Biology & Paleo Environment Seminars

Stone Tools Collected at Gobero in Niger - Kevin Uno

Division seminars are an opportunity for our research and Lamont-wide communities to participate in research discussions and engage in networking and collaboration. Speakers include Lamont and outside graduate students, postdocs, research techs, faculty, and others doing work of interest to the scientific community, with a commitment to including diverse speakers from underrepresented groups.

Spring 2024

Date: Jan 19, 2024
Title: In situ analyses of foraminiferal shells
Presenter: Reinhard Kozdon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Jan 29, 2024
Title: Examining patterns, mechanisms, and legacies of past climate changes
Presenter: David Fastovich, Syracuse University

Date: Feb 5, 2024
Title: A warm and dry Pliocene in the tropical Andes revealed by lipid biomarkers
Presenter: Lina Pérez-Angel, Brown University

Date: Feb 12, 2024
Title: Catchment sensitivities of the West and East Antarctic ice sheets to orbital forcing during the mid- to Late Pliocene
Presenter: Molly Patterson, Binghamton University

Date: Feb 26, 2024
Title: A new method to produce high-quality Carbon Credits for marine Carbon Direct Removal
Presenter: Raffael Jovine, Brilliant Planet

Date: Mar 4, 2024
Title: Antarctic Climate Proxies
Presenter: Emily Tibbett, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Date: Mar 18, 2024
Title: Coastal Carbon Burial
Presenter: Derrick Vaughn, Yale

Date: Mar 27, 2024
Title: Roundtable Discussion with the Whitings on Community-Based Co-Production of Knowledge
Presenter: Alex Whiting and Siikauraq Whiting, Native Village of Kotzebue, Alaska

Date: Apr 1, 2024
Title: Using high-resolution lipidomics to reveal ocean microbe adaptions and organic matter fate in the surface ocean
Presenter: Henry Holm, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Apr 15, 2024
Title: Assessing the timing and characteristics of Laurentide Ice Sheet thinning in the northeast U.S. through paired data-model analyses
Presenter: Aaron Barth, Rowan University

Date: Apr 24, 2024
Title: Do proglacial lakes aid the collapse of Pleistocene ice sheets?
Presenter: Jacky Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Apr 29, 2024
Title: Archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation
Presenter: Ryan Manzuk, Princeton University

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Fall 2023

Date: Sep 25, 2023
Title: Reconstructing Madagascar’s monsoon using speleothems: Implications for tropical Indian Ocean variability
Presenter: Benjamin H. Tiger, MIT-WHOI

Date: Oct 2, 2023
Title: Prolific methane oxidizing capacity by hydrothermal vent microbes: An overlooked sink in the marine methane budget
Presenter: Rachel Harris, Harvard University

Date: Oct 4, 2023
Title: Stradivari, violins, and tree rings
Presenter: Paolo Cherubini, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Date: Oct 16, 2023
Title: The interplay of physics and biology at the Gulf Stream front
Presenter: Patrick Gray, University of Maine

Date: Oct 23, 2023
Title: Earth’s coldest waters in a past warmer climate: High-latitude ocean temperature evolution during the Miocene
Presenter: Jared Nirenberg, Brown University

Date: Oct 30, 2023
Title: Enhanced Mineral Weathering at Scale
Presenter: Peter Raymond, Yale University

Date: Nov 20, 2023
Title: Climatic Controls on Streamflow Response to Disturbance
Presenter: Sara Goeking, US Forest Service

Date: Nov 27, 2023
Title: What it’s like to work at a professional science society and why you should join one!
Presenter: Brittany Schieler, ASLO

Date: Dec 4, 2023
Title: Global Overturning Circulation Structures Pelagic Microbial Communities in the South Pacific Ocean
Presenter: Bethany Kolody, UC Berkeley

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Spring 2023

Date: Feb 6, 2023
Title: Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen Cycling
Presenter: John Tracey, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Feb 20, 2023
Title: Decisions and Consequences: understanding the long-term role of human livelihoods on ecological systems
Presenter: Dylan Davis, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Feb 27, 2023
Title: The Core of It All: From the Forest to the Concrete Jungle
Presenter: Ayo Deas, CUNY

