BPE SEMINAR COMMITTEE ORGANIZERS
All Seminars on Mondays at 1pm EST (unless otherwise noted)
2020 - 2021
Kailani Acosta - kailani.acosta@columbia.edu
Rachel Lupien - rlupien@ldeo.columbia.edu
Rose Oelkers - roelkers@ldeo.columbia.edu
Jonathan Lambert - lambert@ldeo.columbia.edu
FALL 2020 SEMINARS
SCHEDULE
September 21, 1pm EST
JUAN LORA, YALE UNIVERSITY
Understanding the hydrologic cycle in the recent paleoclimate of North America
October 12th, 1pm EST
SARAH AARONS, SCRIPPS
TBD
October 26, 1pm EST
KRISTINA DOUGLASS, PENN STATE
Integrative and inclusive approaches to investigating human-environment dynamics in SW Madagascar
Nov 2, 1pm EST
CLAUDIA TEBALDI, JOINT GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
TBD
Nov 9, 1pm EST
RAHAB KINYANJUI, NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
TBD
Nov 16, 1pm EST
VALERIE TROUET, ASU
TBD
November 23, 1pm EST
ROCÍO CABALLERO-GILL, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY AND GEOLATINAS CO-FOUNDER
GeoLatinas
November 30, 1pm EST
CARLA CURRAN, SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY
TBD
December 7, 1pm EST
DAVID DAVIS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
TBD
PAST SEMINARS
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
SPRING 2020 SEMINARS
January 27, 2020
PARK WILLIAMS, LDEO
Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought
February 3, 2020
DOROTHY PETEET, LDEO
Climate and Anthropogenic Controls on New York Estuary Blue Carbon and its Future
February 10, 2020
LAIA ANDREU-HAYLES, LDEO
Tree-ring narratives of environmental change from the Arctic to the tropics
February 11, 2020
HEATHER FORD, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Paleo-reconstructions of Pacific climate - the global pacemaker and Achilles heel of climate projections
February 12, 2020
ANA FERNANDEZ-CARRERA, UNIVERSITY OF VIGO
Biogeochemical relevance of nitrogen fixation in two contrasted upwelling systems in the eastern central Atlantic Ocean
February 17, 2020
LIZZIE WALLACE, MIT/WHOI
Intense hurricane strikes over the past millennium in The Bahamas: Insights from hurricane models and blue hole sediment cores
March 2, 2020
BRENDAN REILLY, SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Holocene ice shelves of North Greenland: Comparing the histories of the Petermann and Ryder Glaciers
March 2, 2020
KELLY LUIS, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON
Coastal Clarity: Linking People and Satellites to Understand Coastal Water Quality
March 9, 2020
PAUL OLSEN, LDEO
Feathered Dinosaurs of China, Extraordinary Preservation or Extraordinary Effort?
April 13, 2020 (Zoom)
RACHEL LUPIEN, LDEO
The paleo-hydroclimate variability of Africa
April 20, 2020 (Zoom)
OANA-ALEXANDRA DUMITRU, LDEO
Pliocene sea level snapshots using cave deposits from Mallorca, Spain
April 6, 2020 (Zoom)
JACKIE GOORDIAL, LDEO
New insights into microbial life within oceanic crust via sorted cell 'omics
May 11, 2020 (Zoom)
JORDAN ABELL, LDEO
Urinating in the Neolithic: Geochemical perspectives on early animal domestication
June 1, 2020 (Zoom)
KAILANI ACOSTA, LDEO
LDEO Seminar Diversity Initiative
June 8, 2020 (Zoom)
JUSTINE DOWDEN, CIESIN
Mapping a Path to Sustainable Development Using Geospatial Data Solutions
FALL 2019 SEMINARS
July 29, 2019
LAVINA BECENTI, NAVAJO NATION MINERALS DEPARTMENT
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September 16, 2019
HELEN HABICHT, LDEO
Middle to Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions from Lake El’gygytgyn, Arctic Russia
September 23, 2019
ALEXANDRIA MOORE, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
On Communities and Community Ecology - Integrating Science and Culture in Coastal Wetland Restoration
September 25, 2019
SOLANGE DUHAMEL, LDEO
Studying organic matter utilization by the smallest marine phytoplankton, one cell at a time
September 30, 2019
ANDREW REINMANN, HUNTER COLLEGE CUNY
The cutting edge of carbon cycle science: Forest response to the interactive effects of land cover change and climate change
October 7, 2019
ISAAC WIRGIN, NYU
Adaptations of Fish Populations to Contaminants
October 14, 2019
DAVID LINDO, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
What are Eddy Fluxes? Biological and Chemical Feedbacks from (and to) the Ocean
October 21, 2019
FRANCES RIVERA-HERNÁNDEZ, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales
October 28, 2019
DENIS-DIDIER ROUSSEAU, ÈCOLE NORMALE SUPÈRIEURE
Dansgaard-Oeschger millennial oscillations are not restricted to the last climate cycle: the loess point of view
October 30, 2019
TERRY HUGHES, ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES
Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming
November 11, 2019
JESSICA WARE, RUTGERS
On the divergence of insects: using systematics to better understand the evolution of insect sociality, migration and flight
November 13, 2019
BONIFACE FOSU, GEORGIA TECH
The influence of wintertime SST variability in the Western North Pacific on ENSO diversity
November 18, 2019
JESSICA RODYSILL, USGS
A North American Hydroclimate Synthesis (NAHS) for the Common Era
November 25, 2019
MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ-CATÓN, LDEO
First oxygen and carbon stable isotope chronologies from high-elevation tropical forests in South America
December 2, 2019
HUGH DUCKLOW AND REBECCA TRINH, LDEO
The Biology of the Biological Pump