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DEEPS Seminar this Friday:

The Earth and Planetary Sciences Department are happy to announce that Dr. Frank Corsetti (Chair and Professor of Earth Science at USC) will be presenting his talk Hanging around Hot Springs to Gain Insight into Life on Early Earth, or “Dear Reviewer 2, I am Aware the Proterozoic Ocean Was Not a Hot Spring”. 

Maintaining Abandonment: Engineering Mexico City’s Sewers after the implosion of Modernism (The 2024-25 Klopsteg Lecture Series)

Abstract The engineers who manage Mexico City’s vast combined sewer and drainage infrastructures are constantly improvising new ways to cajole water to flow through the crumbling system even as the city sinks due to anthropogenic land subsidence. Their labor to maintain the system amid decades of deferred maintenance and adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions