Seminars

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Spring 2025 Seminar Series

**Please Note Each Presentation's Date and Time**

Wednesday, February 19 – 11:00 am – Gideon Henderson, UK Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the University of Oxford, The potential and risks of atmospheric CO2 removal in net zero pathways: Science and policy reflections.

Thursday, February 27 – 11:00 am – Philipp Ruprecht, University of Nevada Reno, The natural laboratory of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle that links crustal scale magmatism to eruption dynamics: When and how do rhyolitic magmas blow up?

Wednesday, March 12 – 11:00 am – Samantha Tramontano, American Museum of Natural History, Tephra tales: linking petrologic and seismic records of volcanic processes during recent months-long basaltic eruptions.

Wednesday, April 02 – 11:00 am – Nester Korolev, American Museum of Natural History, Mineral and fluid inclusions in diamonds: insights into the water and volatile cycle in the Earth’s deep mantle.

Wednesday, April 09 – 11:00 am – Jane Alexander, College of Staten Island, Ancient earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Newark Basin rift valley - Clues from geochemical signatures in sedimentary rocks.

Tuesday, April 22 – 11:00 am – Aaron Bell, University of Colorado Boulder, Angrites - Exploring the Origins of the Most Unusual Basalts in the Solar System.

Wednesday, May 07 – 11:00 am – David McGee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Insights into Madagascar’s Climate and Megafaunal Extinctions from Speleothems.

Wednesday, May 14 – 11:00 am – Penny Wieser, University of California Berkeley, Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Fluid Inclusions: Unveiling Secrets of Ocean Island Volcanoes and Enhancing Rapid Response during Eruptions.

When: The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History holds seminars during the academic year. Please refer to the current schedule above for more details.

Where: On site and virtual.

Mailing list: Information about upcoming seminars is sent via e-mail a few days before the scheduled date. If you would like to be on the mailing list to receive information about our seminars, please send an e-mail to [email protected].