This archive lists previous terms' Colloquia with most recent at the top or return to the current term's Colloquium list.
Abstracts for talks are linked from the talk titles. Supplementary Materials include talk PDFs, answers to questions, etc.
Fall 2023
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
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Aug 23 |
Arya Udry | University of Nevada - Las Vegas | How Do We Study the Martian Interior and Surficial Magmatic Processes on Mars? |
| Aug 30 | Julie Castillo-Rogez | JPL |
Dynamical Habitability Driven by Volatiles Cycling in Icy Moons and Dwarf Planets |
| Sep 6 | ASU | SESE Community Conversation | |
| Sep 13 | Christina Richey | JPL | Let’s Talk IDEA in Planetary Science |
| Sep 20 | Cristina Thomas | Northern Arizona University |
Telescope Observations in Support of NASA's DART Mission: Determining the Orbital Period Change and Studying the Ejecta Evolution |
| Sep 27 | Patrick Kamieneski Alexandra Pye | ASU | TBD |
| Oct 4 | Alan Dressler | Carnegie Science | TBD |
| Oct 11 | ASU | SESE Community Conversation | |
| Oct 18 | Darcy Barron | U. New Mexico | Precision Measurements of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background |
| Oct 25 | Nithin Sividas | Boston University | TBD |
| Nov 1 | ASU | SESE Community Conversation | |
| Nov 8 | Wendy Calvin | University of Nevada - Reno | The Curious Southern Ice Dome on Mars: Observations, Models and New Developments |
| Nov 15 | Tanmoy Laskar | University of Utah | TBD |
| Nov 29 | Kurt Leinenweber | ASU | TBD |
| Dec 6 | ASU | SESE Community Conversation |
Supplemental Materials (Fall 2023)
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Materials |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 23 | Arya Udry | How Do We Study the Martian Interior and Surficial Magmatic Processes on Mars? |
Supplemental Materials (Spring 2023)
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Materials |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | J.Xavier Prochaska | Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts answers to student questions |
| Feb 15 | Briony Horgan | The future of Mars exploration: Perseverance, sample return, and the path beyond answers to student questions |
| Mar 15 | Andy Ridgwell | Numerical recipes for a marine biosphere: answers to student questions |
| Mar 29 | John Singleton | Tectonic Inheritance: answers to student questions |
| Apr 26 | Chick Woodward | The JWST Study of Comets: answers to student questions |
Fall 2022
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | Peter Buseck | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | From Earth to Deep Space: A Half Century (Almost) of Nanomineralogy |
| Sept 7 | Larry Nittler | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration |
A Trip to the Early Solar System: First Results from Returned Asteroid Ryugu Samples |
| Sept 14 | Eric Hochberg | BIOS and ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL)—Not Missing the Reef for the Corals |
| Sept 21 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
| Sept 28 | Chris Mead | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Digital and Fully online Education: Pushing Forward Without Leaving People Behind |
| Oct 5 | Frank Timmes | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) |
| Oct 12 | Nathaniel Butler | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Gamma Ray Bursts: Past, Present, and Future |
| Oct 19 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
| Oct 26 | Evan Scannapieco | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Why did the Most Massive Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? |
| Nov 2 | Jim Skinner | US Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science Center | How Geologic Maps Facilitate the Exploration of Worlds Beyond Our Own |
| Nov 9 | Rob Zellem | JPL | (Small) Ground-based Telescopes are Crucial for Space-based Observatories |
| Nov 16 | Ryan Thigpen | University of Kentucky | Removal of the northern paleo-Teton Range along the Yellowstone hotspot track |
| Nov 30 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
Supplementary Materials (Fall 2022)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Fall 2022 table above. Not all presentations may be recorded
| Aug 31 | Peter Buseck | "From Earth to Deep Space: A Half Century (Almost) of Nanomineralogy" answers to student questions |
| Sept 7 | Larry Nittle | "A Trip to the Early Solar System" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Oct 5 | Frank Timmes | "Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)" talking points |
| Oct 12 | Nathaniel Butler | "Gamma Ray Bursts: Past, Present, and Future" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Oct 26 | Evan Scannapieco | "Why did the Most Massive Galaxies Stop Forming Stars?" talking points |
| Nov 9 | Rob Zellem | "(Small) Ground-based Telescopes" answers to student questions and talking points |
Spring 2022
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
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Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
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Jan 19 |
Vernon Morris |
ASU New College |
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Jan 26 |
Catherine Macris |
Indiana University Purdue University |
Seconds after Impact: Insights into Impact Processes from Ultra-High Temperature Experiments |
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Feb 2 |
James Keane |
JPL |
Geophysics at the Edge of the Solar System: the New Horizons Flyby of Arrokoth |
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Feb 9 |
Fran Bagenal |
University of Colorado Boulder |
NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter - Extended! |
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Feb 16 |
Mingming Li |
School of Earth and Space Exploration |
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| Feb 23 | Chen Zhu | Indiana University Bloomington | How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation? |
| Mar 2 | Nicole LaDue | Northern Illinois University | Beneath the Crust of Active Learning: How Engagement Promotes Successful Learning and Persistence Presented via Zoom only |
| Mar 16 | Sarah Tuttle | University of Washington | Hunting Heffalumps - Instruments and Experiments to Understand the Circumgalactic Medium |
| Mar 23 | Brent Sherwood | Blue Origin | Blue Origin: Status and Strategy |
| Mar 30 | SESE Postdocs | School of Earth and Space Exploration | |
| Apr 6 | Kelsey Johnson | University of Virginia | The Importance of 'Awe' in the Sciences |
| Apr 13 | SESE Graduate Students | School of Earth and Space Exploration | Theresa Fisher, Mrudula Gopal Krishna, Nivedita Mahesh, Qian Yuan |
| Apr 20 | Rogier Windhorst | School of Earth and Space Exploration | Project SKYSURF: How to Hide the Light From 10 More Jupiters (in the Solar System?), and How to Hide it Well |
| Apr 27 | SESE Leadership | School of Earth and Space Exploration | State of SESE |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2022)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Spring 2022 table above. Not all presentations may be recorded.
| Jan 26 | Catherine Macris | "Seconds after Impact: Insights into Impact Processes from Ultra-High Temperature Experiments" answers to student questions |
| Feb 9 | Fran Bagenal | "NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter - Extended!" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Feb 16 | Mingming Li | "Unstable Structure and Dynamics in Earth's Deepest Mantle" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Mar 30 | Luiza Maria T. Aparecido | "Excessive plant water loss mitigates thermal stress" answers to student questions |
| Apr 13 | SESE Graduate Students |
Qian Yuan "A "Lunatic" View in Earth's Interior and Beyond" answers to student questions Nivedita Mahesh "Imaging with FARSIDE: A Radio Telescope on the Lunar Farside" answers to student questions and talking points Theresa Fisher "Network Theory as a Tool for Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres" answers to student questions and talking points |
Fall 2021
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
| Sept 1 | William Banerdt | JPL | Insights Inside Mars from an InSight Insider |
| Sept 8 | Laura Kerber | JPL | Exploring Moon Caves: Geological Delights and Engineering Challenges |
| Sept 15 | SESE Postdoc Presentations | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Carver Bierson, Tim Carleton, William Cramer, Suyu Fu, James Jackman, Christine O'Donnell |
| Sept 22 | Danny Jacobs | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | First Results from HERA, the Decade-long Project to Understand the Improbable Birth of the First Stars at the Dawn of Time |
| Sept 29 | Betül Kaçar | University of Wisconsin | Exploring Life's Early Evolution Using Ancient Enzymes as Paleosensors |
| Oct 6 | Farah Alibay | JPL | Perseverance and Ingenuity Mission Updates |
| Oct 13 | Fran Bagenal | University of Colorado | Think Global, Act Local: Demographics of the Space Sciences |
| Oct 20 | Kim Lau | Penn State | Mass Extinction and Ocean Anoxia: A "New" Tool and a New Paradigm |
| Oct 27 | Jorge Moreno | Pomona College | Not All Galaxies Have Dark Matter |
| Nov 3 | Wendy Smythe | UMN Duluth | Indigenous Geoscience Community: Creating Capacity and Safe Spaces |
| Nov 10 | Sumner Starrfield | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Lithium from the Big Bang to Batteries and Points Between |
| Nov 17 | SESE Student Presentations | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | |
| Dec 1 | Gordon Osinski | U.W. Ontario | The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond |
Supplementary Materials (Fall 2021)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Fall 2021 table above. Not all presentations may be recorded.
