"Life on a Scorched Planet: Are we paying attention yet?" (6:30 PM in Maxwell Auditorium, SU Campus) Please join us to welcome Justin Gillis (@JustinHGillis). He is a journalist, author and consultant whose work is focused on climate change. Gillis covered environmental science for the New York Times for almost a decade. While at the Times, his Temperature Rising series on climate science and climate change earned him the Oakes Award from Columbia University’s Journalism School. Currently, Gillis is a…

"Coastal risk in an age of sea-level rise" (6:00 PM, Maxwell Auditorium, SU Campus) Robert Kopp (@bobkopp) is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University and is the Director of Rutgers’ Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Among other climate change initiatives at Rutgers, Kopp helps direct the Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience Initiative that crosses natural science, social science, engineering, stakeholders and urban planners around the threat of climate to global coastlines.

"Surface Water – Groundwater Interactions in a Proglacial Alpine Catchment: Applications of Heat Tracing, Modeling, and Remote Sensing Methods." A hard copy is available for perusal in the Earth Science department office (Heroy 204), as required by the Department of Earth Sciences Graduate Student Protocol. Defense will take place in room 102 on Friday April 19th at 2 PM.

Trainee Geoff Millard will defend his dissertation entitled, "Status and remediation of mercury in fish and aquatic ecosystems" on Tuesday September 3rd at 8 am in 114 Bird Library.

Trainee Laura DeMott will defend her dissertation entitled, “Depositional constraints on lacustrine carbonates from the Winnemucca Dry Lake basin, NV, USA." A hard copy is available for perusal in the Earth Science's department office (Heroy 204), as required by the Department of Earth Sciences Graduate Student Protocol. If you are interested in Laura's project, please attend her defense in room 217 on September 4 at 1:00 PM.