Seminars

Department of Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Seminar

EVSC 4002 Tuesdays, 3 p.m. in Clark 108
Please feel free to invite other students not in the course to attend as well.
Lauren Miller (lms9tt@virginia.edu)

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Spring 2026 Undergraduate Seminar Series

Date	Speaker and Topic
Jan 13	Fiona Flynnmoore Morven Sustainability Lab “Careers in Sustainable Food Systems”
Jan 20	Professor Matthew Reidenbach EVSC Professor “Studying undersea life: SCUBA diving, submersibles, and some interesting creatures”
Jan 27	Dr. Valentina Ekimova EVSC Research Associat “Frozen Fire: Methane, Permafrost, and Gas Hydrates in a Rapidly Changing Arctic”
Feb 3	Professor Meghan Blumstein EVSC Professor “Can forests adapt to climate change?”
Feb 10	Professor Samuel Amago Spanish Professor “Thinking with trash”
Feb 17	Professor Charity Nyelele EVSC Professor “Trees, people, and cities”
Feb 24	Professor Caitlin Wylie, Science Technology, and Society Professor “Studying—and Changing—Environments with Communities”
Mar 3	Spring Recess
Mar 10	Mark Duffey UVA Transportation Operations and Fleet Manager “Decarbonization Strategies for University Fleets”
Mar 17	Dr. Natalia Varela EVSC Research Associate “Sediments from the seafloor”
Mar 24	Professor Cale Jaffe Professor of Law Director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic “Environmental law and natural resources in Virginia”
Mar 31	Professor Callan Bentley Piedmont Community College
Apr 7	Professor Chris Mooney UVA Environmental Institute
Apr 14	Dr. Ye Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Apr 21	No Seminar
Apr 28	Dr. Zoe Bergman Virginia Department of Forestry

This is a one credit, pass/fail course. Grades are based on attendance. Students are expected to attend
all seminars. Students will be allowed to miss one seminar. Missing more than one seminar except in
unusual circumstances will result in no credit (NC). Attendance is determined by each student
signing their name on the attendance sheet. Please turn off computers and cell phones during the
seminars.

Department of Environmental Sciences Seminar Series

Some Wednesdays and most Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. in Clark 108

For questions contact Meghan Blumstein (ycv4vb@virginia.edu) & Huilin Huang (mgh4rc@virginia.edu).

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Fall 2026 Seminar

Date	Speaker	Affiliation
Aug 27	UVA Staff Intro	UVA
Sep 3	N/a	N/a
Sep 10	John Porter	UVA
Sep 17	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sep 24	Nico Perdrial	UVM
Oct 1	Allie Blanchette	Smithsonian
Oct 8	MacKenzie Nelson	UVA
Oct 15	Doug Jerolmack	UPenn
Oct 22	Oliver Watt-Meyer	Allen Institute for AI
Oct 29	Rebecca Totten	Alabama
Nov 5	Richard Alley	Penn State
Nov 11	Kelsey O'Donnell	UVA
Nov 12	Luke Groff	UVA
Nov 19	Karl Attard	U of Southern Denmark
Nov 26	Thanksgiving	N/a
Dec 3	Cora Baird	UVA