| 8/25/2021 Community Conversation talking points: Karen Anderson, Hilairy Hartnett, Meenakshi Wadhwa |
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9/15/2021 SESE Postdocs: Carver Bierson “Why is Io Rocky and Ganymede Icy?” answers to student questions Christine O’Donnell “A New Model for Culturally Responsive Citizen Science-Based Curriculum” answers to student questions |
| 10/6/2021 Farah Alibay "Perseverance and Ingenuity Mission Updates" answers to student questions |
| 10/13/2021 Fran Bagenal "Think Global, Act Local: Demographics of the Space Sciences" link to the Planetary Science Workforce Surveys, talking points, Q and A session and answers to student questions. |
| 10/20/2021 Kim Lau "Mass Extinction and Ocean Anoxia: A "New" Tool and a New Paradigm" talking points and answers to student questions |
| 11/3/2021 Wendy Smythe "Indigenous Geoscience Community: Creating Capacity and Safe Spaces" answers to student questions |
| 11/10/2021 Sumner Starrfield "Lithium from the Big Bang to Batteries and Points Between" answers to student questions |
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11/17/2021 SESE students: Lucia Perez: “Constraining Reionization with Void Probabilities” answers to student questions Joe Zalesky "Constraining the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs with Atmospheric Retrieval" talking points and answers to student questions |
| 12/1/2021 Gordon Osinski "The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond" talking points and answers to student questions |
Spring 2021
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 | Rebecca Fischer |
Harvard University |
Core Formation on Earth and Mars |
| Jan 27 | Natalie Batalha | University of California Santa Cruz | Prelude to NASA's Next Great Observatory: Orchestrating a New Epoch of Exoplanet Exploration with Webb |
| Feb 3 | Steve Reynolds | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mesozoic Evolution of Western Arizona and Southeastern California |
| Feb 10 | Richard Pitt | University of California San Diego | Family Matters: The Impact of Family on Postdoctoral Attrition From the Academy |
| Feb 17 | SESE student presentations | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Equity in the Academic Sciences |
| Feb 24 | Adina Paytan | University of California Santa Cruz | Corals on Acid - The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Corals and Coral Reefs |
| Mar 3 | SESE grad students | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Edward Buie II, John Morgan Christoph, Gregory Vance |
| Mar 10 | David Brain | University of Colorado | Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields? |
| Mar 17 | SESE postdocs | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Parke Loyd, Hayden Miller |
| Mar 24 | Michael Line | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | The Worlds Way Out There |
| Mar 31 | Nancy Riggs | Northern Arizona University | When Plates Collide: Turning Boring Beaches to Violent Volcanoes |
| April 7 | Mars 2020 Perseverance Panel | JPL and ASU | Aaron Stehura (JPL), Jim Bell (ASU), Meenakshi Wadhwa (ASU) |
| April 14 | Naomi Levin | University of Michigan |
Rare and Overlooked, but Mighty: Developing 17O for the Paleoclimate Toolkit |
| April 21 | Jan Amend | University of Southern California | The Marine Deep Subsurface Biosphere: Team-Science Discoveries Over the Last Decade |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2021)
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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1/20/21 Rebecca Fischer "Core Formation on Earth and Mars" talking points and answers to student questions |
| 2/3/21 Steve Reynolds "Mesozoic Evolution of Western Arizona and Southeastern California" talking points |
| 2/10/21 Richard Pitt "Family Matters: The Impact of Family on Postdoctoral Attrition From the Academy" talking points and answers to student questions |
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2/17/21 SESE students (in order of presentations): Claire Richardson “Leveling the playing field: making fieldwork in SESE and CLAS more equitable and accessible” talking points and answers to student questions Alexa Drew “Creating Inclusivity to Improve Retention for Minoritized Students in SESE” talking points and answers to student questions Searra Foote “Achieving the Equitable Classroom Environment: Recommendations for SESE Faculty to Increase Student Retention” talking points and answers to student questions Mara Karageozian “Tools for Fostering Equity and Inclusion in SESE: Top-Down v. Bottom-Up Solutions” talking points and answers to student questions |
| 2/24/2021 Adina Paytan "Corals on Acid - The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Corals and Coral Reefs" talking points and answers to student questions |
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3/3/2021 SESE graduate students (in order of presentations): Edward Buie II “The Turbulent Halos of Galaxies” talking points and answers to student questions John Morgan Christoph “Space Weathering on Metallic Asteroids: Insights from Laboratory Experiments” answers to student questions Gregory Vance “Asymmetric Supernovae and the Elements They Create” talking points and answers to student questions |
| 3/10/21 David Brain "Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?" talking points |
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3/17/21 SESE postdocs: Parke Loyd “Adrift in a Tempest: Observing Space Weather Conditions for Earth-Like Planets around Red Dwarf Stars" answers to student questions Hayden Miller “Elucidating the History of the Moon’s Surface - High Spatial Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Multigenerational Lunar Impact Melt Rocks” talking points and answers to student questions |
| 3/24/21 Michael Line "The Worlds Way Out There" answers to student questions |
| 3/31/21 Nancy Riggs "When Plates Collide: Turning Boring Beaches to Violent Volcanoes" Talking points are no longer viewable. |
| 4/21/21 Jan Amend "The Marine Deep Subsurface Biosphere: Team-Science Discoveries Over the Last Decade" answers to student questions. For talking points, please reference the C-DEBI website and these papers from Amend's research group: 2020 Amend et al (EnvMicro), 2020 Bradley et al (Sci Advances), 2020 LaRowe et al (GCA), and 2020 LaRowe et al (Geology) |
Fall 2020
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title. Not all presentations were recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | Jim Tyburczy | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | ||
| Sept 2 | Dan Shim | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Hydrogen and Planets |
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| Sept 9 | Mona Jarrahi | University of California LA | New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology | |
| Sept 16 | Craig Hardgrove | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Searching for Lunar Water with LunaH-Map: Tiny Interplanetary Spacecraft with Big Science and Exploration Goals | |
| Sept 23 | Nick Schneider | Colorado University | Surprises from MAVEN at Mars: Aurora, Meteor Showers, and a New Water Loss Paradigm | |
| Sept 30 | Jamie Elsila | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Extracting Secrets of the Solar System: Soluble Organic Analysis of Meteorites and Returned Samples | |
| Oct 7 | Julie Fosdick | University of Connecticut | To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Sedimentary Signals of Young Faulting Along an Old Strand of the San Andreas Fault | |
| Oct 14 | Student Presentations | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration | Emily Zawacki, Sierra Ferguson, Wren Raming | |
| Oct 21 | Kristian Finlator | New Mexico State University | Linking Galaxy Formation with Cosmic Reionization | |
| Oct 28 | Bobby Braun | JPL | Growing Planetary Science Together | |
| Nov 4 | Lisa White | University of California Berkeley | ||
| Nov 18 | SESE Postdocs | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Melodie Kao, Hannes Bernhardt | |
| Dec 2 | Aomawa Shields | University of California Irvine | Recipe for a Habitable Planet |
Supplementary Materials (Fall 2020)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Fall 2020 table above. Not all presentations were recorded.
