Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the Fall 2025 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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| Aug. 27 | Meenakshi Wadhwa | ASU | Community Conversation |
| Sept. 3 | Steve Desch | ASU | 1I/'Oumuamua: the nearest exoplanet? |
| Margaret Landis | ASU | Living on the Icy Edge: What Extreme Environments in the Inner Solar System Tell Us About Solar System Evolution | |
| Melanie Barboni | ASU | Moonstruck: Blessing and Curse — How Lunar Impacts Shape What We Know (and Don’t Know) | |
Luis Welbanks | ASU | Planets Beyond Our Solar System: Chemistry, Climates, and the Challenge of Interpretation | |
| Oct. 1 | Michael D. Gladders | University of Chicago | Extreme Gravitational Lensing at the Margins |
| Oct. 8 | Sarafina Nance | Loft Orbital | Exploding Stars and Public Trust: A Cosmologist's View on Science Communication |
| Oct. 15 | Jie Deng | Princeton University | Mantle heterogeneities originated from the Earth’s core: A new model |
| Oct. 22 | Jamie Dietrich & Emma Lodes | ASU | Understanding Planet Populations and the Hunt for Habitable Worlds & Investigating the roles of rainfall, large boulders, and sediment flux in river incision on the Hawaiian Islands |
| Oct. 29 | James Aguirre | University of Pennsylvania | A New View of Galaxy Evolution with TIM, the Terahertz Intensity Mapper |
| Nov. 5 | Tom Lamont | UNLV | |
| Nov. 12 | Katherine B. Lininge | University of Colorado | Geomorphic controls on organic carbon storage and flux in river corridors |
| Nov. 19 | John He | UCLA | When continents drip: Exploring surface geologic records of a dynamic lower lithosphere |
| Nov. 26 | Thanksgiving | ||
| Dec. 3 | Damian Grundle |
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Supplementary Materials
Supplementary materials for the semester will be found here after the presentation.
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