The EPS Colloquium is held every Wednesday from 11:30am to 12:30pm in the Wright Lab Auditorium (see link and map below). You can also attend virtually by clicking the below button.
Colloquium Schedule
| Date | Colloquium Speaker | Institution | Topic |
| September 18 | David Litwin | GFZ | TBD |
| October 9 | Stephen Mojzsis | CU Boulder | TBD |
| October 16 | Roger Creel | WHOI | TBD |
| October 30 | Michael Wong | Carnegie | TBD |
| November 20 | Ying Cui | Montclair State | TBD |
| December 4 | Graduate Students | ||
Research Colloquium Course
Graduate students may register for the 1-credit Research Colloquium (16:460:655). Contact Dr. Ben Black for more information. Download the course syllabus below.
Colloquium Speakers
March 27, 2024 - Pedro Val
CUNY Queens College
Hard rocks keep tectonically dead landscapes geomorphically alive
April 3, 2024 - Emmy Smith
Johns Hopkins
The Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition
April 10, 2024 - Baerbel Hoenisch
Columbia University
Reconstructions of Cenozoic atmospheric CO2 and ocean carbon cycle perturbations
April 17, 2024 - Marc-Antoine Longpre
CUNY Queens College
Linking petrological and geophysical monitoring of volcanic eruptions: an example from La Palma, Canary Islands
September 27, 2023 - Steven Kidder
City College of New York
How squishy is the middle crust?
October 4, 2023 - Fiorella Prada
Rutgers University
Adaptive potentials of marine calcifiers in an ever-changing ocean
October 11, 2023 - Jacqueline Austermann
Columbia University
Sea level change during past (and future) warming
October 25, 2023 - Rich Walker
University of Maryland
Siderophile elements: superheroes of the geochemical world!
Abstract: Most siderophile (iron-loving) elements are stronglyconcentrated in the Earth’s core. Most of these elements were little-studied bygeochemists in non-ore systems during the first half of the 20thcentury due to analytical difficulties, coupled with generally low abundancesin common rocks. Thus, the during the period when lithophile elements andrelated long- and short-lived isotope systems provided increasingly importantinformation regarding Earth’s formation and chemical evolution, and operation(1950’s – 80’s), siderophile elements remained largely silent. The advent ofmore sensitive and precise analytical tools and techniques in the 1980’s and90’s led to rapid advances in the application of siderophile elements toimportant Earth and planetary questions. I will provide an overview of thishistory, as well as review important lessons learned from 1) highly siderohileelement abundances and osmium isotopes in the mantle, 2) the amazingshort-lived 182Hf-182W isotopic system, and 3) the evenmore amazing information provided by mass independent isotope variationsobserved in molybdenum.
November 1, 2023 - James Eguchi
Rutgers University
The role of surface-interior volatile exchange on sedimentary isotope records and mass extinctions
November 15, 2023 - Harriet Lau
Brown University
Evolving solid Earth dynamics as a trigger for the mid Pleistocene transition
November 29, 2023 - Lee Kump
Penn State University
December 6, 2023 - Emily Chin
UC San Diego
Rheological cycles of damage and healing: how cratons become strong
February 8, 2023 - Tyler Kukla
University of Washington
Precipitation Seasonality in the Geologic Past
February 13, 2023 - Meredith Townsend
University of Oregon
February 15, 2023 - Jennifer Kasbohm
Yale University
February 20, 2023 - Xiao-Ming Liu
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
A Geochemical Adventure on Earth
February 22, 2023 - Juliane Gross
Rutgers University
March 29, 2023 - Paul Olsen
Columbia University
Volcanic Winters From Supereruptions at the Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs
April 19, 2023 - Alexander Gates
Rutgers University
Improving Education and Career Pathways for Underrepresented Minority Students in the Geosciences
May 3, 2023 - Jason Kawalec
Rutgers University
Dangerous While Asleep: Applying UAV-facilitated Photogrammetry to the Dormant Barva Volcano
December 7, 2022 - Dr. Ben Black
Rutgers University
Look Beneath Eruption Volume: Reconciling Climate Disruption and Gas Release from Magmas through Earth's History
November 30, 2022 - Dr. Steve Meyers
University Wisconsin Madison
Deciphering the Beat of a Timeless Rhythm: The Power of Astrochronology
November 16, 2022 - Dr. Jan Render
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reconstructing The Early Solar System: Using Isotopic Signatures to Trace Protoplanetary Disk Formation and Evolution
November 9, 2022 - Dr. Katherine Bermingham
Rutgers University
Identifying the Building Blocks of the Solar System and Earth: Where do we Start?
October 26, 2022 - Dr. Anja Schmidt
Institute for Atmospheric Physics
Volcanic Radiative Forcing: Past and Future
October 19, 2022 - Dr. Brittany Hupp
George Mason University
Novel Geochemical Approaches to Interpreting Past Climate, Oceanographic, and Ecological Signals in Planktic Foraminiferal Records
September 28, 2022 - Dr. Lauren Neitzke-Adamo and Dr. Carol McCarty
Rutgers University
The Creations, Collections, and Curators of the Rutgers University Geology Museum
September 21, 2022 - Dr. Jim Wright
Rutgers University
Development of Modern Ocean Circulation During the Cenozoic
September 14, 2022 - Dr. Shaunna Morrison
Carnegie Institution for Science
Mineral Informatics: The Next Frontier in Earth and Planetary Science
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Location
Wright-Rieman Laboratories Auditorium, Busch Campus, 610 Taylor Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066
