January 11 - Joe Kirschvink (Caltech)
Title: The First Snowball Earth and The Rise of Oxygen

January 18 - Craig Bethke (University of Illinois)
Title: M. King Hubbert and the birth of modern groundwater hydrology

January 25 - Paul Hoffman (Harvard)
Title: Who's afraid of Snowball Earth?

January 31 (TUESDAY–in 200 Cascade Hall)- Andrey Bekker (University of Manitoba)
Title: Oxygen overshoot and recovery in the early Paleoproterozoic

February 8 - Huifang Xu (University of Wisconsin)
Title: Sweet spot for the formation of sedimentary dolomite

February 15 - Matt Kirk (Sandia National Lab)
Title: Interaction between geological carbon storage and subsurface microbial communities

February 22 - Ilya Bindeman (University of Oregon)
Title: Snowball or Slushball glaciation?

February 29 - Ken Williams (Berkeley Lab)
Title: Contaminants, Compliance, and Caveats: Field Studies at DOE’s Rifle Integrated Field Research Challenge (IFRC) site

March 7 - Maya Kopylova (University of British Columbia)
Title: Life and death of Cratonic roots

March 14 - Everett Shock (Arizona State University)
Title: Geochemistry Meets Biochemistry in Hydrothermal Ecosystems