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,
Research Affiliate in Earth Sciences,
Montana State University

 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		 PhD Seminar Talk
4/17 - @ Lewis Hall 304 Chris Venditti,
University of Reading, UK		 TBA
4/24 NONE NONE

Please check back frequently for updates to the seminar schedule.

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