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The GCSC seminar series presents some of the best researchers--from around campus and across the country--whose work sheds light on global change and sustainability.

Seminars are at 4:00 pm on alternate Tuesdays in room 295 fasb. participants may also join via zoom.
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Seminars are open to all, and students who are enrolled in the Seminar course, SUST 6800, have additional opportunities to engage with the speakers.

January 16, 2024
  • Joshua Trey Barnett, Ph.D., Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
    "Disturbing Rhetorical Ecologies: Thinking with 'Invasive' Species"   Read more.
January 30, 2024
February 13, 2024
  • Jory Lerback, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
    "What is “Inclusive Sustainable Resilience”, and how does my iso-bio-geo-chemistry skillset move us towards these ideals? Stories from a groundwater-reliant scientist"  Read more.
February 27, 2024
March 12, 2024
  • Jonathon Preece, Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Georgia
    "Atmospheric drivers of Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss in a rapidly warming Arctic"
    Co-sponsored with the Department of Geography        Read more.
March 26, 2024
  • Matthew Fry, Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Utah
    "Shade, canopy, community: Emergent urban tree epistemologies"  Read more.
April 9, 2024
  • Summer Rupper, Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Utah
    “The February 7th, 2021, Chamoli Disaster: A(nother) Recent Example of the Complex Interactions of Cascading Hazards, Mountain Development, Renewable Energy, and Climate Change”  Read more.

 

Video recordings of most seminars (Spring 2015-on) are available for viewing by those with a U of U Network ID (uNID).
April 9 Seminar - Summer Rupper
Scientists and other experts attributed the February 2021 Chamoli flood to an outburst from a glacial lake. We closely inspected the flood path, which quickly led to the realization that the source for this mass flow was not a lake and was not at all obvious.
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