Searching the Core-Mantle Boundary for the roots of plumes

James Atkins (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 02 December 2024, 18:00-19:00

The Hunt for Invisible Miners: Bioprospecting for Sustainable Mineral Management in Arsenic Rich Environments.

Neda Tomlinson - Natural History Muesum.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 25 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Living with Volcanoes

Professor David Pyle - University of Oxford.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 18 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

A Short History of Plate Tectonics

Dr Robert Seidel - Sedgwick Museum.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 11 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Linking Geology and Art in the field - insights from mountains and fold-thrust structures

Phoebe Sleath - University of Aberdeen.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 04 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Phanerozoic seawater chemistry: Using Monte Carlo to to quantify calcium, magnesium and sulfate concentrations

Dr Ross Whiteford - Royal Holloway.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 21 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Forams! Time, evolution, climate

Professor Paul Pearson - UCL.

Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

What has Earth's magnetic field ever done for us? The role of the geodynamo in creating a habitable planet (Sedgwick Club Conference)

Dr Claire Nichols - University of Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 16:30-17:00

A journey in (geo)science communication (Sedgwick Club Conference)

Professor Chris Jackson - Jacobs.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 15:45-16:15

Journey to the centre of the earthquake (Sedgwick Club Conference)

Professor Daniel Faulkner - University of Liverpool.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 14:45-15:15

Towards developing an Indian Ocean Dipole Watch System for Southeast Asia (Sedgwick Club Conference)

Dr Shipra Jain - University College London.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 14:00-14:30

Destruction and regrowth of lithospheric mantle beneath large igneous provinces (Sedgwick Club Conference)

Simon Stephenson - University of Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 11:30-12:00

Sedgwick Club Conference 2024

N/A.

Common Room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 11:00-16:00

Tracing horizons of habitability on Venus

Sean Jordan - Institute of Astronomy.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Differences in Fluvial Geomorphology between Earth and Mars

Lisanne Braat - European Space Agency.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Geoarchaeological evidence for climate change in Ancient Egypt

Judith Bunbury - Department of Earth Sciences.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:10-19:10

Disasters by design

In collaboration with the Stokes Society - Room Change, Unconventional Time

Ekbal Hussain - British Geological Survey.

Nihon Room, Foundess Court, Pembroke College.

Monday 19 February 2024, 21:00-22:00

Understanding the circumstances surrounding Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions in Australia

Matthew Adeleye - Department of Geography.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Exploring the seafloor: the rock record of hydrothermal fluid circulation

Jessica Warren - University of Delaware.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Microbial Metabolic Innovation: A Constraint On The Early Animal Fossil Record?

Phil Vixseboxse - University of Cambridge.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Exploring Mars: 4000 Sols with the Curiosity Rover

This talks is in collaboration with CUAS

Professor John Bridges - University of Leicester.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 19:30-20:30

Earth Systems Palaeobiology: using climate models to better understand the habitats of marine animals through geologic time

Richard Stockey - University of Southampton.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

African roots of the dinosaur family tree

Paul Barrett - Natural History Museum.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Shedding the light on shear zone development, evolution and rheology: Case studies and remaining questions

Sandra Piazolo - University of Leeds.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Exploring Martian Geology for Signs for the Potential for Life

Benjamin Tutolo - University of Calgary.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN THE BALLACHULISH AREA, SW HIGHLANDS, SCOTLAND: A NEW LOOK AT A FAMOUS OLD DEBATE

Dave Pattison - University of Calgary.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:30-01:30

Experiences and sustainability in mining

Katy Relph - Centamin.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 30 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Ecosystem Relocation on Snowball Earth: polar-alpine ancestry of the modern surface biosphere

Paul Hoffman - University of Victoria (BC) and Harvard University.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

What can lab-generated earthquakes tell us about natural earthquakes?

Louisa Brotherson, University of Liverpool.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Volcanoes where the Earth rips apart: basaltic processes in the Ethiopian Rift

Dr Kevin Wong, University of Bologna.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 06 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Unravelling geochemical zoning in subduction zone garnet: ubiquitous patterns = ubiquitous process?

Dr Freya George, University of Bristol.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

A Career in Hydrogeology

Victoria Price, Hydrogeologist at Mott MacDonald.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

When did humans start to influence rivers? A contribution to the Anthropocene debate

Professor Martin Gibling, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Computational fluid dynamics as a tool for testing functional and ecological hypotheses in fossil taxa

Dr Imran Rahman, Natural History Museum.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Ancient volcanic activity on the Moon: input from the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission

Prof. Lionel Wilson, Lancaster University.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences (can join via zoom; email bb614@cam.ac.uk for link).

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Mapping college geology; history of building stone use in Cambridge

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences Department of the University of Cambridge.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

The Origin of the Ornithischian Bauplan

Professor David Norman, University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:00

Rocky planet atmospheres in the solar system and beyond

Dr Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:00

Building a model from scratch: Gravity, the earth’s figure, and the problems of measurement in geoscience, 1680-1924

Miguel Ohnesorge, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 14 March 2022, 18:00-19:00

What controls sediment bypass in submarine channels?: Insights from turbidity current modelling applied to the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

Adriana Crisostomo-Figueroa, University of Leeds.

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

Monday 07 March 2022, 18:00-19:00

Seismology on Mars: how the InSight mission is revealing the internal structure of the red planet

Dr Anna Horleston, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 28 February 2022, 18:00-19:00

How to Choose a Career in Tackling Climate Change

Yujia Du.

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

Monday 21 February 2022, 18:00-19:00

Impact Cratering: From Microstructure to Mass Extinction

Dr Auriol Rae, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 14 February 2022, 18:00-19:00

Can a Record of Ocean Chemistry be Preserved in the Oceanic Crust?

Dr Sasha Turchyn, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 07 February 2022, 18:00-19:00

(Not) Under the Sea: how animal life first moved onto land

Dr Anthony Shillito, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 31 January 2022, 18:00-19:00

How the US government addresses international geological hazards and risk

Gari Mayberry, USGS.

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

Monday 24 January 2022, 18:00-19:00

How Do Rocks React to Outbursts from the Sun?

Dr Juliane Huebert, British Geological Survey.

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

Monday 29 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Mud Forensics - Assessing Geological Risks

Professor Andy Cundy, University of Southampton.

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

Monday 22 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Winchcombe: The First UK Meteorite in 30 Years

Dr Natasha Stephen, Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre.

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

Monday 15 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Tracking the Earth's Mantle Through Space and Time

Dr Tiffany Barry, University of Leicester.

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

Monday 08 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

The Energy Transition and the Decarbonisation of Heat

Professor Andy Woods.

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

Monday 01 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Geophysics in Antarctica

Dr Alex Brisbourne, British Antarctic Survey.

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

Monday 25 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

The Feeding Ecology of Mesozoic Mammals: A Biomechanical Approach

Dr Melisa Morales-Garcia, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 18 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Where Do We Come From? In Search of Human Origins

Dr Amelie Beaudet, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Surfing Cambrian shorelines: Early land-going animals and slime

Dr James Hagadorn - Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

The talk will be held on Gathertown as part of the Sedgwick Club's annual conference. Please contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Friday 26 March 2021, 14:35-15:10

When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history

Professor Dame Jane Francis - British Antarctic Survey.

The talk will be held on Gathertown as part of the Sedgwick Club's annual conference. Please contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Friday 26 March 2021, 14:00-14:35

Continental reconstructions using palaeomagnetism, Title TBC

Professor Ricardo Trindade - University of Sao Paulo .

The talk will be held on Gathertown as part of the Sedgwick Club's annual conference. Please contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Friday 26 March 2021, 12:05-12:40

Testing of an amalgamated sill hypothesis for the origin of magic-ultramafic layered intrusions

Dr Rais Lapytov - University of the Witwatersrand.

The talk will be held on Gathertown as part of the Sedgwick Club's annual conference. Please contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Friday 26 March 2021, 11:30-12:05

Volcanic crystals as archives of pre-eruptive processes

Dr Teresa Ubide - University of Queensland.

