Fall 2020
September 1
Welcome Party: Department of Earth and Climate Sciences
Petra Dekens, Department Chair
September 8
Faculty Spotlight: A re-examination of the Southern Death Valley fault zone
John Caskey, San Francisco State University
September 15
>Characterizing the critical zone structure along the ridges and valleys in the Great Valley Sequence of Northern California using Bayesian seismic refraction inversion and borehole drilling
Mong-Han Huang, University of Maryland
September 22
Christine Hatch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
October 6
Extreme wildfire behavior associated with complex terrain
Craig Clements, San Jose State University
October 13
Integrating virtual fieldwork, paleontology, and visualization tools to enhance geoscience instruction for diverse audiences
Lisa White, University of California Museum of Paleontology
October 20
Stories From the Ice: Perspectives From New Canadian Arctic Ice Cores
Alison Criscitiello, Canadian Ice Core Lab, University of Alberta
October 27
Past Assessment and Future Needs to Improve Forecasts of Water in the U.S.
Aubrey Dugger, National Center for Atmospheric Research
November 3
Election Day - Vote: No speaker series
November 10
Distinguished Dawdy Lecture in Hydrologic Sciences
Snow Albedo: How it changes and why you should care
Jeff Dozier, University of California Santa Barbara
November 17
Student Thesis Defense
Recovering climate signals from tree-ring color in the dry Sierra Nevada of California
Natasha Fazeli, San Francisco State University
December 1
Challenges in Integrating Ecosystem Services in Landscape Planning and Decision Making
Noel Aloysius, University of Missouri
December 8
Senior Projects Meeting (ECS Dept)
Faculty of Dept of Earth and Climate Sciences, SFSU