Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the Spring 2026 School of Earth and Space Exploration Colloquium Series.
Colloquia take place at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Marston Theater on the first floor of ISTB4 virtually and in person. Those attending in person will be expected to abide by ASU’s COVID rules for classrooms and other gatherings.
For more information, please contact Larry Nittler [email protected], colloquium committee chair.
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Schedules, speakers, and materials from previous semesters' Colloquia are accessible on the archive page.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
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| Jan. 14 | Tzvetelina Dimitrova, Emma Brown, Erin Alexander | ASU | Grad student showcase |
| Jan. 21 | There will be no presentation or speaker this week | ||
Don Burt | ASU | Uranium Mining in Antarctica, 1982 | |
Ariel Anbar | ASU | Arsenic and the Art of Scientific Debate | |
Tim McCoy | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Bennu: A journey to our beginning | |
| Feb. 18 | -- | There will be no presentation or speaker this week | |
| Feb.25 | Alba M. Rodríguez Padilla | Utah State University | Complex earthquake cycles from simple fault interactions |
| Mar. 4 | Pamela Gay | PSI | |
| Mar.11 | -- | SPRING BREAK | |
| Mar.18 | Dave Evans | Yale |
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| Mar. 25 | Tiffany Kataria | JPL | |
| April 1 | Rita Parai | WUSTL | |
| April 8 | Akash Gupta | Princeton |
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| April 15 | IIse Cleeves | U Virginia | |
| April 22 | Kristin Bergmann |
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| April 29 | Ramon Arrowsmith | State of SESE |
Supplementary Materials
Supplementary materials for the semester will be found here after the presentation.
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