CSUB Geology Seminar
The CSUB Geology Seminar runs throughout the academic year. Presentations from world-class scientists cover a wide range of important Earth Science topics and issues. Click on a talk title to see more information about the presentation. Please contact the Geology Seminar organizer for more information.
2025 Spring
CRC Energy Transition Lecture Series 2025 sponsored by California Resources Corporation and Carbon Terravault.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25 | Steve Bohlen | Office of Government & External Affairs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Historic Opportunities Disguised as Insurmountable Challenges: Earth Systems, Energy Innovation, and Carbon Management |
| Apr 9 | Sarah Saltzer | Stanford Center for Carbon Storage, Stanford University | CCS Project Evolution |
2024 Fall
CRC Energy Transition Lecture Series 2024 sponsored by California Resources Corporation and Carbon Terravault.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20 | Jared Kluesner | U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center | 3D Seismic Investigation of Structure, Fluid Flow, and Slope Failure in the Santa Barbara Basin |
| Oct 30 | Bill Bartling | Geo2Watts | Repurposing Idle Oil and Gas Wells to Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Long Duration, Dispatchable Electricity Delivery |
2024 Spring
CRC Energy Transition Lecture Series 2024 sponsored by California Resources Corporation and Carbon Terravault.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Mar 13 | Benjamin Gilbert | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Hydrogen Geoscience for Energy and Climate |
| Feb 28 | Matthew Becker | California State University, Long Beach | Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing as a Window on Subsurface Flow |
2023 Fall
CRC Energy Transition Lecture Series 2023 sponsored by California Resources Corporation and Carbon Terravault.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Nov 8 | Caleb Woodall | United States Department of Energy | Assessing the Optimal Uses of Biomass: Carbon and Energy Price Conditions for the Aines Principle to Apply |
| Oct 18 | Alex Simms | University of California, Santa Barbara | Interactions Between Ice Sheets and Relative Sea Levels: Lessons from Antarctica and NW Scotland |
| Sep 20 | Richard Behl | California State University, Long Beach | From Depositional Environment to Rock Properties in the Miocene Monterey Formation of California |