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ESS Pre-Colloquium Refreshments

Join us for pre-colloquium refreshments in the ESS Common Room (JHN 141)! Drop by before the colloquium to enjoy light snacks, tea, and hot water for your favorite brew. It's a great chance to connect with colleagues and this week's speaker before heading over together for the talk. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Marine Denolle (UW ESS) "Listening to the Earth’s Skin: Seismic Insights into Soil, Water, and Hazards"

Abstract: TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

ESS Community Coffee and Games (Drop-in from 11 am - 2 pm!)

When: Friday, January 30th, 2026, DROP-IN 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Join the ESS Community Committee for free hot drinks, snacks, and games! Hang out for a few minutes, bring your lunch, and maybe even bring a friend. This event is hosted by the Earth and Space Sciences Community Committee to encourage departmental networking and community building. If you’re reading this, you’re invited! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified. Friday, January 30, 2026, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, January 30, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

Digital Accessibililty Workshop with Dr. Kat Huybers

Interactive session--actively update your canvas or powerpoint resources. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 026. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, January 30, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Community Silent Book Club

Come read with us just for the joy of it! While not an official chapter, we join fellow book-lovers in a global community of Silent Book Club Members! Unlike traditional book clubs, there's no assigned reading, deadlines, pre-selected materials, or pressure! We meet once a month on the first Tuesday (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in JHN 141. The meeting structure is: 15 mins of optional socialization and settling in (make yourself a cup of tea!) 1 hour of silent reading 15 mins of optional chatting Students, staff, faculty, postdocs, and community members are all welcome! Bring a drink, a book, and a friend! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Not Specified. Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

ESS Pre-Colloquium Refreshments

Join us for pre-colloquium refreshments in the ESS Common Room (JHN 141)! Drop by before the colloquium to enjoy light snacks, tea, and hot water for your favorite brew. It's a great chance to connect with colleagues and this week's speaker before heading over together for the talk. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Brad Lipovsky (UW ESS) "New Observations from the Bookends of Ice Sheet Glaciology"

Abstract: Glaciology is driven by two fundamental goals: to understand how ice sheets will evolve in a warming climate and contribute to future sea-level rise, and to understand how ice sheets behaved in the past, providing insight into Earth’s possible climate states. Both goals require observing how ice flows and deforms—ideally from within the ice itself—yet doing so has long been limited by the difficulty of deploying and coupling borehole geophysical instruments in glacial environments. In this talk, I present borehole fiber-optic sensing experiments from glaciers at opposite ends of the cryosphere: fast-flowing outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet that are central to projections of sea-level rise, and the slow flowing blue ice areas of East Antarctica, home to the oldest (and perhaps most unusually preserved) ice on Earth and a critical archive of past climates spanning the Mid-Pleistocene Transition and late Miocene. In Greenland, fiber sensing captures signals of active deformation and basal pro… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

ESS Community Liquefaction Social

Come and enjoy beer and non-alcoholic beverages while you chat with your friends and colleagues in an informal setting! Hope to see you there! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Liquefaction Committee. Event Types: Special Events. Thursday, February 5, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

ESS PetroLunch: Sarah Hickernell (UW ESS) "Pre-Eruptive Storage of Silicic Magmas in the Searchlight Magmatic System, NV"

If you would like to receive updates about Petrolunch and are not currently on our email list, please sign up here:  http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/petrolunch. We recommend signing up for the listserv in order to receive direct updates and communications in the event of last-minute cancellations. Petrolunch will be taking place on Fridays at 12:30 pm in the QRC (JHN 377) and are simultaneously broadcast online (https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331  Meeting ID: 987 9197 0331).  Abstract: High-silica rhyolites have produced some of the largest and most impactful volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history. Eruption periodicity at silicic magmatic centers can be long; in order to understand the generation and eruption of high-silica rhyolites, we must leverage eruptions of the past. The Miocene-age Searchlight Magmatic System in Nevada, comprised of the Highland Range Volcanic Sequence and the Searchlight Pluton, provides a unique case study for understanding the storage conditions and… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331. Campus room: 377, QRC. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

ESS Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99910227880. Campus room: 026. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 6, 2026, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

UW Environmental Career Fair

Open to all UW students and alumni, the Environmental Career Fair is an opportunity to explore careers in environmental and natural resources fields. At the fair, you can connect with employers from the nonprofit, government, and private sectors with career-level positions and paid internships. It’s an opportunity to ask questions and gain valuable insight that will shape your academic and career journey. Student registration is open on Handshake! After registering you can see the employers in attendance to learn more about them and their open positions. Contact envjobs@uw.edu with questions about the Environmental Career Fair. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM. HUB North Ballroom. For more info visit environment.uw.edu.

