Earth and Environmental Sciences Spring 2026 Rast-Holbrook Seminar Schedule
All seminars will be at 4 p.m. Thursdays in Mining and Mineral Resources Building Room 102 unless otherwise indicated. The zoom link for this semester is: https://uky.zoom.us/j/84385419652?pwd=fiF3XhhRd4ha1yqhzQkArMbAVli23a.1
The meeting ID is 843 8541 9652 and the passcode is 636225.
| Date | Speaker | Topic / Affiliation |
| Jan. 22 | Dr. Nabil Al Aamery | University of Kentucky || "Climate Change Impacts on Precipitation and Flooding in Kentucky" |
| Jan. 29 | Dr. Mochi Liao | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign || “Advancing extremes: precipitation measurement, prediction, and flood forecasting” |
| Feb. 5 | No Seminar | |
| Feb. 12 | Dr. Junfeng Zhu | University of Kentucky || Using deep leaning image segmentation models for karst and sinkhole hazard assessment |
| Feb. 26 | Dr. Guta Abeshu | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory || "Hydrological Patterns, Functions and Processes Across Scales" |
| March 2 | Dr. Joel Leonard | New Mexico Tech || "Tackling big questions through interdisciplinary approaches: Linking geologic, hydrologic, and geomorphic processes across space and time" |
| March 5 | Dr. Yuqi Song | Louisiana State University || "Building Quantitative Hydrogeologic Frameworks for Groundwater Resilience in Kentucky" |
| March 12 | No Seminar - GSA | |
| March 19 | No Seminar - Spring Break | |
| March 24 | Dr. Craig Brinkerhoff | Yale University || "Taking the pulse of global rivers" |
| March 26 | Dr. Corey Scheip | BGC Engineering || "Innovations in the Geosciences: Making Contributions From Within a Not-So-Typical consulting Firm" Cancelled |
| April 2 | Dr. Sarah Johnson | University of Kentucky || "Can High-Resolution Mapping Help Forecast Destructive Landslides?" |
| April 9 | Dr. Gabriella B. Kiss | Eötvös Loránd University || Mississippi Valley-type mineralization along the Periadriatic-Balaton lineament |
| April 16 | Dr. Nick Meszaros | Northern Kentucky University || "Deciphering the origin of zonation in crystals from volcanic rocks via integration of mineral compositions, crystallization ages, and rock microstructures" |
| April 23 | Megan Ginther & Joy Jackson |
University of Kentucky || ASLO Talks Megan Ginther - "Lake Erie phytoplankton and non-indigenous species histories revealed through aeDNA" Joy Jackson - "Diatom traits and geochemical data provide evidence for a shift in primary production driven by eutrophication" |