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Geoscience Seminar Series

The UNLV Geoscience Department Seminar Series is a chance for students and professors alike to hear from distinguished lecturers and industry leaders on modern research initiatives and groundbreaking experiments ranging all disciplines of the geosciences.

Undergraduate students can enroll in GEOL 491: Seminar for 1-credit and can take GEOL 491 up to three times throughout their undergraduate degree. Topics vary by semester.

Before each seminar, the Department holds a Coffee and Tea Time, where undergraduate and graduate students get together with their peers and the department faculty. Coffee and Tea time is held in LFG 202 from 3:30 to 4 pm every Wednesday when seminar is held.

Seminars are held each Wednesday during the ongoing semester, from 4 pm to 5 pm in LFG 102.

Fall 2026 Seminar Calendar:

Below is an updated calendar on the upcoming semester’s seminars.

Date:Seminar Title:Presenter:Affiliation:
8/26/2026The Past is the Key to the Future: Lessons from the Oldest InvasionDr. Carrie Tyler UNLV 
9/2/2026What I Did This SummerUNLV Geoscience Faculty and StudentsUNLV
9/9/2026NGWA Darcy LectureSteve LoheideUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
9/16/2026Temporal resolution of marine fossil assemblagesMichal KowalewskiUniversity of Florida
9/23/2026Graduate School ApplicationDr. Pamela Burnley,
Dr. Carrie Tyler		UNLV
9/30/2026Floodplain ConnectivityMatt CzapigaTulane University
10/7/2026Environmental Pollution Control Solutions Inspired by Planetary ScienceArezoo KhodayariCal State LA
10/14/2026GSA Week – No Seminar
10/21/2026  
10/28/2026Wilderness MedicineJosé Miguel Iturra
11/4/2026Talk Title Coming SoonKaushik MitraUT San Antonio
11/11/2026Veterans Day – No Seminar
11/18/2026Talk Title Coming SoonTiantian ZhouNew Mexico State University
11/25/2026Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar  
12/2/2026
12/9/2026Finals Week- No Seminar