Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Just Ice For All: Global Ice-Thickness Inversions and Committed Ice Loss to 2050

Dr. Samuel Cook, Friedrich-Alexander-University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Rise and fall of Bronze Age Mediterranean societies: a new geoarchaeological and chronostratigraphic sequence of Nuragic Sardinia

Gian Battista Marras (British School at Rome).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

West Antarctic Ice Sheet readvance in the Holocene

Dr. Jonathan Kingslake, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Breaking the Ice: Abrupt climate change and deglaciation

Ruza Ivanovic (University of Leeds).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers in the Present and Future Climates

Dr. Michelle Maclennan, British Antarctic Survey.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing levels of volcanism in the late Pleistocene

Jack Longman (Northumbria University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The Greenland Inland Ice Sheet and its watery margins: sediments and freshwater fluxes

Prof. Nanna Karlsson, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

RSE Seminars

Managing complexity of Weather and Climate Code with diversity of skills and workflows

Iva Kavcic - UK Met Office.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate-ice sheet interactions in the long-term past and their importance for the long-term future

Marie-Luise Kapsch (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Large herbivore ecology in Greenland - the short(est) path (ever) to bring research evidence into policy

Dr Mathilde Le Moullec, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Polar bear's range dynamics in the Holocene

Prof. Heikki Seppa (University of Helsinki).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Meltwater feedbacks on ice-sheet dynamics

Professor Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

RSE Seminars

Moving mesh methods in Firedrake

Joe Wallwork - ICCS & RCS, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Climate Repair

Good COP, bad COP: first reflections on COP29

Please register here: http://bit.ly/3B3qADv

Hugh Hunt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, James Dyson Seminar Room.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Winter Symposium

Speaker to be confirmed.

DAMTP, Mathematics.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 09:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Linking individual ecological dynamics to the Greening of the Arctic: remote sensing as hero, villain, and redeemer

Dr Jeff Kerby, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum

Dr. Jack Wharton (University College London).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Confined strain response to Greenland lake drainages sets inland hydro-fracture bound

Dr Laura Stevens, University of Oxford.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Do look back – what can the palaeo record tell us about Antarctica’s Doomsday glacier(s)?

This talk is run in association with the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS).

Dr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science

Dr Devon Dunmire, KU Leven, Belgium.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science

Dr. Devon Dunmire - KU Leuven, Belgium.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Why was the Arctic sea ice free 127 000 years ago?

Dr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Palaeoecological Insights into the Causes and Consequences of Mid-Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in Asia and Australia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Simon Haberle, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

(CANCELLED) Extreme glacial implies discontinuity of early human occupation of Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Vasiliki Margari, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Georgina Falster, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Adventures in Antarctica: Travelogue ad Fieldwork from Thwaites Glacier

Mark Hehlen, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Alistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Inuit pastoralism in South Greenland: Navigating the spectrum from wild to domestic herds in an era of rapid Arctic change

Professor Bruce C. Forbes, Research Professor at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland .

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The flow pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet reconstructed from high-resolution mapping of subglacial bedforms.

Frances Butcher, University of Sheffield .

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Saija Saarni, University of Turku.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Abi Stone, University of Manchester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Gina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Aidan Starr, Department of Geography.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Kevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Mark Sier, CENIEH.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Lauren Davies, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Chris Day, University of Oxford.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Amy McGuire, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Progress towards understanding the glacier debris cover anomaly in High Mountain Asia

Dr Evan Miles, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:15-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue

Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may be unable to access the venue

Martin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records

Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 5

Prof Qiang Fu.

MR4 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 4

Prof Qiang Fu.

MR4 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 3

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR4 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 2

Prof Qiang Fu.

MR4 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Fieldwork event

Multiple speakers.

Wolfson Building, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ .

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 1

Prof Qiang Fu.

MR4 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Evaluating the skill of seasonal forecasts of sea ice in the Southern Ocean: insights from the SIPN South project 2017-2022

François Massonnet, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94619857237; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Interaction between Planetary Wave and Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere

Professor Hye-Yeong Chun, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University.

British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Symposium

Speaker to be confirmed.

DAMTP, Mathematics.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Machine learning workshop

Speaker to be confirmed.

British Antarctic Survey.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Ice Dynamics and Paleoclimate Seminar Series

Air, Ice, and Water: Combining Models and Observations to Understand Antarctic Ice Sheet-Climate Interactions

Jan Lenaerts, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Online (contact organiser for Zoom link).

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 15:30-16:30

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

James Rae, University of St. Andrews.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

Speaker to be confirmed.

British Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The IPCC AR6 Climate Science Report: a panel discussion hosted by CCfCS & Cambridge Zero

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rapid and slow responses of the climate system to ocean diapycnal turbulent mixing

Ali Mashayekhi (Imperial College London).

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 April 2021, 11:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS event on Climate, economics and policy

Hector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:30

Earth2Earth

How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation?

Chen Zhu ( Indiana University).

https://zoom.us/j/99244613406.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Stress coupling between Greenland supraglacial lakes during rapid drainage

Laura Stevens, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

zoom webinar - email jrt51@cam.ac.uk or jn271@cam.ac.uk for link.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Right ozone, wrong reasons

Mat Evans - University of York.

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

State and fate of Antarctica's gatekeepers: ice shelf instability from a remote sensing and modelling perspective

Stef Lhemitte (TU Deflt).

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Interannual variability in Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water formation regions

Rachael Sanders (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Impact of Covid19 on Climate

James Weber, Sanna Markkanen, Paul Young.

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:30-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosol Research at ECMWF

Dr. Angela Benedetti, ECMWF.

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81480247722?pwd=Q0cvSGVCSzJYb0hlVUUreXJpb1BoUT09.

Monday 16 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic

John Turner.

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather

Kristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

Alison Ming (University of Cambridge).

Zoom and Gather.town.

Friday 16 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Insights from mapping Greenland’s supraglacial lakes at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Dr. James Lea, University of Liverpool.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The influence of Arctic Fog on Glaciers

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Dr. Hester Jiskoot, Associate Professor of Physical Geography & Glaciology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Integrating northern and southern hemisphere stalagmites: what they can tell us about tropical climate dynamics and civilization collapse at the 4.2 kyr event

Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin).

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Overview of the RESPONDER project

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

This talk is by the Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography Seminar Series - NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME, DATE & VENUE

Christine Batchelor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Where does stuff go?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Unileaver Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions

Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles (University of Cambridge/BAS).

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s

Dr. Tobias Bolch, University of St. Andrews.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Climate Crisis Game

Speaker to be confirmed.

Central core, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-16:50

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Subglacial landscapes: Tunnel valleys in the central and northern North Sea

Dr. Margaret Stewart, Senior Scientist - Marine and Petroleum Geology, British Geological Survey..

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Student Town hall meeting joint with Cambridge Zero.

Emily Shuckburgh and Alison Ming.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:15

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evading problems of IRD in palaeocurrent estimation: Glacial to Recent changes in flows around Greenland

Nick McCave, University of Cambridge.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Panel discussion on IPCC special reports

Panel.

British Antarctic Survey Conference Room.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Beyond mean climate change: Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.

Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

Note unusual time and venue

Julian Dowdeswell, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Does climate change really cause collapse? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects

Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Symposium on Polar Tropical Teleconnections

Lesley Gray (University of Oxford), Matt Collins (University of Exeter), Liz Thomas (British Antarctic Survey), Andrew Turner (University of Reading).

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event!

Speaker to be confirmed.

David Attenborough Building.

Sunday 06 October 2019, 14:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Bring-a-plot event

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Integrating Photogrammetry and Computer Vision into the study of Glacier Change

Dr Penny How, University of York.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Methane

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

TBC

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Panel discussion on IPCC 1.5 deg C special report

Speaker to be confirmed.

British Antarctic Survey Conference Room.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

Prof. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A comprehensive climate history of the last 800,000 years and its application to ecological modelling

Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Change and Technology

Myles Allen, Erwin Reisner, Corinne Le Quéré, Jerome Neufeld .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:30-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

Speaker to be confirmed.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

Prof. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

High Impact Climate Events - Symposium

Multiple speakers.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits

Denis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI.

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

A New Mode of Decadal Variability in the Pacific Ventilated Thermocline and its Influence on Global Warming

Daniel P. Schrag, Harvard University.

Harker Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Data Visualisation

Prof. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Recent developments and debates in East Asian monsoon palaeoclimatology

Barbara Maher, Lancaster University.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Walter Immerzeel, University of Utrecht.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Concentrated, “pulsed” axial glacier flow: structural glaciological evidence from Kvíárjökull in SE Iceland

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh.

Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles

Normal time and place

Andrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Modelling seasonal acceleration of land terminating sectors of the Greenland Ice Sheet margin

Conrad Koziol, University of Edinburgh.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing deep ocean circulation pathway and strength using sediment dispersion

Alex Piotrowski (Dept of Earth Science).

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

On the role of the Southern Ocean in modulating (past) climate variability

Please note different time/venue

Samuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Surface meltwater on the polar ice sheets under a changing climate

Amber Leeson, University of Lancaster.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing the extent, timing and palaeoclimatic significance of Quaternary glaciations in the Mediterranean region

Please note different venue

Phil Hughes, University of Manchester.

Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North Atlantic variability and its link to European climate and history over the last 3000 years

Quaternary Discussion Group seminar

Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Geophysical observations on Larsen C Ice Shelf: characterising stability after Iceberg A68

Dr Adam Booth.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climatic controls on peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Remote sensing of melt and fracture on Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica

Dr Suzanne Bevan.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

MIS 7, The "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record

Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Welcome Event 2017

several speakers -- see abstract.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:30-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Volcanic eruptions, climate and humans: How lessons from the past can help us to prepare for the future

Michael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

What lies beneath: a radio-glaciological study of Greenland.

Mr Michael Cooper.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The timing of cirque glaciation in western North America revisited: No Neoglacial in the U.S. Cordillera?

Shaun Marcott, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Bumps and Ramps in the Glacial CO2 Record

Professor Wally Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science, Atmospheres and Life: From the Earth and Beyond

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 10:30-16:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How ice sheets collapse: a lesson from the Laurentide Ice Sheet

Chris Stokes, Durham University.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Controls on the rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes

Dr. Jerome A. Neufeld, Department of Earth Sciences & DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Causes of ice-age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, insights from a new boron isotope CO2 record

Thomas Chalk, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Submarine canyons in polar and temperate margins: shaping mechanisms and long-term evolution

Dr. David Amblas, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

MIS 7, the "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record

Francis Wenban-Smith, Archaeology, University of Southampton.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Warm periods of the past

See abstract for programme.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modelling the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: How sensitive are past climates?

Paul Valdes, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes

Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS poster session

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Earth sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The long road to Paris - how the climate change agreement was made

David Warrilow OBE.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

From Cambridge to Cuzco and back again: 4000 years of environmental history from the heart of the Inca Empire

Mick Frogley and Alex Chepstow-Lusty, University of Sussex.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ice shelf-ocean interactions: self-organisation and instability

Daniel Goldberg (University of Edinburgh).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate science research in Cambridge

See abstract for programme.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Archaeological insights into the 8.2 ka event

Lucy Farr, University of Cambridge.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Greenland Ice Sheet motion, ice-ocean interactions, and other ambitions to understand the cryosphere

NOTE!!! UNUSUAL DAY (TUE) AND TIME (1-2 pm)

Twila Moon (University of Bristol).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The separation of Britain from mainland Europe in the late Quaternary

Jenny Collier, Imperial College London.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Linking ice-cliff and rock-slope failures

Antonio Abellan.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Annual Welcome Meeting

See abstract for programme.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Silicon cycling and opal production in the Atlantic: lessons from the last deglaciation

Kate Hendry, University of Bristol.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

A journey into Erebus volcano, Antarctica

Nial Peters.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Symposium: Welcome to the Anthropocene? Metrics of a climate changed

See abstract for programme details.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 14:00-18:00

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics

Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

High-resolution modelling of polar climates using the regional climate model RACMO2.3

NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND ROOM

Brice Noël (Utrecht University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North Atlantic annually resolved temperatures for the last millennium: the Arctica islandica record.

James Scourse (Bangor University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Modelling ice-ocean interaction at Greenland’s tidewater glaciers

Donald Slater (University of Edinburgh).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Ice sheet, atmosphere, and ocean dynamics in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica – past reconstruction and future course.

Michael Weber (Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Orbital wobbles, ice sheets, CO2, and the deep sea: a model-informed perspective on the ocean’s role in Quaternary climate.

Eric Galbraith (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain),.

Cripps Meeting Room 5, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

Sebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using the Land-Ocean Transition to understand coastal landscapes

Mark Bateman (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21)

Open to all, but space is limited so please register in advance

Emily Shuckburgh, Prof. John Pyle, Sir David King, Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Landscape Retreat and 'Jumping': Late Prehistoric Fenland Environmental Adaption/Response

Christopher Evans (Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: water vapour and clouds in the climate system

Free Registration

Louise Sime, Chris Holloway, Constantino Listowski, Tamsin O'Connell, Jan Zika, Peter Haynes.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Engaging stakeholders about the science of climate change

Free Registration

Eric Wolff, Ailsa Benton, John Pyle, Neil Harris, Ian Ellison, David Webb, Linda Capper, Athena Dinar.

Scott Polar Research Institute.

Monday 19 October 2015, 14:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The last 1000 years in East Antarctica: insights from a new temperature proxy.

Anais Orsi, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette (France).

Cripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Welcome Event

Representatives from each CCfCS department/institute .

Scott Polar Research Institute.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 15:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stalagmites as excellent recorders of major volcanic eruptions

Prof Dr. Dominik Fleitmann (University of Reading).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ice cores: development of time scales and some applications

Mai Winstrup (University of Wahington).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation

Dr. Sambuddha Misra (Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Evidence for, and implications of, a grounded ice sheet in the Central North Sea during the Pleistocene

Brice Rea (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The first CCfCS student symposium

Registration by May 1st required

Jenny Turton.

Scott Polar Research Institute.

Friday 08 May 2015, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The Tropical Tropopause Layer

Stephan Borrmann (Mainz), Neil Harris (Cambridge), Alison Ming (Cambridge) and Amanda Maycock (Cambridge).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 14:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Marine terminating glaciers within Elmer/Ice: model and applications

NOTE: THIS TALK IS ON A THURSDAY

Olivier Gagliardini (Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l’environnement).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Earth’s past, present, and future climate

Prof Eric Wolff (Earth Sciences), Dr Emily Shuckburgh (BAS), Dr Amanda Maycock (Chemistry).

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS poster session

CCfCS Members from across Cambridge.

Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2015, 13:30-15:00

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Arctic Change meeting

Julienne Stroeve, Ed Hawkins, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Phil Wookey, Duncan Depledge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Seismic survey considerations in glaciology

Coen Hodstede (Alfred Wegener Institute).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The last ten years of glacier observation in the Karakoram

Christoph Mayer (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

El Niño and El Padre: a deep equatorial Pacific thermocline during the Pliocene warm period

Dr. Heather Ford (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) .

Cripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Controls on the stability of Greenland’s tidewater glaciers: the impact of runoff on fjord circulation and termini melt rates

Tom Cowton (University of Sheffield).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The role of the ocean and the atmosphere in the expression of D-O and AIM events in Antarctica: new evidence from the WAIS Divide Ice Core

Prof Eric J. Steig, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington (US).

Cripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 15 January 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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Assessing the vulnerability of the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctic Ice Sheet to future changes

Martin Siegert (Imperial College).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The North American deglaciation: linking rapid climate change, ice sheet retreat and sea level rises

Dr Lauren Gregoire (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 14 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Frequency and triggers of huge underwater landslides - and their relationship to climate change and sediment delivery from ice streams

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 1-2 PM

Peter Talling (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Discussion Meeting

Professor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Dr David Reiner, Professor David MacKay.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

Monday 03 November 2014, 14:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Supraglacial lake drainage and ice flow acceleration in Greenland

Sam Doyle (University of Aberystwyth).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Welcome Event

See abstract for speaker lineup.

BMS Lecture Theatre and foyer, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis

Prof Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The Importance to Solar-Terrestrial Physics of Amundsen’s and Scott’s Conjugate Observations of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Alv Egeland (Department of Physics, University of Oslo).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Fracking the fjords: Earthquakes and glacial erosion, with some additional thoughts about stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

People should be aware that 7th July is Tour de France day, but we hope things will have become accessible by 5.00 pm.

Professor Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geoscience, Penn State University, USA.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 07 July 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Modelling Workshop

Registration is required

Model users and developers across Cambridge.

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Methane in the Earth System Symposium

John Burrows, Nic Gedney, Euan Nisbet, Matt Rigby, Philip Sargent .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 14:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The martian Cryosphere: there’s more ice than we thought!

