Fall 2025
09/03/2025 – Ashley Iervolino, Staff Scientist II at Roux Associates and QC Alum – “A DISCUSSION OF CAREERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING AND THE WORK OF ROUX ASSOCIATES “.
9/10/2025 – Zoe Krauss, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences The University of Washington – “Long-term Earthquake Data Unlocks the Story of a Mid-Ocean Ridge “.
9/17/2025 – Dr. Stephen Pekar, Professor; ר School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Climate Change: What it means for our future and what we can do about it! “.
10/08/2025 – Career Panel Event – Dara Laczniak, Guest Speaker: Dr. Nathan Epler, EKI Environment & Water, Inc – “Beyond the Degree: Finding Your Future Career “.
10/15/2025 – Corinne Hartin, Director of Science – Silver Lining – “Anthropogenic footprints: tracking the impacts of climate change “.
10/22/2025 – Julie Huber, Senior Scientist, MC&G Assistant Dean of Postdocs Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – “Diving into the Deep Ocean on Earth and Ocean Worlds Beyond “.
10/29/2025 – Austin Chadwick, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Ocean and Climate Physics Lamont-Soherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School. – “River systems: their origins, evolution, & response to our rapidly changing world “.
11/05/2025 – Dara Laczniak, Lecturer (Doctoral), Planetary Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Career Panel Event, “GRAD SCHOOL INFO SESSION “
11/12/2025 – Ceclia McHugh, Distinguished Professor School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “New techniques to recognize deposits from dangerous tsunamigenic earthquakes: Application to the Japan Trench “.
11/19/2025 – Grace Bungenstab Alves, Assistant Professor Department of Geography Federal University of Bahia, UFBA, Brazil. – “Soils as Storytellers: decoding landscape evolution in Brazil’s tropical drylands “.
11/26/2025 – Liang Xue, Assistant Project Scientist Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of California, Davis – “Modeling the Interaction between Surface Processes and Tectonic Deformation in Continental Rifts “.
12/03/2025 – Mike Kaplan, Lamont Research Professor ,Geochemistry, in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Holocene climates in the Southern Hemisphere, and was there a European-like Little Ice Age? “.
12/10/2025 – Peer Mentor Presentation -(Michaela Chiu, Candace Anderson, Raquel Mendez, Kristine Mikhaylov, Clohie Clarke, Jennifer Chen, Laiba Mahmood) School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC – “SEES Fall 2025 Peer Mentors and Advisors “
Spring 2025
02/05/2025 – Kevin Konrad – Assistant Professor of Marine Geology, Oregon State University – “Over 110 Million Years Of Samoan Hotspot Volcanism: New Insights Into Mantle Plume Dynamics “.
02/10/2025 – Yan Zheng, PhD – Chair Professor, School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology – “The Story of Groundwater: Think Globally, Act Locally “.
02/19/2025 – Kirsty J. Tinto – Researcher, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Greenland Rising: Coastal Communities and the Impact of Sea Level Change in Greenland “.
02/26/2025 – Eric Greppo, Jean Patota – “Beyond the Degree: Geology Careers & Licensure in NYS “.
03/12/2025 – Pedro Val and Pedro Oliveira – LEGACi Lab, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Dating the Incision of the Lower Amazon River “.
CANCELED 03/19/2025 – Christine Ramadhin, PhD – Doctoral Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, ר – “Enhancing Student Achievement in a Large Geoscience Course through Active Learning Strategies “.03/26/2025 –Mr. Michael Reed, a former Product Engineer for Esri and fellow graduate student, Ms. Meagan Lenna, an Assistant Geologist at the NYS Department of Transportation – “Beyond the Degree: Finding your Future Career “.
04/02/2025 – Roman DiBiase, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, – “Large-scale mapping of post-wildfire dry sediment loading using repeat airborne lidar in southern California. “.
04/09/2025 – Mike Gurnis, Seismological Laboratory California Institute of Technology, – “The Churning Interior of Planet Earth – A view of the Pacific over the Cenozoic “.
04/23/2025 – Chuixiang Yi, PhD, Professor, SEES, – “Integrating Nonlinear Dynamics into Ecosystem Respiration: The Michaelis-Menten Q10 Model “.
04/30/2025 – Franco Cortese, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center ר, – “Volcanic Crystals in Four Dimensions from the 2021 Eruption of Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands “.
05/07/2025 –Justin Adamson, Emily Albines, Candace Anderson, Victor Barrientos, Jennifer Chen, Kristine Mikhaylov, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC. – “Spring 2025 Peer Mentors and Advisors “.
05/12/2025 – Shan Gao, PhD Associated Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, – “Decoding core ecological processes from tree rings “.
05/14/2025 – Students of GEOL 102, 200, & 201, “Poster Session, Spring 2025 “.
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
1/31/2024 – Marc-Antoine Longpré, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, ר, CUNY – “A CURE* in SEES *course-based undergraduate research experience “.
2/7/2024 – Lexi Kenis. MS and PhD Student, University of New Mexico – “Pursuing Graduate School After ר “.
2/21/2024 – Pedro Val, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, ר, CUNY – “The Amazon rainforest: from rocks to life “.
3/6/2024 – Lu Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University – “Advancements in polar sea ice monitoring: integrating altimeter and radiometer satellite data in the Arctic and Antarctic “.
3/13/2024 – Dianne Greenfield, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, ר, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY – “Characterizing nutrient influences on the microbiome of New York City’s urban estuaries “.
3/20/2024 – Fernanda Santos, PhD, Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “Disturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes “.
3/27/2024 – Yi Yin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University – “Unequal Exposure to Heat Extremes: Case Studies in Los Angeles and New York City “.
4/3/2024 – Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke – “Student Research Presentations from Soule Research Lab “.
4/10/2024 – Allan Ludman, PhD, Professor emeritus, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, ר, CUNY – “AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS TO DECIPHER THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS ”
4/17/2024 – Wenge Ni-Meister, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York – “Leveraging NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission Measurements for Large-Scale Aboveground Biomass Estimation ”
5/1/2024 – Xiyan Xu, PhD, Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China – “Harnessing terrestrial ecosystems to combat climate change: challenges and opportunities “
5/8/2024 – The SEES Spring 24 Peer Mentors (Emily Albines, Hannah Goykadosh, Alyse Jofre, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – “School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC ”
5/15/2024 – Students of GEOL 201 – “Results of the Canary Project, Spring 2024 “
Fall 2023
Presentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
9/13/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, ר – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming “.
9/20/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, ר – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it! “.
9/27/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, ר – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science “.
10/04/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property “
10/11/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, ר – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment “
10/18/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, ר – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return “
10/25/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health? “
11/1/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications “
11/8/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps—Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data. “
11/15/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD “Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration ”
CANCELLED 11/29/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD “Past and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet “12/06/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms “
Spring 2023
1/25/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.
2/1/23 – Pedro Val, (QC/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.
2/8/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology , The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.
2/15/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, Greenland Ice Sheet—Past and Future.
2/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) – Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands, Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.
3/1/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).
3/8/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).
3/15/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, ר, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.
3/22/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis .
3/29/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.
4/5/23 – No Talk / Spring Recess
4/12/23 – No Talk / Spring Recess
4/19/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity .
4/26/23 – TBD
5/3/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador .
5/10/23 – Graduate student presentations.
5/17/23 – Peer mentor presentations.
