Events

2026 Larson Allmaras Emerging Issues in Soil & Water Lecture

April 9, 2 PM

Join us for the 23rd annual Larson Allmaras Emerging Issues in Soil & Water Lecture, featuring distinguished guest Matt Helmers, PhD.


SWAC Seminar | Apr. 8 | Jacques Finlay

April 8, 3:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our spring departmental seminar series. This week will feature a talk by Jacques Finlay, PhD, a professor in the UMN Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.


SWAC Seminar | Mar. 25 | Student Lightning Talks

March 25, 3:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our spring departmental seminar series. This week will feature a series of short talks from LAAS students and researchers in the SWAC & CFANS community.


SWAC Seminar | Mar. 11 | Kenneth Blumenfeld

March 11, 3:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our departmental seminar series. This week's guest is Kenneth Blumenfeld, PhD, Senior Climatologist at the Minnesota State Climatology Office.


SWAC Seminar | Feb. 25 | Ghulam Murtaza Jamro

February 25, 3:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our departmental seminar series. This week's guest is visiting scholar Ghulam Murtaza Jamro, PhD, a professor in the Department of Soil Science, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam (Campus Umerkot) Pakistan.


SWAC Seminar | Feb. 18 | Jennifer Murphy

February 18, 3:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our fall departmental seminar series. This week's guest is Jennifer Murphy, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto.


SWAC Seminar | Feb. 11 | Aaron Reser & Erin Meier (Green Lands Blue Waters)

February 11, 3:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our fall departmental seminar series. This week's guests are Erin Meier and Aaron Reser of Green Lands Blue Waters.


SWAC Seminar | Jan. 28 | LAAS Alumni Panel

January 28, 2:00 PM

Join us for our first seminar of the semester, where LAAS alumni share their experience of life and work after graduating from the program.


SWAC Seminar | Nov. 19 | Eric Booth

November 19, 3:30-4:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our fall departmental seminar series. This week's guest is Eric Booth, presenting "A hydrologist and a rhetorician,’ a story of learning how to collaborate on mixed-methods river research across the humanities and biophysical sciences."


SWAC Seminar | Nov. 12 | Hannah Kenagy

November 12, 3:30-4:30 PM

Join us Wednesdays at 3:30 for our fall departmental seminar series. This week's guest is Hannah Kenagy, presenting "Laboratory, model, and observational perspectives on atmospheric organic aerosol production."