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College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Geological Sciences

Geology Seminars

Every Thursday at 11am

Winter 2026 Seminars

Jim Karner

Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program

Peter Van Katwyk

Using AI to Understand Ice Sheet Evolution

Brett Mustoe

Vice President, Principal Geologist, AECOM

Tara Nye

What's Shaking? Geologic effects on Seismic Hazard

Brandon Theurer

The Hindlimb and Pelvis of Ceratopsid Dinosaurs

Alec Martin

Geometallurgy: How Minerals Make or Break a Mine

Bob Lindsay

Middle East Super Giant Oil Field Discoveries: A Peak into the World's Largest Reservoir-Ghawar Arab-D Reservoir

Brent Maxfield

Julia Kelson

Sedimentary Geochemist and Paleoclimatologist, Indiana University Bloomington

Fall 2025 Seminars

Rachel Whipple

My Actions are the Ground upon which I Stand

Mike Searle

Tectonic Evolution of the Oman Mountains

Bill Stavast

Innovation and AI in Mining Geology

Ben Spackman

Fault Lines within Faith

Chris Ballard

Careers in Mineral Exploration

Summer Rupper

Development, Climate Change, and Hazards in the Himalayas

Sam Ying

Toward Safe Water for All

Winter 2025 Seminars

Jim Shigley

Country-of-Origin Determination in Colored Gemstones

Jason Barnes

Roving through the Air on Titan with Dragonfly

Ian Winkelstern

Clumped Isotopes of Bonneville and Glacial Material

Hyrum Briscoe

Mining Geology and Gold Deposits of Wells

Wade Hutchings

The Power of Energy: How God's Purpose for the Earth Intersects with Energy Transitions

Annika Quick

What Lies Beneath and Above

Thomas Underwood

Clays in the Computer

Dorothy Merritts

It's Relative: The Ups and Downs of Earth's Surface, Sea Level and Dams, and the Record of These Changes

Ron Harris and Kevin Rey

Structure and Sound: The Tectonic Setting of Iceland and Recent Geophysical Research

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