Colloquium

Spring Semester, 2022

Fridays, 12:20-1:15 PM, Online via Zoom. Please contact the colloquium coordinator for the link.

Coordinator: Reza Soltanian, soltanma@ucmail.uc.edu

Schedule of Presentations
*Date*	*Speaker(s)*	*Presentation Topic(s)*
Jan. 21	Dr. Daniel Sturmer, UC Geosciences	Tectonic Evolution of Nevada: An old story and a new one
Feb. 4	Graduate Student Presentations	Megan Corcoran, Hydrogen isotope fractination in modern plant wax n-alkanes from the Falkland Islands Zeke King Phillips, Calibrating Snail Shell Organic Matrix Nitrogen Stable Isotope as a Proxy for the Terrestrial Isotopic Baseline Emily Simpson, Making sure its worth it: a non-destructive assessment of preservation before destructive analyses
Feb. 18	Dr. Andy Czaja, UC Geosciences	Perseverance's 1st Year Anniversary
Mar. 4	Graduate Student Presentations	Catherine Nield, Oxygen isotope values of fossil land snails from Fairbanks, Alaska Tyler McGarr, PFAS: An emerging contaminant of critical concern Clark Ward, A multi-isotope reconstruction of resource partitioning among large ungulates from Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, Nebraska
Mar. 11	Gradaute Student Presentations	Andrew Michel, Age and origin of metaigneous rocks in southwest CT: An approach using bedrock mapping and geochronology Jonas Zajonz, Tooth morphology and tooth wear of Rapetosaurus krausel Sam Little, A detailed view of the Richmondian invasion (Late Ordovician, Cincinnatian): Facies partitioning of incumbents and invaders
Mar. 25	Dr. Annette Rowe, UC Biology	Eating Rocks! Microbes that transfer electrons from minerals, electrodes, and other microbes
Apr. 1	Graduate Student Presentations	Madison Gaetano, Evaluating antler consumption by Arctic animals Watts Dietrich, Investigating the impact of diagenesis on a diatom biomarker Desiree Baker, Geochemical analysis of localized oxidizing conditions in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group Thomas Uhl, Petrology of a well-preserved ultramafic dike from the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District
Apr. 15	UC Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) virtual sustainability event	For more information, visit ucengagingscience.org
Apr. 22	Mr. Ron Broadhead, New Mexico Tech	The offshore Mancos play in the San Juan Basin: Productive carrier beds within the Mancos petroleum system