Past Speakers

Previous Speakers

Coast Geological Society

2026-2027 Season

May 2027 - Creties Jenkins: Quantitative Risking of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Projects
April 2027 - TBA: 2027 Student Symposium And Awards
March 2027 - TBA:
February 2027 - David Huber: Can deep sea mining counter China's control of critical minerals and the green transition?
January 2027 - Joe McKinney: Carson City Landfill PCE Plume
December 2026 - Yonni Schwartz: Assessment of a Post-Fire Debris Flow Impacting El Capitán Watershed, Santa Barbara County
November 2026 - James Faulds: Nex gen geothermal or conventional geothermal with an AI twist
October 2026 - Dion Lobreau: Natural Hydrogen Exploration: Searching for the next Primary energy in the subsurface
September 2026 - Dr. Marc J. Kamerling, The Santa Barbara Basin in Four Dimensions

2025-2026 Season

May 19th 2026 - Dr. Jan Gillespie, Using oilfield data to study groundwater aquifers in California
April 21th, 2026 - 2026 Student Symposium And Awards
March 17th, 2026 - Dr. Rick Behl, PhD, "Two Volcanic Winters Triggered by twin Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions, 631,000 years ago."
February 17th, 2026 - Dr. M Robinson Cecil, PhD, "Plumbing the zircon record of the northern Sierra Nevada batholith"
January 20th, 2026 - Dr. Bill Dinklage, PhD, "The energy Transition Around the World"
December 16th, 2025 - Tim Gorham, "Geology and Viticulture of the Eastern Portion of the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County"
November 19th, 2025 - Dr. Alex Simms, PhD,"Quaternary systems of the Santa Barbara Channel: Sedimentation along an active margin"
October 21th, 2025 - Ron Foster, "Plio-Pleistocene Basin-Fill Architecture, Palomas Basin, Southern Rio Grande Rift"
September 16th, 2025 - Dan Steward: "The 100-Year History of the Pacific Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists"

2024-2025 Season

May 20th, 2025 - Dr. Kristen Morell, "Active onland faults in subduction zones"
May 3rd, 2025 - Dr. Larry D. Gurrola, "Tectonic Geomorphology, Structural Framework and Seismic Hazards of the Santa Barbara Fold Belt and What We Learned After the Shaking Stopped"
April 15th, 2025 - 2025 Student Symposium And Awards
March 18th, 2025 - Dr. Sandy Jewett, "Volcanoes of the Owens Valley and the Long Valley Caldera"
February 18th, 2025 - Dr. Rob West, "What’s the Point? Analysis of the shore platform at Goleta Point and its implications for seismic hazard "
January 15th, 2025 - Dr. Jonathan M. Hoffman & Susie Bartz , "The Life and Legacy of Thomas W. Dibblee"
December 17th, 2024 - Dr. Thom Davis, "Sri Lanka’s beneficial geologic asset: natural gas"
November 19th, 2024 - Dr. Matt Rioux, "Geology of the Oman Ophiolite"
October 15th, 2024 - David Olsen, "Transition to Low-Carbon Electricity: New Resources Change How the Grid Operates"
September 17th, 2024 - Dan Hollis: "Using Ambient Earth Vibrations to Image and Monitor the Earth’s Subsurface"

2023-2024 Season

May 21th, 2024 - Bruce Luyendyk: Mighty Bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent
April 16th, 2024 - Student Presentations and Scholarship
March 19th, 2024 -Eric Snelling: "Carbon Capture and Sequestration – California’s Role in a New Industry for Energy Professionals"
January 17th, 2024 - Dr. Susannah Porter, UCSB: "Tiny vampires, the living dead, and exquisitely preserved problematica: a glimpse of life ~750 million years ago from the oldest fossiliferous rocks in the Grand Canyon"
December 19th, 2023 -Dr. Robert-Michael de Groot, USGS: "ShakeAlert®: A People-Focused Earthquake Early Warning System"
November 21st 2023 - David H. Lehman, JPL: "NASA’s Space Missions to Mars"
October 17th, 2023 - Mark Legg, "Evolution and Character of Complex Strike-Slip Faulting in Southern and Offshore California"
September 19th, 2023 - Phil Kinney: "Santa Rosa Island Travelogue: Geologic, Natural, and Human History at the End of an Era"

