Department Lecture Series

HMEI Faculty Seminar - Stoddard

HMEI Faculty Seminar - Stoddard
Tue, May 3, 2022, 12:30 pm

All lectures begin at 12:30 p.m. For spring 2022, Princeton University ID holders can attend in person contingent on University guidelines for indoor events — face coverings are required. Updates will be posted as necessary.

Location: Guyot 10/Zoom
Audience: All Welcome
Speaker(s):
Mary Caswell Stoddard
Princeton University/EEB
“Inside the Colorful World of Birds and Their Eggs”

Department Seminar - Simpson

Department Seminar - Simpson
Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 12:30 pm

A critical question to address as the planet warms under anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is, how is regional hydroclimate going to change?  The US southwest has already experienced considerable aridification since the turn of the century and was plunged into exceptional drought conditions over the course of 2020, and is yet to recover. ...

Location: Guyot 10
Audience: All Welcome
Speaker(s):
Isla Simpson
National Center for Atmospheric Research
"What should we expect for the future of North American hydroclimate?"

Special Seminar - Jaffe

Special Seminar - Jaffe
Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 12:30 pm

In this lecture, Dr. Jaffe will illustrate his past use of acoustic and optical sensors that have led to a variety of insights into plankton 

distribution and behavior. Current developments will also be described, which include the use of machine learning algorithms to obtain taxonomic

Location: Guyot Hall 220
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Jules Jaffe
University of California, Scripps
“Tales of a Gizmo Guy: How innovative technologies can lead to new observations and related insights into marine ecosystems”

HMEI Faculty Seminar - Carruth

HMEI Faculty Seminar - Carruth
Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 12:30 pm

Carruth will discuss why data-driven doomsday stories of extreme weather and sea-level rise have proven inadequate in countering disinformation about climate change. While “the science is clear” has become a rhetorical appeal to accept the expert consensus on climate change, who holds this view is still defined by political affiliations and...

Location: Guyot 10/Zoom
Audience: All Welcome
Speaker(s):
Allison Carruth
Princeton University/American Studies & HMEI
"‘The Science Is Clear: Why the Climate Crisis Needs New Narratives"

Department Seminar - Barefoot

Department Seminar - Barefoot
Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 12:30 pm

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Location: Guyot 10
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Eric Barefoot
University of Minnesota
"Surface processes distort the history of climate in sedimentary strata"

Department Seminar - Culberg

Department Seminar - Culberg
Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Greenland Ice Sheet is currently the second largest contributor to barystatic sea level rise, with mass loss dominated by surface melt processes.

Location: Zoom - link through Mary Rose Russo
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Riley Culberg
Stanford University
"Ice-Penetrating Radar Insights into the Near-Surface Hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet"

Department Seminar - Lyu

Department Seminar - Lyu
Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:30 pm

Constraining the distribution and budgets of life-essential volatile elements, such as carbon and nitrogen, on terrestrial planets holds the key to understanding planetary formation, evolution, dynamics, and habitability.

Location: Zoom - link through Mary Rose Russo
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Mingda Lyu
Argonne National Lab
"Carbon and nitrogen in Earth and planetary interiors"

Department Seminar - Weldeghebriel

Department Seminar - Weldeghebriel
Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 4:30 pm

Long-term changes in the major ion and isotopic composition of seawater coincide with icehouse-greenhouse climate fluctuations, calcite-aragonite seas, and sea level changes. Currently, there is disagreement over what processes control the changes in ocean chemistry.

Location: Zoom - link through Mary Rose Russo
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Mebrahtu Weldeghebriel
Binghamton University
"Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems Control Seawater Chemistry: Evidence from Fluid Inclusions in Halite"

Department Seminar - Sharma

Department Seminar - Sharma
Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 4:30 pm

Wetland soils and hyporheic zones at the base of streams develop redox gradients, producing regions of aerobic and anaerobic microbial activity that make them active sites for biogeochemical processes.

Location: Zoom - link through Mary Rose Russo
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Neha Sharma
Washington University, St. Louis
"Trace Metal Micronutrient Limitations on Biogeochemical Cycling in Natural Aquatic Systems"

Department Seminar - George

Department Seminar - George
Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:30 pm

Exhumed metamorphic rocks provide unique geological insight into lithospheric processes of mass and heat transfer. They are an archive of information on the evolution of tectonic modes on Earth, the uplift of orogenic belts and strength of continents, and processes of mass and fluid cycling between Earth’s surface and interior.

Location: Guyot 10
Audience: Open to all Princeton students, staff, and faculty.
Speaker(s):
Freya George
Johns Hopkins University
"Physicochemical constraints on an evolving paradigm: understanding what and when metamorphic rocks record"

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