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CONGRATULATIONS SPRING 2026 GRADUATES AND AWARD WINNERS!
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/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: Fluid mediated transport of rare earth elements under extreme environments: an experimental approach |
| February 12, 2026 | Corey Wallace, Legacy Management Title: From Realizations to Relevance: Ensemble Refinement and Composite Plume Mapping for Contaminant Fate and Transport Modeling |
| February 19, 2026 | Hector Lamadrid, University of Oklahoma Title: Unconventional fluid inclusion compositions in ore deposits, examples from magnetite-apatite deposits and carbonatite breccias |
| February 26, 2026 | Ann Cook, The Ohio State University Title: The Methane Hydrate Reservoir: Answers to all your Burning Questions |
| March 5, 2026 | Ben Tobin, NCKRI Title: A (re) introduction to NCKRI |
| March 12, 2026 | Erin Heilman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Fractures, Fluids and Heat: Multiphysics Modeling with HOSS |
| March 19, 2026 | NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK |
| March 26, 2026 | TBD |
| April 2, 2026 | Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech Title: Evolution of Aquatic Organisms in the Southern Great Basin since the Miocene: Triumph of the Court Jester |
| April 9, 2026 | Gabriel Katul, Duke University Title: Peak Water as a Driver of Peak Grain for the US High Plain Aquifer |
| April 16, 2026 | Charles Kershaw, New Mexico Tech Title: The solubility of REE phosphates (YP04, CePO4, and ErPO4) and REE speciation in high temperature saline hydrothermal fluids |
| April 23, 2026 | Jonathan Anaya, New Mexico Tech Title: Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Sediment Routing During the Late Cenozoic Reactivation of the Mongolian Altai |
| April 24, 2026 | SPECIAL SEMINAR Ana Pinheiro Privette, University of Illinois Title: Data center and water: Managing growth in a resource-constrained future |
| 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 | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 |