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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

	Date		Description
	April 25, 2024		Yerko Figueroa, New Mexico Tech
	April 18, 2024		Magdalena Osburn, Northwestern University Title: Subsurface geomicrobiology of the heterogeneous terrestrial crust
	April 16, 2024		SPECIAL SEMINAR: Bridsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture Ben Rostron, University of Alberta Title: Lithium in brines (Duperow aquifer) in southeast Saskatchewan: A modern-day gold rush
	April 12, 2024		SPECIAL SEMINAR: AAPG Distinguished Lecture Kurt Rudolph, ExxonMobil Title: The Assembly of Pangea, a View from Laurentia: Paleozoic Orogenies and their Impact on Basin Evolution and Petroleum Systems
	April 11, 2024		Matthew Brueseke, Kansas State University Title: Investigating <10 Ma off-axis magmatism in northwest Wyoming and southwest Montana (U.S.A.): Yellowstone hotspot - lithosphere interactions at the leading edge of the Snake River Plain
	April 4, 2024		Lewis Land, NMBGMR/NCKRI Title: An overview of brackish water resources and desalination in New Mexico: Recurring themes in the semi-arid southwest
	March 28, 2024		Harriet Lau, Brown University Title: Evolving Solid Earth Dynamics as a Trigger for the Mid Pleistocene Transition
	March 21, 2024		NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
	March 14, 2024		Saverio Perri, Santa Fe Institute Title: Biophysical and environmental limits to the global food system
	March 7, 2024		Jessica Aerts, New Mexico Tech Title: Relocation and characterization of a 20-year long earthquake catalog above the Socorro magma body, central New Mexico, USA
	February 29, 2024		Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech Title: Is the Sierra Nevada Rising and Tilting?: Insights from Central Valley Stratigraphy
	February 22, 2024		Thomas McCrory, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Hexavalent Chromium Plume in the Regional Aquifer at Los Alamos National Laboratory
	February 15, 2024		Zoë Havlena, New Mexico Tech Title: Microbial colonization of sulfidic cave gypsum: Are acidic sulfates potential repositories for molecular biosignatures?
	February 8, 2024		Andrea Goltz, Arizona State University Title: Diving Deep: A geochemical view on subduction zone magmatism
	February 1, 2024		Peter Vrolijk, New Mexico Tech Title: Massive Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Contributing Factors Revealed by IODP Exp. 362
	January 25, 2024		KC Carroll, New Mexico State University Title: Comparison of Subsurface Sorption of PFOS and PFOA with Implications for Global PFAS or per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances Distributions
	January 18, 2024		Jennifer Thines, New Mexico State University Title: From mineral to melt: revealing storage conditions of large-volume silicic magmas from the Afro-Arabian large igneous province

EES Graduate Seminar Series

	Date		Presentations
	April 29, 2024		Loc Luong: TBD
	April 22, 2024		Kevin Padilla: Experimentally determination of the stability of La hydroxyl complexes in aqueous solutions at 150-250 C and pH of 2-5 Joseph Kuljis: Surface water and snowpack modeling with emphasis on post-wildfire hydrologic impacts in the Santa Fe Watershed, NM
	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
	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
	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
	March 25, 2024		Mohamed Gad: TBD Mitchell McLaughlin: A Multi-Year Seismic Record of Flash Floods—Unique Features and Implications for Sediment Research
	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
	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
	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
	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
	February 12, 2024		Marissa Fichera: Process-evolution of water-induced rock fracture from creep to dynamic strain rates