The Department of Geological Sciences hosts an active program for geology seminars.  Our seminar series was made possible by ConocoPhillips Alaska, through their generous donation to UAA Geological Sciences.

• Spring 2023 Seminar Series

   Presentations are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM by Zoom. Using the following Zoom link, you can attend the virtual lectures.

  Date	Presenter	Seminar Title/Topic
  1/26	Emily Martin Smithsonian Institute	How deep is the cryovolcanic snow on Saturn's moon Enceladus?
  2/2	Mike Rieser (in-person)  Teck Alaska	Recent Water Quality Changes in Northwest Alaska Observations from the Red Dog Mine Area
  2/9	Shannon Hibbard (in-person)  JPL	Surface Morphology and Subsurface Ice Contact Relationships in Arcadia Planitia Mars and the Canadian High Arctic
  2/16	Mike Poland Yellowstone Volcano Observatory	The Yellowstone Volcanic System: Sharing the Science and Debunking the Myths
  2/23	Jennifer Athey DNR	Radon Education In Geographically Challenging and Geologically Dynamic Alaska
  3/2	J. Huntley University of  Missouri	Parasite-host interactions and their response to climate change
  3/9	S. Sepulveda Simon Frasier University	Landslides and deglaciation in Patagonia, Central Chile and British Columbia
  3/23	Jennifer Wadsworth BP America	Using Image Log Analysis to Discriminate Sedimentary Procresses in Deepwater Deposits
  3/30	Sam Howell JPL - Europa Clipper team	Looking for life in an alien ocean: Past, present, and potential future exploration of Europa
  4/6	Elisabeth Nadin (in-person)  University of Alaska Fairbanks	Talkeetna Mountains work
  4/13	Kellen Gunderson Zanskar Geothermal	Geothermal Exploration in the Great Basin
  4/20	Nathan Stansell Northern Illinois University	Glacier Change in the Peruvian Andes
  4/27	Graduate Students Showcase

• Fall 2022 Seminar Series

   Presentations are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM by Zoom. Meeting ID: 871 2732 8035 Passcode: 152627

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  Please check back, additional presentations will be added for this semester!

  Date	Presenter	Seminar Title/Topic
  9/8	Jamey Jones United States Geological Survey (USGS)	Alaska’s critical mineral resources
  9/15	Trevor Waldien South Dakota School of Mines	Interactions among inherited plate boundaries, slip rate gradients, and lithospheric structure in the Alaska Range, southern Alaska
  9/29	Emily Cahoon Oregon State University	Geoscience Careers: Academia vs Industry (what pays the bills, what advances your career, & what makes you happy)
  10/13	Adrian Bender United States Geological Survey (USGS)	Rapid active thrust faulting at the northern Alaska Range front
  10/20	Robert McDermott United States Geological Survey (USGS)	Deciphering (a)seismic slip mechanisms on hematite fault mirrors with (U-Th)/He thermochronometry and microtextures
  10/27	Philipp Ruprecht University of Nevada-Reno	From magma generation to eruption: New insights from the 2018 Veniaminof eruption
  11/3	Arijit Mitra ConocoPhillips	Why a Geoscientist is critical to successful oil & gas exploration and development
  11/10	Sonia Nagorski University of Alaska Southeast	Mercury sources, transport, and fate in southeast Alaskan watersheds
  11/17	Thomas Monecke Colorado School of Mines	Geological Exploration Guidelines for VMS Deposits
  12/1	Graduate Students Show Case	Cameron Kuhle, Logan Wieland, Robin Van Auken

   

• Spring 2022 Seminar Series

   Presentations are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM by Zoom.

    Join us on Zoom!

   Please check back, additional presentations will be added for this semester!