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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9/2/2020 Dan Shim Colloquium "Hydrogen and Planets" answers to student questions PDF |
| 9/23/2020 Nick Schneider Colloquium "Surprises from MAVEN at Mars: Aurora, Meteor Showers, and a New Water Loss Paradigm" PDF talking points, PDF student questions corresponding to video file with answers. |
| 10/21/2020 Kristian Finlator "Linking Galaxy Formation with Cosmic Reionization" PDF talking points and PDF answers to student questions |
| 10/28/2020 Bobby Braun Colloquium "Growing Planetary Science Together" PDF talking points |
| 11/18/2020 Hannes Bernhardt PDF talking points and PDF answers to student questions |
| 12/2/2020 Aomawa Shields "Recipe for a Habitable Planet" PDF talking points |
Summer 2020
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 3 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mini Wadhwa |
SESE Community Conversation |
| June 17 | Paul Scowen | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Hubble at 30: Looking Beyond the Eagle at Star and Planet Formation | |
| June 24 | Molly Simon | ASU | Citizen Science in the Classroom: Successes and Shortcomings | |
| July 1 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mini Wadhwa | SESE Community Conversation |
| July 8 | Mingming Li | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Multi-scale deep mantle structure and convection | |
| July 15 | Christy Till | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | New Insights into Magmatic Systems | |
| July 22 | Peter Buseck | ASU-School of Molecular Sciences | From Earth to Deep Space: Nanomineralogy at ASU | |
| July 29 | Devin Schrader | ASU-Center for Meteorite Studies | Investigating the history of our protoplanetary disk through meteorites | |
| Aug 5 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mini Wadhwa | SESE Community Conversation |
| Aug 12 | Maitrayee Bose | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Probing water in small celestial bodies with mass spectrometry | |
| Aug 19 | Joe O'Rourke | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 15 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | SESE Welcome and Community Conversation | |
| Jan 22 | Alex Navrotsky | ASU - School of Molecular Sciences | ||
| Jan 29 | David Williams | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | World of Fire (and Ice): Exploring Jupiter’s moon Io | |
| Feb 5 | Timiebi Aganaba | ASU - School for the Future of Innovation in Society | ||
| Feb 12 | Amy Mainzer | University of Arizona | Near-Earth Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk | |
| Feb 19 |
Anna Grau Galofre and Alan Jackson |
ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | SESE Exploration Fellow Presentations | |
| Feb 26 | Kathryn Johnston | Columbia University | Privilege, Power and Leadership in Academia | |
| Mar 4 | Kalind Carpenter | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Accessing an Alien Ocean: the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) | |
| Mar 11 | SPRING BREAK | |||
| Mar 18 |
Julie Fosdick Canceled |
University of Connecticut | To see the world in a grain of sand: Sedimentary signals of young faulting along an old strand of the San Andreas Fault | |
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Mar 18 |
Community Conversation |
Presented via Zoom |
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| Mar 25 |
Sanchayeeta Borthakur |
ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration Presented via Zoom |
How do galaxies like the Milky Way grow? | |
| April 1 | Community Conversation |
Presented via Zoom |
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| April 8 | SESE Students |
ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration Presented via Zoom |
Zachary Torrano: Isotopic investigations of meteorites: using forensic tracers to unravel the mysteries of our early Solar System Tyler Richey-Yowell: The K Dwarf Advantage: Assessing the Habitability of Planets Orbiting K Stars |
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| April 15 | Kim Cobb |
Georgia Tech Presented via Zoom |
Climate Resilience for the 21st century - Smart Sea Level Sensors |
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| April 22 | Peter Girguis |
Harvard University Presented via Zoom |
There and Back Again: An oceanographer’s tale about ocean worlds here and beyond |
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| April 29 | Community Conversation | Presented via Zoom |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2020)
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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| 1/22/20 Alexandra Navrotsky Colloquium "Materials of the Universe" answers to student questions PDF |
| 1/29/20 David Williams Colloquium "World of Fire (and Ice): Exploring Jupiter's Moon Io" answers to student questions PDF |
| 2/5/20 Timiebi Aganaba Colloquium "The Space Force: From Rhetoric to Reality" answers to student questions PDF |
| 2/19/20 Alan Jackson Colloquium “Stop hitting yourself! Puncturing the early lunar crust with returning debris" answers to student questions PDF |
| 2/26/20 Kathryn Johnston Colloquium "Privilege, Power and Leadership in Academia" PDF answers to student questions and PDF talking points |
| 4/8/20 Zachary Torrano Colloquium "Isotopic investigations of meteorites: Using forensic tracers to unravel the mysteries of our early Solar System" answers to student questions PDF |
| 4/15/20 Kim Cobb Colloquium "Climate Resilience for the 21st century - Smart Sea Level Sensors” PDF talking points and PDF student questions corresponding to audio files with answers |
Fall 2019
Supplementary Materials Fall 2019
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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| 9/4/19 SESE Leadership Colloquium "Community Conversation" answers to student questions PDF. |
| 9/25/19 Jennifer Heldmann Colloquium "Terrestrial Analog Fieldwork" answers to student questions PDF |
| 10/9/19 Chad Ostrander Colloquium "Tracking the Initial Oxygenation of Earth's Oceans" answers to student questions PDF |
| 10/9/19 Duho Kim Colloquium "Correcting for Extinction by Cosmic Dust in Galaxies" answers to student questions PDF |
| 11/6/19 James Stone Colloquium "Using Computation to Understand Why Black Holes Shine" answers to student questions PDF |
| 12/4/19 Darlene Lim Colloquium "Designing and Developing for Human Scientific Exploration of the Moon, Deep Space, and Mars" PDF |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 9 | David Lawrence | Johns Hopkins, Applied Physics Lab | Craig Hardgrove | Using Gamma Rays and Neutrons to Measure the Elemental Composition of Planetary Bodies |
| Jan 16 | Alycia Weinberger | Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Jennifer Patience | Astronomical Constraints on Planet Formation |
| Jan 23 | Ben Mazin | University of California, Santa Barbara | Chris Groppi | Looking for Planets Outside Our Solar System with Superconducting Photon Detectors |
| Jan 30 | Katherine Hayhoe | Texas Tech University | Hilairy Hartnett | Mitigate, Adapt — or Suffer: Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts and Solutions |
| Feb 6 | Erika Rader | University of Idaho | Amanda Clarke | Volcanic Spatter Across the Solar System: How Idaho+Lava Bombs = Water on Mars |
| Feb 13 | Erika Hamden | University of Arizona | Evgenya Shkolnik | The Ridiculous World of Scientific Ballooning |
| Feb 20 | H. Tuba Özkan-Haller | Oregon State University | Patrick Young | Transforming Academia: Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Sciences |
| Feb 27 | Evgenya Shkolnik | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) | Peter Buseck | Exploring Exoplanets and their Stars with the UV Space Telescopes of the Past, Present and Future |
| Mar 6 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 13 | Jnaneshwar Das | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) | Jnaneshwar Das | Robots in the Wild: Collaborative Exploration and Mapping |
| Mar 20 | Mary Knapp | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Judd Bowman | Searching For Small Planets With a Tiny Telescope: The Story of ASTERIA |
| Mar 27 | Deanne Rogers | Stony Brook University | Phil Christensen | Interpreting the Rock Record of Early Mars |
| Apr 3 | Larry Matthies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jnaneshwar Das | Vision Systems for Planetary Landers and Drones: Progress and Challenges |
| Apr 10 | Alison Duvall | University of Washington | Christy Till | Magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Landslides: How Will the Hillslopes Handle the Big One? |
| Apr 17 | Marcia Bjornerud | Lawrence University | Ramon Arrowsmith | Reading the Record of Ancient Earthquakes At Three Levels in the Crust: Insights From Greenschist-, Amphibolite- and Eclogite-Facies Pseudotachylytes |
| Apr 24 | Tammy Rittenour | Utah State University | Arjun Heimsath | Shifting Sand and Streams on the Grand Staircase, Southern Utah |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2019)
| Colloquium Talk Slides (PDF) | Colloquium Questions Answered | Additional Information |
| Rader | Lawrence | Rader video |
| Das | Weinberger | |
| Rogers | Rader | |
| Duvall (25 MB version) | Hamden | |
| Duvall (97 MB version) | Das (plus erratum) | |
| Bjornerud | Rogers | |
| Duvall | ||
| Bjornerud |
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
| Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title | |
| Jan 10 | Iain Stewart | U. of Plymouth, UK, 2017-2018 Geological Society of America (GSA) James B. Thompson Distinguished International Lecturer | Ramon Arrowsmith | Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Communicating Contested Geoscience to the Public |
