Events and Colloquium Calendar

Arkansas Geosciences alumni summit

Alumni summit schedule

 

Spring 2026 Colloquium/GeoForum

Unless otherwise noted, colloquium/GeoForum is held at 3:30 pm in Gearhart Hall, room 258 for Spring.


Jan    16

Celina Suarez

University of Arkansas

Welcome back students orientation for undergraduates

 

Jan    23 Canceled due to weather

 

 

Jan    30
Geomorph Candidate Presentation
 

 

Feb    06

Geomorph Candidate Presentation

 

Feb   13

Dalton Williams

PhD Candidate. University of Arkansas

Title:  Advancing Understanding of Ecological Niche Shift and Tickborne Disease Dynamics Through Fine-Scale Species Distribution Modeling Across Arkansas

 

Feb   20

Leslie Duncan

Hydrologist, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, TN

Title:  Development of a dynamic modeling framework for water availability assessments: Mississippi Alluvial Plain

 

Feb   27

Peter Makovicky

Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of MN

Title:  An unusually well-preserved Cretaceous ecosystem in the Ozark Region of Missouri

 

Mar  06

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Professor, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of CO

Title:  Livelihoods, drought and food insecurity in Kenya: The role of institutions in a time of accelerating climate change

 

Mar  13

Matt Malkowski
Assistant Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of TX at Austin

Title: Linking ocean basin evolution to Cretaceous climate and tectonism in the Patagonian Andes

 

Mar  20

Kristine Pankow
Research Professor, University of Utah

Title:  Utah FORGE: A Field-Scale Geothermal Laboratory

 

Apr  03

Micah Wyssmann, PhD

Assistant Professor,  University of Missouri-Kansas City

Title: How do bedforms respond to prevailing hydraulic and sedimentologic conditions? A 30,000-foot view informed by big dat

 

Apr   10

GEOHOG 2026

Multiple Presentations by students

In the University of Arkansas Student Union

 

Apr   17

 

 

 

Apr  24

Claire Terhune

Director of Graduate Studies, ANTH, University of Arkansas

Title: Life and death along the Oltet River, Romania

Kurt Sundell

Assistant Professor, University of Idaho

Title: Tectonic and climatic controls on hafnium and oxygen isotopes in zircon

 

 

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