  Date	Presenter	Seminar Title/Topic
  1/20	Shannon MacKenzie Johns Hopkin APL	Saturn’s moon Titan and the Dragonfly mission
  1/27	Amanda Garcia University of Wisconsin Madison	Biogeology and ancestral protein reconstruction
  2/3	Adrian Bender United States Geological Survey (USGS)	Alaska geomorphology and neotectonics
  2/10	Jen Scully Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Asteroid geology and analog experiments
  2/17	Simon Zwieback University of Alaska-Fairbanks	Remote Sensing in the interior of Alaska
  2/24	Melissa Anderson University of Toronto	Economic geology and seafloor remote sensing
  3/3	Juan Lora Yale University	Atmospheric rivers and circulation models
  3/17	Karl Butler University of New Brunswick	Near-surface geophysics and applications to civil engineering and hydrogeology
  3/24	Kynan Hughson University of Alaska-Anchorage	Geophysical and remote sensing studies of pingo with applications to planetary science
  3/31	Winnie Chu Georgia Tech University	Glaciology and ice mechanics
  4/7	Gabe Eggers Lunar and Planetary Institute	Volcanism throughout the solar system
  4/14	Mackenzie Day University of California-LA	Aeolian processes and dunefield mechanics
  4/21	Graduate Student Showcase	Graduate Student Showcase

• Fall 2021 Seminar Series

  Date	Presenter	Seminar Title
  9/2	Barb Tewksbury Hamilton College	Enigma in the Desert: Discovery of an Extensive Network of Non-Tectonic Synclines in Eocene Limestone in Egypt and the Search for a Plausible Origin
  9/9	Melinda Webster UAF	Characterizing the spatio-temporal evolution of melt ponds on the MOSAiC expedition
  9/16	Folarin (Fola) Kolawole BP America	When Continents Stretch, Their Cracks Grow: Insights from Juvenile Rifting in East Africa
  9/23	Caitlin Ahrens NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Mysterious, Marvelous Cryogeology across the Solar System
  9/30	Hannah Dieterich USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory	Cloudy with a chance of lava flows: forecasting lava flow dynamics at Kīlauea Volcano with remote sensing
  10/07	Daniel Stockli University of Texas at Austin	Along the road of bones: Geology in the Verkhoyansk fold and thrust belt, E. Siberia
  10/14	Cathy Busby University of California, Davis	Tectonic Evolution of the Ancestral Cascades Arc and Walker Lane, California
  10/21	Dallam Masterson Consulting Geologist	Petroleum Systems of the Central Alaskan North Slope
  10/28	James Muirhead University of Auckland, New Zealand	Impact of magma, volatiles and climate on continental rift development
  11/4	Stephen Holtkamp Alaska Earthquake Center, UAF	Not just a seismology shop: Multidisciplinary response to the Simeanof and Chignik megathrust earthquakes at the Alaska Earthquake Center
  11/11	Scott Bennett USGS	The Most Recent Earthquake On The Mount Hood Fault Zone: Implications For Cascading Earthquake, Landslide, And Flood Multi-Hazards In The Columbia River
  11/18	Joshua Long USGS	Stratigraphic Architecture and Depositional Facies of the Late Cretaceous Tuluvak Formation, Central North Slope of Alaska
  11/25	Thanksgiving
  12/2	Graduate Students University of Alaska Anchorage

