RECENT HEILAND LECTURES
Fall 2025 Schedule
January 15, 2025 - Nicholas Holschuh
A Complex Ice Flow History in Northern Greenland Inferred from Novel Ice Penetrating Radar Data
Nicholas Holschuh
Amherst College
January 22, 2025 - Joanna Millstein
How Observations Improve Models of Iceberg Calving
Dr. Joanna Millstein
Colorado School of Mines
February 12, 2025 - Stanislav Glubokovskikh
Beyond Resolution: A Quest to Make Digital Rock Physics Relevant for Seismic Interpretation
Dr. Stanislav Glubokovskikh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
February 19, 2025 - Paul Selvadurai
Integrated Approaches to Rock Physics and Sustainable Geoenergy Futures
Dr. Paul Selvadurai
Swiss Seismological Service, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ETH Zurich
February 26, 2025 - Nicola Tisato
The Rock-Physics of Geo-Fluids
Nicola Tisato
University of Texas-Austin
March 5, 2025 - Dave Monk
The Evolution of Seismic Acquisition and Artificial Intelligence
Dave Monk
ACTeQ
March 12, 2025 - Andrei Swidinsky
Stochastic Control of Natural Resource Operations using Geophysical Measurements and Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fundamental Concepts and a Few Illustrative Examples
Andrei Swidinsky
University of Toronto
March 26, 2025 - Sean Bader
Keepers of 3D Knowledge: How do Geophysicists Add Value in the Unconventional World?
Sean Bader
EOG Resources
April 2, 2025 - Erin Wirth
Earthquake Ground Shaking and Seismic Hazard in Cascadia
Erin Wirth
U.S. Geological Survey
April 16, 2025 - Luca Duranti
Nonlinearity in Dynamic Mechanical Poroelasticity
Luca Duranti
Chevron
April 23, 2025 - Susanne Ouellet
Meaningful monitoring of Tailings Dams with Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Susanne Ouellet
Lumidas
April 30, 2025 - iury Simões-Sousa
Big Ocean, Big Data: The Interplay of Multi-Scale Dynamics and Climate Impacts
iury Simões-Sousa
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Fall 2024 Schedule
September 4, 2024 - Nathan Lenssen
September 18, 2024 - John Bradford
Geophysics in the Energy Transition: Opportunities for the Next 50 Years
John Bradford
Colorado School of Mines
September 25, 2024 - Vladimir Puzyrev
AI in Geosciences: Where it Works, and Where it Doesn’t
Vladimir Puzyrev
Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
October 2, 2024 - Haiyang Kehoe
Source, Path, and Site Effects and Their Roles on Earthquake Ground Motions
Dr. Haiyang Kehoe
Colorado School of Mines
October 9, 2024 - Lucas Zoet
How Debris Laden Basal Ice Affects Glacier Slip and Erosion
Lucas Zoet
University of Wisconsin – Madison
October 16, 2024 - Dr. Stanislav Glubokovskikh
Continuous Probing of a CO2 Plume: In-situ DAS Amplitudes + Scattering Integral
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Stanislav Glubokovskikh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
October 23, 2024 - Kasper van Wijk
Going Nonlinear: Cranking Up the Volume on Elastic Waves in Fault-zone and Volcanic Rocks
Kasper van Wijk
University of Auckland
October 30, 2024 - Aleksei Titov
Geophysics Applications for Enhanced Geothermal Systems Exploration and Monitoring
Aleksei Titov
Fervo Energy
November 6, 2024 - Hannah Glover
Using Seafloor Distributed Fiber-optic Sensing to Observe Ocean Waves and Nearshore Processes
Hannah Glover
Oregon State University
November 13, 2024 - Mengli Zhang
Geologic hydrogen as a significant part of solution portfolio for energy transition: The current state of the discipline and Mines world-leading position
Mengli Zhang
Colorado School of Mines
November 20, 2024 - Christian Schoof
Modelling Meets Reality: The Hydraulics of Glaciers
Christian Schoof
University of British Columbia
Spring 2024 Schedule
January 12, 2024 - David Applegate
Science in Service to Society: The Evolving Role of the U.S. Geological Survey
David Applegate
Director, United States Geological Survey
Jointly sponsored by Geology & Geological Engineering, Geophysics, Earth & Society Programs, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Office of Global Initiatives
January 17, 2024 - Aaron Girard and Athos Nathanail
Observations from the Seafloor: Low-frequency Ambient Wavefield Seismology on Large Nodal Arrays, Aaron Girard, Colorado School of Mines
From Rocks to Algorithms: Exploring Geoscience Through the Lens of AI and Machine Learning, Athos Nathanail, Colorado School of Mines
January 24, 2024 - Hélène Seroussi
How Can We Better Model the Evolution of Ice Sheets and Their Contribution to Sea Level Rise?
Hélène Seroussi
Dartmouth
January 31, 2024 - Nicola Tisato
Earthquakes through the lens of Rock Physics: from Analog Materials in the Lab to Rocks in the Field
Nicola Tisato
University of Texas – Austin
February 14, 2024 - Michael Wilt
An Electromagnetics (EM) Guy working in Steel Casing: Nightmare, Opportunity or Both
Michael Wilt
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
February 28, 2024 - Rick Binzel
Asteroid Exploration and Space Resource Utilization
Rick Binzel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 6, 2024 - Tieyuan Zhu
March 13, 2024 - Chengbo Li
From Medical Imaging to Exploration Geophysics: A Journey of CSI Technology
Chengbo Li
ConocoPhillips
March 27, 2024 - Estella Atekwana
Biogeophysics: Geophysical Sensors for Biogeochemical Hotspots and the Search for Life
March 29, 2024 - Matt Haney
Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Volcano Seismology in the Aleutian Islands
Matt Haney
USGS/Alaska Volcano Observatory
April 3 - Albena Mateeva - Distinguished Alumni Lecture
April 10, 2024 - Joseph Vantassel
April 19, 2024 - Susheel Adusumilli
Monitoring and Predicting Shoreline Changes Along the California Coast Using Remote Sensing Data
Dr. Susheel Adusumilli
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 24, 2024 - Yajing Liu
Induced seismicity monitoring and source mechanism study in northeast British Columbia, Canada
Yajing Liu
McGill University
May 1, 2024 - Burke Minsley
System-scale Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys in the Lower Mississippi River Valley Support Multidisciplinary Applications
Burke Minsley
U.S. Geological Survey