Events
May 2026
Friday, May 1st, 2026
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Long-Reach Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing over Repeated Submarine Cables
Mikael Mazur,
Member of Technical Staff,
Nokia Bell Labs,
Monday, May 4th, 2026
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"From gas dwarfs to rocky worlds: The compositional evolution of low mass planets."
Robin Wordsworth,
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Co-Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Stratospheric Methane Loss from Satellite Observations
Qiang Fu,
Calvin Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science,
University of Washington,
Friday, May 8th, 2026
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Constraints on mantle convection from a massive seismic dataset
Jonathan Wolf,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, May 11th, 2026
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Dunes and the changing landscape of Earth and other planets"
Mackenzie Day,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
University of California - Los Angeles,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Crustal Structure of Southern California from Velocity and Attenuation Tomography
Thomas Jordan,
University Professor, William M. Keck Foundation Chair in Geological Sciences and Professor of Earth Sciences,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California (USC),
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decoding the Bacterial Lanthanome for Scalable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Complex Feedstocks
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, May 15th, 2026
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Complex fault architecture and heterogeneous stresses profoundly affect earthquake mechanics
Greg McLaskey,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Cornell University,
Monday, May 18th, 2026
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Geocentric languages and the perception of the earth's magnetic field"
Felicity Meakins,
Professor of Linguistics,
School of Languages and Culture, Australian Research Council (ARC),
University of Queensland Australia,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Coseismic fault-zone depressurization and postseismic evolution revealed from very-near-fault observation
Ruei-Jiun Hung,
Postdoc,
University of Kentucky,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Antarctic Sea Ice: Structural Change, Future Projections and Uncertainties
Marilyn Raphael,
Department of Geography and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
UCLA,
Friday, May 22nd, 2026
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Seismo Lab Seminar
From Rocky Planets to Ice Giants: Experimental Insights into C–H–O Chemistry in Planetary Interiors
Bin Chen,
Researcher in Mineral Physics and Experimental Petrology,
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology,
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Beyond a Single Slip Surface: The Role of the Fault-Zone Bulk in Earthquake Behavior
Mohamed Abdelmeguid,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Aerospace,
Lynn Booth & Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microbial Niches Govern N₂O Cycling in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones
Daniel McCoy,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering Global Ecology, Carnegie Science,
Friday, May 29th, 2026
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Sea level and ice sheet stability during past (and future) warming
Jacky Austermann,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Columbia University,