• Spring 2021 Seminar Series

  Date	Presenter	Seminar Title
  1/14	Bob Bodnar Virginia Tech	A new paradigm for pegmatite formation: Generation of pegmatitic textures in a closed, isochoric system
  1/21	John Eichelberger UAF	Drilling to Magma
  1/28	John Cottle UCSB	Using Petrochronology to Unravel the Metamorphic and Magmatic Development of Orogenic Systems
  2/4	Jenna Adams Colorado School of Mines	Unusual isotopes and inclusions breathe life into our understanding of the role of sediment recycling in ocean island magma genesis
  2/11	Peter Haeussler USGS	Glacial history, retreat, and hazard of southcentral Alaska
  2/18	Rachel Lauer University of Calgary	Submarine hydrogeology: from the ridge flank to the Middle America trench, Costa Rica
  2/25	Lucy McGee University of Adelaide	The geochemistry of tiny volcanoes: answering big questions about mantle melting
  3/4	Zhyhang Li University of Alaska Anchorage	Constraining the Effects of Dynamic Topography on the Development of Late Cretaceous Cordilleran Foreland Basin, Western United States
  3/18	Adam Simon University of Michigan	The Formation of Iron Oxide - Apatite (IOA) and Iron Oxide - Copper - Gold (IOCG) Mineral Deposits: Implications for Sustainable Development
  3/25	Stephen Elardo University of Florida	Planetary Accretion and Differentiation as Witnessed by Iron Isotopes
  4/1	Linda Daniele  University of Chile	Constraining Groundwater Circulation in the Chilean Andes
  4/8	Simon Kattenhorn University of Alaska Anchorage
  4/15	John Mavrogenes Australian National University
  4/22	Graduate Students University of Alaska Anchorage

• Spring 2020 Seminar Series 

  All seminars are located in the Social Sciences Building, RM 118 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm unless otherwise noted.

  Date	Presenter	Seminar Title
  1/22 5:15-6:30	Cynthia Palomares Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists	Hazardous Waste Management
  01/30	Julie Dumoulin USGS	Nature, Origin, and History of the Farewell Terrane, Interior Alaska
  02/06	Gabrielle Tepp AVO	Detecting and Characterizing Submarine Volcanic Eruptions from Land and Sea
  02/13	Zhiyang Li University of Alaska Anchorage	Sedimentary and petrographic characteristics of some offshore mudstones in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway
  02/20	Lindsay Lowe Worthington University of New Mexico (Ocean Discovery Lecture)	Buried Alive? How sediments shut down faults in the Gulf of Alaska
  02/27	Munk & Klein (EPSCOR) University of Alaska Anchorage	Alaska EPSCoR Fire & Ice Project: Investigating impacts of a shifting climate on coastal and boreal forest ecosystems in Alaska
  03/05	Matt Loewen  AVO	Exploding basalts: Recent eruptions from Bogoslof (2017), Veniaminof (2018), and Shishaldin (2019) in Alaska
  03/05	Matt Loewen  AVO
  03/19	Amanda Lanik National Park Service	Managing paleontological resources in Alaska’s National Parks: challenges, new tools, and the discovery of Paleozoic fossils in Kenai Fjords National Park
  03/26	Birgit Hagedorn Sustainable Earth Research	Greenland Ice Sheet hydrology and insights from its water chemistry
  04/02	Shuvajit Bhattacharya University of Alaska Anchorage
  04/09	Steve Hasiotis University of Kansas	Integrating Ichnology, Sedimentology, and Paleopedology in Continental Deposits
  04/16	Jaime Barnes UT-Austin (AWG Distinguished Lecturer)
  04/23	Graduate Student Showcase

