Speaker Series


2023-24 Speaker Series

Talks are on Friday at noon in Room 103 of Discovery Hall, unless stated otherwise for a specific talk.

There will be a Social Hour in the Planetarium lobby starting at 11:00 am before each talk. Free food and drink!

Come join us!

Fall Quarter 2023

  • October 6 Rachel Hampton, Lithium Americas
    Title: Exploring the Origin of Economic Lithium Deposits
  • October 20 Marisol Juarez Rivera, University of New Mexico
    Title: Biomass mobilization in the ice-covered Antarctica lakes
  • October 27 Diane Groody, Wenatchee Geologist
    Title: The Exploration, Development, and Geology of the Cannon Gold Mine
  • November 3 Erin Donaghy, Purdue University
    Title: Oceanic Plateau Collision and Break-Up in the Pacific Northwest

Winter Quarter 2024

  • January 5: Logan Wetherell, Washington Geological Survey
    Do Earthquakes Give a Dam? Landslides in the Pacific Northwest
  • January 19: Kelli Wall, U.S. Geological Survey-Cascades Volcano Observatory
    Construction of a Cascades “andesite factory”: the 3-million-year evolution of the Goat Rocks Volcanic Complex
  • January 26: Susan Kaspari, Geological Sciences, Central Washington University
    My Year as a Fulbright Scholar in Norway: Exploring Dust Deposition on Svalbard Glaciers, and Advancing Sustainability in Teaching
  • February 9: Marie Takach, Geological Sciences, Central Washington University
    To Mix or Not to Mix: Details and Timing of Magma Storage, Recharge, and Eruption at Misti Volcano, Peru
  • March 1: Anthony Schoen, MW Engineers
    Electrifying CWU’s Heating System with Geothermal Energy

Spring Quarter 2024

  • March 29: Harold Tobin, University of Washington
    Slip to the Tip? Rupture of the shallow Cascadia Megathrust
  • April 19: Laura Lukes, University of British Columbia
    Title TBA
  • April 26: Karl Lillquist, Geography, Central Washington University
    Title TBA
  • May 10: Deborah Fiorini, University of Milan
    Title TBA
  • May 31: Lucinda Leonard, University of Victoria
    Title TBA

Contacts:
   Nick Zentner, <nicolaus.zentner@cwu.edu>
   Hannah Shamloo, <hannah.shamloo@cwu.edu>

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