Upcoming Events for Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences

Friday, October 25, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – October 25, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor

Monday, October 28, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Bridging biological scales to assess the contribution of landslides to the functioning of tropical mountainscapes Carla Restrepo, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico,

Thursday, October 31, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Anastasia Yanchilina, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Monday, November 4, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Reconceptualizing Mentoring Joyce Yen, Director of University of Washington ADVANCE, Center for Institutional Change, University of Washington,

Thursday, November 7, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Bonnie Teece, Postdoctoral Fellow, Origins and Habitability Lab, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Monday, November 11, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Morphodynamics of deformable planetary surfaces: Examples from big and small salt basins on Earth David Mohrig, Professor, Peter T. Flawn Centennial Chair in Geology Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin,

Thursday, November 14, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Nathan Reed, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Colorado Boulder,

Monday, November 18, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) TBD Catherine Johnson, Professor of Geophysics Department of Earth, Ocean and Athompheric Sciences, University of British Columbia,

Thursday, November 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Cornelia Rasmussen, Research Associate, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin,

Monday, November 25, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Salmon vs the landslide: The rockslide that blocked the Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada Jeremy Venditti, Director of Environmental Science & Professor, School of Environmental Science & Geography, Simon Fraser University,

Thursday, December 5, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Ting Zhang, Professor, College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Dongfeng Li, Assistant Professor, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University,

Monday, January 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Seminar in Geological and Planetary Sciences Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) TBD Ravit Helled, Professor, Department of Astrophysics, University of Zurich,

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Michael Lamb Beckman Auditorium