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CONGRATULATIONS SPRING 2024 GRADUATES!
A big congratulations to all of our EES graduates! In addition to degrees, a number
of awards were given out to EES students for outstanding scholarship and research.
Learn more on our new awards page.
DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT:
The Winter 2024 issue of the NMT alumni magazine, Gold Pan, is focused on water and EES faculty and students
are prominently featured - check it out to learn about the active research on water
in EES!
EES Department Seminars and Events
EES/Bureau Seminar Series
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| August 22, 2024 | EES Faculty and Bureau Staff, New Mexico Tech Title: Faculty Lightning Talks |
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| August 29, 2024 | Zhen Wang, Monash University Title: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Geochemical Perspectives on the Environmental Legacies and Economic Prospects of Mining and Industrial Wastes |
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| September 5, 2024 | Kimberly Beisner, New Mexico and Arizona Water Science Centers Title: Assessment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water Resources of New Mexico |
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| September 12, 2024 | NO SEMINAR - EES POOL PARTY | ||
| September 19, 2024 | SPECIAL SEMINAR Al Laase, RSI EnTech Title: My 40+ Year Career as a Hydrologist, Reflections and Career Advice |
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| September 19, 2024 | Katie Mclain, RSI EnTech Title: Applying a Stochastic Approach to Developing a Water Balance in a Data-Limited Environment |
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| September 26, 2024 | Emily Rodríguez, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: A nascent flat slab beneath Ecuador: Insights into the subduction of the Carnegie Ridge from multi-scale seismic tomography |
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| October 3, 2024 | Thushara Gunda, Sandia National Laboratories Title: Three worldviews for assessing water intersections with climate security: A complex systems approach |
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| October 10, 2024 | Fancisco Apen, Northern Arizona University Title: Thermochronological constraints on heat production, composition, and formation of lower continental crust |
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| October 17, 2024 | Argelia Silva Fragosa, Como University Title: Morpho-structural analysis of the active caldera of Ischia, Italy: from drones to numerical modelling |
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| Ocotber 21, 2024 | SPECIAL SEMINAR: IODP Lecture Series Kathleen Marsaglia, California State University, Northridge Title: IODP Drilling Yields Exciting Insights Into the Workings of a Young, Obliquely Rifted, Active Continental Margin |
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| October 24, 2024 | NO SEMINAR - NMGS FALL FIELD CONFERENCE | ||
| October 31, 2024 | Marisa Repasch, University of New Mexico Title: The role of erosion and chemical weathering in the permafrost-carbon-climate feedback |
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| November 7, 2024 | Darryl Reano, Arizona State University Title: Indigenous-Inclusive Design Factors |
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| November 14, 2024 | Bruce Thomson, University of New Mexico Title: Unconventional Sources of Water for NM: Opportunities & Constraints |
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| November 21, 2024 | Michelle Walvoord, United States Geological Survey Title: Observing and Modeling Hydrogeologic Change in Permafrost Landscapes of Interior Alaska |
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| November 28, 2024 | NO SEMINAR - HAPPY THANKSGIVING! | ||
| December 5, 2024 | NO SEMINAR - FRIDAY SCHEDULE | ||
EES Graduate Seminar Series (Spring only)
| Date | Presentations |
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| April 29, 2024 | Loc Luong: Seismic modeling of bedload transport in gravel-bed alluvial channels | ||
| April 22, 2024 | Kevin Padilla: The solubility of La hydroxide and stability of La3+ and La hydroxyl complexes in
acidic to mildly acidic pH from 150 to 250°C Joseph Kuljis: Surface water and snowpack modeling with emphasis on post-wildfire hydrologic impacts in the Santa Fe Watershed, NM |
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| April 15, 2024 | Siobhan Niklasson: Using an Earth System Model to estimate ocean acoustic propagation in a rapidly-evolving
Arctic Debarati Banerjee: Insights into hydrothermal mobilization of neodymium as aqueous complexes at 500-700 °C and 1.7 kbar pressure: chloride vs hydroxyl complexation |
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| April 8, 2024 | Jakob Newcomer: On the formation of black ore in 5-element arsenide systems, their mineralogy, and implications for fluid chemistry
precipitation triggers Luke Martin: Thermal Characterization and History of the San Juan Basin and the Implications that has on Tectonics and Reservoir Quality |
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| April 1, 2024 | Charlie Kershaw: The solubility and complexation of ErPO4 in hydrothermal fluids at varying pH and
salinity between 350 and 500°C Eric Ruggles: Apatite Rare Earth Elements Chemistry and Fluid Inclusion Study in Hydrothermal Veins of the Lemitar Mountains Carbonatite, New Mexico |
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| March 25, 2024 | Mohamed Gad: TBD Mitchell McLaughlin: A Multi-Year Seismic Record of Flash Floods—Unique Features and Implications for Sediment Research |
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| March 18, 2024 | NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK | ||
| March 11, 2024 | Yerko Figueroa-Penarrieta: Exploring the behavior of Nd aqua ion and solubility of Nd(OH)3(s) in hydrothermal
fluids: Calorimetry and Solubility Experiments George Pharris: Evaluating segmentation behavior along the Alamogordo fault, central New Mexico, using remote sensing, field-based mapping, and geodynamic modeling |
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| March 4, 2024 | Jonathan Anaya: Estimating the onset of Cenozoic deformation in the Mongolian Altay: Implication for
Intracontinental Orogenesis in Central Asia Prajakta Mohite: Development of quantitative methods and workflows to constrain the relationship between solid Earth deformation, ice sheet evolution, and volcanism |
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| February 26, 2024 | Magdalen Grismer: Conditions of two-feldspar saturation in a high-silica rhyolite: a comparison between
phase equilibrium experiments and a rhyolite-MELTS phase diagram of a Valles Caldera
obsidian Noël Skocko: Investigating glacial loading and unloading events and their impact on magma storage conditions at Mount Waesche, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica |
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| February 19, 2024 | Nafis Sazeed: Modeling Offshore Freshwater Distribution in Evolving Coastal Margins: A Numerical
Approach Lily Newton: Paleohydrology of the Ancestral Rio Grande from 5 – 1 Ma: Implications and Response to Regional Climate |
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| February 12, 2024 | Marissa Fichera: Process-evolution of water-induced rock fracture from creep to dynamic strain rates | ||