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 be added to our seminar email list, email our Program Assistant.
Continue to check back for schedule updates.
Spring 2026
Apr 10 - Megan Newcombe, University of Maryland
Degassing of Early-Formed Planetesimals: Implications for the Origin of Earth’s Water
Apr 17 - C. Renee Sparks, Hope College
What Lies Beneath: The story of MORBs and OIBs
Apr 24 - Maria Rose Petrizzo, University of Milan
Biotic and Environmental Changes During the Late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2) at Low and High Latitudes
May 1 - Tyler Karp, University of Chicago
Herbivore-Fire Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
May 8 - Aaron Martinez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Connecting the Past to the Future: Orca Basin and Climate Interventions
May 15 - Speaker TBD
Title TBD
May 22 - Florence Shubotz, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Title TBD
May 29 - Northwestern Undergraduate Researchers
Undergraduate Research Roundup
Jun 05 - Speaker TBD
Title TBD
Winter 2026
Jan 9 - Jingmai O'Connor, Field Museum of Natural History
Archaeopteryx: Icon of Evolution
Jan 23 - Kathryn Schreiner, University of Minnesota Duluth
Carbon and Nutrients in Lake Superior: The Importance of Aeolian Pollen Inputs
Feb 6 - Mark Behn, Boston College
Characterizing the Seasonal Evolution of Greenland's Basal Hydrologic System and Its Relationship to Ice Sheet Dynamics
Feb 13 - Jennifer Dunn, NU-Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sustainability Analysis of Critical Minerals Supply Chains: Attributional and Consequential Life Cycle Assessment
Feb 20 - Heather Bedle, University of Oklahoma
Characterizing Subsurface Systems for Energy and Sustainability Applications
Feb 27 - Ping Jing, Loyola University
Ozone, Smoke, and Public Health: Community-Level Impacts of the 2023 Wildfire Season in Chicago
Mar 6 - Selva Marroquin, University of Wisconsin
Title to be announced
Fall 2025
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