Fall 2017
September 5
Welcome Party
(1PM-2PM), TH 604
September 12
Department Lightning Talks
September 19
CO2 storage in geologic formations: experimental investigations of residual trapping and long term stability
Charlotte Garing
Department of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
September 26th
Earth Scientists Engaging in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Jason Gurdak
Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, San Francisco State University
October 10th
Feedbacks between glacial stratigraphy, landslide hazards, and landscape evolution in NW Washington State
Jonathan Perkins
United States Geological Survey
Alumni Speaker
October 17th
Wind modulation of upwelling at the shelf-break front front off Patagonia: Observational Evidence
Magdalena Carranza
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
October 24th
Dawdy Lecture in Hydrologic Sciences
Modeling systems for the evaluation of water management alternatives to protect groundwater-dependent ecosystems
Laura Foglia
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California Davis
November 7th
Corals as a Proxy for Ocean and Climate Variability
Amy Wagner
Geology Department, California State University, Sacramento
November 14th
Why do we care about transient aseismic slip faults?
Baptiste Rousset
Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley
November 28th
Icy ocean world interiors from gravity and topography
Doug Hemingway
Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley
December 5th
Quaternary Geology of California's Galápagos--Channel Islands National Park
Kevin Schmidt
United States Geological Survey
December 7th
M.S. Thesis Defense
Correlation of erupted plutonic class and volcanic deposits from Newberry Volcano, Oregon
Katie Sullivan
Spring 2018
January 30th
Multiple Meteoroid Impacts In Antarctica And The Mid-Brunhes Event/MIS 11 Stage: Are There Implications For Humanity?
Alan Rice
Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, San Francisco State University
February 6th
Pluvial lakes in the western United States: Reconstructing El Niño, storm tracks, and the water cycle
Daniel Ibarra
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford
February 13th
Coastal low cloudiness and fog enhanced ground water use efficiency in a California agricultural system
Sara Baguskas
Department of Geography & Environment, San Francisco State University
February 20th
Preservation of climatic and environmental signals in and across alluvial piedmonts
Luca Malatesta
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz
February 27th
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum shows little impact on shallow marine mollusks
Carlie Pietsh
March 6th
Finding the soil moisture velocity equation
Fred Ogden
College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wyoming
Semiannual Dawdy Lecture in the Hydrologic Sciences
March 13th
Challenges of Climate Change for Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Ecosystem Services-California Case Studies
Qinqin Liu
Department of Water Resources
April 3rd
Ice cores and aerosols: Insights from latest generation continuous ice core analyses
Joe McConnell
Desert Research Institute
April 10th
Climate and hydrological controls on groundwater surface-water interations and the hyporheic zone function
Michelle Newcomer (Alumni Speaker)
April 17th
Implications of Liebig's Law on the minimum for tree-ring reconstructions of climate
Zan Stine
Professsor of Oceanography, Department of Earth & Climate Sciences
San Francisco State University
April 24th
Graduate Student Thesis Proposal Presentations
Jessica Rodriguez, Deandra Alvear, Lawrence Fujiwara, Jeremiah Smith
May 1st
Sonicah Sanon (MS)
The Possible Implications of Stromatolite Morphology and Lamination
Advisor: Dr. Yadira Ibarra
Cassandra Wolf (MS)
Evaluating Factors that Control Diffuse and Irrigation Recharge in Thick Vadose Zone Under Climate Variability and Change
Advisor: Dr. Jason Gurdak
May 8th
Juliana Matranga (BS)
Evaluating High Resolution Numerical Model Forecasts of Wind Speeds in the San Francisco Bay Area
Advisor: Dr. Dave Dempsey
Nick Carver (BS)
Effect of Climate on Annual Pinus Ponderosa Growth in Central Sierra Nevada Foothills: Potential for Climate Reconstruction
Advisor: Dr. Zan Stine
May 15th
Brandon Swanson (MS)
Pressure-Temperature Conditions of Kyanite-bearing Migmatites at Ledge Mountain in the Central Adirondack Highlands
Advisor: Dr. Mary Leech
Mobin Mahmoudi (MS)
Comparing Model Predictions of Hillslope Sediment Size Diistribution with Field Measurements
Advisor: Dr. Leonard Sklar
Olivia Wilbur (BS)
Pacific Island Groundwater Response to Climate Variability
Advisor: Dr. Jason Gurdak
May 17th
Nick Carver (BS)
Effect of Climate on Annual Pinus Ponderosa Growth in Central Sierra Nevada Foothills: Potential for Climate Reconstruction
Advisor: Dr. Zan Stine