Keynotes & Lectures

Keynote Presentations

  • Keynote lecture, International Conference on Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate

    2020
  • Keynote lecture, North American Carbon World

    2019
  • Keynote talk, Just Inclusion, Do-Fest

    2018
  • Keynote talk, East Los Angeles College

    2018
  • Keynote lecture, Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering

    2016

    Resilience

  • Keynote lecture, PaleoOcean

    2015

    Emerging proxies in paleoceanography

  • Keynote talk, Clumped isotope workshop (ETHZ)

    2014

    In search of processes driving observed clumped-isotope fractionations in geoscience systems: New insights from data and theory

  • Keynote lecture, Kongsberg Seminar (University of Oslo)

    2013

    Cenozoic polar climates

Lectures & Invited Talks

  • MIT

    2021

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • University of Colorado, Boulder

    2021

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • Virginia Institute of Technology

    2021

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • Texas A&M University

    2021

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • University of Maine

    2021

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    2020

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • UC Santa Cruz

    2020

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • University of Leeds

    2020

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • University of Alberta

    2020

    Frontiers of carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry in paleoceanography and paleoclimate

  • London Paleoclimate Network

    2020

    Carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry as an applied tool in paleoclimate

  • Science Philanthropic Alliance

    2020

    Why diversity and inclusion need to be a pillar of US science in the 21st century

  • Packard Convening on Climate and the Oceans

    2020

    Racial equity and justice and the need to reform our institutions in ocean and climate science

  • UCLA Social Sciences Dean and Chairs Meeting

    2020

    Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

  • University of Wyoming

    2020

    Transforming green science: Changing the culture and widening the pathways

  • University of Utah (2 talks and student roundtable)

    2019

    Frontiers 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)

    2019

    Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways, and Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • California State University, Northridge (2 talks)

    2019

    How recrystallized are foraminifera in ancient ocean sediments? And Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways

  • University of Rhode Island (talk and panel)

    2019

    Transforming Geoscience and Environmental Science: Changing the culture and widening the pathways

  • University of California, Merced (2 talks)

    2019

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry, and Transforming STEM: Changing the culture and widening the pathways

  • National Science Foundation (2 talks)

    2018

    Transforming 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

    2018

    Studying the history of climate and environmental change

  • Scripps Institute of Oceanography

    2018

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department Diversity Committee

    2018

    Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

  • UCLA Division of Physical Sciences Diversity Committee

    2018

    Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

  • California State University, Fullerton

    2017

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • University of Iowa (3 talks)

    2017

    Glacial 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

    2017

    Insights into regional patterns of warming and climate change since the last ice age from novel methods

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

    2016

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • University of Minnesota

    2016

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • Florida State University

    2016

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    2015

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • University of Southern California

    2015

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • CNRS (Laboratory Domaine Oceanique)

    2015

    Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography

  • IFREMER

    2015

    Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography

  • European Institute for Marine Sciences

    2015

    Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    2014

    New insights into paleoclimate from emerging proxies

  • Rice University

    2014

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    2014

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • UCLA

    2014

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and glacial climate

  • European Institute for Marine Sciences

    2014

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • University of Copenhagen

    2013

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and applications to sedimentary geology

  • University of California, Riverside

    2013

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • Royal Holloway

    2013

    University of London: Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • University of Virginia

    2013

    Glacial climate and clumped isotope thermometry

  • University of Virginia

    2013

    Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera

  • Southern Methodist University

    2013

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    2013

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • California State University, Northridge

    2013

    Glacial climate from clumped isotope thermometry

  • University of Edinburgh

    2012

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate

  • Center for Applied Statistics, UCLA

    2012

    Other worlds: Geosciences problems in paleoclimate, biogeochemistry, and astrobiology that would benefit from the application of statistics

  • Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA

    2012

    Insights into glacial climate from a novel geochemical method

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    2012

    Recent developments in clumped isotope geochemistry and glacial climate

  • University of Southern California

    2012

    Recent developments in clumped isotope geochemistry

  • United States Geological Survey Stable Isotope Laboratory

    2012

    Recent developments in clumped isotope geochemistry

  • University of California, Berkeley

    2011

    Clumped isotope geochemistry and glacial climate

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    2011

    Reconstructing glacial climate using clumped isotope thermometry

  • Cornell University

    2011

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • Cornell University

    2011

    Reconstructing glacial climate using clumped isotope thermometry

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    2011

    Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera

  • Institute for Marine Research, CNR

    2010

    New 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

    2009

    Clumped isotope thermometry in Holocene and Glacial foraminifera and coccoliths from the tropical Pacific Ocean

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    2009

    Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera

  • Scripps Institute of Oceanography

    2009

    Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera

  • University of Arizona

    2009

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for glacial ice in both hemispheres from ~44-30 Ma

