DeFord Lecture Series

DeFord Lecture Series Speaker Schedule

The DeFord (Technical Sessions) lecture series has been a requirement and a tradition for all graduate students since the late 1940s. Once the official venue for disseminating Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences graduate student research, the DeFord Lecture series is now the forum for lectures by distinguished visitors and members of our community. Faculty and researchers from the Jackson School have invited prestigious researchers from around the world to present a lecture in this series. This is made possible only through a series of endowments, such as those funding past Distinguished Lectures.

The list below shows all the scheduled talks this semester. If you would like to meet with any of the speakers, please contact them or their hosts directly.

DeFord Lecture Series Fall 2025 Speaker Schedule

All talks are Thursdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Boyd Auditorium (JGB 2.324). Lectures will be recorded, and most past lectures are posted on the Jackson School YouTube channel.

Sept. 4

Dr. Tim Goudge

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Jackson School of Geosciences

University of Texas at Austin

Remote Sensing of Sinuous Channels in the Solar System: From Meandering Rivers to Lava Channels

Sept. 11

Dr. Jane Baldwin

The University of California, Irvine

Sept. 18

Dr. Christine McCarthy

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Columbia University

Sept. 25

Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen

Utrecht University

Oct. 2

Dr. Terry Plank

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Columbia University

Oct. 9

Dr. Ian Kane

University of Manchester

Oct. 16

Dr. Nadja Drabon

Harvard University

Oct. 23

Dr. Jeff Schragge

Colorado School of Mines

Oct. 30

Dr. Shi Joyce Sim

Georgia Institute of Technology

Nov. 6

Dr. Don Fisher

Pennsylvania State University

Dec. 4

Dr. Thomas Harter

The University of California, Davis