The talk will be held on Gathertown as part of the Sedgwick Club's annual conference. Please contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Friday 26 March 2021, 10:35-11:10

GNSS for monitoring the earth system: earthquake and volcano deformation, ionospheric tsunami, tropospheric water vapour, sea-level rise, and so much more!

Professor Emma Hill - Earth Observatory of Singapore.

The talk will be held on Gathertown as part of the Sedgwick Club's annual conference. Please contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Friday 26 March 2021, 10:00-10:35

Pseudofossils and the Search for Life on Mars

Dr Sean McMahon - University of Edinburgh.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

The birth, death and reincarnation of Snowball Earth

Professor Ian Fairchild.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 08 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

The Energy Transition in industry and its impact on earth science careers

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Title TBC

Dr Sean McMahon, University of Edinburgh.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Title TBC

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Predictive and invertible models of sediment geochemistry from catchment to continental scales

Alex Lipp, Imperial College London .

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Responsible sourcing of metals – geologists help get it right from the start!

Professor Frances Wall - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 08 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Improving EDI in academic and field settings

Anya Lawrence, University of Birmingham; Ben Fernando, University of Oxford.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Geodynamic of rifted margins: pre-rift inheritance and post-rift movements

Dr Mohamed Gouiza - University of Leeds.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 25 January 2021, 17:00-18:00

The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

Dr Susannah Maidment - Natural History Museum.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 30 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Direct Dating of Hydrothermal Cu-Au Systems Using Calcite U-Pb Dating

Dr Catherine Mottram - University of Portsmouth.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 23 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Titan's Atmosphere in the Cassini Era and Beyond

Dr Melody Sylvestre - University of Bristol.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 16 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Exploration Geology, and Looking for Lithium in the UK

Lucy Crane - Cornish Lithium.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 09 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Towards an inclusive and global Earth science: unravelling the legacies of empire

Dr Liz Hide - Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 26 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction

Professor Philip Gibbard - Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 19 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Journey to the Centre of the earthquake: how does damage affect earthquake source properties?

Louisa Brotherson - University of Liverpool.

The talk will be held virtually over zoom. The link will be circulated to members via email, while non-members may contact jac293@cam.ac.uk for details.

Monday 12 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Lost Meteorites of Antarctica

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

Dr Jane MacArthur, Manchester.

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

Friday 13 March 2020, 17:20-18:00

The evolution of sea floor ecology in the Cenozoic of Antarctica

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

Dr Rowan Whittle - British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

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

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:25-17:00

How does the Earth recover from extreme climate perturbations?

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL.

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

Friday 13 March 2020, 14:40-15:15

Erebus

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

Professor Clive Oppenheimer, University of Cambridge.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Friday 13 March 2020, 14:00-14:35

Conservation Palaeobiology: utilising the fossil record to address the current biodiversity crisis

Dr. Alex Liu (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Highs and lows of the South Atlantic

Dr Lucia Perez Diaz, University of Oxford.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 02 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Rivers in the Rock Record: From Utah to Wales

Dr Catherine Russell, University of Leicester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

GfGD-Sedgwick Talk

Sanna Markkanen (CISL) and Allie Mitchell (Wardell Armstrong).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 17 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): early animals under the microscope

Dr Tom Harvey, University of Leicester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Geology, resources and sovereignty: the ongoing effort to map Arctic Canada

Professor Marc St-Onge, Geological Survey of Canada and University of Oxford.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 03 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Birds made of stone

Dr Daniel Field.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

The Fifth Element: Boron recycling in the Iceland mantle plume

Dr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 20 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

The adventures of the Curiosity rover in Gale crater: exploring Mars geology by robot

Professor Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College, London).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 02 December 2019, 18:00-19:00

Exploring the Hydrothermal Evolution of Ocean Crust using Scientific Ocean Drilling

Dr Rosalind Coggon (University of Southampton).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Oil and water don't mix: a view inside the scientific response to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Professor David Valentine (UCSB).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 18 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Intra-slab seismicity: an under-appreciated source of seismic hazard

Dr Timothy Craig (University of Leeds).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Quantifying fault slip over multiple earthquake cycles: the past is the key to the present

Dr Laura Gregory (University of Leeds).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 04 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

I know what you did last summer...

