Distinguished Lecturer Series 2020-2021

Date	Place & Time	Speaker	Title
Tuesday, Sept 22, 2020	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Barbara Sherwood Lollar Department of Earth Sciences	*Lessons from the deep Earth for the search for life in the solar system and beyond*
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Igor Lehnherr Department of Geography	*Impacts of a changing climate on High Arctic freshwater ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling and contaminants*
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Trevor Porter Department of Geography	*Relict permafrost: An unconventional but promising archive for seasonally constrained reconstructions of climate change in Late Quaternary Arctic environments*
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2020	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Chelsea Rochman Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	*Contamination and effects of plastic debris and associated chemicals in the marine environment*
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2020	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Dylan Jones Department of Physics	*Integrating new datasets and modeling capabilities: Quantifying recent changes in anthropogenic emissions and their impact on air quality*
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Debra Wunch Department of Physics	*Using atmospheric measurements to examine the Earth’s carbon cycle*
Tuesday, Jan 12, 2021	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Jennifer Murphy Department of Chemistry	*Ammonia’s impact on climate and air quality*
Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Carl Mitchell Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences	*Mercury and related element cycling in managed forests*
Tuesday, Feb 9, 2021	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Marie-Josée Fortin Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	*Forest resilience to climate change and disturbances: from tree functional traits to forest stand network’s properties*
Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Karen Smith Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences	*The impact of the stratosphere on Arctic climate*
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2021	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Ulrich Wortmann Department of Earth Sciences	*Ocean deoxygenation during a warming climate: A case study from the PETM*
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021	Virtual, 4:00 pm	Arthur Chan Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry	*Breathing your food – Indoor and outdoor air quality impacts of food cooking*