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CONGRATULATIONS SPRING 2025 GRADUATES!
A big congratulations to all of our EES graduates! In addition to degrees, a number of awards were given out to EES students for outstanding scholarship and research. Learn more on our new awards page.

DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT:
The Winter 2024 issue of the NMT alumni magazine, Gold Pan, is focused on water and EES faculty and students are prominently featured - check it out to learn about the active research on water in EES!

EES Department Seminars and Events

EES/Bureau Seminar Series

	Date		Description
	January 22, 2026		Jiakai Zhang, New Mexico Tech Title: Shifting Employment and Investment Structures Towards Environmental Sustainability
	January 29, 2026		Maggie Furtner, NCKRI Title: Predicting Karst Features and Processes with Machine Learning: Applications in Science and Resource Management
	February 5, 2026		Debarati Banerjee, New Mexico Tech Title: TBD
	February 12, 2026		Corey Wallace, Legacy Management Title: Groundwater Modelling
	February 19, 2026		Hector Lamadrid, University of Oklahoma Title: TBD
	February 26, 2026		Ann Cook, The Ohio State University Title: Methane Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico
	March 5, 2026		TBD
	March 12, 2026		Erin Heilman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: TBD
	March 19, 2026		NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
	March 26, 2026		TBD
	April 2, 2026		Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech Title: TBD
	April 9, 2026		Gabriel Katul Title: TBD
	April 16, 2026		Charles Kershaw, New Mexico Tech Title: TBD
	April 23, 2026		Jonathan Anaya, New Mexico Tech Title: TBD
	April 30, 2026		Robert Anthony, Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory Title: The IceCube Seismometer: Motivation, Development, and Testing of the World’s Deepest Broadband Seismometer Package to be Permanently Frozen into the Antarctic Icesheet at South Pole

EES Graduate Seminar Series (Spring only)

	Date		Presentations
	February 17, 2025		Joe Hoberg: Field experiments on forward contamination in planetary analog environments
	February 24, 2025		Oscar Scholten: Geochemistry and Petrology of the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field Madeline Fresonke: Examining fluid flow as a mechanism for generating anomalously high heat along the margin of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone
	March 3, 2025		Kris Hashberger: Provenance of the Baca Formation in the Baca and Carthage-La Joya Basins, Central New Mexico Kyle Gallant: Structural inheritance and the upper crustal record of tectonics in south-central New Mexico
	March 10, 2025		NO SEMINAR
	March 17, 2025		NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
	March 24, 2025		Aadish Velmani: Hydrothermal Rare Earth Elements (REE) Partitioning into Fluorite: A Petrographic and Fluid Inclusion Study from the Gallinas Mountains REE-bearing Fluorite Deposit, NM Abelino Fernandez Leger: Predicting Fire Severity and Debris Flow Risk Using Bayesian Statistical Methods for The San Juan Chama Project
	March 31, 2025		Maxwell Briggs: Investigating the Impacts of Plate Flexure and Permafrost on Coastal Aquifer Dynamics: Insights from the New Jersey Passive Margin Mitchell McLaughlin: Weird Seismology: Surprises from Recordings of Ground Motion
	April 7, 2025		Jonathan Anaya: Time-Temperature Inverse Modeling Strategies of Detrital Zircon U-Pb-He Modes Laura Rodriguez: Fungi in caves
	April 14, 2025		Noël Skocko: Compositional Variation and Storage Conditions Through Time at Mount Waesche, West Antarctica Prajakta Mohite: Quantifying The Impact of Time-dependent Glacial Loading on Melt Generation and Transport: Insights- from Mt. Waesche, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
	April 21, 2025		Dylan Morrison: Characterizing Groundwater Systems with Repeat Microgravity: An Escondida, NM Case Study Charles Kershaw: The solubility and aqueous speciation of HREE (YPO4 and ErPO4) and LREE (CePO4) phosphates in high temperature saline hydrothermal fluids
	April 28, 2025		Chris Cox: Evaluation of Earth System Model snow simulations at over 800 locations across the Western US Frederick LaCombe: TBD