Seminar Schedule Spring 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.
We support both in-person and virtual seminars. Check the format of individual seminars
on the schedule below. In-person seminars will be held in Room 634, S&R1, unless
otherwise noted. To participate in virtual seminars, use Zoom Meeting ID: 829 1660
9186 and Passcode 764132. The same code will work for all virtual seminars. Seminars
are not offered in hybrid format.
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
|
Host
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/23/26 | Zong-Liang Yang | University of Texas at Austin | Freezing Rain in a Warming Climate: The Hidden Hazard of a Thawing Winter | In person | Youtong Zheng |
| 1/30/26 | Tanima Dutta | Alum of Stanford Rock Physics | Rock Physics Compaction Depth Trends | In person | John Castagna |
| 2/6/26 | Mark Matney | NASA Johnson Space Center | The Challenge of Orbital Debris | In person | Kaylin Tunnell |
| 2/13/26 | Mary Schultz | San Jacinto College | The Late Cenozoic climatic and tectonic evolution of the Mount Everest region, central Himalaya | In person | Peter Copeland |
| 2/20/26 | Kerri Crawford | University of Houston (Biology) | Applications of Ecological Theory to Coastal Dune Restorations | In person | Julia Wellner |
| 2/27/26 | Stefanie Brachfeld | Montclair State University | TBD | In person | Will Sager |
| 3/6/26 | Andy Bishop | Conoco Phillips | Hydrocarbon Seeps: Surface Expressions of Deep Sedimentary Basins | In person | Jagos Radovic |
| 3/13/26 | David Mohrig | University of Texas at Austin | TBD | In person | Christina Raymond |
| 3/27/26 | Bidong Zhang | Rice University | Using Iron Meteorites to Constrain the Chemical and Physical Structures of the Protoplanetary Disk | In person | Jinping Hu |
| 4/3/26 | R. Saravanan | Texas A&M University | TBD | In person | Honghai Zhang |
| 4/10/26 | Fiona Jiang | Ramboll | Applying Advanced Data Analysis Techniques in Air Quality Consulting | In person | Yuxuan Wang |
| 4/17/26 | Christine Haman | Deloitte | Impact of the evolving climate regulatory landscape on corporate sustainability strategy | In person | James Flynn |
| 4/24/26 | Ny Riavo Voarintsoa | University of Houston | TBD | In person | Shuhab Khan |
| 5/1/26 | Roger Michaelides | Washington University in St. Louis | Geophysical Characterization of the Near Surface in Periglacial Landscapes with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) | In person | Ilia Tarasevich |