Seminar Schedule Fall 2026
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers seminars on most Friday mornings, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, during the fall and spring semesters. Seminars will be held in Room 634, S&R1, unless otherwise noted.
Lunch is held after seminar to facilitate interactions between all members of EAS, guests, and the speaker. Lunch will be held in Rm 223 unless otherwise noted. 40 tickets are available at seminar for those who wish to attend lunch. See the seminar host or the TA for a ticket while they last.
For more information regarding how to host seminars, please visit the seminars resource page.
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series is supported by a generous gift from Shell.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
Format
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Host
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| 8/28/2026 | EAS Faculty Lightning Talks | University of Houston | N/A | In person | Seminar Committee |
| 9/4/2026 | Dev Niyogi | UT Austin | City Digital Twins | In person | Youtong Zheng |
| 9/11/2026 | Dr. Yingcai Zheng | University of Houston | Strong intra-slab anisotropy controls deep earthquakes and shear wave splitting patterns at subduction zones | In person | Yuxuan Wang |
| 9/18/2026 | Student 3-min thesis competition | University of Houston | N/A | In person | EAS Graduate Committee |
| 9/25/2026 | Dr. Chenghao Wang | University of Oklahoma | Cities in a Changing Climate: From Urban Processes to System-Level Impacts | In person | Tammy Yuan |
| 10/2/2026 | Dr. Prajkta Mane | Lunar and Planetary Institute | Revealing the Earliest Era of the Solar System: Isotopic Records of the Planet Formation Processes | In person | Ali Raza |
| 10/9/2026 | Dr. Vivian Grom | University of Houston | Quantifying Uncertainty in LEMs and Provenance Analysis: Insights from Statistical and Numerical Modelling | In person | Will Struble |
| 10/16/2026 | Dr. Mélanie Louterbach | University of Houston | From Geology to Landscape Architecture: How the Earth Sciences can nurture the design process | In person | Jinny Sisson |
| 10/23/2026 | Dr. Tian Dong | UT Rio Grande Valley | From Global Delta Networks to the Rio Grande: Understanding Land Building, Flow Decline, and Flood Risk | In person | Kennedy Potter |
| 10/30/2026 | Dr. Krittanon Sirorattanakul (Pond) | Chevron | Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature | In person | Jiaxuan Li |
| 11/6/2026 | Dr. Sonia Tikoo | Stanford University | The impacts of impacts on paleomagnetic records: from the Chicxulub crater to the Moon | In person | Will Sager |
| 11/13/2026 | Dr. Justin Dodd | Texas A&M University | Diagenesis: It's All the Small Stuff – Pore Water – Sediment Interactions and Advancing our Understanding of Paleoceanographic Proxies | In person | Julia Wellner |
| 11/20/2026 | Dr. Wondwosen Seyoum | Illinois State University | From Space to Subsurface: Advancing Our Understanding of Water Systems with Remote Sensing and Modeling | In person | Ny Riavo Voarintsoa |
| 12/4/2026 | Dr. Zoltan Sylvester | UT Austin | The Strange Ordinariness of High-Frequency Signal Preservation in the Stratigraphic Record | In person | Kennedy Potter |