2023 Earth Sciences Colloquium

Talks are in-person-only, from 2-3 pm in the VIP Room

(Museum admission not required to attend; Enter through Staff/Volunteer entrance, 50 ft east of main visitor entrance, and let Security know you're attending the talk). The VIP room is on the 1st floor, next to the T-rex Cafe.If you'd like to import the schedule into your calendar, download the .ics file.

Jan 10th : Origin of North America’s largest dune field: Nebraska’s Sand Hills. (Dan Muhs, U. S. Geological Survey)

Feb 7th : Under the feet of dinosaurs: A new view of Late Cretaceous landscapes along the margin of the Western Interior Seaway. (Henry Fricke, Colorado College)

Feb 17th : Living large in the Neoproterozoic: Diving into snowball oceans with the funky fossil Bavlinella. (Boz Wing, CU – Boulder)

Feb 28th : Emerging insights into multituberculate paleobiology contradict the placental-centric paradigm in mammalian evolution. (Luke Weaver, U. of Michigan)

Apr 27th : Paleontology in the east: New discoveries from the Upper Triassic of Virginia. (Adam Pritchard, Virginia Museum of Natural History)

May 11th : Does size matter? What brachiopods tell us about evolutionary rules. (Judi Sclafini, UC – Santa Cruz)

May 19th : Geology of Grand Mesa, Colorado. (Rex Cole, Colorado Mesa U.)

Jun 5th : The Dead Sea: Past, present and future. (Ittai Gavrieli, Israeli Geological Survey)

Jun 19th : Linked Ecologies: Connecting invisible pasts and actionable futures. (Anshuman Swain, Harvard)

Jul 13th : Usurpers and insinuators: Competition and environmental change in the Great American Biotic Interchange in mammals. (Marie Hoerner, CU – Colorado Springs)

Aug 24th: Mass extinctions and high resolution astrochronology in the Upper Devonian: Tales from New York and Colorado. (Jeff Over, SUNY – Geneseo)

Oct 10th : To Xiphactinus and beyond: The savage seas of ancient Kansas. (Anthony Maltese, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center)

Nov 6th : ***POSTPONED TO 2024*** Our Earth was completely frozen? Twice? (Carol Dehler, Utah State U.)

Nov 16th (not the 17th): Land of Ice: The Magnificent Wonders of Colorado's Glacial Landscape (Vince Matthews, Colorado Geological Survey (emeritus))