (USGS) The 2015 Taan Fiord, Alaska, landslide and tsunami - a consequence of glacial retreat
    02/01
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Seth Burgess (USGS-CalVO) Deciphering the cause(s) of mass extinction
    02/08
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Emily Martin (Smithsonian Institution) and Alex Patthoff (PSI) Using Enceladus's complex surface to reconstruct a complex history
    02/15
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Matthew Loewen (USGS-AVO) Episodic melting, crystallization and eruption of Yellowstone's Central Plateau Member rhyolite lavas
    02/22
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Erin Shea ( 彩神vlll争霸) The End Game of Arc Magmatism: Using geochronolgy and geochemistry to understand how arcs shut off
    03/01
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Samuel Zipper (University of Victoria) Water Science for the Anthropocene: Eco-hydrogeologic feedbacks following land cover change
    03/08
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Simon Kattenhorn ( 彩神vlll争霸) The Evolution of Young Continental Rifts: The East African Rift in Kenya and Tanzania
    03/22
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Shuvajit Bhattacharya ( 彩神vlll争霸) IBA (Imperial Barrel Award) 彩神vlll争霸 Team presentation
    03/29
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Thomas Homza (Shell) Geologic interpretations beneath the US Chukchi Sea
    04/05
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Kristi Wallace (USGS-AVO) Discriminating the eruptive sequence of the circa 3.6 ka Hayes set H to improve its use as a chronostratigraphic marker
    04/12
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 彩神vlll争霸 Geology Graduate Students Graduate Student Research Showcase
    04/19
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 Elisabeth Nadin (UAF)

    The shifting pieces of the southern Alaska puzzle
    04/26
    4pm-5pm    		 SSB 118 David Lepain (ADGGS) Contrasting Middle and Late Jurassic deepwater successions in lower Cook Inlet and implications for arc-proximal forearc basin paleogeography
  • Fall 2018 Seminar Series
    Date/Time Location Presenter Seminar Title
    09/06
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Jamey Jones (USGS Anchorage) Deciphering major crustal boundaries within polyphase orogens: A case study from the Yukon-Tanana Upland in eastern Alaska
    09/13
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Simon Kattenhorn (Professor & Director of Geological Sciences, 彩神vlll争霸) Subduction on Europa: Drifting Towards a Plate Tectonics Paradigm
    09/20
    4-5pm
    		 SSB 118 Emily Niebuhr (NOAA) An Analysis of Heavy Precipitation Events in Anchorage, AK
    09/27
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 LeeAnn Munk ( 彩神vlll争霸) Geology and Hydrogeochemistry of Lithium Brine Systems
    10/04
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Erin Todd (USGS Anchorage) Changes in Melt Sources During and After Progressive Accretion of the Wrangellia Composite Terrane to the Sourthern Alaska Margin
    10/11
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Chris Waythomas (USGS-AVO) The 2016-17 eruption of Bogoslof Volcano, Alaska: A nine-month long, shallow submarine eruption in the southern Bering Sea
    10/18
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Sean Regan (UAF) Detachment, ore mineralization, and progressive uplift of the Marcy massif during the Grenville orogenic cycle, Adirondack Mountains, NY
    10/25
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Cathy Connor (UAS) Changes to the Mendenhall Glacier and its Watershed, Last Glacial Maximum to Anthropocene
    11/1
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Shad O'Neel (USGS) Understanding and Quantifying Glacier and Ecosystem Linkages
    11/8
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Mike Loso (National Park Service) Glacier change in Alaska's National Parks: what we know and why it matters
    11/15
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Rob Witter (USGS Anchorage) Earthquake geology of the Fairweather Fault in southeast Alaska 60 years after the M7.8 Lituya Bay earthquake
    11/29
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 Doug Kreiner (USGS Anchorage) Evolution and development of Iron oxide (-Cu-Au) vein systems and related alteration
    12/6
    4-5pm    		 SSB 118 M.S. Applied Geological Sciences Students 彩神vlll争霸 Graduate Student Research Showcase
  • Location & Directions

    The Social Sciences Building is located north of Providence Hospital and is connected to the 彩神vlll争霸/APU Consortium Library