Previous Semesters

Prior Geosciences Colloquiums


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

            

   

 

 Fall

2025

 

Aug 29

Christian Garcia

Technical Consultant, Managed Cloud Services at ESRI

Behind the Maps: Exploring GIS Backend Infrastructure and Career Paths

Sept 05

Laura Ruhl-Whittle

Research Associate Professor in Geosciences, University of Arkansas

Down to the River: Quantifying the Impact of Urbanization on the Fourche Creek Watershed, Little Rock, AR

Sept 12
Research Hydrologist, University of CO
 
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)  Satellite Mission: Overview and Geomorphic Capabilities after Two Years of Measurements
Sept 19

Marion Nachon

PhD in Earth & Planetary Sciences, TAMU

Current & Future Mars rover mission operations:  an ongoing story of  Perseverance, Curiosity, and sulfate veins; and a future story of walking with LASSIE

Sept 26

Kate Andrzejewski

Assistant Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey, KS

Paleosols and Puzzling Stratigraphy:  Paleoclimatic reconstruction and sequence stratigraphy of the Dakota Formation in Kansas

Oct 03

Kaelin Groom

Geographer, Heritage Scientist, Anthropologist, Author, UT

Stepping Through Time:  Repeat Photography in Petra, Jordan

Oct 10

Korab Vranovci

PhD, Instructor, University of Arkansas

When the University Expands: Community Change in the Shadow of Growth

Oct 17

David Park
CEO Standard Lithium

In lieu of Colloquium, presents fireside chat/Q & A, at the Donald W Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development, Auditorium 120, 3:30-4:30PM

Oct 24

Hashindra Herath
PhD Candidate, University of Arkansas

Geochemical Trails: Tracking Metal Origins in Midcontinent US Lead-Zinc Ores

Oct 31

Cameron Manche
PhD, Assistant Research Scientist,      Texas A & M University

Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on Depositional and Diagenetic Processes in the LateJurassic Smackover Formation, Southern Arkansas

Nov 07

2nd Arkansas Geosciences Alumni Summit

GeoForum in Gearhart Hall 26.  For questions, contact Shane Matson: shanematson@gmail.com

Nov   14

Stanislaw Zukowski
PhD Student / Research Assistant       University of Warsaw, Poland

Backward Evolution of River Networks

Nov   21

Govind Joshi

PhD Candidate, University of Arkansas

Beyond Sutures and Rifts:  Geophysical Insights into the Nature of the Snowbird Tectonic Zone

 
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