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Seminars on polar physical sciences are held at the Scott Polar Research Institute during the Michaelmas, Lent and Easter terms. The seminars typically take place on Wednesdays between 16.30 and 17.30 and are held in the main lecture room, which can be accessed via the polar museum. Doors are open to public and all are welcome.

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2 upcoming talks and 57 talks in the archive.

Using sediment archives from glacial fjords to reconstruct past glacier and ocean variability

UserDr Camilla Andresen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Unveiling the glacial and landscape evolution of West Antarctica: subglacial insights from ice-penetrating radar and satellite imagery

UserDr Neil Ross, Newcastle University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Sea Ice Research at Finnish Meteorological Institute – from Ice Charts to Climate Studies

UserDr Eero Rinne, Finnish Meteorological Institute.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Early East Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth Recorded in the Landscape of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains

UserDr Kathryn Rose, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Glacial landsystems: modern polar and alpine analogues for Quaternary palaeoglaciology

UserProfessor David Evans, Durham University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Reproducing unexpected LGM ice-stream retreat behaviour in a dynamic numerical model of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

N.B. re-scheduled from earlier date

UserDr Stewart Jamieson, Durham University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

What's going on in Greenland?

N.B. Change of date

UserDr Alun Hubbard, Aberystwyth University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Palaeoenvironmental records from the West Antarctic Peninsula drift sediments over the last 75 ka.

Note: not usual day

UserDr Maryline Vautravers, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Reflection seismic investigations of the Beaufort Sea margin, Arctic Ocean: Variable history of Quaternary ice-sheet advance

UserChristine Batchelor, SPRI.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Robert Falcon Scott: the Tasmanian links and an appreciation.

Note unusual day

UserProfessor Pat Quilty, University of Tasmania.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Double bill: Modelling the evolution of supra-glacial lakes in the Russell glacier region of the Greenland Ice Sheet / IMBIE - Ice sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise

UserAmber Leeson & Dr Kate Briggs, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Microbial activity beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet: impacts beyond the ice margin?

UserDr Jemma Wadham, University of Bristol.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Double bill: "Monitoring Arctic water bodies using active microwave data" / "Airborne glacier geophysics in Greenland"

UserAnna-Maria Trofaier & Dr Steven Palmer, Scott Polar Research Institute..

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Subglacial conditions on Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: Results from ground-based geophysical surveys; and plans for future activities with the iSTAR Programme

UserDr Andy Smith, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Glaciers on Mars

UserProfessor Bryn Hubbard, Aberystwyth University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Sub ice volcanism, ice sheets and global change

UserProf John Smellie, University of Leicester.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Darker, wetter and faster: recent and projected trends of mass balance over the Greenland ice sheet and linkages to surface and sub-surface processes

UserDr Marco Tedesco, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 13:00-13:45

Challenges in modeling future sea level rise from melting glaciers

UserDr Valentina Radic, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2012, 13:45-14:30

Pleistocene and Holocene in Murchisonforden area, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard.

UserProfessor Veli-Pekka Salonen, Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki (and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-13:45

Exploring radar data of ice sheets by means of numerical modelling

UserDr Gwendolyn Leysinger-Vieli, University of Durham.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Revealing the Antarctic continent with recent aerogeophysical exploration

UserDr Fausto Ferraccioli, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts

UserDr Rob Bingham, University of Aberdeen.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Densification in the Greenland dry snow zone - implications for altimetry

UserProf Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar Research Insitute.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

The central-west sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the LGM - the story from offshore evidence

UserDr Kelly Hogan, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

The timing and rate of deglaciation along the north Svalbard margin

UserDr Bill Austin, University of St Andrews.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Ice-ocean interactions in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord

UserDr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Polar ozone loss

UserDr Neil Harris, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Microbial Communities in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments.

UserDr Mark Skidmore, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Understanding contemporary change in West Antarctica: Insights from a higher order ice sheet model with dynamic subglacial processes

UserDr Marion Bougamont, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Modelling melt, water routing and the filling and drainage of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet

UserDr Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Imaging contemporary subglacial landscapes: detailed geophysical surveys of Antarctic ice streams

UserDr Ed King, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Why do glaciers fall apart?

UserMartin O'Leary, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Antarctic subglacial hydrology and topography

UserAnne Le Brocq (University of Exeter).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Oceanography in Arctic fjords

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserFinlo Cottier (Scottish Association for Marine Science).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Quantifying the predictive uncertainty of numerical mass balance models

UserCameron Rye (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

UserAdrian Jenkins (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture

Note unusual time (7 PM)

UserPaul A. Berkman (University of Cambridge) & David W. H. Walton (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 19:00-20:00

Calving Laws for Ice Sheet Models - Recent Progress and Future Prospects

UserDouglas Benn (University Centre in Svalbard and the University of St. Andrews).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Ice Stream Tides

Note unusual time (MONDAY)

UserHilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Northernmost Antarctic Peninsula glacial and climate changes

UserDaniel Nývlt (Czech Geological Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Lives on The Ice - Changing Patterns of Antarctic Experience from Scott to Byrd

Note unusual time: this seminar is on a Thursday

UserLisle A. Rose.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Flow, fracture and modelled stability of the Larsen C ice shelf

UserBernd Kulessa (Swansea University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR), doors open for general access.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Automatic satellite monitoring of East Greenland's calving glacier fronts: seasonal signals and southern retreat

UserAnthony Seale (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR), doors open for general access.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Environmental Protection in the Arctic Ocean

UserPaul Berkman (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR), doors open for general access.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

The effects of coastal ocean warming and increased supra-glacial run-off on water temperature and circulation in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland

UserAndrew Sole (University of Aberdeen).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR), doors open for general access.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Subaerial salt extrusions in Iran as analogues of ice sheets, streams & glaciers

Image caption: view across the northern namakier at Kuh-e-namak (Dashti), Iran Zagros. Salt is > 500 my old.

UserChristopher Talbot (Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 16:30-17:30

Neogene terrestrial environment of Antarctica

UserAlan Ashworth (Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Linking North and South Atlantic deep water circulation using Nd isotopes

UserAlex Piotrowski (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Marine Ice in Larsen Ice Shelf

Note: unusual venue

UserPaul Holland (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Where Have All the Icebergs Gone?

UserChris Woodworth-Lynas (NW Atlantic Ocean Observing System Partnership).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Mechanisms of englacial conduit formation and their implications for subglacial recharge

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 22 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Geophysical surveys of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica: implications for in-situ exploration

UserJohn Woodward, Northumbria University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Erebus volcano, Antarctica: eruption dynamics and atmospheric impacts

UserClive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

In situ glacial geophysical investigations of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

UserRobert Bingham (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

TBA

UserAdrian Luckman (Swansea University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Antarctic subglacial hydrology

UserAnne Le Brocq (University of Durham).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Antarctic Engineering

UserMurray Mitchell (OPUS Engineering - New Zealand).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

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