ESS Pre-Colloquium Refreshments

Join us for pre-colloquium refreshments in the ESS Common Room (JHN 141)! Drop by before the colloquium to enjoy light snacks, tea, and hot water for your favorite brew. It's a great chance to connect with colleagues and this week's speaker before heading over together for the talk. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) "Small bodies, small planets, and small steps toward unveiling the prevalence of life in the universe"

Keywords:atmospheres, comets, Venus, exoplanets, modeling, NASA Abstract: The study of rocky exoplanets and their atmospheres promises new insights into the prevalence of habitable worlds and the search for life beyond Earth. Realizing these ambitious science goals, however, depends critically on foundational planetary science from Solar System exploration, which provides the context needed to interpret observations of other planetary systems. Under the theme of exoplanet–solar system connections, I will discuss my recent and ongoing work on (1) cometary isotope compositions to trace the history of water in the solar system; (2) Venus data analysis, including preparatory modeling for the upcoming DAVINCI mission; and (3) exoplanet atmospheric characterization with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and how these results are reshaping our understanding of planets orbiting cool, M dwarf stars. Across these topics, I will emphasize how population-level studies—from small bodies in the solar system to exoplanet… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit www.jhuapl.edu.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 13, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

Department Closed for Holiday

Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: 206-543-1190. Event Types: Not Specified. Monday, February 16, 2026.

ESS Pre-Colloquium Refreshments

Join us for pre-colloquium refreshments in the ESS Common Room (JHN 141)! Drop by before the colloquium to enjoy light snacks, tea, and hot water for your favorite brew. It's a great chance to connect with colleagues and this week's speaker before heading over together for the talk. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Greg Hirth (Brown University), "TBA"

TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

ESS Community Liquefaction Social

Come and enjoy beer and non-alcoholic beverages while you chat with your friends and colleagues in an informal setting! Hope to see you there! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Liquefaction Committee. Event Types: Special Events. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

ESS PetroLunch: Yisheng Zhang (Rice University), Title TBA

If you would like to receive updates about Petrolunch and are not currently on our email list, please sign up here:  http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/petrolunch. We recommend signing up for the listserv in order to receive direct updates and communications in the event of last-minute cancellations. Petrolunch will be taking place on Fridays at 12:30 pm in the QRC (JHN 377) and are simultaneously broadcast online (https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331  Meeting ID: 987 9197 0331).  Abstract: TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331. Campus room: 377, QRC. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

Community E.S.S (Engaged Social Stitching) and Crafts!

Psychologists at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge published a study in August 2024 which provides strong support for the positive wellbeing benefits of engaging in arts and crafting!  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1417997/full All ESS community members (staff, grad & undergrad students, faculty, postdocs) are welcome to join for an arts and craft hour on the third Friday of the month! Bring your preferred craft/coloring/art project/homework/written correspondence/novel...whatever you'd like! and come hang out! Community E.S.S (Engaging Social Stitching) and crafts!  Third Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) @ 2pm JHN 141. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Not Specified. Friday, February 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

Final Exam: Autum Downey

Molecular and thermodynamic controls on cell envelope reactivity of a deep-sea hyperthermophilic methanogen: Solute-specific mechanisms governing archaeal envelope chemistry and nutrient acquisition Committee: Gorman-Lewis (Chair) Gomez (GPC) Teng Mehra Morris. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 027. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

Mindlin Public Lecture Refreshments

Please join us for refreshments at 5:30 p.m. before the ESS Mindlin Public Lecture with Dr. Chris Glein. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM.