  • University of Southern California

    2009

    Holocene and Glacial temperatures in the West Pacific Warm Pool from 13C-18O bond abundance in foraminifera and coccoliths

  • University of Southern California

    2009

    Ocean pH and carbon dioxide levels from the chemistry of foraminifera

  • Carnegie Institution, Department of Global Ecology

    2008

    Using the geologic record to probe climate-carbon cycle interactions

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    2008

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • University of California, Irvine

    2008

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • University of Southern California

    2008

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • University of Birmingham

    2008

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for glacial ice in the Northern Hemisphere ~44-30 Ma

  • California Institute of Technology

    2007

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation 44 to 30 million years ago

  • University of Cambridge

    2007

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • Imperial College

    2007

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • Rutgers University

    2007

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for bipolar glaciation from 44 to 30 million years ago

  • GEOMAR/Univ. Kiel

    2007

    Discovering ice on a “greenhouse” planet: Evidence for glacial ice in the Northern Hemisphere ~44-30 Ma

  • University College, London

    2006

    Evidence for bipolar glaciation during the Eocene epoch (~40 Ma)

  • University of Stockholm

    2005

    Climatic consequences of rapid carbon addition to the atmosphere at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary

  • University of Stockholm

    2005

    Evidence for early bipolar glaciation (~42 Ma) associated with global carbon cycle changes

  • University of Cambridge

    2005

    Evidence for early bipolar glaciation (~42 Ma) associated with global carbon cycle changes

  • University of Cambridge

    2004

    Marine paleoenvironments: New insights from the geochemistry of fossil shells

  • University of Cambridge

    2003

    Environmental change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary

  • Stanford University

    2002

    Oxygen isotope systematics

  • Texas A&M University

    2002

    Early Paleogene marine paleoenvironments: New insights from the geochemistry of fossil shells

Conferences & Workshops

  • AMQUA Panel

    2020

    Racial equity and justice and Black Minds

  • Geochemical Society Town Hall

    2020

    Racial equity and justice and Black Minds

  • Behind the STEAHM

    2020

    Misconceptions in Science

  • Ocean Science AGU

    2020

    Advancing systemic change through faculty and early career development to support retention and improved institutional climates

  • Ocean Sciences AGU

    2020

    Transforming Green Science: Changing the Culture and Widening the Pathways

  • NOAA panel

    2020

    Can We Talk? Obstacles Faced by People of Color in STEM and Strategies to Overcome Them

  • NCAS panel

    2020

    Applying for jobs in atmospheric and ocean science

  • SOARS panel

    2020

    Can We Talk? Obstacles Faced by People of Color in STEM and Strategies to Overcome Them

  • DOE Meeting

    2019

    Our 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

    2019

    Human-centered, relational geoscience

  • AGU

    2019

    Transforming Geoscience and Environmental Science: Advancing Systemic Change Through Faculty and Early Career Development to Support Retention and Improved Institutional Climates

  • DOE Meeting

    2017

    New Discoveries – Controls on Carbonate Isotope Signatures in Carbonate Minerals

  • European Geosciences Union

    2016

    Greenland ice initiation and Arctic sea ice coincide with Eocene and Oligocene climate changes

  • Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium

    2015

    New Frontiers in the Study of Pleistocene to Modern Records of Climate Change

  • DOE Meeting (Geoscience Models - Where are the rocks?)

    2014

    In search of processes driving observed clumped-isotope (dis)equilibrium in geoscience systems: New insights from data and theory

  • American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

    2013

    From wetlands to sauropods (?) and cold seeps: New perspectives on methane cycling in the Phanerozoic

  • Critical transitions workshop (NSF – CNNSF, China)

    2013

    Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry: applications to sedimentary geology

  • Royal Society

    2011

    Kavli workshop on the carbon cycle (UK): Planktic foraminiferal B/Ca ratios

  • Carbonate diagenesis conference (China)

    2010

    Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry: Principles and applications

  • Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change (Ohio State University)

    2009

    Holocene and Glacial temperatures in the West Pacific Warm Pool from 13C-18O bond abundance in foraminifera and coccoliths

  • European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting

    2007

    Early Cenozoic glacial history: Insights from Pacific records of seawater d18O

  • International Symposium on Antarctica in the Earth Sciences

    2007

    Evidence 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

    2006

    New results from ODP and IODP on the greenhouse-icehouse transition

  • Ocean Drilling Program deciphering sea level change workshop

    2006

    New evidence for Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes

  • American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

    2005

    Constraints 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

    2005

    New 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)

    2005

    Relationships between rapid changes in climate and the carbon cycle