Geo Seminar Series, club meetings, MS & PhD defenses, and more….
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January 2021
January 28
12:30 pm
Geo Seminar Series
Zoltan Sylvester, UT Austin
Presentation Title: The 3D Geometry of Meandering Cannels: Implications for the Stratigraphic Record
All are Welcome!! All seminars will be virtual until otherwise noted. If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Host: Lisa Stright
February 2021
February 4
12:30 pm
Geo Seminar Series
Joe Sertich, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Presentation Title: Correlation of Dinosaur Ecosystems from the Lost Landmass of Laramidia
All are Welcome!! All seminars will be virtual until otherwise noted. If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
February 11
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
February 25
12:30 pm
Geo Seminar Series
Amy Gilmer, USGS Denver
Presentation Title: Postcaldera Magmatism Associated with the Platoro Caldera Complex, San Juan Volcanic Locus, Colorado
All are Welcome!! All seminars will be virtual until otherwise noted. If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Host: Holly Stein
February 25
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
March 2021
March 11
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
March 12
10:00 am
Master’s Thesis Defense
Andrew Ruetten
Title: Evaluating the impact of hierarchical deep-water slope channel architecture on fluid flow behavior, cretaceous tres pasos formation, Chile
All are Welcome!! If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Stright
March 22
10:00 am
Dissertation Defense
Doug Hultstrand, Watershed Sciences
Dissertation Title:
All are Welcome!! If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Advisor: Steven Fassnacht
March 18
12:30 pm
Geo Seminar Series
Kerstin Braun, Arizona State University
Presentation Title: Mid- to Late- Pleistocene Paleoclimate and Environments in Southern South Africa Reconstructed Using Speleothem Stable Isotopes
All are Welcome!! All seminars will be virtual until otherwise noted. If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Host: Jeremy Rugenstein
March 25
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
April 2021
April 1
12:30 pm
Geosciences Seminar Series
Department GEOSlam
April 8
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
April 22
12:30 pm
Geo Seminar Series
Patrick Ball, Australian National University/CSU
Presentation Title: Global Influence of Mantle Temperature and Plate Thickness on Intraplate Volcanism
All are Welcome!! All seminars will be virtual until otherwise noted. If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Host: Derek Schutt
April 22
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
April 29
12:30 pm
Geo Seminar Series
Boswell Wing, CU Boulder
Presentation Title: An Extraterrestrial Start and Volcanic End to the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction
All are Welcome!! All seminars will be virtual until otherwise noted. If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Host: Judy Hannah
May 2021
May 6
6:00 pm
GeoClub Meeting
May 25
10:00 am
Thesis Defense
Manny Guerzon
Dissertation Title: Rift to Drift Transition in the Deepwater Mentelle Basin
All are Welcome!! If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Advisor: Dennis Harry
May 28
10:00 am
Thesis Defense
Anne Ji
Dissertation Title: Characterization and Prediction of Long-Term Arsenic Mobility, Dissolution, and Kinetic Behavior in Arsenic Contaminated Floodplain Deposits of Whitewood Creek and the Belle Fourche River, South Dakota.
All are Welcome!! If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Advisor: John Ridley
June 2021
June 4
1:00 pm
Thesis Defense
Lucas Zeller
Dissertation Title: Distributed Seasonal and Annual Mass Balance Measurements of Wolverine Glacier, Alaska, Using Geodetic Surveys and Emergence Velocities
All are Welcome!! If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Advisor: Dan McGrath
June 8
11:00 am
Thesis Defense
Amber Lidell
Dissertation Title: Low-Cost Data Loggers for use with the Conductivity Mass Balance Method to Estimate Baseflow at Snowmelt-Dominated Headwater Streams in Northwestern Colorado
All are Welcome!! If you wish to attend, please email for Zoom link.
Faculty Advisor: Bill Sanford
Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectures
The Geological Society of America, Hydrogeology Division selects nominated lecturers based on outstanding contributions to hydrogeology or a closely related field through original research and public communication, and the potential for continued contributions to the profession. In partnership with the CSU Department of Geosciences, we have co-hosted Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturers since 2017.
For more information, please see the CSU Colorado Water Center
