Geology and Geophysics Seminar

Fall 2026 
GEO 407/507/607

Thursdays at 4 p.m. in Burt 193
(unless otherwise indicated)

 

DateSpeakerAffiliationTalk Title
10/1/26Chris SullivanCEOAS Director of Research and Academic ComputingIntroduction to Artificial Intelligence
10/8/26Larry O'Neill
(Curiosity Collective Speaker)
CEOAS Associate Professor and Director of the Oregon Climate ServiceHow Wild Could This Winter Be? El Niño 2026 and Oregon’s Weather
10/15/26Cedric HagenNational Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and Battelle Memorial InstituteEnvironmental Science and Artificial Intelligence: From Observation to Forecasting
10/22/26Marty FiskCEOAS Professor EmeritusAbiotic organic synthesis on terrestrial planets by sulfide minerals in basalt vesicles
10/29/26Gene HumphreysUniversity of Oregon Professor of GeophysicsThe Columbia River flood basalts, lithospheric instability and insight into Pacific NW construction and some Earth processes.
11/5/26Scott FehanResearch Hydrologist, Cascade Volcano ObservatoryRevealing landscape dynamics through a rapidly eroding volcaniclastic deposit
11/12/26Jacquelyn Gill
(Thomas Condon Lecture Speaker
Professor of Paleoecology, University of MaineThinking in Mammoth Time: What Lost Ecosystems Can Teach Us About Our Living Planet
11/19/26Haskelle WhitePh.D. graduate student at University of WashingtonVenus as a Solar System Analog for Understanding Exoplanet Habitability and Biosignatures
11/26/26Thanksgiving  
12/3/26No lecture