Happening @ Michigan

Smith Lecture: Southern California Earthquake Center and the Science of Earthquake Forecasts

John Vidale, University of Southern California, Director of Southern California Earthquake Center

This talk reviews new ideas about earthquakes that we’ve learned at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), and where we’re...

Smith Lecture: The Geologic History of Seawater δ18O

Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science

The isotopic composition of O in seawater (δ18O) is a fundamental property of Earth’s oceans, which is key to paleoclimate...

Special Lecture: Listening to the Environment with Seismic Waves

Lucia Gualtieri, Princeton

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that brings in distinguished...

Smith Lecture: The Mineral Physics Test Kitchen: Finding the Recipe for Lower Mantle Heterogeneities

Susannah Dorfman, Michigan State

The interiors of Earth and other planets were “cooked” by processes of accretion and differentiation and can be “tasted” by...

Smith Lecture: Geologic Setting and Origin of the Iron Oxide Deposits and Host Igneous Rocks of the Mesoproterozoic St. Francois Mountains Terrane, Missouri, USA

Warren Day, U.S. Geological Survey

The Mesoproterozoic St. Francois Mountains (SFM) terrane of southeast Missouri, USA contain examples of both iron oxide-apatite (IOA) and...

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: Metabolites of the Ocean Carbon Cycle

Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia

One quarter of all photosynthesis on Earth is cycled through the pool of organic compounds dissolved in seawater. This large and...

Smith Lecture

Briony Horgan, Purdue

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that...

Dorr Lecture

The annual Dorr Lecture is Co-sponsored by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology. The topic of...

Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Conversations on Inclusion and Equity

Dr. Jane Rigby, Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Time/Location TBD Title/Abstract TBA

Smith Lecture: Porphyry Copper Deposit Formation in Arcs: What are the Odds?

Jeremy Richards, Laurentian University

Arc magmas globally are H2O-Cl-S-rich and moderately oxidized (ΔFMQ = +1 to +2) relative to most other mantle-derived magmas (ΔFMQ ≤ 0)....

Smith Lecture

Scott Fendorf, Stanford

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

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...

Michigan EARTH Commencement Reception

Graduating students and their families are invited to the Earth and Environmental Sciences Commencement Reception.