Welcome to Spring 2026 Solid Earth Seminar

This page will be updated as new speakers are added to the roster for the upcoming seminars. If you have any questions, please email Nathalie Chavarría (nchavarria6@gatech.edu) or Seyi Adeboboye (oadeboboye3@gatech.edu). The seminar takes place every Friday from 3:30-4:30 PM in a hybrid format with in-person attendance at ES&T L1105. Select the title to go to the presenter’s abstract and bio (available within a week of the presentation).

To join virtually: Zoom_link

Signup Spreadsheet for the Spring 2026 Seminar

DateTitleSpeakerAffiliation
January 16th 2026Welcome Back! Introductory meeting//
Geophysical Properties of Geomaterials: Complementary Multiphysics Characterization		Carlos Santamarina
In Person		Georgia Tech
January 23th 2026GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry: Applications to Sea Level and Ice Thickness MeasurementsSurui Xie
In Person		University of Houston
January 30th 2026Slow Slip and Sporadic SeismicityJoan Gomberg
Online		USGS
February 6th 2026Inference of the thermodynamic state of the upper mantle beneath Alaska by using body wave teleseismic tomographyCristhian Salas
Online		UC Santa Barbara
February 13th 2026Integrating Satellite Observations and Modeling Approaches to Study Subduction Zone HazardsJeng Hann Chong
Online		University of New Mexico
February 20th 2026TBDWilnelly Ventura-ValentinUniversity of Southern Indiana
February 27th 2026TBDJay Tung
Online		Texas Tech
March 6th 2026
March 13th 2026TBDHaiying Huang
In Person		Georgia Tech
March 20th 2026Modeling how magma moves undergroundLaura Blackstone
Online		Stanford University
March 27th 2026Spring break!
April 3th 2026TBDRevanthy Parameswaran
Online		University of Fairbanks
April 10th 2026TBDChristodoulos Kyriakopoulos
In Person		University of Memphis
April 17th 2026TBDXiaoyu Zou
Online		UC San Diego
April 24th 2026TBDJuan Luis Porras
Online		Université de Genève
May 1th 2026TBDGuo Cheng
Online		University of Nevada
May 8th 2026Finals!