The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts a number of public events throughout the year. These may be found at the U-M events page and on the Department web site.
Smith Lectures
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions. These lectures are financed by a generous gift from William T. Smith.
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 the talk is in the field of Sedimentology and/or Paleontology. The event is funded by the John A. Dorr Jr. Memorial Scholarship fund.
Events
Featured
Mar
05
Multi
Early Career Scientists Symposium
Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation
1:00 PM
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92286764583
Virtual
Upcoming
Jan
29
Smith Lecture: Fossils, Isotopes, and Rainforests: New Approaches Challenge Foundational Tenets of Stable Isotope Terrestrial Paleoecology and Biogeographical Reconstructions of Mammals in the Neotropics
Julia Tejada, Université de Montpellier
1:30 PM
Virtual
Feb
05
Smith Lecture: Using Alteration Minerals Chemical and Isotopical Variations as a Proxy for Unravelling the Formation of Andean Iron Oxide Copper Gold Deposits
Irene del Real, University of Chile
3:30 PM
Virtual
Feb
12
Smith Lecture: Molecular Memories of Earth’s Antiquity
Jennifer Glass, Georgia Institute of Technology
3:30 PM
Virtual
Feb
19
Smith Lecture: Chemical mixing and mantle convection driven (or hindered) by eclogite in the terrestrial planets
Jin Zhang, University of New Mexico
3:30 PM
Virtual
Feb
26
Smith Lecture: Unraveling Potential Biases in U-Pb Detrital Zircon Record Induced by High-temperature Metamorphism (> 850 ºC)
Mahyra Tedeschi, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
1:00 PM
Virtual
Mar
05
Smith Lecture
Sunyoung Park, University of Chicago
3:30 PM
Virtual
