2024/2025 Meetings
The AEG Southern Nevada Chapter holds dinner meetings eight times per year. Meetings are typically held on the second Tuesday of the month at the Embassy Suites Las Vegas located at 4315 University Center Drive (Near UNLV between Harmon Avenue and Flamingo Road) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each meeting features a presentation regarding a pertinent geological, environmental, or other relevant science-based issue.
Check-in and Socialize 6:00 to 6:30 pm
Dinner: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7:15 to 8:00 pm
Members: $40.00
Non-members: $45.00
Student Members: $20.00 (Do not Pay in Advance)
Student Non-members: $25.00 (Do not Pay in Advance)
Walk-ins: $50.00
Vegetarian options are available. Just let us know when you
register!
Payment for attending required at the time of registration.
NDEP - Certified Environmental Manager (CEM) Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
Attendance of a meeting will qualify for one NDEP-CEM-PDH. There is no limit on the amount of PDHs that can be obtained by attending monthly meetings. Become an active member of the AEG Southern Nevada Chapter and an additional four PDHs can be obtained annually. Attending the AEG Southern Nevada Chapter meetings is a great way to network while obtaining the required PDHs necessary to maintain your CEM license.
Tuesday - January 14, 2025
6:00 to 8:00 p.m. PST
"Mapping the Heat Islands of Las Vegas and Reno:
Towards a More Heat Resilient Nevada"
By: Dr. Thomas Albright
Associate Professor & Deputy State Climatologist
Department of Geography
University of Nevada, Reno
ABSTRACT:
Extreme heat is the most dangerous climatic hazard in the United States. In Nevada, where Reno and Las Vegas have been tagged as two of the nation’s fastest warming cities, high temperatures have contributed to the deaths of a record-breaking more than 400 people in 2024. While global climatic change has contributed, local factors play a surprisingly large role in this growing problem. The “urban heat island” effect can cause cities to be several degrees warmer than surrounding non-urbanized landscapes. This results from a complex interplay of a localized factors that alter how solar radiation and heat are absorbed, stored, and reradiated over space and time. To understand the risks and how to mitigate them, it is important to map the dynamics of urban heat. Dr. Albright, students, and colleagues are working to characterize urban heat hazards in cities across Nevada using satellite remote sensing, modeling, and intensive “citizen science” field surveys. Dr. Albright looks forward to sharing information from these efforts, ongoing research on Nevada’s heat hazards, and what communities can do to help keep people safe and comfortable.
BIO:
Thomas Albright, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Deputy Nevada State Climatologist at the University of Nevada, Reno. His interests span biodiversity conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice, and are linked by the challenges of climate change and extreme weather. He has worked in more than 15 countries and been funded by NASA, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Parks Service, and others. Dr. Albright completed a bachelor’s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s at the University of California Santa Barbara (both in geography) and a PhD at UW-Madison (integrative biology). Prior to academia, Dr. Albright was a Senior Scientist based at the US Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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October 8, 2024
"Seismic Profiling Across the Eglington and Frenchman Mountain Faults to Identify and Constrain Quaternary Fault Motion" by Professor Lee Liberty, Boise State University, Idaho.
November 12, 2024
"The Community Environmental Monitoring Program: Radiological Monitoring of Air and Groundwater Surrounding and Downwind of the Nevada National Security Site, Including Data from the Las Vegas Valley and Boulder City" by Beverly Parker, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada.
January 14, 2025
"Mapping the Heat Islands of Las Vegas and Reno: Towards a More Heat Resilient Nevada" by Dr. Thomas Albright, Associate Professor and Deputy State Climatologist, Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno.
February 11, 2025
Jahns Lecture: "Advanced Edge-AI Monitoring Technologies for Combating the Geologic and Hydrologic Hazards Associated with Climate Change" by Dr. John Kemeny, Emeritus Professor, Mining and Engineering Geology, University of Arizona, Tucson. 2024-2025 AEG Jahns Lecturer.
March 11, 2025
"Flood-Managed Aquifer Recharge, and Modeling Contaminant Movement in the Central Valley of California" by Dr. Zach Perzan, Geoscience Department, UNLV.
April 8, 2025
"70 Years of Flood Control in the Las Vegas Valley: Historical Floods and the District's Response" by Andrew Trelease, Assistant General Manager, Clark County Regional Flood Control District.
April 12, 2025
Field trip to Tropicana Detention Basin, discussion of its strategic location, led by Andrew Trelease.
May 13, 2025
“Threats to Western Water Security as Viewed from Space” by Dr. Jay Famiglietti, Arizona State University.
May 31, 2025