Dr. George Cody of Carnegie Science Earth and Planets delivered a seminar on "Revisiting and revising the nature of water speciation in hydrous NaAlSi3O8 glasses quenched from melts."
Jordan Wostbrock of the University of New Mexico will deliver a seminar on "Seeing through carbonate diagenesis using the triple oxygen isotope system."
Dr. Seth Jacobson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Michigan State University.
Dr. Wil Leavitt of Dartmouth University delivered a seminar on "Un-clumping the Methane Paradox: Tracking C-P Lyase Produced Methane via Stable and Clumped Isotopes."
Dr. Mojhgan A. Haghnegahdar of Department of Geology at the University of Maryland presented a seminar titled, "Can Measurements of 13CH3D & 12CH2D2 Help Us Understand the Atmospheric Methane Budget?"
Dr. Luke McKay of Montana State University presented on "Early evolved microbial metabolisms and virus-host dynamics mediate sulfur and methane cycling in diverse geothermal environments."
Dr. Irena Mamajanov of ELSI researches geochemistry and the origins of life. She delivered a seminar on "From Messy Chemistry to the Origins of Life."
Dr. Daniel Gregory from the University of Toronto presented on the wide range of information that can be obtained from the humble pyrite grain.
Ming Tang from Rice University presented on "The missing iron in the continental crust."
The research of Associate Professor at Brown University Stephen Parman focuses on the chemical evolution of the Earth, moons, and planets. He delivered a seminar titled "Tracing volatile recycling in the mantle with noble gases."
