Department of Earth Science Seminar Series – Spring Semester 2023
Tuesday from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Room: SB 246
To attend the Live-Stream Teams meeting : Watch Live Stream
If you would like to view past seminars, visit our Seminar Archive .
Date | Speaker | Affiliation / Title | Title / Subject | Moduality | View Again |
Jan 10 | Daren Nelson / Weihong Wang | UVU Earth Science | Syllabus and course discussion | F2F | |
Jan 17 | Dr. Daniel Moore | UVU adjunct - retired BYUI Geology Professor | Island Park - Born of Fire | F2F | Link |
Jan 24 | Kalvon Hone | GIS Coordinator at Provo City Public Works | GIS Added Value? | Link | |
Jan 31 | Dr. Michael Shamo | UVU History Adjunct - Associate Director of CE at BYU | The Majestic Virgin Forgot Her Promise": An Environmental History of the Virgin River Basin, 1849-1938 | F2F | Link |
Feb 7 | Cancelled | No Seminar | |||
Feb 14 | Dr. Tess Weathers | Associate Professor and Engineering Program Director at Chabot College |
The secret to improving water quality and quantity in our changing world: Case studies
on perfluoroalkyl acids and managed aquifer recharge
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Feb 16 | Dr. Kayon Barrett | Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Tarleton State University | Environmental Modeling of organics' fates for tropical developing countries | F2F | Link |
Feb 21 | Dr. Justin Gay | Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison | Perturbations to terrestrial ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling: Implications for global change and environmental management | F2F | Link |
Feb 28 | Dr. Tara Bishop | Research Ecologist at the United States Geological Survey in Moab | Dryland resilience in the face of change | F2F | Link |
Mar 7 | Spring Break - No Seminar | ||||
Mar 14 | Dr. Bill Keach | Utah Geological Society Director | Careers at Utah Geological Society / GIS / Geoscientists | F2F | Link |
Mar 21 | Carly Biedel | Coordinator for the Great Salt Lake Institute | Impact of Brine Fly Population due to drop in GSL | F2F | Link |
Mar 28 | Dr. Rachael Hutchings | Assistant Director of Center for National Security Studies at UVU | Nuclear Energy | F2F | Link |
Apr 4 | Dr. Erica Gaddis | Water Resources Technical Director at SWCA | Water Resources in Utah and the West | F2F | Link |
Apr 11 | Kim Shelly | Executive Director of Utah DEQ | Air Quality in Utah | F2F | |
Apr 11 | Eric Sewell | Army National Guard - Environmental Engineer | Environmental Management with the Guard - Potential Internships | F2F | |
Apr 18 | Karem Meza | PhD Candidate USU | Spatial Estimation of Actual Evapotranspiration over irrigated Turfgrass Using sUAS Thermal and Multispectral Imagery and TSEB Model | Virtual | Link |
Apr 25 | Bryce Bird | Air Quality Division Director at Utah Department of Environmental Quality | Air Quality Update 2023 | F2F | Link |
Department of Earth Science Seminar Series – Spring Semester 2022
Room: SB 260
If you would like to attend the Live-Stream Teams meeting : Watch Live Stream
Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title / Subject | Delivery | Watch Again |
Jan 11 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Daren Nelson | UVU Earth Science | Syllabus and course discussion | F2F | |
Jan 18 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Geneivieve Richards and Bremen Leak | UVU Sustainability Coordinator BYU Associate Director of Sustainability | What are we doing in Susutainability? Sustainability Job Market | F2F | Video Link |
Jan 25 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Norm Jones | BYU Professor - Civil Engineering | GW Modeling in NV/UT water battle | F2F | Video Link |
Feb 1 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Utah Lake Proposal | Lake Commission Meeting | Video Link | ||
Feb 8 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Matt Olsen | Faculty Candidate University of Utah | Using Remote Sensing to Monitor Glacier Change in the Himalayas | Teams/F2F | Video Link |
Feb 11 | 2:00pm - 2:50 pm | Peng Fu | Faculty Candidate - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Understanding photosynthesis in agricultural and urban ecosystems: a geospatial contribution | Teams | Video Link |
Feb 15 | 11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Aspen Manning | Faculty Candidate - Texas State UniversityTBD | Grow with the flow: Riparian vegitation along ephemeral and intermittent streams. | Teams | Video Link |
Feb 22 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Grant Willis | Utah Geological Survey | Geological Mapping and Job Market at State Agencies | F2F | Video Link |
Feb 25 | 1:00pm - 1:50 pm | Daniel Williams | Faculty Candidate - University of Pittsburgh | Remote observations of volcanoes | Teams | Video Link |
Mar 1 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Joel Pederson | USU Geology Chair | How deserts erode - Book Cliffs. | F2F | Video Link |
Mar 8 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Spring Break No Seminar | ||||
Mar 15 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Stephanie Mills | Utah Geological Survey | Mining Industry - Research | F2F | Video Link |
Mar 22 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Aaron Peterson | Sinclair Oil & Gas | Path to Oil and Gas Industries | F2F | Video Link |
Mar 29 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Steve Davis | Stanford Researcher | Carbon Sequestration | F2F | Video Link |
Apr 5 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Charles (Jack) Oviatt | Retired Professor KSU | Regressive History of Lake Bonneville | Teams/F2F | Video Link |
Apr 12 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Alexander Hohl | U of U - Geography Dept Prof | GIS and COVID | F2F | Video Link |
Apr 19 | 11:30am-12:20pm | UVU Earth Science Faculty | University of Maryland | Earth Science Faculty Forum | Teams/F2F | Video Link |
Apr 26 | 11:30am-12:20pm | Daren Nelson | Semester Wrap Up, Feedback, and Q& A | F2F |