Colloquium Series

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.

DateSpeakerInstitutionTalk Title
Aug. 27

Meenakshi Wadhwa

ASU Community Conversation
Sept. 3

Steve 

Desch

ASU                1I/'Oumuamua: the nearest exoplanet?

Sept. 10

Margaret LandisASULiving on the Icy Edge: What Extreme Environments in the Inner Solar System Tell Us About Solar System Evolution

Sept. 17

Melanie BarboniASUMoonstruck: Blessing and Curse — How Lunar Impacts Shape What We Know (and Don’t Know)

Sept. 24 

Luis

Welbanks

ASUPlanets Beyond Our Solar System: Chemistry, Climates, and the Challenge of Interpretation
Oct. 1Michael D. GladdersUniversity of ChicagoExtreme Gravitational Lensing at the Margins
Oct. 8Sarafina NanceLoft OrbitalExploding 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. 29James AguirreUniversity of  Pennsylvania 

A New View of Galaxy Evolution with TIM, the Terahertz Intensity Mapper

Nov. 5

Tom 

Lamont

UNLV 
Nov. 12Katherine B. LiningeUniversity of Colorado Geomorphic controls on organic carbon storage and flux in river corridors
Nov. 19 John HeUCLA 

When continents drip: Exploring surface geologic  records of a  dynamic lower lithosphere

Nov. 26 Thanksgiving  
Dec. 3Damian Grundle

ASU 

                                        

 

Supplementary Materials

Supplementary materials for the semester will be found here after the presentation.

DateSpeakerMaterials