Keynote Presentations
Keynote lecture, International Conference on Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate
2020Keynote lecture, North American Carbon World
2019Keynote talk, Just Inclusion, Do-Fest
2018Keynote talk, East Los Angeles College
2018Keynote lecture, Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering
2016Resilience
Keynote lecture, PaleoOcean
2015Emerging proxies in paleoceanography
Keynote talk, Clumped isotope workshop (ETHZ)
2014In search of processes driving observed clumped-isotope fractionations in geoscience systems: New insights from data and theory
Keynote lecture, Kongsberg Seminar (University of Oslo)
2013Cenozoic polar climates
Lectures & Invited Talks
MIT
2021Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
University of Colorado, Boulder
2021Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
Virginia Institute of Technology
2021Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
Texas A&M University
2021Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
University of Maine
2021Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
2020Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
UC Santa Cruz
2020Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
University of Leeds
2020Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
University of Alberta
2020Frontiers of carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry in paleoceanography and paleoclimate
London Paleoclimate Network
2020Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoclimate
Science Philanthropic Alliance
2020Why diversity and inclusion need to be a pillar of US science in the 21st century
Packard Convening on Climate and the Oceans
2020Racial equity and justice and the need to reform our institutions in ocean and climate science
UCLA Social Sciences Dean and Chairs Meeting
2020Center for Diverse Leadership in Science
University of Wyoming
2020Transforming green science: Changing the culture and widening the pathways
University of Utah (2 talks and student roundtable)
2019Frontiers in the study of past climate and environmental change: From new tracers to an inclusive science model, and Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
Arizona State University (2 talks and student roundtable)
2019Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways, and Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
California State University, Northridge (2 talks)
2019How recrystallized are foraminifera in ancient ocean sediments? And Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways
University of Rhode Island (talk and panel)
2019Transforming Geoscience and Environmental Science: Changing the culture and widening the pathways
University of California, Merced (2 talks)
2019Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry, and Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways
National Science Foundation (2 talks)
2018Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways in Environmental Science and Geoscience and New frontiers in the study of past climate and environmental change
Navajo Technical University
2018Studying the history of climate and environmental change
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2018Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department Diversity Committee
2018Center for Diverse Leadership in Science
UCLA Division of Physical Sciences Diversity Committee
2018Center for Diverse Leadership in Science
California State University, Fullerton
2017Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
University of Iowa (3 talks)
2017Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry; New frontiers in the study of past climates and environmental change; Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: A new paradigm for the Eocene greenhouse-icehouse transition
Los Alamos National Laboratory Physics Colloquium
2017Insights into regional patterns of warming and climate change since the last ice age from novel methods
University of California, Santa Cruz
2016Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
University of Minnesota
2016Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
Florida State University
2016Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
Georgia Institute of Technology
2015Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
University of Southern California
2015Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
CNRS (Laboratory Domaine Oceanique)
2015Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography
IFREMER
2015Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography
European Institute for Marine Sciences
2015Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2014New insights into paleoclimate from emerging proxies
Rice University
2014Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2014Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
UCLA
2014Clumped isotope geochemistry and glacial climate
European Institute for Marine Sciences
2014Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
University of Copenhagen
2013Clumped isotope geochemistry and applications to sedimentary geology
University of California, Riverside
2013Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
Royal Holloway
2013University of London: Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
University of Virginia
2013Glacial climate and clumped isotope thermometry
University of Virginia
2013Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera
Southern Methodist University
2013Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2013Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
California State University, Northridge
2013Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry
University of Edinburgh
2012Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate
Center for Applied Statistics, UCLA
2012Other worlds: Geosciences problems in paleoclimate, biogeochemistry, and astrobiology that would benefit from the application of statistics
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
2012Insights into glacial climate from a novel geochemical method
University of Wisconsin, Madison
2012Recent developments in clumped isotope geochemistry and glacial climate
University of Southern California
2012Recent developments in clumped isotope geochemistry
United States Geological Survey Stable Isotope Laboratory
2012Recent developments in clumped isotope geochemistry
University of California, Berkeley
2011Clumped isotope geochemistry and glacial climate
University of California, Santa Barbara
2011Reconstructing glacial climate using clumped isotope thermometry