| Jan 17 | John Brady | Smith College | Peter Buseck | Subduction Zone Pseudomorphs: Windows on High Pressure Grain Scale Processes |
| Jan 24 | Sanchayeeta Borthakur | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Peter Buseck | Understanding How Galaxies Reionized the Universe |
| Jan 31 | Ed Brown | Michigan State University | Patrick Young | The Densest Matter in the Observable Universe: Accreting Neutron Stars and the Physics of Dense Matter |
| Feb 7 | James Head | Brown University | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | The Climate History of Mars: A Geological Perspective |
| Feb 14 | Arif Babul | University of Victoria, Canada | Evan Scannapieco | Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Probes? |
| Feb 21 | Bethany Ehlmann | Caltech | Mini Wadhwa | Ceres, an Unexpectedly Active Dwarf Planet: Findings from the Dawn Mission |
| Feb 28 | Michael Russell | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jack Farmer | Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It |
| Mar 7 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 14 | Daniela Calzetti | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Paul Scowen | Linking the Scales of Star Formation |
| Mar 21 | Cameron Smith | Portland State University | Danny Jacobs | Human Exploration Technologies for the Second Space Age: Private Development of Space Suits for Earth Orbit and Beyond |
| Mar 28 | Susannah Dorfman | Michigan State U., 2017-2018 Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Distinguished Lecturer | Thomas Sharp | The Mineral Physics Test Kitchen: Recipes for Earth's Mantle and Core |
| Apr 4 | Kiri Wagstaff | Jet Propulsion Laboratory Machine Learning & Instrument Autonomy | Craig Hardgrove | Tell Me Why: Interpretable Machine Learning for Space Exploration and Beyond (talk given Oct 31, 2018) |
| Apr 11 | Morgan Burks | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Scott Smas | Mercury, 16 Psyche, Mars, and Titan: Exploring the Solar System with Gamma Rays |
| Apr 18 | George Cooper | NASA Ames Research Center | Sandra Pizarello | The Analysis of Carbonaceous Meteorites: Unusual Mirror-Image Properties Of Organic Compounds From The Early Solar System |
| Apr 25 | Mark Panning | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Dan Shim | Extraterrestrial Seismology: What We Can Learn on Mars and Icy Ocean Worlds |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Aug 23 | Pierre Herkes | ASU School of Molecular Sciences & School of Earth and Space Exploration | Peter Buseck | Clouds and Fogs in the Earth System |
| Aug 30 | Carmala Garzione | University of Rochester | Kelin Whipple | The Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Geodynamic Implications for the Growth of Plateaus |
| Sept 6 | Rene Ong | University of California-Los Angeles | Phil Mauskopf, Nat Butler | Very High-Energy Astrophysics and the Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| Sept 13 | Elizabeth Hajek | Penn State | Arjun Heimsath | Measuring Ancient Landscape Dynamics from Sedimentary Deposits |
| Sept 20 | Umaa Rebbapragada | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Nat Butler | Using Machine Learning for Discovery on Earth, Mars and Beyond |
| Sept 27 | Lori Glaze | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Alyssa Rhoden | Venus: The Forgotten, Mysterious Planet |
| Oct 4 | Jason Wright | Penn State | Steve Desch | Artifact SETI and the Puzzle of (Tabby) Boyajian's Star |
| Oct 11 | Terry Fong | NASA Intelligent Robotics Group | Kip Hodges, Jim Bell | Human-Robot Teaming for Space Exploration |
| Oct 18 | Victoria Meadows | University of Washington | Evgenya Shkolnik | The Habitability of Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs |
| Oct 25 | Hal Levison | Southwest Research Institute | Phil Christensen | The Formation of Planets from the Direct Accretion of Pebbles |
| Nov 1 | Abby Kavner | University of California-Los Angeles | Jim Tyburczy | The Electrochemical Earth |
| Nov 8 | Joe Silk | Johns Hopkins University | Evan Scannapieco | The Limits of Cosmology |
| Nov 15 | Michael Line | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration | Paul Scowen | Characterizing the Diversity of Extrasolar Atmospheres: From Planets to Brown Dwarfs |
| Nov 22 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Nov 29 | William McKinnon | Washington University-St. Louis | Everett Shock | Pluto Explored! NASA’s Epic Voyage to the Edge of the Solar System |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 11 | Christopher Loxton | Loxton Cellars, Sonoma County | Maitrayee Bose | Science and the Art of Winemaking |
| Jan 18 | Eiichi Egami | Steward Observatory, University of Arizona | Phil Mauskopf | Observing the Distant Universe through Powerful Gravitational Lenses in Space |
| Jan 25 | Greg Asner | Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University | Arjun Heimsath | Exploring and Managing Forests from Above |
| Feb 1 | David Blewitt | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Mark Robinson | MESSENGER's View of Hollows on Mercury, and Links to the Planet's High Volatile Content |
| Feb 8 | David Kohlstedt | University of Minnesota | Peter Buseck | Stress- and Reaction-Driven Melt Segregation – Formation of High-Permeability Paths in the Mantle |
| Feb 15 | Ken Edgett | Malin Space Science Systems | Steve Ruff | A More Vast and Accessible Martian Sedimentary Rock Record |
| Feb 22 | Don Brownlee | University of Washington | Sandra Pizzarello | What Samples of a Comet Tell Us About the Origin of the Solar System |
| Mar 1 | Shanan Peters | University of Wisconsin | Everett Shock | Earth's Long-Term Biogeochemical Evolution: a View From the Upper Crust |
| Mar 7 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 15 | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Jim Bell | Psyche: Journey to a Metal World |
| Mar 22 | Lance Gharavi | ASU School of Film, Dance & Theatre and SESE Affiliate | Ed Garnero | Science, Art, Narrative |
| Mar 29 | Gregory Taylor | University of New Mexico | Judd Bowman | Science at Low Frequencies with the Long Wavelength Array |
| Apr 5 | Dorothy Merritts | Franklin and Marshall College | Kelin Whipple | Freeze-Dried, Rapidly Thawed Permafrost Landscapes, Breached Milldams, and their Relation to Modern Wetland-Stream Restoration, Eastern US |
| Apr 12 | Christy Till | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Stan Williams | Are Yellowstone Eruptions Triggered in the Course of a Human Life? |
| Apr 19 | Dan Cziczo | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ptere Buseck | How Our Understanding of Climate and Precipitation is influenced by Uncertainties in Particle and Cloud Measurements |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Aug 24 | Heather Throop | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Life Sciences | Enrique Vivoni | Deserts in a Changing World: Ecological Responses and Feedbacks to Climate Change |
| Aug 31 | Alberto Conti | Northrop Grumman | Chris Groppi | NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope |
| Sept 7 | Tobias Fischer | University of New Mexico | Stan Williams | Massive Emissions of Carbon During Continental Rifting: Implications for the Carbon Cycle and Climate |
| Sept 14 | Danny Jacobs | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Judd Bowman | New Horizons in Experimental Astrophysics: Exoplanets and the Cosmic Dawn |
| Sept 21 | Vicky Hamilton | Southwest Research Institute | Phil Christensen | A New Approach to Characterizing Evidence of Parent Body Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites |
| Sept 28 | Timothy Grove | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Melting Conditions, Melting Processes and Mantle Sources of Mercury’s Surface Lavas |
| Oct 5 | Christophe Sotin | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech | Jim Bell, Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Steve Desch | Titan: an Organic World of Two Oceans |
| Oct 12 | Briony Horgan | Purdue University | Jim Bell | Mineral Signatures of Glacial Environments and Implications for Past Climates on Mars |
| Oct 19 | Stanley Williams | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Lynda Williams | The Importance of Being There: Why I Study Active Volcanoes |
| Oct 26 | Heather Petcovic | Western Michigan University | Steve Semken | Thinking in the Field: How Experts and Novices Make a Geologic Map |
| Nov 2 | Robert Staehle | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jekan Thanga | Will Smallsats and CubeSats Revolutionize Solar System Exploration? |
| Nov 9 | Rocky Kolb | University of Chicago | Rogier Windhorst | Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon |
| Nov 16 | Maitrayee Bose | ASU School of Molecular Sciences | Stan Williams | Exploring Solar System History through Isotopic Analysis of Extraterrestrial Dust |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Nov 30 | Elizabeth Cantwell | ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, and School of Matter, Transport and Energy | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | The Future of Basic Research Focused on Humans in Space after Space Station is De-Orbited |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 13 | Robert Pappalardo | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Phil Christensen | Exploring Europa: A Potentially Habitable World |
| Jan 20 | Wallace Broecker | Columbia University | Peter Buseck | Global Warming: A Geologic Analogue |
| Jan 27 | Andrea Donnellan | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Ramón Arrowsmith | The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes using Space Observations |
| Feb 3 | Penelope King | Australian National University | Rick Hervig | Gas–Solid Reactions in Earth and Planetary Systems |