Mindlin Public Lecture: Chris Glein (Southwest Research Institute) "Seafaring in Space: A Personal Voyage to Enceladus"

Please join us for a reception in JHN 141 at 5:30 pm for free pizza and drinks! Keywords: Planetary science, astrobiology, geochemistry, oceanography, glaciology Abstract: We look for life to better understand our place in the universe, to satisfy a yearning for the unknown, and to leave a legacy of embracing the biggest questions. Many worlds beckon us in the search for life. They include Mars, icy moons like Europa, and countless exoplanets. All are worthy of continued exploration. Today, I wish to share the story of a small moon of Saturn. Enceladus had flown under the radar until recently. It was indeed unknown for most of human history and essentially a dot until the Space Age. A fleeting flyby by Voyager 2 revealed an enigmatic surface, with regions that appeared to be unusually young. Some even suggested cryovolcanism. Through a time of austerity, NASA and ESA developed the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. This was our first great expedition to the outer solar system of the 21st century. Cassini… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 102. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM. For more info visit www.christopherglein.com.

ESS Pre-Colloquium Refreshments

Join us for pre-colloquium refreshments in the ESS Common Room (JHN 141)! Drop by before the colloquium to enjoy light snacks, tea, and hot water for your favorite brew. It's a great chance to connect with colleagues and this week's speaker before heading over together for the talk. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Chris Glein (Southwest Research Institute) "Bridging the Solar System-Exoplanets Divide: The Sub-Neptune Opportunity"

Keywords:Exoplanets, astronomy, cosmochemistry, volcanology, astrobiology Abstract: Exoplanets are the next frontier for planetary science. We are witnessing an incredible transition in the study of exoplanets, where they are shifting from a purely astronomical domain to a wider domain in which geoscientists can also contribute. We saw a similar transition near the beginning of the Space Age when the planets and moons of our solar system became worlds with complex histories that opened our eyes to broader manifestations of physics and chemistry. Each object is an experiment in planetary evolution. As of today, over 6000 confirmed exoplanets have been found. In this talk, I will focus on volatile-rich planets between the sizes of Earth and Neptune. They are commonly called sub-Neptunes. Planet surveys have revealed that sub-Neptunes are the most common class of planet in the Galaxy. Yet, we know very little about them because there are no (known) sub-Neptunes in the solar system; they are terra incognita. The… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit www.christopherglein.com.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

ESS PetroLunch: Yongshu Huang (UW - Teng group postdoc), Title TBA

If you would like to receive updates about Petrolunch and are not currently on our email list, please sign up here:  http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/petrolunch. We recommend signing up for the listserv in order to receive direct updates and communications in the event of last-minute cancellations. Petrolunch will be taking place on Fridays at 12:30 pm in the QRC (JHN 377) and are simultaneously broadcast online (https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331  Meeting ID: 987 9197 0331).  Abstract: TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331. Campus room: 377, QRC. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

ESS Community Silent Book Club

Come read with us just for the joy of it! While not an official chapter, we join fellow book-lovers in a global community of Silent Book Club Members! Unlike traditional book clubs, there's no assigned reading, deadlines, pre-selected materials, or pressure! We meet once a month on the first Tuesday (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in JHN 141. The meeting structure is: 15 mins of optional socialization and settling in (make yourself a cup of tea!) 1 hour of silent reading 15 mins of optional chatting Students, staff, faculty, postdocs, and community members are all welcome! Bring a drink, a book, and a friend! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Not Specified. Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

ESS Pre-Colloquium Refreshments

Join us for pre-colloquium refreshments in the ESS Common Room (JHN 141)! Drop by before the colloquium to enjoy light snacks, tea, and hot water for your favorite brew. It's a great chance to connect with colleagues and this week's speaker before heading over together for the talk. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 141. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Jackie Caplan-Auerbach (Western Washington University) and Christine Smith (Northwest Navigation), "TBA"

TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

ESS Community Liquefaction Social

Come and enjoy beer and non-alcoholic beverages while you chat with your friends and colleagues in an informal setting! Hope to see you there! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Liquefaction Committee. Event Types: Special Events. Thursday, March 5, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, March 6, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

ESS PetroLunch: Fang-zhen Teng (UW) "An Editor's Perspective on how to get things published in EPSL"

If you would like to receive updates about Petrolunch and are not currently on our email list, please sign up here:  http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/petrolunch. We recommend signing up for the listserv in order to receive direct updates and communications in the event of last-minute cancellations. Petrolunch will be taking place on Fridays at 12:30 pm in the QRC (JHN 377) and are simultaneously broadcast online (https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331  Meeting ID: 987 9197 0331).  Abstract: TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98791970331. Campus room: 377, QRC. Accessibility Contact: sacaton@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

