Welcome to Earth Lab's Earth Data Science (EDS) Seminar Series, hosted at the University of Colorado Boulder. Semi-weekly on Tuesdays from 11:00-11:50 AM (MST), our speakers will bring new perspectives and present their work in the field of EDS.

Topics cover use of *big data* to advance knowledge of the dynamics and interactions of the Earth system, towards actionable insights and tools. These weekly sessions are intended to:

  1. inspire collaborations;
  2. tickle the imagination for creative data science solutions; and
  3. learn about new topics in environmental sciences.

Each seminar will be led by someone and can take various forms: lectures, data jams, practice conference talks, paper discussions, brainstorming, etc.

This event is a hybrid format: university affiliates may attend in-person, and the general public may attend remotely via Zoom. Join our mailing list to receive the zoom link & calendar invite (instructions below).

If you are unable to attend live, our seminars are usually recorded and posted to our blog & youtube channel.  (tip: Search for these talks on our blog webpage by using the tag ‘EDS Seminar Series’.)

 

~~~ Environmental Data Science (EDS) Seminar Series Schedule ~~~

 

Summer 2026 Schedule: 

We are excited to announce that in late May and June, the EDS Seminar series will feature work from the 1st cohort of working groups from our sister institute, the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL). Visit their announcement page for more details about this series (seminars also listed below).

All seminars will occur in the SEEC building on East Campus. Please note the room number column for each seminar, as the room changes based on week.

(this will be continuously updated)

Date          Speaker Topic Affiliation SEEC Room
May 19, 2026 Cameron Egan [ESIIL Working Group] Advancing Fungal Dispersal Ecology through Traits and Data Harmonization University of Southern California S372
May 26, 2026 Melissa Lucash & James Lamping [ESIIL Working Group] Rare, Severe, and Hard to Simulate: Advancing Extreme Wildfire Representation in Landscape Modeling University of Oregon S228
June 2, 2026 Kimberly Thompson [ESIIL Working Group] Ecosystem engineering as a community ecology concept: A quantitative framework using causal modelling German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) S127
June 9, 2026 Sydney Record [ESIIL Working Group] ESIIL Insights into Macrophenology University of Maine S225
Jun 16, 2026 Michael Meyer [ESIIL Working Group] FresH2O Zoops: Upscaling our understanding of freshwater planktonic communities’ structure and function USGS S372
Jun 23, 2026 Youmi Oh [ESIIL Working Group] Next-Generation Modeling of Global Natural Methane Fluxes: Integrating Multi-scale Observations with Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning CU CIRES S372
Jun 30, 2026 Phil Two Eagle & Robert Newman ESIIL Working Group: Maka Sitomniya   S372

EDS Seminar Mailing List 

Join the mailing list to receive reminders about upcoming seminars, as well as the zoom link to watch remotely. Please follow the instructions below to join the EDS seminar mailing list:

  • Send an email to "eds_seminar+subscribe@colorado.edu".
    • You will receive an email response shortly after, please reply to this response email to confirm your addition to our mailing list (Do not click the blue ‘join this group’ button within the email).
    • You will receive a confirmation email shortly after & no further action is needed. You have successfully been added to our mailing list & will begin to receive emails containing the zoom link and information about each week's speaker.
  • To unsubscribe, reply to any of the weekly emails to request removal from the mailing list.

 

Contact us!

Please contact Alison Post if you are interested in giving a talk, either during the current semester or a future one.

Please email Alison Post if you have any questions about registration, remote attendance, or related topics.

 

Hope to see you there!

EDS Seminar Series

EDS Seminar Series Blogs