Details about the 2026 Mirsky Day of Geoscience will be available soon.
The Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences established the annual Drs. Arthur and Patricia Mirsky Memorial Lecture in 2013 as an honor to Arthur Mirsky, Ph.D. (1927-2012).
In 2023, we hosted the inaugural Mirsky Day of Geoscience – a half day of events culminating in the Mirsky Lecture.
Arthur Mirsky, Ph.D. (1927-2012) served as a field geologist and consultant in uranium exploration in the Southwest and Rocky Mountains before coming to IUPUI in 1967 to start a new geology program.
He proudly served the Department of Earth Sciences even after his retirement in 1993, including a 26-year stint as the first faculty chair and then as a professor emeritus.
As an honor to Dr. Mirsky and his wife, Patricia, the department established the annual Drs. Arthur and Patricia Mirsky Memorial Lecture in 2013.
2025
Dr. Vashan Wright, Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Water on Mars
2024
Lora Shrake, MS '02, Senior Program Director, Business and Sustainability at the Council of the Great Lakes Region
A Fortuitous Journey: From a Geology Degree to a Sustainable Development Career
2023
Dr. Adina Paytan, Research Scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz
Corals on Acid – Ocean Acidification the other CO2 Problem
2022
Jason Lederer, M.S., IUPUI Geology 2003
Is this what a Geologist does? Lessons from a meandering career working on environmental and social challenges
2021
Dr. David Wald, seismologist with the USGS and faculty at the Colorado School of Mines
Rapid Earthquake Shaking & Impact Estimation for Global Earthquake Response
2019
Eric Hiatt, Ph.D. Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Class of ’88 B.S. Geology, IUPUI School of Science
Earth’s Global Ice Age: Explore Biosphere and Geosphere Interactions On An Ice-Covered World