Earth Sciences Seminars
Thank you for your participation in our seminar series! Your attendance at the weekly seminars is very much appreciated by the students and faculty of Earth Sciences.
Seminar takes place each Thursday from 12:15-1:30 pm in the Byker Auditorium (CBB 3). Please contact the department at earth@montana.edu with any questions.
Spring 2025 Schedule
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Topic |
| 1/16 | Dr. Christopher Organ, Assistant Professors in Earth Sciences, Montana State University |
Seminar Guidelines and course requirements |
| 1/23 | NONE | NONE |
| 1/30 | Shanara Spang Gion, Candidate for Human-Environmental Geography, University of Idaho |
Indigenous Geographies: Relationality & Governance |
| 2/6 | NONE | NONE |
| 2/13 | Dr. Devon Dunmire, Snow Science Candidate & Post-Doctoral Scholar, KU Leuven, Belgium |
Data-Driven Insights: Exploring Earth's Snowy Regions with Satellites and Data Science |
| 2/20 | Marianne Cowherd, Snow Science Candidate & PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley |
Snow measurements in a changing climate: from ground observations to machine learning |
| 2/27 | Sale Rhodes, PhD Candidate in Earth Sciences, Montana State University |
Ecological Drought in Montana: Practitioner Perspectives, Needs, and Knowledge Sharing |
| 3/6 | Stacy Henderson, PhD Candidate in Earth Sciences, Montana State University |
It's Tuff Out There: Reevaluating the Lava Creek Tuff, Yellowstone |
| 3/13 |
Dr. Kerstin Cullen, |
Deep Learning predictions of SST in the Gulf Stream with links to global teleconnections |
| 3/20 - Spring Break | NONE | NONE |
| 3/27 | Jingmai O'Connor, Field Museum of Natural History |
The Bizarre Biology of Enantiornithes: The First Major Avian Radiation |
| 4/3 | NONE | NONE |
| 4/10 - @ Lewis Hall 304 | Natali Kragh, PhD Candidate in Earth Sciences, Montana State University |
From sink to source: Using volcaniclastic material to investigate magma origins |
| 4/17 - @ Lewis Hall 304 | Chris Venditti, Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading, UK |
New Phylogenetic Insights into Hominin Brain Evolution and the Influence of Climate |
| 4/24 | Dr. Jean Dixon Associate Professor, Montana State University |
TBA |
| 5/1 - @ Lewis Hall 304 | TBA | TBA |
Please check back frequently for updates to the seminar schedule.
To request disability accommodation or inform us of special needs, please contact Claudia Albrecht at claudia.albrecht@montana.edu or 406-994-3331.