Cornell University
2011Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
Cornell University
2011Reconstructing glacial climate using clumped isotope thermometry
University of California, Los Angeles
2011Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera
Institute for Marine Research, CNR
2010New constraints on ocean acidification and temperature in the past from two novel geochemical proxies: foraminiferal B/Ca ratios and clumped isotope thermometry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009Clumped isotope thermometry in Holocene and Glacial foraminifera and coccoliths from the tropical Pacific Ocean
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2009Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera
University of Arizona
2009Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for glacial ice in both hemispheres from ~44-30 Ma
University of Southern California
2009Holocene and Glacial temperatures in the West Pacific Warm Pool from 13C-18O bond abundance in foraminifera and coccoliths
University of Southern California
2009Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera
Carnegie Institution, Department of Global Ecology
2008Using the geologic record to probe climate-carbon cycle interactions
University of California, Los Angeles
2008Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
University of California, Irvine
2008Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
University of Southern California
2008Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
University of Birmingham
2008Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for glacial ice in the Northern Hemisphere ~44-30 Ma
California Institute of Technology
2007Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation 44 to 30 million years ago
University of Cambridge
2007Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
Imperial College
2007Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
Rutgers University
2007Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago
GEOMAR/Univ. Kiel
2007Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for glacial ice in the Northern Hemisphere ~44-30 Ma
University College, London
2006Evidence for bipolar glaciation during the Eocene epoch (~40 Ma)
University of Stockholm
2005Climatic consequences of rapid carbon addition to the atmosphere at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary
University of Stockholm
2005Evidence for early bipolar glaciation (~42 Ma) associated with global carbon cycle changes
University of Cambridge
2005Evidence for early bipolar glaciation (~42 Ma) associated with global carbon cycle changes
University of Cambridge
2004Marine paleoenvironments: New insights from the geochemistry of fossil shells
University of Cambridge
2003Environmental change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
Stanford University
2002Oxygen isotope systematics
Texas A&M University
2002Early Paleogene marine paleoenvironments: New insights from the geochemistry of fossil shells
Conferences & Workshops
AMQUA Panel
2020Racial equity and justice and Black Minds
Geochemical Society Town Hall
2020Racial equity and justice and Black Minds
Behind the STEAHM
2020Misconceptions in Science
Ocean Science AGU
2020Advancing systemic change through faculty and early career development to support retention and improved institutional climates
Ocean Sciences AGU
2020Transforming Green Science: Changing the Culture and Widening the Pathways
NOAA panel
2020Can We Talk? Obstacles Faced by People of Color in STEM and Strategies to Overcome Them
NCAS panel
2020Applying for jobs in atmospheric and ocean science
SOARS panel
2020Can We Talk? Obstacles Faced by People of Color in STEM and Strategies to Overcome Them
DOE Meeting
2019Our Progress on Fundamentals and Frontiers in Carbonate Clumped Isotope Geochemistry – From paired mass 47 and mass 48 to the discovery of new isotope effects
AGU
2019Human-centered, relational geoscience
AGU
2019Transforming Geoscience and Environmental Science: Advancing Systemic Change Through Faculty and Early Career Development to Support Retention and Improved Institutional Climates
DOE Meeting
2017New Discoveries – Controls on Carbonate Isotope Signatures in Carbonate Minerals
European Geosciences Union
2016Greenland ice initiation and Arctic sea ice coincide with Eocene and Oligocene climate changes
Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium
2015New Frontiers in the Study of Pleistocene to Modern Records of Climate Change
DOE Meeting (Geoscience Models - Where are the rocks?)
2014In search of processes driving observed clumped-isotope (dis)equilibrium in geoscience systems: New insights from data and theory
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2013From wetlands to sauropods (?) and cold seeps: New perspectives on methane cycling in the Phanerozoic
Critical transitions workshop (NSF – CNNSF, China)
2013Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry: applications to sedimentary geology
Royal Society
2011Kavli workshop on the carbon cycle (UK): Planktic foraminiferal B/Ca ratios
Carbonate diagenesis conference (China)
2010Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry: Principles and applications
Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change (Ohio State University)
2009Holocene and Glacial temperatures in the West Pacific Warm Pool from 13C-18O bond abundance in foraminifera and coccoliths
European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting
2007Early Cenozoic glacial history: Insights from Pacific records of seawater d18O
International Symposium on Antarctica in the Earth Sciences
2007Evidence for glacial ice on Antarctica and the Northern Hemisphere during the Eocene and Oligocene: Insights from Pacific records of seawater dd18O
European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting
2006New results from ODP and IODP on the greenhouse-icehouse transition
Ocean Drilling Program deciphering sea level change workshop
2006New evidence for Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2005Constraints on Paleocene and Eocene tropical sea-surface temperatures and meridional temperature gradients from Mg/Ca and oxygen isotope ratios of foraminifera from sediments recovered by the Ocean Drilling Program
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2005New results from ODP and IODP on the greenhouse-icehouse transition: Evidence for Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes
Comer Annual Meeting (Columbia University)
2005Relationships between rapid changes in climate and the carbon cycle