2022-2023 Season

May 16th, 2023 - Marc Traut: "From Paradox to Prospect – the Cabrillo Oil Field"
April 18th, 2023 - Student Speakers:
Katya Yanez, CSUN: "Gypsum dunes of Olympia Undae in the North subpolar region of Mars"
Gwen Conway, UCSB: "Formation of the intrusive oceanic crust: Geochemistry of wehrlites and upper gabbros in the Point Sal Ophiolite"
Cole Jacobs, UCSB: "Cole Jacobs: Sedimentation and Volcanic History of the Lava Hills, eastern Mojave Desert"
Kyla Murphy, UCSB: "Methylphosphonate utilization by Trichodesmium in the Gulf of Mexico"
Chiara Corbo, UCSB
March 21st, 2023 - Dr. Thom Davis: "Natural Gas – Underexplored in Bangladesh? Increasing demand and decreasing supply; energy poverty and the impact of the energy transition"
February 21st, 2023 - Joan Barminski, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: "Pacific Offshore Wind: A Panel Discussion" with Panelists: Sara Guiltinan, Jennifer Miller, Renee Richards
January 17th, 2023 - Dr. Matt Jackson, UCSB: "The lost continents: Geodynamic consequences for Neoproterozoic onset of continental subduction"
December 20th, 2022 - Dr. Roberta Rudnick, UCSB: "Glacial diamictites and the evolving continental crust"
November 15th 2022 - Dr. Joshua Schwartz, CSUN: "Late Cretaceous Arc Flare-up in the Southern California Batholith and the Beginning of the Laramide Orogeny"
October 18th, 2022 - Dr. Andrew Kinkella, Moorpark College: "Giant Sloths, Ancient Maya Jars, and the Cave of the Black Mirror: Underwater Cenote Research at the Cara Blanca Pools, Belize"
September 20th, 2022 - Dr. Lorraine Lisiecki, UCSB: "Orbital Placing of Late Pleistocene Glacial Cycles "

2021-2022 Season

April 19th, 2022 - Student Speakers: The Calc-Alkaline Mineralogy of the Conejo Volcanics Basalt: Jordana Rataizer and Hannah Yakimisky (Moorpark College) Effects of Lithology on Plant Communities in the Western Santa Monica Mountains: Matthew Rens and Ryan Parkyn (Moorpark College) Chemical Weathering of Hornblende in Dacite at Tarantula Hill: Nicholas Kay, Alex Palache, and Alyssa Lopez (Moorpark College) Hydrothermal Alteration of the San Gabriel Granitics; Alex Palache and Marley Ross (Moorpark College) Lithology of the Soda Springs and Deer Creek Region of Southern Oregon: David Nims (Santa Barbara City College)
February 15th, 2022 - Dr. Kathie Marsaglia, CSUN: "New Insights from a Young Ocean Basin: Overview of Drilling Results from IODP Expedition 385, Guaymas Basin, Mexico with a Focus on Current and Future Studies of the Basin Sedimentary Record ."
January 18th, 2022 - Dr. Francis Macdonald, UCSB: "The Monterey hypothesis: Productivity, preservation, and Miocene climate change."
December 14th, 2021 - Daniel Limonadi, JPL: "What is happening to our planet now and what will happen in the future? Current and future space based Earth observations and modelling efforts."
November 16th, 2021 - Dr. Dayanthie S. Weeraratne, CSUN: "Investigating the role of relative sea-level change in the retreat of a marine based ice stream in northwest Scotland."
October 19th, 2021 - Dr. Alex Simms, UCSB, "Investigating the role of relative sea-level change in the retreat of a marine based ice stream in northwest Scotland."

2020-2021 Season

May 18th, 2021 - Dr. Gregg Wilkerson, "What is a “Known Geologic Structure”? The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920: Case studies in California"
April 20th, 2021 - Sandra Jensen, Lydia Kaestner, and Cody Atwood, SBCC, "Fossil identification and depositional history of the unnamed fossil layer of Isla Vista, California." Tristan Daily, SBCC, "Minerals needed for renewable energy technology." Brittany Bailey, Abby Travers, and Joshua Stapel, Moorpark College, "Homogeneity in the Orientation and Mineralogical Characteristics of Dikes Across the Conejo Volcanic Suite."
March 16th, 2021 - Dr. Jon Schwalbach, "Turbidite deposition and characterization in Ventura Field: integrating outcrops, cores, and well logs"
February 16th, 2021 - Dr. Rick Behl, CSULB "Petroleum migration in an active petroleum system: a virtual field trip to the coastal Ventura-Santa Barbara Basin."
January 19th, 2021 - Brenna Quigley, "Terroir: Connections between Geology, Soil, and Great Wine"
November 17th 2020 - Dr. Larry D. Gurrola, "Fire, Flood, and Landslide Dam History of Montecito and Southern Santa Barbara County, California"
October 20th, 2020 - Dr. Lisa Alpert, "Mantle Dynamics and Slab Rheology constrained by Numerical Modeling, Structural and Source Seismology.
September 22nd, 2020 - Dr. Art Sylvester, UCSB "Geology Underfoot in Southern California"

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