| Feb 10 | David Kring | Lunar and Planetary Institute | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Testing the Inner Solar System Impact Cataclysm |
| Feb 17 | Edwin Kite | University of Chicago | Alyssa Rhoden | Powering Cryo-Volcanoes on Icy Moons |
| Feb 24 | Alison Coil | University of California, San Diego | James Rhoads | Unconscious Bias: Data, Studies, and Next Steps |
| Mar 2 | Cathy Olkin | Southwest Research Institute Boulder | Jim Bell | Our New View of Pluto |
| Mar 9 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 16 | Alexandra Navrotsky | University of California, Davis | Jim Tyburczy | A Lifetime in Thermodynamics |
| Mar 23 | Klaus Lackner | ASU School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions | Peter Buseck | Balancing the World's Carbon Budget |
| Mar 30 | Thure Cerling | University of Utah | Ariel Anbar | HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records |
| Apr 6 | Mark Quigley | University of Melbourne | Kelin Whipple | The 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence: From Paleoseismology to Policy |
| Apr 13 | Sayfe Kiaei | ASU School of Electrical, Energy, and Computer Engineering, and the Connection One Research Center | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Challenges in RF Integrated Circuits |
| Apr 20 | Stefi Baum | University of Manitoba | Sangeeta Malhotra | The Long Arc of Science |
| Apr 27 | Emily Levesque | University of Washington | Sumner Starrfield | Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
Spring 2023
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
Supplemental Materials (Spring 2023)
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Materials |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | J.Xavier Prochaska | Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts answers to student questions |
| Feb 15 | Briony Horgan | The future of Mars exploration: Perseverance, sample return, and the path beyond answers to student questions |
| Mar 15 | Andy Ridgwell | Numerical recipes for a marine biosphere: answers to student questions |
| Mar 29 | John Singleton | Tectonic Inheritance: answers to student questions |
| Apr 26 | Chick Woodward | The JWST Study of Comets: answers to student questions |
Fall 2022
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | Peter Buseck | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | From Earth to Deep Space: A Half Century (Almost) of Nanomineralogy |
| Sept 7 | Larry Nittler | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration |
A Trip to the Early Solar System: First Results from Returned Asteroid Ryugu Samples |
| Sept 14 | Eric Hochberg | BIOS and ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL)—Not Missing the Reef for the Corals |
| Sept 21 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
| Sept 28 | Chris Mead | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Digital and Fully online Education: Pushing Forward Without Leaving People Behind |
| Oct 5 | Frank Timmes | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) |
| Oct 12 | Nathaniel Butler | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Gamma Ray Bursts: Past, Present, and Future |
| Oct 19 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
| Oct 26 | Evan Scannapieco | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Why did the Most Massive Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? |
| Nov 2 | Jim Skinner | US Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science Center | How Geologic Maps Facilitate the Exploration of Worlds Beyond Our Own |
| Nov 9 | Rob Zellem | JPL | (Small) Ground-based Telescopes are Crucial for Space-based Observatories |
| Nov 16 | Ryan Thigpen | University of Kentucky | Removal of the northern paleo-Teton Range along the Yellowstone hotspot track |
| Nov 30 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
Supplementary Materials (Fall 2022)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Fall 2022 table above. Not all presentations may be recorded
| Aug 31 | Peter Buseck | "From Earth to Deep Space: A Half Century (Almost) of Nanomineralogy" answers to student questions |
| Sept 7 | Larry Nittle | "A Trip to the Early Solar System" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Oct 5 | Frank Timmes | "Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)" talking points |
| Oct 12 | Nathaniel Butler | "Gamma Ray Bursts: Past, Present, and Future" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Oct 26 | Evan Scannapieco | "Why did the Most Massive Galaxies Stop Forming Stars?" talking points |
| Nov 9 | Rob Zellem | "(Small) Ground-based Telescopes" answers to student questions and talking points |
Spring 2022
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
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Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
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Jan 19 |
Vernon Morris |
ASU New College |
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Jan 26 |
Catherine Macris |
Indiana University Purdue University |
Seconds after Impact: Insights into Impact Processes from Ultra-High Temperature Experiments |
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Feb 2 |
James Keane |
JPL |
Geophysics at the Edge of the Solar System: the New Horizons Flyby of Arrokoth |
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Feb 9 |
Fran Bagenal |
University of Colorado Boulder |
NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter - Extended! |
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Feb 16 |
Mingming Li |
School of Earth and Space Exploration |
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| Feb 23 | Chen Zhu | Indiana University Bloomington | How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation? |
| Mar 2 | Nicole LaDue | Northern Illinois University | Beneath the Crust of Active Learning: How Engagement Promotes Successful Learning and Persistence Presented via Zoom only |
| Mar 16 | Sarah Tuttle | University of Washington | Hunting Heffalumps - Instruments and Experiments to Understand the Circumgalactic Medium |
| Mar 23 | Brent Sherwood | Blue Origin | Blue Origin: Status and Strategy |
| Mar 30 | SESE Postdocs | School of Earth and Space Exploration | |
| Apr 6 | Kelsey Johnson | University of Virginia | The Importance of 'Awe' in the Sciences |
| Apr 13 | SESE Graduate Students | School of Earth and Space Exploration | Theresa Fisher, Mrudula Gopal Krishna, Nivedita Mahesh, Qian Yuan |
| Apr 20 | Rogier Windhorst | School of Earth and Space Exploration | Project SKYSURF: How to Hide the Light From 10 More Jupiters (in the Solar System?), and How to Hide it Well |
| Apr 27 | SESE Leadership | School of Earth and Space Exploration | State of SESE |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2022)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Spring 2022 table above. Not all presentations may be recorded.
| Jan 26 | Catherine Macris | "Seconds after Impact: Insights into Impact Processes from Ultra-High Temperature Experiments" answers to student questions |
| Feb 9 | Fran Bagenal | "NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter - Extended!" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Feb 16 | Mingming Li | "Unstable Structure and Dynamics in Earth's Deepest Mantle" answers to student questions and talking points |
| Mar 30 | Luiza Maria T. Aparecido | "Excessive plant water loss mitigates thermal stress" answers to student questions |
| Apr 13 | SESE Graduate Students |
Qian Yuan "A "Lunatic" View in Earth's Interior and Beyond" answers to student questions Nivedita Mahesh "Imaging with FARSIDE: A Radio Telescope on the Lunar Farside" answers to student questions and talking points Theresa Fisher "Network Theory as a Tool for Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres" answers to student questions and talking points |
Fall 2021
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials. Not all presentations may have been recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25 | SESE Leadership | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Community Conversation |
| Sept 1 | William Banerdt | JPL | Insights Inside Mars from an InSight Insider |
| Sept 8 | Laura Kerber | JPL | Exploring Moon Caves: Geological Delights and Engineering Challenges |
| Sept 15 | SESE Postdoc Presentations | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Carver Bierson, Tim Carleton, William Cramer, Suyu Fu, James Jackman, Christine O'Donnell |
| Sept 22 | Danny Jacobs | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | First Results from HERA, the Decade-long Project to Understand the Improbable Birth of the First Stars at the Dawn of Time |
| Sept 29 | Betül Kaçar | University of Wisconsin | Exploring Life's Early Evolution Using Ancient Enzymes as Paleosensors |
| Oct 6 | Farah Alibay | JPL | Perseverance and Ingenuity Mission Updates |
| Oct 13 | Fran Bagenal | University of Colorado | Think Global, Act Local: Demographics of the Space Sciences |
| Oct 20 | Kim Lau | Penn State | Mass Extinction and Ocean Anoxia: A "New" Tool and a New Paradigm |
| Oct 27 | Jorge Moreno | Pomona College | Not All Galaxies Have Dark Matter |
| Nov 3 | Wendy Smythe | UMN Duluth | Indigenous Geoscience Community: Creating Capacity and Safe Spaces |
| Nov 10 | Sumner Starrfield | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Lithium from the Big Bang to Batteries and Points Between |
| Nov 17 | SESE Student Presentations | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | |
| Dec 1 | Gordon Osinski | U.W. Ontario | The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond |
Supplementary Materials (Fall 2021)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Fall 2021 table above. Not all presentations may be recorded.