ESS Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99910227880. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, March 6, 2026, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Final Exam: Kimberly Sinclair

Understanding the Geochemical Context for the Origin of Life in Surface Lakes on early Earth and Mars Committee: Catling (Chair) Bundy (GSR) Gorman-Lewis Elam Solomon. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Academics. Monday, March 9, 2026, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

ESS Colloquium: Susan DeBari (she/her; Western Washington University) "Marine tephra records tell big stories - highly explosive volcanism in and rifting in paradise (the Hellenic Arc, Greece)"

Keywords: volcanology, IODP, tephra records Abstract: The Hellenic arc in Greece is the most active volcanic region in Europe, posing hazards that range from tephra fall to pyroclastic flows that travel across both the seafloor and the sea surface, and resulting tsunamis. The most famous eruption in the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo (CSK) volcanic field within this arc is the 1600 BCE caldera-forming eruption of Santorini that buried a thriving Bronze Age city and caused widespread tsunamis. The most recent explosive eruption is the ~400-year-old eruption of neighboring Kolumbo volcano, but islands within the Santorini caldera have erupted as recently as 1950. The CSK volcanic field sits within an active submarine extensional basin whose sediments preserve the entire tephra record of the arc since its initiation. IODP Expedition 398 sampled this uninterrupted record of volcanism at twelve sites within the volcanic field, providing an unprecedented opportunity to develop a robust record of hazardous events for… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, March 12, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, March 13, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

Final Exam: Tamara Aranguiz

The Role of Climate and Erosion in Shaping Strike-Slip Fault Landscapes: Insights from the Extreme Hyperarid Atacama Desert Committee: Duvall (Chair) Lauer (GSR) Crowell Huntington Schmidt. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 026. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Academics. Monday, March 16, 2026, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

ESS Community Liquefaction Social

Come and enjoy beer and non-alcoholic beverages while you chat with your friends and colleagues in an informal setting! Hope to see you there! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Liquefaction Committee. Event Types: Special Events. Thursday, March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, March 20, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

Community E.S.S (Engaged Social Stitching) and Crafts!

Psychologists at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge published a study in August 2024 which provides strong support for the positive wellbeing benefits of engaging in arts and crafting!  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1417997/full All ESS community members (staff, grad & undergrad students, faculty, postdocs) are welcome to join for an arts and craft hour on the third Friday of the month! Bring your preferred craft/coloring/art project/homework/written correspondence/novel...whatever you'd like! and come hang out! Community E.S.S (Engaging Social Stitching) and crafts!  Third Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) @ 2pm JHN 141. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Not Specified. Friday, March 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

UW Earth and Space Sciences Mindlin Public Lecture: Dr. Chris Glein (Southwest Research Institute) "TBA"

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 102. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, April 3, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

ESS Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99910227880. Accessibility Contact: Disability Services Office, dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, April 3, 2026, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

ESS Community Silent Book Club

Come read with us just for the joy of it! While not an official chapter, we join fellow book-lovers in a global community of Silent Book Club Members! Unlike traditional book clubs, there's no assigned reading, deadlines, pre-selected materials, or pressure! We meet once a month on the first Tuesday (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in JHN 141. The meeting structure is: 15 mins of optional socialization and settling in (make yourself a cup of tea!) 1 hour of silent reading 15 mins of optional chatting Students, staff, faculty, postdocs, and community members are all welcome! Bring a drink, a book, and a friend! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Not Specified. Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, April 10, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, April 17, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.

Community E.S.S (Engaged Social Stitching) and Crafts!

Psychologists at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge published a study in August 2024 which provides strong support for the positive wellbeing benefits of engaging in arts and crafting!  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1417997/full All ESS community members (staff, grad & undergrad students, faculty, postdocs) are welcome to join for an arts and craft hour on the third Friday of the month! Bring your preferred craft/coloring/art project/homework/written correspondence/novel...whatever you'd like! and come hang out! Community E.S.S (Engaging Social Stitching) and crafts!  Third Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) @ 2pm JHN 141. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Not Specified. Friday, April 17, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

Weekly Department Lunch Break in JHN 141!

Drop-in and bring your lunch on Fridays (except holidays and quarter breaks!) in the department community room! Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 141. Accessibility Contact: Noell Bernard-Kingsley. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, April 24, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.