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 |
| September 4 | Dr. Rachel Washburn | University of Kentucky || "Lick Rocks, Save Lives: Geohealth at the Edge of Geology and Medicine" |
| September 11 | Dr. Noah Randolph-Flagg | University of Kentucky || "Alien oceans: hot springs, phosphorus, and the search for life in the solar system" |
| September 18 | Dr. Ryan Thigpen | University of Kentucky || "Where Hurricanes Go to Die: The Generational Fluvial-Geomorphic Helene Event in the Southern Appalachians" |
| September 25 | Dr. Ashley Morris | University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research || AWG Tea Time |
| October 2 | Dr. Jen O'Keefe | Morehead State University || "Rot in the Fossil Record: a new proxy for ground-level paleoclimate" |
| October 9 | Dr. Pam Muller | University of South Florida || AWG Tea Time |
| October 16 | TBA | |
| October 23 | Dr. Jack Pashin | Distinguished Alumnus || "Curious Concretions of the Criners: The Late Devonian Hangenberg Event in the Southern Oklahoma Transform" |
| October 30 | Dr. Reui-Jiun Hung | San Diego State University |
| November 6 | Dr. Caleb Walcott-George | University of Kentucky |
| November 13 | Dr. McKenzie Brannon | University of Kentucky |
| November 20 | Dr. Gina Lukoczki | University of Kentucky |
| November 27 | No Seminar - Thanksgiving | |
| December 4 | Dr. Trisha Spanbauer | University of Kentucky |
| December 11 | No Seminar - Reading Days | |