| 8/25/2021 Community Conversation talking points: Karen Anderson, Hilairy Hartnett, Meenakshi Wadhwa |
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9/15/2021 SESE Postdocs: Carver Bierson “Why is Io Rocky and Ganymede Icy?” answers to student questions Christine O’Donnell “A New Model for Culturally Responsive Citizen Science-Based Curriculum” answers to student questions |
| 10/6/2021 Farah Alibay "Perseverance and Ingenuity Mission Updates" answers to student questions |
| 10/13/2021 Fran Bagenal "Think Global, Act Local: Demographics of the Space Sciences" link to the Planetary Science Workforce Surveys, talking points, Q and A session and answers to student questions. |
| 10/20/2021 Kim Lau "Mass Extinction and Ocean Anoxia: A "New" Tool and a New Paradigm" talking points and answers to student questions |
| 11/3/2021 Wendy Smythe "Indigenous Geoscience Community: Creating Capacity and Safe Spaces" answers to student questions |
| 11/10/2021 Sumner Starrfield "Lithium from the Big Bang to Batteries and Points Between" answers to student questions |
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11/17/2021 SESE students: Lucia Perez: “Constraining Reionization with Void Probabilities” answers to student questions Joe Zalesky "Constraining the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs with Atmospheric Retrieval" talking points and answers to student questions |
| 12/1/2021 Gordon Osinski "The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond" talking points and answers to student questions |
Spring 2021
Recordings of presentations are linked from the talk titles and answers to student questions can be found below under Supplementary Materials.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 | Rebecca Fischer |
Harvard University |
Core Formation on Earth and Mars |
| Jan 27 | Natalie Batalha | University of California Santa Cruz | Prelude to NASA's Next Great Observatory: Orchestrating a New Epoch of Exoplanet Exploration with Webb |
| Feb 3 | Steve Reynolds | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mesozoic Evolution of Western Arizona and Southeastern California |
| Feb 10 | Richard Pitt | University of California San Diego | Family Matters: The Impact of Family on Postdoctoral Attrition From the Academy |
| Feb 17 | SESE student presentations | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Equity in the Academic Sciences |
| Feb 24 | Adina Paytan | University of California Santa Cruz | Corals on Acid - The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Corals and Coral Reefs |
| Mar 3 | SESE grad students | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Edward Buie II, John Morgan Christoph, Gregory Vance |
| Mar 10 | David Brain | University of Colorado | Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields? |
| Mar 17 | SESE postdocs | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Parke Loyd, Hayden Miller |
| Mar 24 | Michael Line | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | The Worlds Way Out There |
| Mar 31 | Nancy Riggs | Northern Arizona University | When Plates Collide: Turning Boring Beaches to Violent Volcanoes |
| April 7 | Mars 2020 Perseverance Panel | JPL and ASU | Aaron Stehura (JPL), Jim Bell (ASU), Meenakshi Wadhwa (ASU) |
| April 14 | Naomi Levin | University of Michigan |
Rare and Overlooked, but Mighty: Developing 17O for the Paleoclimate Toolkit |
| April 21 | Jan Amend | University of Southern California | The Marine Deep Subsurface Biosphere: Team-Science Discoveries Over the Last Decade |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2021)
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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1/20/21 Rebecca Fischer "Core Formation on Earth and Mars" talking points and answers to student questions |
| 2/3/21 Steve Reynolds "Mesozoic Evolution of Western Arizona and Southeastern California" talking points |
| 2/10/21 Richard Pitt "Family Matters: The Impact of Family on Postdoctoral Attrition From the Academy" talking points and answers to student questions |
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2/17/21 SESE students (in order of presentations): Claire Richardson “Leveling the playing field: making fieldwork in SESE and CLAS more equitable and accessible” talking points and answers to student questions Alexa Drew “Creating Inclusivity to Improve Retention for Minoritized Students in SESE” talking points and answers to student questions Searra Foote “Achieving the Equitable Classroom Environment: Recommendations for SESE Faculty to Increase Student Retention” talking points and answers to student questions Mara Karageozian “Tools for Fostering Equity and Inclusion in SESE: Top-Down v. Bottom-Up Solutions” talking points and answers to student questions |
| 2/24/2021 Adina Paytan "Corals on Acid - The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Corals and Coral Reefs" talking points and answers to student questions |
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3/3/2021 SESE graduate students (in order of presentations): Edward Buie II “The Turbulent Halos of Galaxies” talking points and answers to student questions John Morgan Christoph “Space Weathering on Metallic Asteroids: Insights from Laboratory Experiments” answers to student questions Gregory Vance “Asymmetric Supernovae and the Elements They Create” talking points and answers to student questions |
| 3/10/21 David Brain "Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?" talking points |
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3/17/21 SESE postdocs: Parke Loyd “Adrift in a Tempest: Observing Space Weather Conditions for Earth-Like Planets around Red Dwarf Stars" answers to student questions Hayden Miller “Elucidating the History of the Moon’s Surface - High Spatial Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Multigenerational Lunar Impact Melt Rocks” talking points and answers to student questions |
| 3/24/21 Michael Line "The Worlds Way Out There" answers to student questions |
| 3/31/21 Nancy Riggs "When Plates Collide: Turning Boring Beaches to Violent Volcanoes" Talking points are no longer viewable. |
| 4/21/21 Jan Amend "The Marine Deep Subsurface Biosphere: Team-Science Discoveries Over the Last Decade" answers to student questions. For talking points, please reference the C-DEBI website and these papers from Amend's research group: 2020 Amend et al (EnvMicro), 2020 Bradley et al (Sci Advances), 2020 LaRowe et al (GCA), and 2020 LaRowe et al (Geology) |
Fall 2020
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title. Not all presentations were recorded.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | Jim Tyburczy | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | ||
| Sept 2 | Dan Shim | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Hydrogen and Planets |
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| Sept 9 | Mona Jarrahi | University of California LA | New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology | |
| Sept 16 | Craig Hardgrove | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Searching for Lunar Water with LunaH-Map: Tiny Interplanetary Spacecraft with Big Science and Exploration Goals | |
| Sept 23 | Nick Schneider | Colorado University | Surprises from MAVEN at Mars: Aurora, Meteor Showers, and a New Water Loss Paradigm | |
| Sept 30 | Jamie Elsila | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Extracting Secrets of the Solar System: Soluble Organic Analysis of Meteorites and Returned Samples | |
| Oct 7 | Julie Fosdick | University of Connecticut | To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Sedimentary Signals of Young Faulting Along an Old Strand of the San Andreas Fault | |
| Oct 14 | Student Presentations | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration | Emily Zawacki, Sierra Ferguson, Wren Raming | |
| Oct 21 | Kristian Finlator | New Mexico State University | Linking Galaxy Formation with Cosmic Reionization | |
| Oct 28 | Bobby Braun | JPL | Growing Planetary Science Together | |
| Nov 4 | Lisa White | University of California Berkeley | ||
| Nov 18 | SESE Postdocs | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Melodie Kao, Hannes Bernhardt | |
| Dec 2 | Aomawa Shields | University of California Irvine | Recipe for a Habitable Planet |
Supplementary Materials (Fall 2020)
View the recorded Zoom webinar by clicking on the talk title in the Fall 2020 table above. Not all presentations were recorded.
