Spring Term 2025
CEOAS Seminar Series
Usual days, times (Pacific Time), and locations, unless otherwise noted for individual talks.
- Student Seminar (OC 507/607), Mondays from 4 to 5:20 p.m. in Burt 193
- Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres (POA), Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Burt 193
- Water Resources Science, Wednesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. in Burt 193 (unless otherwise noted)
See the water seminar series flyer - Geology and Geophysics, Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. in Burt 193
- Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Fridays from 1 to 2 p.m. in Burt 193
Series Theme: The Geography of Conflict and Cooperation in the “Middle East”
See the geography seminar series flyer. - Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry (OEB), Fridays from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Burt 193
Upcoming Events
Past Events
- Alumni & Friends events and recorded lectures
- Thomas Condon Lectures
- Marston Lectures
- Marine Resource Management (MRM) 50th birthday celebration and alumni reunion
- Earth Day events and recorded lectures
- CEOAS iDean Seminar - Dudley Chelton - Feb. 24, 2023
A 40-year Odysea [sic] to Understand Ocean Winds - 2021 Unpacking Diversity Keynote Lecture: Aradhna Tripati
Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways - 2021 CEOAS Distinguished Professor Lecture: Julia Jones
Ecosystem response to climate change at long-term ecological research sites - 2019 CEOAS Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Gavin Schmidt
Adventures in Climate Science - 2019 Marston Lecture in Geography: Jane Lubchenco
Tackling wicked environmental problems with complex-adaptive-systems thinking - 2019 Distinguished Professor Lecture: Clare Reimers
Carbon cycling at the seafloor: 40 years of advancing science - 2018 New Horizon Lectures: Kelly M. Brunt
ICESat-2: Ice sheets and beyond - 2018 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Rebecca Moore
Earth’s vital signs: Planetary-scale environmental monitoring with Google Earth Engine - 2018 Distinguished Professor Lecture: Edward Brook
The history of the atmosphere and climate from polar ice cores: Is past prologue? - 2018 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Ellen Stofan
Understanding volcanism on Venus: Implications for habitable worlds - 2018 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Ellen Stofan
Searching for life beyond Earth: From Mars to the ocean worlds of the outer solar system - 2017 Distinguished Professor Lecture: Alan Mix
Past dials future: Potential climate tipping points and their impacts in a warming world - 2017 Hydrothermal vents - Three short lectures by Jack Corliss and Robert Collier, Bill Chadwick, and Andrew Thurber
- 2016 Going beyond: Setting an epic world record by Colin O'Brady
- 2016 Marston Lecture in Geography: Alexander B. Murphy
The integration struggle in Europe: Geographical considerations - 2016 Taubeneck Lecture: Leif Karlstrom
Plumbing and eruptive tempos of continental flood basalt provinces - 2016 Distinguished Professor Lecture: Peter Clark
Sea level rise due to global warming: Next 100 to 10,000 years - 2016 Hydrothermal Vent Discovery Lecture: Deborah Kelley
The lost city hydrothermal field - 2016 Hydrothermal Vent Discovery Lecture: Deborah Kelley
Research opportunities using the cabled observatory off the Oregon coast - 2016 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Jessica Tierney
The Green Sahara revisited - 2016 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Jessica Tierney
Pirates, famine, and El Niño: The Horn of Africa under a changing climate - 2016 Pulling back the curtain: A behind-the-scenes look at the changing world of journalism
- 2015 Sustaining global fisheries production: What does it take? by Ray Hilborn
- 2015 Inaugural Marston Lecture in Geography: Richard A. Marston
Physical geography and geographic information science in environmental management: Past lessons and prospects for the future - 2015 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Julie Brigham-Grette
Tracing arctic climate evolution: From a forested arctic to the present - 2015 Two lectures by Rita R. Colwell
Just because you are a pawn, you do not have to lose the game
Oceans, human health and infectious disease: The story of a marine bacterium, Vibrio cholerae - 2015 Hydrothermal Vent Day Lecture: Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Deep-sea hot springs: Challenging our understanding of life on Earth and elsewhere - 2014 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Jerry Mitrovica
Postmodern geophysics and ice age climate - 2014 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Jerry Mitrovica
Taking the fingerprints of global sea level rise - 2013 Distinguished Visiting Lecture: Lynne Talley and Jeff Severinghaus
Air bubbles in ice, salt in the sea: What geochemistry can tell us about climate change - 2013 Five tools of moral reasoning for climate scientists by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson
- 2006 Distinguished Professor Lecture: Patricia A. Wheeler
The Arctic Ocean: Early exploration, recent scientific expeditions and impending climate impacts
- May 25, 2021, Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres Seminar, Ken Hughes, Ocean flow through an ice mélange
- March 11, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Simone Runyon (She/Her; University of Wyoming), , Root zones of porphyry copper systems
- March 4, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Claire Masteller (She/Her; Washington University in St. Louis), The effects of variable wave forcing on rocky coast evolution
- February 25, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer (She/Her; Montana State University), Quaternary climate and landscape history recorded in aeolian (windblown) sand, southern Colorado Plateau
- February 11, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Earle Wilson (he/him; Caltech), Subpolar gyres and the Southern Ocean overturning circulation.
- February 4, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Adriana Guatame-Garcia (she/her; TU Delft - Netherlands), When is the right time to start using sensors for sustainable mineral recovery?
- January 14, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Isabelle Chambefort, From a Ph.D. on a gold system in Bulgaria to leading the high temperature supercritical geothermal programme of New Zealand: How a holistic approach about hydrothermal systems shaped a career, recording access passcode: ?KcFF%M4
- January 7, 2021, Geology & Geophysics Seminar and Pathways to your Career Discussion, Dr. Haunani Hiʻilani Kane, Shifting the way we see climate change: A native islander's perspective of interpreting geologic proxies