Alex Quizon Dissertation Defense
Clumped and traditional stable isotope proxy innovations for paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic reconstructions
Stable oxygen isotope measurements (δ18O) are important tools in studies of climate, oceanography, and hydrology of today and the past....
Lucas Gomes Dissertation Defense
Extinction and Environmental Change on the Plio-Pleistocene Florida Platform: Insights from Clumped Isotopic and Trace Elemental Sclerochronology
Past extinction events throughout Earth’s history have arisen during periods of major environmental change, offering unique lessons about...
Marwah Al Ismail Dissertation Defense
Advances in Methodology for Regional Landslide Analysis using Statistical, Mechanical, and Machine Learning Approaches
Landslides are catastrophic events that occur on critically unstable slopes in steep, mountainous regions in response to external triggers,...
Smith Lecture: François Tissot
Oxidized Hadean magmas and an Archean onset of mobile-lid tectonics revealed by U XANES in Jack Hills zircon
Over the years, the redox-sensitive nature of uranium has brought some first-order constraints on the evolution of Earth’s surface: from...
Smith Lecture: Tamara Pico
Out of the ice age: Insights into past sea level and ice sheets from Beringia to Antarctica
Although understanding the response of ice sheet to a changing climate is a pressing issue of the century, our current knowledge of past...
Smith Lecture: Marina Suarez
Exploring the continental record of climate during the Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous is an important time of transition in Earth History. During this time significant variability in the carbon cycle...
Spencer Lecture Featuring Climate Science
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Join the University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space for a special presentation from Leading Climate Scientist Dr. Katharine...
Smith Lecture: Ashley Matheny
Detangling the influences of combined stressors reveals insights into plant function
Forests recycle roughly ~62,000 km3 of water to the atmosphere annually. The transport of water from the subsurface to roots, stems, and...
Smith Lecture: Eric Roberts
The Wandering Falklands: A geological odyssey in the South Atlantic
The Falkland Islands are an isolated micro-continent within the South Atlantic Ocean proximal to the South American continent and...