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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9/2/2020 Dan Shim Colloquium "Hydrogen and Planets" answers to student questions PDF |
| 9/23/2020 Nick Schneider Colloquium "Surprises from MAVEN at Mars: Aurora, Meteor Showers, and a New Water Loss Paradigm" PDF talking points, PDF student questions corresponding to video file with answers. |
| 10/21/2020 Kristian Finlator "Linking Galaxy Formation with Cosmic Reionization" PDF talking points and PDF answers to student questions |
| 10/28/2020 Bobby Braun Colloquium "Growing Planetary Science Together" PDF talking points |
| 11/18/2020 Hannes Bernhardt PDF talking points and PDF answers to student questions |
| 12/2/2020 Aomawa Shields "Recipe for a Habitable Planet" PDF talking points |
Summer 2020
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 3 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mini Wadhwa |
SESE Community Conversation |
| June 17 | Paul Scowen | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Hubble at 30: Looking Beyond the Eagle at Star and Planet Formation | |
| June 24 | Molly Simon | ASU | Citizen Science in the Classroom: Successes and Shortcomings | |
| July 1 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mini Wadhwa | SESE Community Conversation |
| July 8 | Mingming Li | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Multi-scale deep mantle structure and convection | |
| July 15 | Christy Till | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | New Insights into Magmatic Systems | |
| July 22 | Peter Buseck | ASU-School of Molecular Sciences | From Earth to Deep Space: Nanomineralogy at ASU | |
| July 29 | Devin Schrader | ASU-Center for Meteorite Studies | Investigating the history of our protoplanetary disk through meteorites | |
| Aug 5 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Mini Wadhwa | SESE Community Conversation |
| Aug 12 | Maitrayee Bose | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | Probing water in small celestial bodies with mass spectrometry | |
| Aug 19 | Joe O'Rourke | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 15 | SESE Leadership | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | SESE Welcome and Community Conversation | |
| Jan 22 | Alex Navrotsky | ASU - School of Molecular Sciences | ||
| Jan 29 | David Williams | ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | World of Fire (and Ice): Exploring Jupiter’s moon Io | |
| Feb 5 | Timiebi Aganaba | ASU - School for the Future of Innovation in Society | ||
| Feb 12 | Amy Mainzer | University of Arizona | Near-Earth Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk | |
| Feb 19 |
Anna Grau Galofre and Alan Jackson |
ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration | SESE Exploration Fellow Presentations | |
| Feb 26 | Kathryn Johnston | Columbia University | Privilege, Power and Leadership in Academia | |
| Mar 4 | Kalind Carpenter | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Accessing an Alien Ocean: the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) | |
| Mar 11 | SPRING BREAK | |||
| Mar 18 |
Julie Fosdick Canceled |
University of Connecticut | To see the world in a grain of sand: Sedimentary signals of young faulting along an old strand of the San Andreas Fault | |
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Mar 18 |
Community Conversation |
Presented via Zoom |
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| Mar 25 |
Sanchayeeta Borthakur |
ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration Presented via Zoom |
How do galaxies like the Milky Way grow? | |
| April 1 | Community Conversation |
Presented via Zoom |
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| April 8 | SESE Students |
ASU - School of Earth and Space Exploration Presented via Zoom |
Zachary Torrano: Isotopic investigations of meteorites: using forensic tracers to unravel the mysteries of our early Solar System Tyler Richey-Yowell: The K Dwarf Advantage: Assessing the Habitability of Planets Orbiting K Stars |
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| April 15 | Kim Cobb |
Georgia Tech Presented via Zoom |
Climate Resilience for the 21st century - Smart Sea Level Sensors |
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| April 22 | Peter Girguis |
Harvard University Presented via Zoom |
There and Back Again: An oceanographer’s tale about ocean worlds here and beyond |
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| April 29 | Community Conversation | Presented via Zoom |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2020)
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
|---|
| 1/22/20 Alexandra Navrotsky Colloquium "Materials of the Universe" answers to student questions PDF |
| 1/29/20 David Williams Colloquium "World of Fire (and Ice): Exploring Jupiter's Moon Io" answers to student questions PDF |
| 2/5/20 Timiebi Aganaba Colloquium "The Space Force: From Rhetoric to Reality" answers to student questions PDF |
| 2/19/20 Alan Jackson Colloquium “Stop hitting yourself! Puncturing the early lunar crust with returning debris" answers to student questions PDF |
| 2/26/20 Kathryn Johnston Colloquium "Privilege, Power and Leadership in Academia" PDF answers to student questions and PDF talking points |
| 4/8/20 Zachary Torrano Colloquium "Isotopic investigations of meteorites: Using forensic tracers to unravel the mysteries of our early Solar System" answers to student questions PDF |
| 4/15/20 Kim Cobb Colloquium "Climate Resilience for the 21st century - Smart Sea Level Sensors” PDF talking points and PDF student questions corresponding to audio files with answers |
Fall 2019
Supplementary Materials Fall 2019
| Colloquium Questions Answered |
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| 9/4/19 SESE Leadership Colloquium "Community Conversation" answers to student questions PDF. |
| 9/25/19 Jennifer Heldmann Colloquium "Terrestrial Analog Fieldwork" answers to student questions PDF |
| 10/9/19 Chad Ostrander Colloquium "Tracking the Initial Oxygenation of Earth's Oceans" answers to student questions PDF |
| 10/9/19 Duho Kim Colloquium "Correcting for Extinction by Cosmic Dust in Galaxies" answers to student questions PDF |
| 11/6/19 James Stone Colloquium "Using Computation to Understand Why Black Holes Shine" answers to student questions PDF |
| 12/4/19 Darlene Lim Colloquium "Designing and Developing for Human Scientific Exploration of the Moon, Deep Space, and Mars" PDF |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 9 | David Lawrence | Johns Hopkins, Applied Physics Lab | Craig Hardgrove | Using Gamma Rays and Neutrons to Measure the Elemental Composition of Planetary Bodies |
| Jan 16 | Alycia Weinberger | Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Jennifer Patience | Astronomical Constraints on Planet Formation |
| Jan 23 | Ben Mazin | University of California, Santa Barbara | Chris Groppi | Looking for Planets Outside Our Solar System with Superconducting Photon Detectors |
| Jan 30 | Katherine Hayhoe | Texas Tech University | Hilairy Hartnett | Mitigate, Adapt — or Suffer: Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts and Solutions |
| Feb 6 | Erika Rader | University of Idaho | Amanda Clarke | Volcanic Spatter Across the Solar System: How Idaho+Lava Bombs = Water on Mars |
| Feb 13 | Erika Hamden | University of Arizona | Evgenya Shkolnik | The Ridiculous World of Scientific Ballooning |
| Feb 20 | H. Tuba Özkan-Haller | Oregon State University | Patrick Young | Transforming Academia: Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Sciences |
| Feb 27 | Evgenya Shkolnik | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) | Peter Buseck | Exploring Exoplanets and their Stars with the UV Space Telescopes of the Past, Present and Future |
| Mar 6 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 13 | Jnaneshwar Das | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) | Jnaneshwar Das | Robots in the Wild: Collaborative Exploration and Mapping |
| Mar 20 | Mary Knapp | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Judd Bowman | Searching For Small Planets With a Tiny Telescope: The Story of ASTERIA |
| Mar 27 | Deanne Rogers | Stony Brook University | Phil Christensen | Interpreting the Rock Record of Early Mars |
| Apr 3 | Larry Matthies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jnaneshwar Das | Vision Systems for Planetary Landers and Drones: Progress and Challenges |
| Apr 10 | Alison Duvall | University of Washington | Christy Till | Magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Landslides: How Will the Hillslopes Handle the Big One? |
| Apr 17 | Marcia Bjornerud | Lawrence University | Ramon Arrowsmith | Reading the Record of Ancient Earthquakes At Three Levels in the Crust: Insights From Greenschist-, Amphibolite- and Eclogite-Facies Pseudotachylytes |
| Apr 24 | Tammy Rittenour | Utah State University | Arjun Heimsath | Shifting Sand and Streams on the Grand Staircase, Southern Utah |
Supplementary Materials (Spring 2019)
| Colloquium Talk Slides (PDF) | Colloquium Questions Answered | Additional Information |
| Rader | Lawrence | Rader video |
| Das | Weinberger | |
| Rogers | Rader | |
| Duvall (25 MB version) | Hamden | |
| Duvall (97 MB version) | Das (plus erratum) | |
| Bjornerud | Rogers | |
| Duvall | ||
| Bjornerud |
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
| Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title | |
| Jan 10 | Iain Stewart | U. of Plymouth, UK, 2017-2018 Geological Society of America (GSA) James B. Thompson Distinguished International Lecturer | Ramon Arrowsmith | Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Communicating Contested Geoscience to the Public |
| Jan 17 | John Brady | Smith College | Peter Buseck | Subduction Zone Pseudomorphs: Windows on High Pressure Grain Scale Processes |
| Jan 24 | Sanchayeeta Borthakur | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Peter Buseck | Understanding How Galaxies Reionized the Universe |
| Jan 31 | Ed Brown | Michigan State University | Patrick Young | The Densest Matter in the Observable Universe: Accreting Neutron Stars and the Physics of Dense Matter |
| Feb 7 | James Head | Brown University | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | The Climate History of Mars: A Geological Perspective |
| Feb 14 | Arif Babul | University of Victoria, Canada | Evan Scannapieco | Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Probes? |