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• Fall 2019 Seminar Series

  Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Seminar Title
  09/05 4-5pm	SSB 118	Simon Kattenhorn University of Alaska Anchorage	The Hat Creek Fault, Northern California: Earthquake Hazard from a Segmented Normal Fault System
  09/12 4-5pm	SSB 118	Tyrone Rooney Michigan State University	The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa and its role in the distruction of the African lithosphere.
  09/19 4-5pm	SSB 118	Richard Lease USGS	Patterns, pulses, and periodicity of mountain building processes in Alaska
  09/26 4-5pm	SSB 118	Mike McCrum Bureau of Land Management	A Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study on the Red Devil Mercury Mine, Southwest, Alaska
  10/03 4-5pm	SSB 118	Matt Haney Alaska Vocano Observatory	Earth, wind and fire (and water): Monitoring volcanic eruptions with all flavors of mechanical waves
  10/10 4-5pm	SSB 118	Laura Gregersen Alaska Division of Natural Resources	The History and Areal Distribution of Exploration Drilling Targets Categorized by Play Type, North Slope and Offshore Arctic Alaska
  10/17 4-5pm	SSB 118	Trent Hubbard DGGS	North Slope Sand and Gravel Resource Assessment: Terrain Unit Mapping and Near-surface Materials Evaluation
  10/24 4-5pm	SSB 118	Elena Suleimani Alaska Earthquake Center	Tsunamis in Alaska and around the world
  10/31 4-5pm	SSB 118	Geology Town Hall
  11/07 4-5pm	SSB 118	Jeffrey Urbanus Department of Watershed Management	Factors Contributing to the Formation of Aufeis in Anchorage and Strategies for Control and Mitigation
  11/14 4-5pm	SSB 118	Susan Karl USGS	GIS-based analysis of mineral resource portential in Alaska
  11/21 4-5pm	SSB 118	Robert Blodgett Blodgett & Associates, LLC (Consulting Geologists)	"From Russia With Love" or the Siberian and Uralian origins of Alaska's Accreted Terranes
  12/05 4-5pm	SSB 118	Graduate Student showcase	Scott Pantaleone and Dan Coffey

• Spring 2019 Seminar Series

  Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Seminar Title
  01/24 4-5pm	SSB 118	Basil Tikoff (University of Wisconsin, Earthscope)	The jagged western edge of North America: The profound influence of Precambrian rifting on subsequent mountain building
  01/31 4-5pm	SSB 118	Dr. Utpal Dutta (Professor, UAA, Civil Engineering)	Seismic Microzonation Program of Anchorage: Analysis of Ground Motions during the 30th November 2018 Anchorage Earthquake
  02/7 4-5pm	SSB 118	John Thornley (Golder Associates)	The November 30, 2018 Anchorage Earthquake – How Geology Turns into Building Code
  02/14 4-5pm	SSB 118	Brian Tattich (Bristol University, UK)	Degassing and Metals: Volcanoes, Geothermal Reservoirs and Ore Deposits
  2/21 4-5pm	SSB 118	Peter Haeussler (USGS)	The monsters under the bed: Active faults and developments in understanding earthquake sources for southcentral Alaska
  2/28 4-5pm	SSB 118	Dorn Van Dommelen (Professor, UAA, Geography & Environmental Studies)	Teaching with Google Mapping Tools
  3/7 4-5pm	SSB 118	Hannah Dietterich (AVO)	Assessing the eruptive history and volcanic hazards in Harrat Rahat volcanic field, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  3/21 4-5pm	SSB 118	Shuvajit Bhattacharya and the Imperial Barrel Award presenters	Reservoir Evaluations of Spain
  3/28 4-5pm	SSB 118	Marjorie Chan (UofU, EarthCube DL)	The Future of Sedimentology on Earth and Mars
  4/4 4-5pm	SSB 118	Daniel Ibarra (Stanford University)	The Neogene climate of western North America
  4/11 4-5pm	SSB 118	John Eichelberger (UAF)	The Stratified Magma Chamber Myth: Insights from the Great Alaska Eruption of 1912
  4/18 4-5pm	SSB 118	Nathan Wolf (APU)	Stable Isotopes in Animal Ecology: you are what you eat... sort of
  4/25 4-5pm	SSB 118	Student Showcase