Date: Mar 6, 2023
Title: Sr and O isotopes reveal fossil shark teeth in Iron Age strata and seabream trade from Egypt to Israel
Presenter: Thomas Tütken, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Date: Mar 13, 2023
Title: Reconstructing climate and ecology from forests: examples from George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation and Palmaghatt Ravine
Presenter: Daniel Druckenbrod, Rider University

Date: Mar 20, 2023
Title: Vision & hearing of theropod dinosaurs
Presenter: Roger Benson, American Museum of Natural History

Date: Mar 27, 2023
Title: Why is our world mostly unicellular? Co-existence of uni-multicellularity in the adaptation of collective action in Kluyveromyces lactis
Presenter: Pu Wang, Grinnell College

Date: Apr 3, 2023
Title: Perspectives on Paleoenvironments: Views from the Turkana Basin
Presenter: Craig Feibel, Rutgers

Date: Apr 10, 2023
Title: Rapid paleomagnetic fluctuations in the Arctic and Northern Canada during the Holocene: preliminary results
Presenter: Juliette Girard, University of Québec Rimouski

Date: Apr 17, 2023
Title: Macroevolutionary Processes
Presenter: Indrė Žliobaitė, University of Helsinki

Date: Apr 24, 2023
Title: The power and precarity of knowledge co-production in environmental research
Presenter: Michael Petriello, Columbia Center for Science and Society

Date: May 1, 2023
Title: Upper Mekong Dams Cause the Highest Dry Season Discharges in 270 Years
Presenter: Hưng Nguyen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: May 15, 2023
Title: Understanding past changes in ocean, sea-ice and glacier variability in Northeast Greenland
Presenter: Joanna Davies, Aarhus University

Fall 2022

Date: Sep 28, 2022
Title: Arctic carbon cycling under past and present climate change deduced from the Arctic Ocean sediment record
Presenter: Jannik Martens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Oct 12, 2022
Title: How could trees predict the 2002 flank eruption on Mt. Etna?
Presenter: Paolo Cherubini, The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Date: Oct 24, 2022
Title: A suppression of deep-water clades of marine ammonia oxidizers in past warm oceans
Presenter: Ronnakrit Rattanasriampaipong, Texas A&M University

Date: Oct 31, 2022
Title: Synchronous multidecadal summer temperatures in eastern Canada and Northern Hemisphere: evidence from high-quality millennial tree-ring density data
Presenter: Feng Wang, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

Date: Nov 7, 2022
Title: Advances in dendrochronological research in the Pampa biome of Southeastern South America: Uruguay
Presenter: Christine Lucas, University of the Republic of Uruguay

Date: Nov 14, 2022
Title: Marine climate change ecology: How trying to predict the future helps us understand the present
Presenter: Kathryn Anderson, Bard College

Date: Nov 21, 2022
Title: Nd Isotopes in the GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific and Arctic Sections
Presenter: Yingzhe Wu, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Nov 28, 2022
Title: On the Colonial Legacies of Geology
Presenter: Hadeel Assali, Columbia Center for Science and Society

Date: Dec 5, 2022
Title: Small satellites, big data, and the fate of permafrost landscapes
Presenter: Joanmarie Del Vecchio, Dartmouth

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Spring 2022

Date: Feb 14, 2022
Title: Paleoecology methods in ice cores to reconstruct past environments
Presenter: Sandra O. Brugger, Desert Research Institute

Date: Feb 28, 2022
Title: Opening the molecular history book: what sediment-DNA can tell us about past ecosystems – and where the challenges lay
Presenter: Marina Morlock, Umeå University, Sweden

Date: Mar 7, 2022
Title: Economically viable industrial CO2 removal as part of the production of raw materials from industrial hemp
Presenter: Michael Long, Renaissance Fiber

Date: Mar 21, 2022
Title: Field and modeling approaches to understanding and maximizing ecosystem services in salt marshes
Presenter: Katie Castagno, Center for Coastal Studies

Date: Mar 28, 2022
Title: Climatic influences on Pleistocene fire activity at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Presenter: Troy Ferland, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Apr 11, 2022
Title: Historical Ecology with Environmental DNA
Presenter: Sabrina Shirazi, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, and The Nature Conservancy

