Spring, 2020 Colloquium
Thursdays, 3:30 PM, unless otherwise indicated
Tentative Location: Room 2079 Natural History Building
Post-talk reception: Natural History Building Rm. 3083 - "The Core"
Jan. 23 "Balancing Curiosity-Driven Research with Convergent Research at NSF-What it takes to Understand and Predict the Earth System", Dr. William Easterling, National Science Foundation
Jan. 30 "New Insights into North America's Midcontinent Rift", Carol Stein , University of Illinois at Chicago (Host: Song)
Feb. 6 Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geoscience
"Is subsurface plumbing responding to climate and land use changes in the Anthropocene and does it matter?", Pam Sullivan, Oregon State University (Host: Druhan)
Feb. 13 No Colloquium (Research Review)
Feb. 20 "Journey to the tallest mountains and deepest interior of the Earth", Xiaodong Song, UIUC
Feb. 27 Kirkpatrick Lecture
"Tracking the magmatic-hydrothermal transition in magma reservoirs: From Yellowstone zircons to Namibian pegmatites", Juliana Troch, ETH Zurich and Brown University (Host: Lundstrom)
Mar. 5 “Leveraging Climate Research & Outreach to Improve Resiliency to Extreme Events”,Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist (Host: Conroy)
Mar. 19 No Colloquium (Spring Break)
Mar. 26 "Post-glacial Landscape and critical Zone Evolution in the Central Lowlands", Alison Anders, UIUC
Apr. 2 "Composition and evolution of cratonic lithosphere: Knowns and unknowns", Lijun Liu, UIUC
Apr. 9 "The Conquest of the Wilderness and the Historic Origins of Geology Culture", Stephen K. Boss, University of Arkansas (Host: Sherilyn Williams-Stroud/ISGS)
Apr. 16 "Imaging the reactive transport properties of shales across scale", Jenny Druhan, UIUC
Apr. 23 "Cambodia's Great Lake- the Tolé Sap: evolution and current anthropogenic stresses in the Mekong River Basin", Jim Best, UIUC
Apr. 30 "The most important substance on Earth", Craig Lundstrom, UIUC