Fall 2021
August 30
Welcome Back Party
Petra Dekens, Department Chair
September 27
Distinguished Dawdy Lecture in Hydrological Sciences
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
October 4
Some light on the tree ring divergence problem
Zan Stine, Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, SFSU
October 11
Regulating Sulfur Hexafluoride Emissions from the Electricity Sector (a case study to apply your climate science degree)
Lan Ma, Air Resources Board
October 18
Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on Midlatitude Flow
Malori Redman, Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, SFSU
November 1
The social justice implications of energy efficiency: What do we know and what do we need to know?
Autumn Thoyre, Environmental Studies Program, SFSU
November 8
Perseverance Rover's Early Adventures in Jezero Crater, Mars
Kim Steadman and Sarah Milkovich, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
November 15
TBA
November 29
Sweaty Rocks and Supercontinents
Mary Leech, San Francisco State University
December 6
River Mechanics: How rivers warm and river rocks round
Erin Bray, San Francisco State University
Spring 2022
February 8
Welcome Back Party
Petra Dekens, Department Chair
February 15
Internal Waves, Submesoscales, and Ocean Mixing
Anna Savage, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
February 22
TBD
March 8
Hydrology, Hydropower, and Adaptive Water Management
Catherine Percival, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
March 15
Post-Wildfire Geologic Hazard Assessment of the 2020 Bond Fire and HIllslope Response to Significant Storms During Year-one of the Burn Scar Recovery
John Oswald, California Geological Survey
March 29
Remote Sensing of Forest Structure in Colombia: Applications for Biodiversity and Conservation
Patrick Jantz, Northern Arizona University
April 5
Contaminant Transport and Supreme Court Water Wars—A Geoscientists Journey through the Scientific, Legal, and Regulatory Worlds
Matthew Tymchak, Gradient Corporation
April 12
Scientific Python: Past, Future, and Present
Jarrod Millman, UC Berkeley
April 19
New slip rates on primary strands of the northern and southern San Andreas fault: implications on kinematic models and earthquake probability models for California
Kim Blisniuk, San Jose State University
May 3
Design of Unmanned Aerial System based Wireless Sensor Network for Irrigation Management in the Midwestern US
Jas Singh, University of Missouri
May 5
Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Defense
Climate Interference in Islamic Egypt
Wesley Mariscal, San Francisco State University
May 10
Jonathan Pressley and Triana Anderson, San Francisco State University
May 12
Matthew Cardona and Zachary Smirnov, San Francisco State University