Smith Lecture: The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): How lakebeds are reshaping our understanding of the environmental context of human origins
Andy Cohen, University of Arizona
For over 100 years scientists have debated the possible role environmental history may have played in shaping the evolution, dispersal and...
Special Lecture
John Geissman, University of Texas at Dallas
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that bring in distinguished speakers from other universities and research...
Smith Lecture: The Chinese Cave Record: 640,000 years of Climate History
Larry Edwards, University of Minnesota
I will present a 640,000-year oxygen isotope record of the Asian Monsoon, spliced together from analyses of stalagmites from Hulu, Dongge,...
Smith Lecture: Unraveling the Signature of Metasomatized Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in the Basaltic Magmatism of the Payenia Volcanic Province, Argentina
Alberto Saal, Brown University
The intra-back arc region of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone (34-38ºS) is characterized by more than 800 monogenetic cones erupting...
2019 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture
Kay Behrensmeyer, Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Further information to come.
Smith Lecture
Warren Day, USGS
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture: What Can Little Faults Tell Us About Big Earthquakes?
Michele Cooke, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture
Allen McNamara, Michigan State
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Van der Voo Lecture: Paleo/Geomagnetism and Geobiology: Case Studies from the Ediacaran and Jurassic
Joseph Meert, University of Florida
Paleomagnetic research relies on two fundamental assumptions. The first is that rocks can faithfully document the structure of the...
Smith Lecture: Formation of Multiring Basins
Brandon Johnson, Purdue
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture: Weathering and Soil Development in the Earliest Land Plant Biospheres
Ria L Mitchell, Swansea University
Colonization of the land by primitive plants during the Early Palaeozoic had a profound effect on biologically mediated soil development,...
Smith Lecture: The Earth’s Hidden Ocean
Steven Jacobsen, Northwestern University
Water, incorporated into minerals and melts at the high pressure and temperature conditions found in Earth’s deep mantle may constitute...
Smith Lecture
Katharine Huntington, University of Washington
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Dorr Lecture
Ryan Mathur, Juniata College
The annual Dorr Lecture is Co-sponsored by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology. The topic of...
Smith Lecture
Brian Huber, Smithsonian Institution
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture
Sara Pruss, Smith College
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture
Brian Arbic, University of Michigan
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
