The Frontiers in Karst Colloquium series is a collaboration between KWI and the NSF-funded Carbonate Critical Zone RCN to produce a series of online seminars focused on critical zone processes in carbonates. Presentations are made by invited speakers from across the range of disciplines within critical zone science, particularly highlighting contributions by early-career scientists. Presentations are approximately 30 minutes long with 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion.
Video archive of seminars:
Spring 2021
Seminar 1 (Wednesday, February 24): Weathering of rock to regolith: The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures
8 am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 5 pm Central European / 11 pm China
Dr. Elizabeth Hasenmueller (St Louis University)
Seminar 2 (Wednesday, March 31): Mechanical vs chemical denudation in Mediterranean carbonate landscapes and the global-scale effects of carbonates on biodiversity
8 am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 5 pm Central European / 11 pm China
Dr. Richard Ott (GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences)
Seminar 3 (Wednesday, April 21): Machine learning deciphers CO2 sequestration and subsurface flowpaths from stream chemistry
8 am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 5 pm Central European / 11 pm China
Andrew Shaughnessy (Penn State University)
Fall 2020
Seminar 1 (September 22, 2020): Competition among Limestone Depressions Leads to Self-organized Regular Patterning on a Flat Landscape
Competition among Limestone Depressions Leads to Self-organized Regular Patterning on a Flat Landscape
Dr. Xiaoli Dong (UC Davis)
Seminar 2 (October, 2020): What has the greatest effect on tree water use: a prescribed fire, a hurricane, or a solar eclipse?
Seminar 3 (November 17, 2020): A Reactive Transport Framework for Understanding Geochemical Transformations in Karst Systems