The SEES Spring 2025 seminar schedule
All SEES seminars are free and open to the public. The Monday seminars are presented
in Blunt Hall 345 and begin at 2:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise.
January 27: Leslie Forrester, Executive Director of the Springfield Regional Arts Council will present "Arts and
the Economy"
February 3: DeAndre Martin, Planning, NE Oklahoma City Renaissance, (NEOKCR) Ethical, place-based economic development, a non-profit organization
February 10: Dr. Onema Adojoh, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, Northwest Missouri State University,
Natural Sciences
February 24: Derek Spurgeon, MSU alumnus-M.S. 2022, B.S. 2017 Geology. Missouri Geololgical Survey,
"Why we map: using LiDAR and modern geologic principles to create high detail geologic
maps"
March 3: Dr. Wolfgang Alders, postdoctoral research in New York will present a seminar on satellite imagery to
investigate ancient urbanism in Africa, a ZOOM presentation.
March 10: Mr. Matt McKay, Associate Professor, MSU School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, will make
a presentation on the cool tech stuff SEES has to offer our students.
March 31: Dr. Melissa A. Scruggs, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Wichita State University, will make
a presentation on mineralogy, petrology and volcanology