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