• Spring 2018 Seminar Series

  Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Seminar Title
  01/25 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Peter Haeussler (USGS)	The 2015 Taan Fiord, Alaska, landslide and tsunami - a consequence of glacial retreat
  02/01 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Seth Burgess (USGS-CalVO)	Deciphering the cause(s) of mass extinction
  02/08 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Emily Martin (Smithsonian Institution) and Alex Patthoff (PSI)	Using Enceladus's complex surface to reconstruct a complex history
  02/15 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Matthew Loewen (USGS-AVO)	Episodic melting, crystallization and eruption of Yellowstone's Central Plateau Member rhyolite lavas
  02/22 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Erin Shea (UAA)	The End Game of Arc Magmatism: Using geochronolgy and geochemistry to understand how arcs shut off
  03/01 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Samuel Zipper (University of Victoria)	Water Science for the Anthropocene: Eco-hydrogeologic feedbacks following land cover change
  03/08 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Simon Kattenhorn (UAA)	The Evolution of Young Continental Rifts: The East African Rift in Kenya and Tanzania
  03/22 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Shuvajit Bhattacharya (UAA)	IBA (Imperial Barrel Award) UAA Team presentation
  03/29 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Thomas Homza (Shell)	Geologic interpretations beneath the US Chukchi Sea
  04/05 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Kristi Wallace (USGS-AVO)	Discriminating the eruptive sequence of the circa 3.6 ka Hayes set H to improve its use as a chronostratigraphic marker
  04/12 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	UAA Geology Graduate Students	Graduate Student Research Showcase
  04/19 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	Elisabeth Nadin (UAF)	The shifting pieces of the southern Alaska puzzle
  04/26 4pm-5pm	SSB 118	David Lepain (ADGGS)	Contrasting Middle and Late Jurassic deepwater successions in lower Cook Inlet and implications for arc-proximal forearc basin paleogeography

• Fall 2018 Seminar Series

  Date/Time	Location	Presenter	Seminar Title
  09/06 4-5pm	SSB 118	Jamey Jones (USGS Anchorage)	Deciphering major crustal boundaries within polyphase orogens: A case study from the Yukon-Tanana Upland in eastern Alaska
  09/13 4-5pm	SSB 118	Simon Kattenhorn (Professor & Director of Geological Sciences, UAA)	Subduction on Europa: Drifting Towards a Plate Tectonics Paradigm
  09/20 4-5pm	SSB 118	Emily Niebuhr (NOAA)	An Analysis of Heavy Precipitation Events in Anchorage, AK
  09/27 4-5pm	SSB 118	LeeAnn Munk (UAA)	Geology and Hydrogeochemistry of Lithium Brine Systems
  10/04 4-5pm	SSB 118	Erin Todd (USGS Anchorage)	Changes in Melt Sources During and After Progressive Accretion of the Wrangellia Composite Terrane to the Sourthern Alaska Margin
  10/11 4-5pm	SSB 118	Chris Waythomas (USGS-AVO)	The 2016-17 eruption of Bogoslof Volcano, Alaska: A nine-month long, shallow submarine eruption in the southern Bering Sea
  10/18 4-5pm	SSB 118	Sean Regan (UAF)	Detachment, ore mineralization, and progressive uplift of the Marcy massif during the Grenville orogenic cycle, Adirondack Mountains, NY
  10/25 4-5pm	SSB 118	Cathy Connor (UAS)	Changes to the Mendenhall Glacier and its Watershed, Last Glacial Maximum to Anthropocene
  11/1 4-5pm	SSB 118	Shad O'Neel (USGS)	Understanding and Quantifying Glacier and Ecosystem Linkages
  11/8 4-5pm	SSB 118	Mike Loso (National Park Service)	Glacier change in Alaska's National Parks: what we know and why it matters
  11/15 4-5pm	SSB 118	Rob Witter (USGS Anchorage)	Earthquake geology of the Fairweather Fault in southeast Alaska 60 years after the M7.8 Lituya Bay earthquake
  11/29 4-5pm	SSB 118	Doug Kreiner (USGS Anchorage)	Evolution and development of Iron oxide (-Cu-Au) vein systems and related alteration
  12/6 4-5pm	SSB 118	M.S. Applied Geological Sciences Students	UAA Graduate Student Research Showcase

• Location & Directions

  The Social Sciences Building is located north of Providence Hospital and is connected to the UAA/APU Consortium Library