The SEES Fall 2026 seminar schedule
All SEES seminars are free and open to the public. The Monday seminars will be presented
in Blunt Hall 313 and begin at 2:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. The Fall 2026 presentations
are still being finalized. Please check back for more information. Have a great summer!
September 14: Dr. Jackie Caplan-Auerbach will present: The Tracy Arm Landslide: Scientific and Personal Perspectives on the Second Largest
Landslide Tsunami Ever Recorded
September 21: We welcome back Dr. Brooke Benz, Mo State Alumna - M.S. Geology 2020,
B.S. Geology 2018 Brooke will be visiting us from Boulder, CO where she is a Petrographer
to present: Making Volcanoes Safer
September 28: Dr. Robert Nairn, OSU, will present an update on the remidiation of Picher, Oklahoma
October 19: Dr. Rajiv Ghimire, Lecturer @ SEAS, University of Michigan where his foci is Climate + Energy, Food
Systems and Cross-cutting
October 26: Dr. Kevin Mickus, Mo State Distinguished Professor - Geology will present: GeoPhysics at Yellowstone
November 9: Dr. Nishan Bhattarai, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
November 30: Marilyn K Vann, Cherokee Nation citizen - a discussion on current statutes, histories and advocacy
efforts of Freedman of the Five Former Slaveholding Tribes