Events
Geology Events Calendar
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The Department of Geology at William & Mary hosts Brown Bag presentations as well as guest Seminar speakers. Brown bags typically see our geology students or other geoscientists presenting on their research, discussing an internship experience, sharing their outreach projects, bringing awareness to a topic and more.
Seminars often consist of research presentations conducted by graduate students and professors as well as geoscientists and department alums that share with us the work they do to make us aware of all the career options available to those interested in geosciences.
Contents
Brown Bags
Upcoming
Latest
April 25, 2025: How Cosmochemistry and Geochemistry are Intertwined (Dr. Rich Walker, University of Maryland)
April 4, 2025: GEOL310 adventures in the Rock Music Oman course
March 28, 2025: The Long Road to Iapetus: Evidence from the Virginia Blue Ridge (Chuck Bailey)
March 7, 2025: Piedmont Provenance: Investigating Metamorphism and Geochemistry in Virginia's Kyanite Quartzites (Nathaniel Ingle)
February 28, 2025: Aussie Adventures: Exploring Culture and Sustainability in South Australia (Abby Wyatt and Sonia Samantaroy)
February 7, 2025: Geo-Tourism in SW Iceland, Geological Processes in Action (Riley Bates, W&M Geo Alum)
November 22, 2024: Summer Research Experiences by Alicia June on “Hydrate sans Nitrate: A Synoptic Survey of Springs in the Driftless Area of Minnesota" and by Sage Khurana and Xanadu Biondi on "Research on a Dinosaur Dig"
November 15, 2024: Unearthing the Secrets of Environmental Consulting (Katie Railsback)
November 8, 2024: Arctic Adventures (Noah R., Aayla K., and Addison G.)
November 1, 2024: Talk on Careers in Earth/Geo- & Environmental Sciences (Clem Hamelin)
October 18, 2024: Piedmont Structural Geology and Petrology Research (Nathaniel I., Emily K., and Annika W.)
October 4, 2024: From points to pixels: Observing and evaluating ecohydrological processes using field data, drones, airplanes, satellites, and models. (Dom Cirruzi)
September 27, 2024: California Dreamin' Geology 310's Epic Traverse of the Golden State. (Cleo Bley, Sean Carlucci and Abby Wyatt)
April 12, 2024: Changes in Pb Soil Concentrations in a Remote Boreal Forest in Northern Vermont from 2010 to 2022. (Milo Pavlovich (24'))
March 29, 2024: Appalachian Pasts, Arctic Futures (Joanmarie Del Vecchio)
February 9, 2024: A 30-year Summer Lake Ice Cover Record from High Arctic Greenland. (Jialu Toa (24'))
December 8, 2023: Geology of an Archaeological Site in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. (Kinsey Shefelton (23'))
December 1, 2023: Summer of Sustainable Agriculture (Maddie Winer (23'))
October 27, 2023: Summers with Sauropods: the Wyoming Dino Digs (Anna Jordan & Tim Speedy (23'))
September 29, 2023: Graduate School Brown Bag, Information Session on Graduate School in the Geosciences
September 15, 2023: Geological Adventures in the U.S. Southwest with Geology 310 (Annika Wolle & Nathaniel Ingle ('23))
April 21, 2023: Examining the Nutritional Quality of Mixotrophic Dinoflagellates Using Elemental Ratios and Total Lipid Content (Delaney Kirr ('23))
April 14, 2023: Oh Man! Observing the Geology, Archaeology, and Culture of Northeastern Oman (Nailah Johnson ('24))
April 7, 2023: Exploring Ghana's Geological Characteristics (Eno Adusei ('24))
March 31, 2023: Linking Internal Coastal Dune Moisture Dynamics to Erosion Vulnerability (Liz Davis, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS))
March 24, 2023: 3,000 years of change:using proglacial lake sediments to uncover a changing Northeast Greenland (Lauren Schmidt ('23))
March 3, 2023: GPR Usage in Locating Unmarked Grave Shafts within P4 Parking Lot Cemetery (Vera Soltes ('23))
March 3, 2023: Radon Risk Mapping Using Gamma Ray Spectrometry and Social Vulnerability (Heather Christensen ('23))
February 24, 2023: Storms, Seas, and Shores: Modeling Dune Erosion on the Outer Banks, NC (Selwyn Heminway ('23))
February 17, 2023: Highlighting groundwater use by trees in a forested watershed in the Virginia Coastal Plain (Chloe Lund ('23))
February 17, 2023: Geology, petrology, and geochronology of cover rocks in the eastern Blue Ridge (Olivia Wachob ('23))
February 10, 2023: A Walk Through Time – An Overview of Kenyan Geology (Riley Bates ('81))
For all other videos, please visit wmgeomovies (YouTube).