| Feb 21 | Bethany Ehlmann | Caltech | Mini Wadhwa | Ceres, an Unexpectedly Active Dwarf Planet: Findings from the Dawn Mission |
| Feb 28 | Michael Russell | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jack Farmer | Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It |
| Mar 7 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 14 | Daniela Calzetti | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Paul Scowen | Linking the Scales of Star Formation |
| Mar 21 | Cameron Smith | Portland State University | Danny Jacobs | Human Exploration Technologies for the Second Space Age: Private Development of Space Suits for Earth Orbit and Beyond |
| Mar 28 | Susannah Dorfman | Michigan State U., 2017-2018 Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Distinguished Lecturer | Thomas Sharp | The Mineral Physics Test Kitchen: Recipes for Earth's Mantle and Core |
| Apr 4 | Kiri Wagstaff | Jet Propulsion Laboratory Machine Learning & Instrument Autonomy | Craig Hardgrove | Tell Me Why: Interpretable Machine Learning for Space Exploration and Beyond (talk given Oct 31, 2018) |
| Apr 11 | Morgan Burks | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Scott Smas | Mercury, 16 Psyche, Mars, and Titan: Exploring the Solar System with Gamma Rays |
| Apr 18 | George Cooper | NASA Ames Research Center | Sandra Pizarello | The Analysis of Carbonaceous Meteorites: Unusual Mirror-Image Properties Of Organic Compounds From The Early Solar System |
| Apr 25 | Mark Panning | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Dan Shim | Extraterrestrial Seismology: What We Can Learn on Mars and Icy Ocean Worlds |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Aug 23 | Pierre Herkes | ASU School of Molecular Sciences & School of Earth and Space Exploration | Peter Buseck | Clouds and Fogs in the Earth System |
| Aug 30 | Carmala Garzione | University of Rochester | Kelin Whipple | The Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Geodynamic Implications for the Growth of Plateaus |
| Sept 6 | Rene Ong | University of California-Los Angeles | Phil Mauskopf, Nat Butler | Very High-Energy Astrophysics and the Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| Sept 13 | Elizabeth Hajek | Penn State | Arjun Heimsath | Measuring Ancient Landscape Dynamics from Sedimentary Deposits |
| Sept 20 | Umaa Rebbapragada | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Nat Butler | Using Machine Learning for Discovery on Earth, Mars and Beyond |
| Sept 27 | Lori Glaze | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Alyssa Rhoden | Venus: The Forgotten, Mysterious Planet |
| Oct 4 | Jason Wright | Penn State | Steve Desch | Artifact SETI and the Puzzle of (Tabby) Boyajian's Star |
| Oct 11 | Terry Fong | NASA Intelligent Robotics Group | Kip Hodges, Jim Bell | Human-Robot Teaming for Space Exploration |
| Oct 18 | Victoria Meadows | University of Washington | Evgenya Shkolnik | The Habitability of Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs |
| Oct 25 | Hal Levison | Southwest Research Institute | Phil Christensen | The Formation of Planets from the Direct Accretion of Pebbles |
| Nov 1 | Abby Kavner | University of California-Los Angeles | Jim Tyburczy | The Electrochemical Earth |
| Nov 8 | Joe Silk | Johns Hopkins University | Evan Scannapieco | The Limits of Cosmology |
| Nov 15 | Michael Line | ASU-School of Earth and Space Exploration | Paul Scowen | Characterizing the Diversity of Extrasolar Atmospheres: From Planets to Brown Dwarfs |
| Nov 22 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Nov 29 | William McKinnon | Washington University-St. Louis | Everett Shock | Pluto Explored! NASA’s Epic Voyage to the Edge of the Solar System |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 11 | Christopher Loxton | Loxton Cellars, Sonoma County | Maitrayee Bose | Science and the Art of Winemaking |
| Jan 18 | Eiichi Egami | Steward Observatory, University of Arizona | Phil Mauskopf | Observing the Distant Universe through Powerful Gravitational Lenses in Space |
| Jan 25 | Greg Asner | Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University | Arjun Heimsath | Exploring and Managing Forests from Above |
| Feb 1 | David Blewitt | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Mark Robinson | MESSENGER's View of Hollows on Mercury, and Links to the Planet's High Volatile Content |
| Feb 8 | David Kohlstedt | University of Minnesota | Peter Buseck | Stress- and Reaction-Driven Melt Segregation – Formation of High-Permeability Paths in the Mantle |
| Feb 15 | Ken Edgett | Malin Space Science Systems | Steve Ruff | A More Vast and Accessible Martian Sedimentary Rock Record |
| Feb 22 | Don Brownlee | University of Washington | Sandra Pizzarello | What Samples of a Comet Tell Us About the Origin of the Solar System |
| Mar 1 | Shanan Peters | University of Wisconsin | Everett Shock | Earth's Long-Term Biogeochemical Evolution: a View From the Upper Crust |
| Mar 7 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 15 | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Jim Bell | Psyche: Journey to a Metal World |
| Mar 22 | Lance Gharavi | ASU School of Film, Dance & Theatre and SESE Affiliate | Ed Garnero | Science, Art, Narrative |
| Mar 29 | Gregory Taylor | University of New Mexico | Judd Bowman | Science at Low Frequencies with the Long Wavelength Array |
| Apr 5 | Dorothy Merritts | Franklin and Marshall College | Kelin Whipple | Freeze-Dried, Rapidly Thawed Permafrost Landscapes, Breached Milldams, and their Relation to Modern Wetland-Stream Restoration, Eastern US |
| Apr 12 | Christy Till | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Stan Williams | Are Yellowstone Eruptions Triggered in the Course of a Human Life? |
| Apr 19 | Dan Cziczo | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ptere Buseck | How Our Understanding of Climate and Precipitation is influenced by Uncertainties in Particle and Cloud Measurements |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Aug 24 | Heather Throop | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Life Sciences | Enrique Vivoni | Deserts in a Changing World: Ecological Responses and Feedbacks to Climate Change |
| Aug 31 | Alberto Conti | Northrop Grumman | Chris Groppi | NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope |
| Sept 7 | Tobias Fischer | University of New Mexico | Stan Williams | Massive Emissions of Carbon During Continental Rifting: Implications for the Carbon Cycle and Climate |
| Sept 14 | Danny Jacobs | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Judd Bowman | New Horizons in Experimental Astrophysics: Exoplanets and the Cosmic Dawn |
| Sept 21 | Vicky Hamilton | Southwest Research Institute | Phil Christensen | A New Approach to Characterizing Evidence of Parent Body Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites |
| Sept 28 | Timothy Grove | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Melting Conditions, Melting Processes and Mantle Sources of Mercury’s Surface Lavas |
| Oct 5 | Christophe Sotin | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech | Jim Bell, Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Steve Desch | Titan: an Organic World of Two Oceans |
| Oct 12 | Briony Horgan | Purdue University | Jim Bell | Mineral Signatures of Glacial Environments and Implications for Past Climates on Mars |
| Oct 19 | Stanley Williams | ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration | Lynda Williams | The Importance of Being There: Why I Study Active Volcanoes |
| Oct 26 | Heather Petcovic | Western Michigan University | Steve Semken | Thinking in the Field: How Experts and Novices Make a Geologic Map |
| Nov 2 | Robert Staehle | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Jekan Thanga | Will Smallsats and CubeSats Revolutionize Solar System Exploration? |
| Nov 9 | Rocky Kolb | University of Chicago | Rogier Windhorst | Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon |
| Nov 16 | Maitrayee Bose | ASU School of Molecular Sciences | Stan Williams | Exploring Solar System History through Isotopic Analysis of Extraterrestrial Dust |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Nov 30 | Elizabeth Cantwell | ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, and School of Matter, Transport and Energy | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | The Future of Basic Research Focused on Humans in Space after Space Station is De-Orbited |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Talk Title |
| Jan 13 | Robert Pappalardo | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Phil Christensen | Exploring Europa: A Potentially Habitable World |
| Jan 20 | Wallace Broecker | Columbia University | Peter Buseck | Global Warming: A Geologic Analogue |
| Jan 27 | Andrea Donnellan | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Ramón Arrowsmith | The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes using Space Observations |
| Feb 3 | Penelope King | Australian National University | Rick Hervig | Gas–Solid Reactions in Earth and Planetary Systems |
| Feb 10 | David Kring | Lunar and Planetary Institute | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Testing the Inner Solar System Impact Cataclysm |
| Feb 17 | Edwin Kite | University of Chicago | Alyssa Rhoden | Powering Cryo-Volcanoes on Icy Moons |
| Feb 24 | Alison Coil | University of California, San Diego | James Rhoads | Unconscious Bias: Data, Studies, and Next Steps |
| Mar 2 | Cathy Olkin | Southwest Research Institute Boulder | Jim Bell | Our New View of Pluto |
| Mar 9 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 16 | Alexandra Navrotsky | University of California, Davis | Jim Tyburczy | A Lifetime in Thermodynamics |
| Mar 23 | Klaus Lackner | ASU School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions | Peter Buseck | Balancing the World's Carbon Budget |
| Mar 30 | Thure Cerling | University of Utah | Ariel Anbar | HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records |
| Apr 6 | Mark Quigley | University of Melbourne | Kelin Whipple | The 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence: From Paleoseismology to Policy |
| Apr 13 | Sayfe Kiaei | ASU School of Electrical, Energy, and Computer Engineering, and the Connection One Research Center | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Challenges in RF Integrated Circuits |
| Apr 20 | Stefi Baum | University of Manitoba | Sangeeta Malhotra | The Long Arc of Science |
| Apr 27 | Emily Levesque | University of Washington | Sumner Starrfield | Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud |