Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

The Heraldry of Queens' College

Mr. David Broomfield, CUHAGS.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Large CO2 emissions from pre-industrial land use change – Does the carbon budget add up?

Benjamin Stocker. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch

Mike Walker, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

1 million years of Pacific Ocean paleoceanography viewed from IODP Exp350 sites 1436C and 1437B foraminifers' records recovered near the IZU subduction Arc

Maryline Vautravers (University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet; landforms, sediments, dates and the BRITICE-CHRONO project

Prof Chris D. Clark, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (UK).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New DNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems

Prof Mary E. Edwards, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton (UK).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Cryptotephrochronology in the North Atlantic Region: Linking North Atlantic Marine Sediments to the Greenland ice-cores

Dr Peter Abbott (University of Swansea).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle over the last 800,000 years - an ice core perspective

Prof Dr Hubertus Fischer (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages as proxies of paleoceanographic changes across Pleistocene glacial terminations in the NE Atlantic

CHANGE OF DATE: now on Wednesday Nov. 27th

Dr. Patrick Grunert (U. of Graz, Austria).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Prof. Eric Wolff (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Taking a closer look at the last glacial sediments

Canceled

Dr. Maryline Vautravers (Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 20:45-22:00

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Public School Heraldry

Damian E. Riddle.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evidence for enhanced Antarctic climate variability during the last interglacial period

Dr. Katy Pol (British Antarctic Survey).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

The Thorpe family, their arms and Cambridge University

Robert Kinsey.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Bytham river story - key evidence for understanding pre-glacial environmental change and early human occupance in Britain

Prof. James Rose (Dept. of Geography, Royal Holloway U. of London).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Testing the Bytham river hypothesis

Prof. Philip Gibbard (Dept. of Geography, U. of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Heraldry and ceremonial in Holy Roman Empire

Berthold Kress.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary loess records from northern China and central Asia: implications for variations in monsoon and westerly circulation

Prof. Liping Zhou (Peking University, China).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Heraldry in Ely Cathedral

Chloe Cockerill.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 20:45-22:00

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Heraldry walking tour

David Broomfield.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Saturday 26 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modern human adaptations to Pleistocene rainforest: the archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo

Prof. Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, U. of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Scott Polar Research Institute

Naomi Boneham.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The release of d14 C and d18 O-depleted water from the Arctic Ocean upon glacial termination

Dr. David Thornalley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 10 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New estimates of tropical ice age temperature

Dr Anna-Lena Grauel (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 30 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using nitrogen isotopes to constrain the age of the air extracted from antarctic ice cores

Please note change of speaker

Dr Emilie Capron (BAS).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 23 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Electronic recording of genealogical data

Peter Walker.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Precipitation changes in the Amazon Basin during the last 240 ka

Dr Aline Govin (MARUM, Bremen).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 09 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Oral history

Juliana Vandegrift.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Decoupled ocean circulation and carbon cycling during glaciations: Implications for the dynamics of glacial cycles

Dr David Wilson (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 26 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

London livery companies

Paul Jagger.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 20:45-22:00

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Clare College Heraldry

David Broomfield.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Carbon isotopes and glacial-interglacial CO2: the curious case of Marine Isotope Stage 12

Dr Natalia Vazquez-Riveiros (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 18 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Moravian Gate project: new insights into the human food quest in Stage 3 Central Europe

Prof. Martin Jones (Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 11 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

Heraldic Bookplates

John Titford.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 20:45-22:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A bipolar seesaw in Atlantic deep-water ventilation: Wally was right

Dr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 04 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Quaternary palaeoclimate changes from the margins of the Indian Thar Desert

Prof. Hema Achyuthan (Anna University, Chennai).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 27 April 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Lessons from the High Arctic: new results from late Quaternary studies in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Genetic diversity, global phylogeography and seasonality of the planktonic foraminifera G. bulloides: implication for palaeoproxies

Kate Darling (University of Edinburgh).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 20 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume from the Mid Pleistocene Climate Transition

Professor Harry Elderfield (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 04 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation

Dr Ian Bailey (School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Orbital forcing of Late Pleistocene climate variability - From the global monsoon to glacial terminations

Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains: new results from North Africa and the Balkans

Dr Phillip Hughes, The University of Manchester.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 18 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University

Richard West (Professor emeritus, Cambridge University, Clare College).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 11 June 2010, 17:00-18:30