Woodford-Eckis Lecture Series

2010-2019

2019 - Tracy Gregg (SUNY Buffalo)

• “21st Century Mars: Our Changing Views of the Red Planet”
• “Driving in the Dark: Exploring Mid-Ocean Ridges as an Analog to Venus”

2018 - Isabel Montañez (UC Davis)

• “Deep-Time (Geologic) Insight into Earth’s Future”
• “Reconstructing CO2-climate-vegetation feedbacks during Earth’s penultimate icehouse”

2017 - Marcia McNutt (President - National Academy of Sciences)

• “How Basing Decisions on the Best Scientific Evidence has Impacted our Everyday Lives”
• “Advice for Communicating Science to Broad Audiences: Do's and Don'ts”

2016 - Jim Secord '75 (Cambridge University)

• “Global Geology and the Empire of Tectonics”
• “Charles Darwin and the World of Geology”

2015 - Don Swanson (USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)

• "Kilauea volcano in Hawaii: When she's good, she's very, very good, but when she's bad, she's horrid"
• "Kilauea calder: Its formation and the ensuing 300 years of explosive activity"

2014 - Doug Yule '83 (California State University, Northridge)

• "Great earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas fault: How large, how frequent?"
• "Paleoseismology of the San Andreas fault at San Gorgonio pass"

2013 - E. Bruce Watson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

• "The environment of earliest Earth: Decoding the oldest zircons"
• "Growth-rate effects on crystal composition: From phenocrysts to climate proxies"

2012 - John Grotzinger (California Institute of Technology)

• "Going to Gale: A Search for Habitable Environments on Mars"
• "Building Curiosity"

2011 - Ramón Arrowsmith (Arizona State University)

• "Recent Slip History of the South-Central San Andreas Fault"
• "Surface Processes and Fault-Related Deformation Using LiDAR Topography"

2010 - Kathy Cashman (University of Oregon)

• "Mount St. Helens: A Tale of Three Decades"
• "Bubbles and Bangs: When are Volcanic Eruptions Explosive?"

2000-2009

2009 - Lonnie Thompson (Ohio State University)

• "Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World’s Highest Mountains"
• "Climate Histories from Tropical Glaciers and the Evidence for Asynchronous Glaciation"

2008 - Allen Glazner ’76 (University of North Carolina)

• "Granite and the Unique Landscape of Yosemite National Park: New Thoughts on an Old Problem"
• "What Controls Space-Time Patterns of Cenozoic Magmatism in Western North America: Plate Tectonics, Delamination, or Convection?"

2007 - Phil Christensen (Arizona State University)

• "Mars: New views of a Changing Planet"
• "The Geologic Evolution of Mars: The Competing Roles of Volcanism, Wind, and Water"

2006 - Ray Weldon ’77 (University of Oregon)

• "Past and Future Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault"
• "The 1700 AD M9 Earthquake and Tsunami on the Oregon Coast ; How bad was it and when will it happen again?"

2005 - Sorena S. Sorensen ’78 (Smithsonian Institution) and Matthew J. Fouch ’93 (Arizona State University)

• "Jade Hunting in Subduction Zone Metamorphic Terrains and the Cathodoluminescence Laboratory" – Sorensen
• "Exploring Earth’s Deep Interior: Earthquakes, Diamonds, and Earth’s Oldest Rocks" – Fouch

2004 - Laurie L. Brown (University of Massachusetts)

• "Magnetism on the Move: Chasing Field Reversals in South America"
• "Earth Analogs for Martian Magnetic Anomalies"

2003 - Herbert V. Frey (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

• "Mars: More than the Moon, Less than the Earth"
• "MOLA and the Hidden History of Mars"

2002 - Eric T. Sundquist ’70 (U.S. Geological Survey)

• "Adventures in Carbon Cycle Science: From Cottage Industry to Global Enterprise"
• "The Cycling of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Natural Variability from Hours to Eons"

2001 - Calvin Miller ’69 and Molly Miller (Vanderbilt University)

• "Antarctica: Tales from the Earth’s Past, Clues to its Future"
• "Granite as Builder and Historian of the Crust"

2000 - Jan A. Tullis (Brown University)

• "How Rocks Flow and How We Know"
• "Interpreting the Microstructural Record in Deformed Crustal Rocks"

1990-1999

1999 - Arthur G. Sylvester ’59 (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• "Taking the Pulse of California’s Earthquake Faults"
• "Origin and Emplacement of Granite Plutons: A Problem Solved?"

1998 - Robert I. Tilling ’58 (U.S. Geological Survey)

• "Volcanoes, Volcano Hazards, and Society"
• "Volcano Monitoring and the ‘Art’ of Eruption Forecasting"

1997 - David A. Clague (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

• "Geologic Hazards and Risks: Living on an Active Volcano in Hawaii"
• "Submarine Geology of Hawaii: Landslides, Lava Flows, and Drowned Coral Reefs"

1996 - David D. Pollard ’65 (Stanford University)

• "Science, Politics, and Adventure at Katmai Volcano: Who Benefits when the Goals of Scientists and Environmental Clash"
• "Using 3D Seismic Data and Geomechanical Models to Investigate Slip Distributions on Faults"

1995 - John S. Shelton ’35

• "A Feel for How the Earth Works"
• "The Aerial Perspective"

1994 - Robert H. Dott, Jr. (University of Wisconsin—Madison)

• "What a Fickle Datum is Sea Level: A History of Ideas about Relative Sea and Land Levels"
• "The Enigma of Pure Quartz Sandstones and Their Distribution in Time"

1993 - Eldridge M. Moores (University of California—Davis)

• "The North America-Antarctic Connection and Possible Clues to the Origin of Animals"

1992 - Bruce A. Bolt (University of California—Berkeley)

• "Prediction of Strong Shaking in Earthquakes"
• "What Risk is Acceptable in Earthquake Country?"

1991 - Gail A. Mahood (Stanford University)

• "Volcanic Hazards in the Western United States"

1990 - J. William Schopf (University of California—Los Angeles)

• "The Oldest Known Fossils: A Late Look at the Earliest Evolution of Life"
• "The Rise and Fall of the Proterozoic Biosphere"

1981-1989

1989 - Robert P. Sharp (California Institute of Technology)

• "Geology in our Own Back Yard"
• "Reincarnation of a Geologist"

1988 - Harrison H. Schmitt (Apollo 17; U.S. Senator, New Mexico)

• ‘A Trip to the Moon on Apollo 17′
• ‘Evolution of the Moon: the View from Taurus-Littrow’

1987 - Douglas M. Morton(U.S. Geological Survey)

• ‘Geology of the Northern Peninsular Ranges and Adjacent Transverse Ranges’
• ‘Alkali-Silicate Rocks, Mountain Pass, California’

1986 - Thane H. McCulloh ’49

1985 - John G. Vedder ’48

1984 - Warren O. Addicott ’51

1983 - Mason L. Hill ’26

1982 - Roger R. Revelle ’29

1981 - C. Barry Raleigh