SEES Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2025

Presentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm – Zoom ID: 843 0287 5858 Password: 672323

09/03/2025 – Ashley Iervolino, Staff Scientist II at Roux Associates and QC Alum – “A DISCUSSION OF CAREERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING AND THE WORK OF ROUX ASSOCIATES“.
9/10/2025 – Zoe Krauss, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences The University of Washington – “Long-term Earthquake Data Unlocks the Story of a Mid-Ocean Ridge“.
9/17/2025 – Dr. Stephen Pekar, Professor; Queens College School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Climate Change: What it means for our future and what we can do about it!“.
10/08/2025 – Career Panel Event – Dara Laczniak, Guest Speaker: Dr. Nathan Epler, EKI Environment & Water, Inc – “Beyond the Degree: Finding Your Future Career“.
10/15/2025 – Corinne Hartin, Director of Science – Silver Lining – “Anthropogenic footprints: tracking the impacts of climate change“.
10/22/2025 – Julie Huber, Senior Scientist, MC&G Assistant Dean of Postdocs Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – “Diving into the Deep Ocean on Earth and Ocean Worlds Beyond“.
10/29/2025 – Austin Chadwick, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Ocean and Climate Physics Lamont-Soherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School. – “River systems: their origins, evolution, & response to our rapidly changing world“.
11/05/2025 – Dara Laczniak, Lecturer (Doctoral), Planetary Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Career Panel Event, “GRAD SCHOOL INFO SESSION“
11/12/2025 – Ceclia McHugh, Distinguished Professor School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “New techniques to recognize deposits from dangerous tsunamigenic earthquakes: Application to the Japan Trench“.
11/19/2025 – Grace Bungenstab Alves, Assistant Professor Department of Geography Federal University of Bahia, UFBA, Brazil. – “Soils as Storytellers: decoding landscape evolution in Brazil’s tropical drylands“.
11/26/2025 – Liang Xue, Assistant Project Scientist Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of California, Davis – “Modeling the Interaction between Surface Processes and Tectonic Deformation in Continental Rifts”.
12/03/2025 – Mike Kaplan, Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Was there a European-like Little Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere?”.
12/10/2025 – Peer Mentor Presentation.

Past Colloquium

Spring 2025

Presentations are in person in 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 03/19/2025 – Christine Ramadhin, PhD – Doctoral Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College – “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“.
04/30/2025 – Franco Cortese, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center Queens College, – “Volcanic Crystals in Four Dimensions from the 2021 Eruption of Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands“.
05/07/2025 – Justin Adamson, Emily Albines, Candace Anderson, Victor Barrientos, Jennifer Chen, Kristine Mikhaylov, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC. – “Spring 2025 Peer Mentors and Advisors“.
05/12/2025 – Shan Gao, PhD Associated Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, – “Decoding core ecological processes from tree rings“.
05/14/2025 – Students of GEOL 102, 200, & 201, “Poster Session, Spring 2025“.