The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts several public events throughout the year. These may be found at the U-M events page and the department website.
Smith Lectures
Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series which 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.
Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture
This annual lecture, named in honor of the late Collegiate Professor of Paleontology Ermine Cowles Case, is hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology each spring.
Events
Feb
20
Smith Mini-Talk: François Tissot
Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire
11:00 AM
2534
1100 North University Building
Feb
20
Smith Lecture: François Tissot
Oxidized Hadean magmas and an Archean onset of mobile-lid tectonics revealed by U XANES in Jack Hills zircon
3:30 PM
1528
1100 North University Building
Feb
25
Yiruo Xu Dissertation Defense
The Temporal Footprint of Tectonics: Deciphering Metamorphic Timescales via Diffusion Chronometry
10:00 AM
2540
1100 North University Building
Feb
27
Smith Lecture: Tamara Pico
Out of the ice age: Insights into past sea level and ice sheets from Beringia to Antarctica
3:30 PM
1528
1100 North University Building
Mar
06
Smith Lecture: Marina Suarez
Exploring the continental record of climate during the Early Cretaceous
3:30 PM
1528
1100 North University Building
Mar
18
Spencer Lecture Featuring Climate Science
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
5:30 PM
1355
Leinweber LCSIB