Seminars
Upcoming
Latest
April 16, 2025: The Response of Mammals to Early Oligocene Cooling in the Nebraska Badlands (Sean Moran '11)
February 17, 2025: Late Quaternary Glacier Fluctuations & Carbon Storage in Peatlands of Northern California (Dr. Laura Levy, Caly Poly Humboldt)
February 6, 2025: Paleoclimate Possibilities: Empowering Student Research in Climate-Cryosphere-Landscape Evolution with Natural Archives (Dr. Simon Pendleton, Plymouth State University)
February 2, 2025: A Tale of Ice and Fire: Paleoclimate and Paleoecological Reconstructions in the Far North (Dr. Melissa Chipman, Syracuse University)
January 29, 2025: Climate Evolution, Terrestrial Environments, and the Hydrological Cycle (Dr. Lina Pérez Ángel, Brown University)
November 20, 2024: Virginia Dept. of Energy's approach to multi-scale geologic mapping with GeMS (Katie Lang (`18), Geologist at Virginia Department of Energy)
November 7, 2024: Hurricane and climate interactions over the past two millennia: Insights from sediment cores and climate (Dr. Lizzie Wallace, Old Dominion University)
October 30, 2024: Impact from Earth's Impacts (Dr. Siddhartha Mitra, W&M’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences at VIMS)
October 2, 2024: Mapping environmental justice: From coastal dust to climate gentrification in Southeastern Virginia (Dr. Johnny Finn, Christopher Newport University)
May1, 2024: Sparkling water and peridotite: Serpentinization and carbonation in the mantle wedge (Dr. Juan Carlos de Obeso, The University of Utah)
April 3, 2024: Threads through time: River imprints on the past, present, and future of planets (Dr. Ajay Limaye, The University of Virginia)
March 20, 2024: Delivered from the Deep: Using xenoliths to reveal lower lithosphere deformation (Dr. Rachel Bernard, Amherst College)
February 14, 2024: Origin and shake-up of functional and morphological diversity in bivalves (Dr. Stewart Edie, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) (Seminar)
November 8, 2023: Dawn (and early morning) of fossil reptiles (Dr. Adam Pritchard, Virginia Museum of Natural History) (Seminar)
October 23, 2023: Expanding case and karst study with multidisciplinary research (Dr. Ángel Garcia, James Madison University) (Seminar)
October 4, 2023: Nitrogen, nitrogen, everywhere! (Dr. Amber Hardison, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences) (Seminar)
May 4, 2023: From the Iapetus to the Atlantic: Geology, geochronology, and petrology of the eastern Blue Ridge cover sequence, central Virginia (Olivia Wachob ('23)) (Seminar-Honors Presentation)
May 4, 2023: The age and origin of nelsonite in the central Virginia Blue Ridge (Hannah Tebbens ('23)) (Seminar-Honors Presentation)
April 28, 2023: Modeled Changes in Foredune Morphology Influenced by Variable Storm Intensity, Sea-level Rise and Mitigation Strategies (Selwyn Heminway ('23)) (Seminar-Honors Presentation)
April 27, 2023: Radon Risk Mapping Using Uranium Series Geochemistry and Social Vulnerability in the North Carolina Coastal Plain (Heather Christensen ('23)) (Seminar-Honors Presentation)
April 26, 2023: The Effect of Varying Soil and Hydrologic Conditions on GPR Interpretations to Detect Unmarked Graves in Colonial Williamsburg (Vera Soltes ('23)) (Seminar-Honors Presentation)
March 22, 2023: The GeoSPACE Project: An Inclusive, Accessible Model for Geoscience Field Courses (Dr. Anita Marshall, University of Florida) (Seminar)