Seminar Schedule Fall 2025
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
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/29/25 | EAS Faculty Lightning Talks | University of Houston | -------- | In person | Seminar Committee |
| 9/5/25 | Richard Vachula | Auburn University | Understanding fire in the Earth System through a sedimentary lens | In person | Makenna Harris |
| 9/12/25 | Dan Lehrmann | Trinity University | Basin-wide assessment of the factors controlling carbonate platform evolution: Permian-Triassic, Nanpanjiang Basin, South China | In person | Julia Wellner |
| 9/19/25 | Student 3-min thesis competition | University of Houston | ------- | In person | EAS Graduate Committee |
| 9/26/25 | Jeffrey D. Rimer | UH Chem Engineering | TBD | In person | Jinny Sisson |
| 10/3/25 | Surui Xie | UH Civil Engineering | GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry for Planar Surface Elevation Measurements: Sea Level and Ice Thickness Case Studies | In person | Julia Wellner |
| 10/10/25 | Die Wang | Brookhaven National Lab | Aerosol impacts on deep convection: a hard-to-detect puzzle | In person | Youtong Zheng |
| 10/17/25 | Momen Mostafa | UH Civil Engineering | Hurricane Dynamics: From Turbulence to Forecasting | In person | Honghai Zhang |
| 10/24/25 | Janelle Steffen | TAMU | TBD | In person | Asmara Lehrmann |
| 10/31/25 | Andy Bishop | ConocoPhillips | Hydrocarbon Seeps: Surface Expressions of Deep Sedimentary Basins | In person | Jagos Radovic |
| 11/7/25 | Kieran Bhatia | Guy Carpenter | Does Rapid Intensification Contribute to the Rising Economic Losses from Hurricanes? | In person | Honghai Zhang |
| 11/14/25 | Michael Robinson | University of Nevada, Reno | Ridgelines Record Tectonic Forcing | In person | Will Struble |
| 11/21/25 | Lucien Nana Yobo | TAMU | TBD | In person | Will Sager |
| 12/5/25 | Youtong Zheng | UH EAS | TBD | In person | Yuxuan Wang |