Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Aug. 29

No Seminar

Opening of Term

Sept. 5

Philip Prince

Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources

Stream piracy, river jacks, and geology's cheapest Ph.D.: Real stories of Appalachian geomorphology from southwest Virginia

Sept. 12

Dr. Alastair Ruffell

Queen’s University - Belfast

The Carnian (late Triassic) Pluvial Episode:

how the modern world began

Sept. 26

No Seminar

GSA Annual Meeting Phoenix

Oct. 3

Faculty and Students

UK EES

Geology Alumni Research Symposium 1:30-3:30  p.m.

Rachel Wood

University of Edinburgh

What triggered the Cambrian Explosion?

Oct. 10

Brad Thomson

University of Tennessee

Lunar ice deposits

Oct. 17

Geoff Plumlee

USGS (Reston)

TBA

Oct. 24

No Seminar

Fall Break Week (Oct. 21-22)

Oct. 31

Christopher Atchison

University of Cincinnati, International Association for Geoscience Diversity

“Moving beyond tradition: Rethinking field-based teaching and learning in the geosciences”

Nov. 7

Sean Trim

Univ. Saskatchewan

The impact of mantle compositional properties on lithospheric mobility in the early Earth

Nov. 14

Zhenming Wang

Kentucky Geological Survey

Iben Browning’s New Madrid earthquake prediction and its impact

Nov. 21

Amy Wolfe

Kentucky Geological Survey

Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources: A Case Study in the Raton Basin, CO

Nov. 28

No Seminar

Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec. 5

EES Graduate Students

Brandon Spencer

Jonathan Wilson

TBA