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Events and Seminars

Welcome to our 2025-2026 Seminar Series, proudly supported by the Cohen Family Fund for Energy, Environment and Education.

Seminars are held in Tech F285 - our L.L. Sloss Room, on Friday mornings from 10:00 - 10:50 a.m. CT  

If you would like to added to our seminar email list, email our Program Assistant.

Continue to check back for schedule updates. 

Fall 2025 Seminars

Sept 19 - Sloss Graduate Research Symposium Part 1, NU - DEEPS
Sept 26 - Sloss Graduate Research Symposium Part 2, NU - DEEPS
An annual presentation on the research & accomplishments of our graduate students 

Oct 3 - Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Climate Research and Engagement for a Brighter Future

Oct 17 - Raven Mitchell, Prairie State Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Topobathymetric Assessment of a Shoreline Protection Project at Illinois State Beach Park, Lake Michigan (2018-2024)

Oct 24 - Tristan Horner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Barium in the Ocean: Testing Thermodynamics in a Kinetic World

Oct 31 - Gavin Yang, Northwestern University
Unraveling Drivers Behind Regional Water-Quality Change using Spatially Referenced Regression Models

Nov 7 - Brandon Curry, Illinois State Geological Survey
Fine-Tuning Deglacial History through Analysis of Loessy Lake Records in Central Illinois

Nov 14 - Bradford Foley, Pennsylvania State University
Geodynamics of Early Crust Formation: Constraints on Earth's Long-Term Tectonic and Thermal Evolution

Nov 21 - Finley Hay-Chapman, NU-DEEPS
Building a Community Heat Vulnerability Index

Winter 2026

Coming soon!