Part II Students.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Magmatism and volcanism on Io: Understanding the interiors of lava-worlds

Dan Spencer (University of Oxford).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 21 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Hydrogeology: why is it important?

Victoria Price (Alumna).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Sink or Stall: Subduction Transition Zone Dynamics

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

Dr Saskia Goes - Imperial College London.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 15 March 2019, 17:15-17:45

Motion in the fossil record: Reconstructing dinosaur limb kinematics from fossil footprints

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

Dr Peter Falkingham - Liverpool John Moores University.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 15 March 2019, 16:45-17:15

Building resilience through drone-based strategies for volcano monitoring

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

Dr Emma Liu - University of Cambridge.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 15 March 2019, 15:30-16:00

Earthquakes of the Silk Road

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

Dr Richard Walker - University of Oxford.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 15 March 2019, 15:00-15:30

The Impact of Wintertime Sea Ice Anomalies on High Heat Flux Events in the Iceland and Greenland Seas

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

Dr James Pope - British Antarctic Survey.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:30-14:00

Ophiolite perspectives on oceanic mantle compositional heterogeneity

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

Dr Brian O'Driscoll - University of Manchester.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Granite and Ice Cream: ‘Meltamorphism' and Crystal Growth at (Relatively) Low Temperatures

Allen F. Glazner - University of North Carolina.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Polar Operations – the support behind the science

Simon Garrod - British Antarctic Survey.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 04 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Camilla Penney - University of Cambridge.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Mars InSight: Geophysical investigations on another planet

Dr Robert Myhill - University of Bristol.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 18 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Rapid physical weathering in the Arctic and impacts on modern atmosphere CO2

Dr Emily Stevenson - University of Cambridge.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Mental Wellbeing During Fieldwork - A Potential Barrier to Broader Diversity in Geosciences and Related Disciplines

Dr Cédric John - Imperial College London.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 04 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cornish Lithium and life as an exploration geologist

Lucy Crane - Cornish Lithium.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

#PlumeTeam - tracing a massive Hawaiian eruption from source to exposed communities

Emily Mason - University of Cambridge.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 21 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Microfossil and model constraints on the global climate during the Cambrian ‘explosion’

Tom Hearing - University of Leicester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 26 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Taking the planet to the IMAX: Diving into the volcano and other stories

Dr Katherine Dobson - Durham University.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Patterns of tetrapod diversification on land (and possible explanations)

Dr Roger Benson - University of Oxford.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 12 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

The causes and consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Professor Rachel Flecker - University of Bristol.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Assessment of lithospheric controls on Mesozoic volcanism in Mongolia

Thomas Sheldrick - University of Leicester .

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 29 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

PhD showcase

Speaker to be confirmed.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Forming planetary cores without magma oceans: an alternative view from in-situ tomographic imaging at extreme conditions

Dr Geoff Bromiley - University of Edinburgh.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 15 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

My summer was better than yours...

Part II and Part II students.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 08 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Sedimentology of Paralic Reservoirs: applications to a super-giant oil field in South Iraq

Emma Jude (BP).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 12 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Conservation at the Natural History Museum London

Lorraine Cornish (Natural History Museum).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 05 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

The formation of the solar system

Prof Sara Russell (Natural History Museum).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 26 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Chronicling Ethiopia’s explosive volcanic past using lake sediments

Dr Catherine Martin-Jones ( Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 19 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Illuminating the origins of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems

Dr Emily Mitchell (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Killing Machines: Studying Predation in the Fossil Record and Beyond

Alice Pullen (British Antarctic Survey).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Development and Hydrogeology in Nepal: Spring Revival Experiments in the Mid Hills

Matt Lees (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Disaster Risk Reduction: Seismic hazard analysis in Nepal

Dr Victoria Stevens (RMS).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 22 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Predation In The Cambrian

Stephen Pates (University of Oxford).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 27 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

National Geographic Explorers

Dr Claire McNulty (National Geographic Society).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

The perils of planetary geology: why no one should ever complain about mapping in Britain and Ireland

Jack Wright (Open University).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 13 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Department PhD Showcase

tbc.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 06 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Living with Earthquakes: bridging the physical and social sciences

Dr Emily So (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Redrawing the Dinosaur family tree

Matt Baron (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

G5a: the geology, origin and celebrity of Shap Granite.

