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
This talk is virtual at 6 p.m. Please register at The Curiosity Collective page.
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 EmeritusBubbles in Lava and the Origin of Life
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