Susan Conway.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn Isbrae's fast flow

Dr Mauro Werder, University of Bristol.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Patterned ground stories: wars, disasters and ice sheets

Hamish Pritchard (British Antarctic Survey).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Poster Session

Students/Post-Docs from within CCfCS.

BMS Lecture Theatre and foyer, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 15:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Are rapid ice losses in Greenland caused by atmosphere or ocean?

Poul Christoffersen (Scott Polar Research Insitute).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The glaciation of the Antarctic Peninsula: a journey through time

Neil Glasser (Aberystwyth University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Dark Snow in Greenland

Jason Box (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Are Karakoram glacier surges linked with climate?

Duncan Quincey (University of Leeds).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ice sheets, glaciers and sea-level rise: a perspective from the 5th Assessment Report by the IPCC

Note unusual time (THURSDAY)

David G. Vaughan (British Antarctic Survey).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic elevation change from satellite radar altimetry

Malcolm McMillan (University of Leeds).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions

Note unusual time

Prof. Howard J. Spero (University of California).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 16:00-18:00

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Predicting subglacial lake locations and meltwater drainage pathways in Antarctica, Greenland and North America

Stephen J. Livingstone (University of Sheffield).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: what have we learned, and where do we go next?

Prof Mat Collins, Prof Gabi Hegerl, Prof Ted Shepherd, Prof David Vaughan.

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The ‘fingerprint’ left by icebergs that plough through sediment: Glacial Lake Agassiz, Manitoba, Canada

Dr Lorna Linch, University of Brighton.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Remote sensing of Greenland tidewater glaciers

Dr Suzanne Bevan, Swansea University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Glacier outburst floods: spatial and temporal evolution

Dr Jonathan Carrivick, Leeds University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Camilla Andresen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Neil Ross, Newcastle University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades / Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature

Professors Shaun Lovejoy and Murry Salby.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 April 2013, 14:00-16:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Lent Symposium: Time scales in Climate Science.

Prof. David Beerling, Dr. Pierre Dutrieux, Dr. Dan Lunt.

Scott Polar Research Institute.

Friday 15 March 2013, 14:20-17:00

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Eero Rinne, Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Kathryn Rose, British Antarctic Survey.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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, University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Glacial landsystems: modern polar and alpine analogues for Quaternary palaeoglaciology

Professor David Evans, Durham University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

N.B. re-scheduled from earlier date

Dr Stewart Jamieson, Durham University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The release of Δ14C and δ18O-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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Poster session

Students/Post-Docs from within CCfCS.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

What's going on in Greenland?

N.B. Change of date

Dr Alun Hubbard, Aberystwyth University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Note: not usual day

Dr Maryline Vautravers, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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 Centre for Climate Science

Climate Challenges

Prof. Rowan Suttion, University of Reading. Prof. Seymour Laxon, University College London. Dr Phillip Goodwin, University of Cambridge. Prof. David Fowler, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology..

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Christine Batchelor, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Robert Falcon Scott: the Tasmanian links and an appreciation.

Note unusual day

Professor Pat Quilty, University of Tasmania.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Jemma Wadham, University of Bristol.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Understanding climate model biases in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude variability.

NOTE - unusual time and venue

Dr Isla Simpson, Department of Physics, University of Toronto.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Andy Smith, British Antarctic Survey.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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 Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Easter Term Young Scientist Afternoon

Yama Dixit, Emilie Capron, Zadie Stock, Jo Johnson, Steve Fuller, Scott Hosking.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:20-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Glaciers on Mars

Professor Bryn Hubbard, Aberystwyth University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Sub ice volcanism, ice sheets and global change

Prof John Smellie, University of Leicester.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

Symposium: “Joining up the atmos-spheres” organised by BAS and CCfCS

Richard Horne, Hua Lu, Howard Roscoe, Tom Bracegirdle and John Pyle.

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Monday 02 April 2012, 14:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Challenges in modeling future sea level rise from melting glaciers

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Pleistocene and Holocene in Murchisonforden area, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Exploring radar data of ice sheets by means of numerical modelling

Dr Gwendolyn Leysinger-Vieli, University of Durham.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Revealing the Antarctic continent with recent aerogeophysical exploration

Dr Fausto Ferraccioli, British Antarctic Survey.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Do's and Don'ts in Chemistry-Climate Modelling

Dr Peter Braesicke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts

Dr Rob Bingham, University of Aberdeen.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science Symposium II

Prof Corinne Le Quéré, Prof Peter Cox and others.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 14:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Densification in the Greenland dry snow zone - implications for altimetry

Prof Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar Research Insitute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Post Grad/Post Doc Poster Afternoon

Around 25 post-grads and post-docs from CCfCS.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Kelly Hogan, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Different types of El Niño and impact on Eurasian Climate

Prof Hans Graf, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The timing and rate of deglaciation along the north Svalbard margin

Dr Bill Austin, University of St Andrews.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ice-ocean interactions in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord

Dr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Southern Ocean processes and circulation, and impacts on carbon drawdown

Jean-Baptiste Sallee, British Antarctic Survey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:15-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Role of the Tropical Pacific in Millennial-Scale Climate Events

Dr Aleksey Sadekov (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Friday 02 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Brine Fluxes from Sea Ice

Prof. Grae Worster, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Polar ozone loss

Dr Neil Harris, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

A geological perspective on climate change: forcings, feedbacks and tipping points.

Dr Luke Skinner, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Science.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Microbial Communities in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Traces of the Baltic Ice Lake drainage in the northern Baltic Sea and southern Finland

Outi Hyttinen (Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FInland).

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The Recent Increase of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

Prof. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Marion Bougamont, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions around Greenland

(Please note unusual location)

Dr Poul Christoffersen, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science Symposium

(Note unusual time and location)

Dr Andrew Friend, University of Cambridge, Prof. Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey and Prof. Julia Slingo, Met. Office..

Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court (off Queens Road), Clare College..

Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Dr Ed King, British Antarctic Survey.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Carbon sequestration in forests.

Dr David Coomes.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:15-17:30

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Organic aerosols in the atmosphere: composition and reactivity.

Dr Markus Kalberer, Univserity of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Why do glaciers fall apart?

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Change -- A summary of latest IPCC results

Prof John Pyle, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:15-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A special set of QDG talks

Dr Axel TImmermann (SOEST, University of Hawai'i, USA); Dr Jess Adkins (CALTECH, USA).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 31 May 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)

Pleistocene Fleuve Manche palaeoriver discharges : Response to glacial oscillations and climate changes

Dr Samuel Toucanne (IFREMER, France).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic subglacial hydrology and topography

Anne Le Brocq (University of Exeter).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Oceanography in Arctic fjords

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Finlo Cottier (Scottish Association for Marine Science).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Quantifying the predictive uncertainty of numerical mass balance models

Cameron Rye (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

Adrian Jenkins (British Antarctic Survey).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture

Note unusual time (7 PM)

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ice Stream Tides

Note unusual time (MONDAY)

Hilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Northernmost Antarctic Peninsula glacial and climate changes

Daniel Nývlt (Czech Geological Survey).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Note unusual time: this seminar is on a Thursday

Lisle A. Rose.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Bernd Kulessa (Swansea University).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Anthony Seale (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Environmental Protection in the Arctic Ocean

Paul Berkman (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Andrew Sole (University of Aberdeen).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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.

Christopher Talbot (Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Neogene terrestrial environment of Antarctica

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

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Linking North and South Atlantic deep water circulation using Nd isotopes

Alex Piotrowski (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Marine Ice in Larsen Ice Shelf

Note: unusual venue

Paul Holland (British Antarctic Survey).

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Where Have All the Icebergs Gone?

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

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Mechanisms of englacial conduit formation and their implications for subglacial recharge

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

John Woodward, Northumbria University.

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Erebus volcano, Antarctica: eruption dynamics and atmospheric impacts

Clive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Glacial Chronologies Spanning the Past 450 ka Around the Margins of the Southern North Sea and implications for the age of the Strait of Dover

Canceled

Steven Pawley (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The carbon cycle during the Pleistocene

Peter Koehler (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Friday 30 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration "Out of Africa" of early modern humans 120,000 years ago.

Anne Osborne (Bristol University).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Friday 23 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Robert Bingham (British Antarctic Survey).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

TBA

Adrian Luckman (Swansea University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic subglacial hydrology

Anne Le Brocq (University of Durham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic Engineering

Murray Mitchell (OPUS Engineering - New Zealand).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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