Please see below for events that the GES department will be hosting this academic year. This page is continuously updated; more events will be posted as available! Additional events may be listed in the GES unit of the University Calendar.
Please note that the events listed below are not open to the public. They are for GES community members only (undergrad & grad students, faculty, staff, & postdocs).
Save the Dates for the fall semester Friendly Informal Research Exchange (F.I.R.E.)!
These gatherings are open to GES Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
We will meet in SRCC 306 at 10:30 a.m. on the following dates:
- October 2 - Ramos Group
- November 6 - McQuarrie Group
- December 4 - Shelef Group (tentative)
For questions, please contact Abby Yancy at AJY32@pitt.edu
- Undergraduate Weekly Events & Opportunities Newsletters
- GES Office Hours and Closures
Daily office hours: 8:30am - 4:30pm
- Closed - 11/26-27 (Thanksgiving Break)
- Closed - 12/24/26 (1/03/27 - Winter Recess)
- Closed - 01/18/27 (Dr. Martin Luther King's Birthday Observance)
- Closed - 03/12/27 (Spring Holiday)
- Closed - 05/31/27 (Memorial Day Observance)
- Closed - 06/18/27 (Juneteenth Observance)
- Closed - 07/05/27 (Independence Day Observance)
- Dissertation & Thesis Defenses
- GES Fall Colloquia Schedule (2271)
Location: 104 Thaw | Day: Thursdays | Time: 4:00pm
- 27-Aug | Colloquia Kick Off: A Brief History of Pittsburgh, or How Long Can It Take to Cover 1.25 Billion Years?
- 03-Sep | Training: Pitt EH&S Chemical Hygiene Training
- 10-Sep | Dr. Joe Ortiz [Professor of Earth Sciences, Kent State University]: Applications of multi- and hyperspectral image decomposition in visible near infrared remote sensing
- 17-Sep | Dr. Sara Warix [Assistant Professor of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah]: Investigating how climate change impacts stream hydrologic and geochemical fluxes
- 24-Sep | GES 2026 Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Robert Anderson [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology]: From Pitt to the Red Planet: A Robotic Journey to Mars
- 01-Oct | Laura Lopera Congate [GES PhD Candidate]: South American Summer Monsoon variability and water balance from the Lake Junín (Central Peruvian Andes) molecular isotopic record over glacial-interglacial timescales
- 08-Oct | Dr. Glynn Hulley [NASA JPL (FL)]: NASA’s Airborne and Satellite Thermal Views of Urban Heat Risk
- 15-Oct | Dr. Rachel Glade [Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester]: How do solifluction patterns form? A journey through icy, drippy, wavy Arctic hillslopes
- 22-Oct | Timothy Suder [GES PhD Candidate]: Annual Variations in Carbon, Nitrogen, and Nitrate in Trophic Endmember Freshwater Lake Systems
- 29-Oct | Dr. Sophie Pailot-Bonnétat [GES Postdoc]: How can AI improve spaceborne thermal volcano monitoring?
- 05-Nov | Dr. Shashank Bhushan [NASA Goddard]: Decimeter-accuracy Surface Topography from Commercial Satellite Stereo Imagery: Method Advancements and Earth Science Applications
- 12-Nov | Dr. Steve McNutt [Professor, University of South Florida]: Long Swarms and Short Swarms at Volcanoes: Evidence for Different Processes (part 1) and Estimates of Water in the Hunga Tonga plume (part 2)
- 19-Nov | Dr. Cari Corrigan [Smithsonian]: Evidence of Impact Melting in Iron Meteorites
- 26-Nov | Thanksgiving Break
- 03-Dec | Dr. Don Fisher [Penn State University]: What Do Observations of Exhumed Tectonic Plate Boundaries Tell Us About Subduction Zone Earthquakes?
- GES Spring Colloquia Schedule (2274) - TBD
Location: 104 Thaw | Day: Thursdays | Time: 4:00pm