Spring 2025 SB C-207 from 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm – Zoom ID: 843 0287 5858 Password: 672323
02/05/2025 – Kevin Konrad – Assistant Professor of Marine Geology, Oregon State University – “Over 110 Million Years Of Samoan Hotspot Volcanism: New Insights Into Mantle Plume Dynamics “.
02/10/2025 – Yan Zheng, PhD – Chair Professor, School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology – “The Story of Groundwater: Think Globally, Act Locally “.
02/19/2025 – Kirsty J. Tinto – Researcher, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Greenland Rising: Coastal Communities and the Impact of Sea Level Change in Greenland “.
02/26/2025 – Eric Greppo, Jean Patota – “Beyond the Degree: Geology Careers & Licensure in NYS “.
03/12/2025 – Pedro Val and Pedro Oliveira – LEGACi Lab, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Dating the Incision of the Lower Amazon River “.
CANCELED Enhancing Student Achievement in a Large Geoscience Course through Active Learning Strategies “.03/26/2025 – Mr. Michael Reed, a former Product Engineer for Esri and fellow graduate student, Ms. Meagan Lenna, an Assistant Geologist at the NYS Department of Transportation – “Beyond the Degree: Finding your Future Career “.
04/02/2025 – Roman DiBiase, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, – “Large-scale mapping of post-wildfire dry sediment loading using repeat airborne lidar in southern California. “.
04/09/2025 – Mike Gurnis, Seismological Laboratory California Institute of Technology, – “The Churning Interior of Planet Earth – A view of the Pacific over the Cenozoic “.
04/23/2025 – Chuixiang Yi, PhD, Professor, SEES, – “Integrating Nonlinear Dynamics into Ecosystem Respiration: The Michaelis-Menten Q10 Model “.
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
1/31/2024 – Marc-Antoine Longpré, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “A CURE* in SEES *course-based undergraduate research experience “.
2/7/2024 – Lexi Kenis. MS and PhD Student, University of New Mexico – “Pursuing Graduate School After Queens College “.
2/21/2024 – Pedro Val, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “The Amazon rainforest: from rocks to life “.
3/6/2024 – Lu Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University – “Advancements in polar sea ice monitoring: integrating altimeter and radiometer satellite data in the Arctic and Antarctic “. WATCH THE VIDEO OF Dr. Lu Zhou’s TALK
3/13/2024 – Dianne Greenfield, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY – “Characterizing nutrient influences on the microbiome of New York City’s urban estuaries “.
3/20/2024 – Fernanda Santos, PhD, Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “Disturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes “.
3/27/2024 – Yi Yin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University – “Unequal Exposure to Heat Extremes: Case Studies in Los Angeles and New York City “.
4/3/2024 – Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke – “Student Research Presentations from Soule Research Lab “.WATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK
4/10/2024 – Allan Ludman, PhD, Professor emeritus, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS TO DECIPHER THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS “WATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK
4/17/2024 – Wenge Ni-Meister, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York – “Leveraging NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission Measurements for Large-Scale Aboveground Biomass Estimation “WATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK
5/1/2024 – Xiyan Xu, PhD, Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China – “Harnessing terrestrial ecosystems to combat climate change: challenges and opportunities “
5/8/2024 – The SEES Spring 24 Peer Mentors (Emily Albines, Hannah Goykadosh, Alyse Jofre, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – “School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC “
5/15/2024 – Students of GEOL 201 – “Results of the Canary Project, Spring 2024 “
Fall 2023
Presentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
9/13/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming “.
9/20/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it! “.
9/27/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science “.
10/04/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property “
10/11/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment “
10/18/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return “
10/25/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health? “
11/1/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications “
11/8/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps—Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data. “
11/15/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD “Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration ”
CANCELLED 11/29/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD “Past and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet “12/06/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms “
Spring 2023
1/25/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.
2/1/23 – Pedro Val, (QC/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.
2/8/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology , The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.
2/15/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, Greenland Ice Sheet—Past and Future.
2/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) – Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands, Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.
3/1/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).
3/8/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).
3/15/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.
3/22/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis .
3/29/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.
4/5/23 – No Talk / Spring Recess
4/12/23 – No Talk / Spring Recess
4/19/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity .
4/26/23 – TBD
5/3/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador .
5/10/23 – Graduate student presentations.
5/17/23 – Peer mentor presentations.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Benjamin Sulman’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Benjamin Sulman’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Fernanda Santos’ TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Cláudio T. Silva’s TALK 
WATCH THE VIDEO OF John Stix’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr. Greenfield’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr.Yi Yin’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK
WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Mentors’ TALK