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DeFord Lecture | Eileen MartinFebruary, 26 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 Is Seismology Actually Useful for Climate and Hazards Monitoring? by Eileen Martin, associate professor at Colorado School of Mines Abstract: The past two decades have seen major advances in seismic sensors, with growing application to observe fine-scale changes in the near surface, often forced by climate change or geohazards. This includes technologies such as portable nodes, low-weight accelerometers, and fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing. With these sensors, we\'ve observed new signals, imaged small features in the subsurface, and gotten our first up-close look at more processes. Modern seismic sensors can be the subsurface counterpart to remote sensing observations, which sounds ideal, but most folks in the geohazards and climate communities aren\'t racing to adopt seismology into their toolkit. In this talk, we\'ll look at the practical challenges keeping seismology from being more useful, and several of our recent advances that are helping us overcome these issues. We\'ll explore these challenges in the context of alpine glacier observations, seismic hazards mapping, and a multi-year permafrost monitoring study. This talk will touch on sensor deployment in the field, large-scale data management, making our data analyses faster, and the challenges of automated interpretation of results in these new contexts. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesFebruary, 27 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: Zoom BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Anne Glerum on Zoom. Topic: Geodynamic controls on clastic-dominated zinc-lead deposit formation |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Mark LeverFebruary, 27 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 Speaker: Mark Lever, Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Population dynamics of methane-cycling microorganisms in subseafloor sediments Host: Kehua You |
DeFord Lecture | Mattia PistoneMarch, 05 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 Exploring Gas Accumulation in Magmas: Bridging the Gap Between Field and Laboratory Measurements by Mattia Pistone, associate professor at the University of Georgia Abstract: Gas accumulation in magmas prior to eruptions represents a key process that controls the explosivity of volcanoes. The efficiency of accumulating gas in a magma is modulated by chemical and physical parameters such as magma ascent rate, modal proportions of melt, minerals, and exsolved fluids in the magma, and geochemistry of mafic to felsic magmas and associated fluids. Currently, we deal with an interesting conundrum of data acquisition. In the field, we largely monitor and study mafic volcanoes because they degas and erupt more frequently than their felsic counterparts. Vice versa, in the lab, we often study pre-eruptive gas accumulation in felsic magmas that are commonly associated to the most hazardous volcanism. In this case, lab experiments are often conducted using felsic materials because they are thick/viscous (all the phases including gas bubbles are efficiently trapped), undercooled (“slow and lazy” in crystallising), and geochemically evolved (their composition does not change much during the experiment). In this seminar, I want to explore this dichotomy of lessons that we gain from natural volcanoes and laboratory. Based on my research in the lab and in the field, I will showcase my attempt in filling the existing gap in knowledge between mafic and felsic systems by exploring: 1) how gas bubbles influence magma transport, and 2) how gas geochemistry modulates the level of isolated porosity in magmas. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 06 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Gabriel Pasquet, in person. Topic: Natural hydrogen, field survey, Texas |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Andrew HoffmanMarch, 06 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |
DeFord Lecture | Sarah KatzMarch, 12 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 13 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Zoltan Sylvester in person. Topic: Accreting, fast and slow: Geometry, kinematics and sediment load of sinuous channels |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Craig MartinMarch, 13 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |