The School of Earth, Environment & Society hosts a seminar series each term featuring scholars, practitioners, and community leaders exploring a range of topics. These talks foster interdisciplinary dialogue, highlight emerging research, and connect students with experts across diverse fields.
Open to students, faculty, staff, and the broader community, each session includes time for questions, discussion, and informal connection.
Spring 2026: Joint OSU-PSU-USGS Water, People, and Society Seminar
This term, join us for a joint seminar with Oregon State University and the U.S. Geological Survey's Oregon Water Science Center.
- When: Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
- Where: Cramer Hall 53
- Format: Hybrid
- Credits: EES 407 or 507
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
|---|
| April 8 | Get Your Game Face On: Societal Engineering with Serious Gaming in Water | Todd Jarvis
Institute for Water and Watersheds | OSU |
| April 15 | Water Certainty and Sanitation in the Americas | Alexis Krupa
Keller Associates | OSU |
| April 22 | Sociohydrology for Water Just Futures | Melissa Haeffner
PSU School of Earth, Environment & Society | OSU |
| April 29 | Beyond Farms vs. Fish: Identifying Water Management Priorities after the Klamath River Dam Removals | Bryan Tilt
Oregon State University | OSU |
| May 6 | What Glacial Sediments Tell Us About Earth’s Shifting Landscapes | Scott Jess
Washington State University | PSU |
| May 13 | Resolving the Ecological Causes and Consequences of Animal Mass Mortality Events | Sam Fey
Reed College | PSU |
| May 20 | Aquatic Conservation in a Changing Landscape | Michelle Busch
Michigan State University | OSU |
| May 27 | TBA | Erin Seybold
Kansas Geological Survey at University of Kansas | OSU |
| June 3 | Understanding the Thermalscape: Quantifying Stream Temperature Heterogeneity Across the Willamette River Basin | Caelan Simeone
U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |