Earth and Environmental Sciences Fall 2025 Rast-Holbrook Seminar Schedule
All seminars will be held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in Mining and Mineral Resources Building Room 102 unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Speaker | Topic / Affiliation |
| Sept. 4 | Dr. Rachel Washburn | University of Kentucky || "Lick Rocks, Save Lives: Geohealth at the Edge of Geology and Medicine" |
| Sept. 11 | Dr. Noah Randolph-Flagg | University of Kentucky || "Alien oceans: hot springs, phosphorus, and the search for life in the solar system" |
| Sept. 18 | Dr. Ryan Thigpen | University of Kentucky || "Where Hurricanes Go to Die: The Generational Fluvial-Geomorphic Helene Event in the Southern Appalachians" |
| Sept. 25 | Dr. Ashley Morris - AWG Tea Time |
University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research || "Engineering Tomorrow: Dr. Morris’s Path in STEM and Passion for Mentoring the Next Generation" |
| Oct. 2 | Dr. Jen O'Keefe | Morehead State University || "Rot in the Fossil Record: a new proxy for ground-level paleoclimate" |
| Oct. 9 | Dr. Pam Muller - AWG Tea Time | University of South Florida || “Why Is Carbonate Production in Geologic History So Challenging to Understand?” |
| October 16 | EES Grad Students - Cavellier, Grove, Morse, & Zierer | GSA Talks |
| Oct. 23 | Dr. Jack Pashin | Distinguished Alumnus || "Curious Concretions of the Criners: The Late Devonian Hangenberg Event in the Southern Oklahoma Transform" |
| Oct. 30 | Dr. Reui-Jiun Hung | University of Kentucky || "Fault damage-induced pore pressure response inferred from very-near-fault observation and modeling" |
| Nov. 6 | Dr. Caleb Walcott-George | University of Kentucky || "Sub-ice sediments and bedrock record periods of reduced northern Greenland Ice Sheet extent: updates from the GreenDrill project" |
| Nov. 13 | Dr. McKenzie Brannon | University of Kentucky || "Nutrient loading and trace metal contamination in two end member lakes that serve as important water resources" |
| Nov. 20 | Dr. Gina Lukoczki | University of Kentucky || "GEMS of Kentucky: Uncovering the Treasures of Critical Mineral Systems Integrating mineral systems research with advanced geoscience tools to unlock Kentucky’s mineral wealth" |
| Nov. 27 | No Seminar - Thanksgiving | |
| Dec. 4 | Dr. Trisha Spanbauer | University of Kentucky || "Vintage DNA, vampires, and the value of reusing paleoecological data" |
| Dec. 11 | No Seminar - Reading Days | |