Date: Apr 25, 2022
Title: Putting People in the Earth System
Presenter: Nicolas Gauthier, FL Museum of Natural History

Date: May 9, 2022
Title: The Bioarchaeology of Agricultural Transitions: Case Studies from Southeastern Europe
Presenter: Dušan Borić, Sapienza University and NYU

Date: May 17, 2022
Title: Global Climate Change and Coral Reef Decline: 50-Year Retrospective from the Florida Keys
Presenter: William Precht, Dial Cordy & Associates and Northeastern University

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Fall 2021

Date: Sep 10, 2021
Title: How do we get subannual climate reconstructions from annual tree rings?
Presenter: Hung Nguyen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Sep 20, 2021
Title: Multi-method, multi-proxy reconstructions of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 400 years
Presenter: Georgy Falster, University of Washington, St. Louis

Date: Oct 4, 2021
Title: A spatial field reconstruction of North American summer air temperatures derived from a tree-ring blue intensity network
Presenter: Karen Heeter, University of Idaho

Date: Nov 8, 2021
Title: Disentangling drivers of environmental change in Australia: A multi-proxy paleolimnological approach to understanding anthropogenic and climate-driven environmental change in the Holocene
Presenter: Lydia Mackenzie, Zhejiang University

Date: Nov 15, 2021
Title: How To Foster Science-driven Public Policy
Presenter: Paul Gallay, Columbia Climate School

Date: Nov 22, 2021
Title: Seasonal Climates frame the ecology of the Miocene Ape Afropithecus
Presenter: Daniel Green, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Date: Nov 29, 2021
Title: To break or not to break: engineering approaches to coastal ecosystems
Presenter: Leanne Melbourne, Natural History Museum

Date: Dec 6, 2021
Title: Seasonal Impact of Water Constituents on Radiative Heat Transfer in the Western Baltic Sea
Presenter: Bronwyn Cahill, Leibnitz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

Spring 2021

Date: Apr 28, 2021
Title: Paleoceanography of the Western Interior Seaway during the onset of Late Cenomanian OAE2: evidence from microfossil assemblages
Presenter: Raquel Bryant, Texas A&M University

Date: Apr 19, 2021
Title
Presenter: Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University

Date: Apr 12, 2021
Title
Presenter: Hussein Sayani, Georgia Tech

Date: Apr 5, 2021
Title: Woody cover and hominin environments
Presenter: Enquye Negash, George Washington University

Date: Mar 29, 2021
Title: Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle
Presenter: Grayson Badgley, Columbia University/Black Rock Forest

Date: Mar 22, 2021
Title: Doliolid Blooms: What are the driving variables? Investigation of Trophic Interactions and their in situ Diet
Presenter: Deidre Gibson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Date: Mar 15, 2021
Title: Characterizing microbial cycling of trace metals and vitamins in Antarctic coastal seas via tracers and proteomics
Presenter: Deepa Rao, MIT

Date: Mar 8, 2021
Title: Using Acoustic Telemetry to understand connectivity of a National Marine Sanctuary to the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Ocean
Presenter: Bethany Williams, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

Date: Feb 22, 2021
Title: Release and transformation of polymer additives into aquatic systems from plastics and nanocomposites
Presenter: Imari Walker, Duke University

Date: Feb 15, 2021
Title: Expanding Access for Disabled Geoscientists
Presenter: Gabi Serrato Marks, MIT/WHO

Date: Feb 8, 2021
Title: Late Holocene coastal evolution and climate variability in the United States
Presenter: Jessie K. Pearl, United States Geological Survey

Date: Feb 1, 2021
Title: Expanding the application of geochemistry to environmental and paleoclimate science using laser ablation mass spectrometry
Presenter: Aleksey Sadekov, University of Western Australia

Date: Jan 25, 2021
Title: ENSO and rainfall-related disasters in the Peruvian Central Andes
Presenter: Clara Rodíguez Morata, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Seminar Organizers

Hanna Anderson: Hanna Anderson
Joanna Davies: Joanna Davies
Henry Holm: Henry Holm