Smith Lecture: The Colorado River, Climate Change, Drought, and Implications for the Globe
Jonathon Overpeck, Samuel A. Graham Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan
Many current assessments of future climate and hydrologic change suggest that current drylands around the globe could become drier with...
Smith Lecture: Global Fresh Water Ages
Scott Jasechko, University of Calgary
The time that rain and melting snow take to flow into a river or to a location under the ground impacts nutrient and contaminant transport,...
Special Lecture: The CheMin X-ray Diffraction instrument: Design, development and mineralogical results from its 5-year deployment on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity
David Blake, Exobiology Branch, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA
NASA’s CheMin instrument, the first X-ray Diffractometer flown in space, has been operating on Mars for five years. CheMin was first to...
Science Café Oil and Soil: The Forces of Climate Change
The politics of oil, water, and food production are deeply intertwined with human-caused climate change and political upheaval, especially...
Smith Lecture: The Atacama Desert: Lessons from a Waterless World
Jay Quade, University of Arizona
The Atacama Desert of Chile offers a window into how the surface of rocky planets evolve in the near absence of water. In my talk I am...
Smith Lecture
Ahmed Ettaf Elbanna, University of Illinois
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture: Revealing Full Spectrum of Triggering Processes in Induced Seismicity
Xiaowei Chen, University of Oklahoma
The earthquake rate in Oklahoma has been dramatically increasing since 2009. Recent management efforts in disposal volume reduction led to...
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
Jessica Tierney, University of Arizona
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture: Novel Applications of Short-lived Radionuclides (Po-210/Pb-210 and Be-7) as Tracer and Chronometer in the Study of Ice/Snow Dynamics in the Western Arctic
Mark Baskaran, Wayne State
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
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David Broughton, Senior Advisor, Exploration and Geology, Ivanhoe Mines
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture: Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary Zone (Trinidad/Tobago) Active Deformation, Strain Partitioning, Fault Reactivation and Petroleum Geology Influence
John Weber, Grand Valley State
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
Smith Lecture
Dave Evans, Yale
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...