Dr Nigel Woodcock (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Isotopes in volcanic emissions: links to Earth’s ancient past and not-so-distant future

Emily Mason (University of Cambridge).

Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Planetary geology and the long-term scientific benefits of space resources

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Ian Crawford, UCL Birkbeck.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 March 2017, 16:15-16:45

Indirect signatures of life in the alluvial stratigraphic record

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Neil Davies, Cambridge.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 March 2017, 15:15-15:45

How to weigh a dinosaur

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Susie Maidment, Cambridge.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 March 2017, 14:45-15:15

A lot of hot air: gas in volcanic eruptions

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Marie Edmonds, Cambridge.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 March 2017, 14:00-14:30

It's O(1) compaction length to Cambridge: successes and challenges for magma dynamics since McKenzie (1984)

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Rich Katz, Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 March 2017, 13:30-14:00

Cosmic Dust: The fastest little rocks on Earth

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Matt Genge, Imperial.

Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 17 March 2017, 11:30-12:00

Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Registration required at conf.sedg.club

Speakers from Cambridge and beyond....

Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 17 March 2017, 10:30-18:00

Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater

Auriol Rae, Imperial.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Lessons from a restless caldera: multi-parameter studies to understand the past, present and future of volcanic activity at Santorini volcano, Greece

Tamsin Mather, Oxford.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 06 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

RESCHEDULED: ERC Equipoise careers presentation

Hear about careers in oil and gas, with free cheese and wine!

ERC Equipoise .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Volcano hunting in Papua New Guinea

Lois Salem, Cambridge.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

PhD Showcase

Lawrence Cowton, Victoria Honour, Luke Grinham.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 20 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Humans as the new geology

Mike Ellis, BGS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

20,000 Rocks Under The Sea: Journey to the Pito Deep

Live streaming from a research ship! Free and open to all.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Magmatic flare ups along continental margin arcs: evidence from the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia

Teal Riley, BAS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 06 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet

David Rothery, Open University.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

What keeps the Earth habitable?

Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL Birkbeck.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Hot Rocks Under Our Feet; Seismic Imaging of Igneous Geology in Sedimentary Basins

Prof. Christopher Jackson, Imperial .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 28 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

#ArchivesRock - treasures from the Sedgwick Museum Archive

Sandra Freshney, Sedgwick Museum.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Populating a post-extinction world: the resurgence of vertebrate diversity in the early Carboniferous

Prof. Jenny Clack, Zoology.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Rocks and Stones: Geology in the Built Environment

Ruth Siddall, UCL.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Abiotic chemical cycling on earth and beyond

Dr Oli Shorttle, Cambridge.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 31 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet

David Rothery, Open University.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

The secret life of magma revealed by zoning patterns in volcanic crystals

Prof. Jon Blundy, Bristol .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 17 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

The evolution of the early solar system: What magnetism can tell us

James Bryson, Cambridge.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 10 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park

Professor Joe Cain (University College London).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Linking Earth’s Deep Interior with its Surface Evolution: Constraints from Galápagos Volcanoes

Dr Sally A Gibson (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 29 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Dr Woodward's Cabinet of Dangerous Dreams: Geology in the Age of Enlightenment

Dr Kenneth McNamara (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Climate Change Impacts in Polar Regions: Lessons from Antarctic Moss Bank Archives

Professor Howard Griffiths (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 15 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Landscape Response to Active Normal Faulting: Rivers, Rates and Dates

Dr Alexander Whittaker (Imperial College, London).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

The Ignorance Project

Ekbal Hussain (University of Leeds; Geology for Global Development).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 01 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Changing the paradigm - new views of magmatic systems provide new perspectives on volcanic processes

Professor Katharine Cashman (University of Bristol).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Mountains to Deserts: Insights from Garnet

Dr Anna Bird (University of Hull).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

The Search For New Planets

Maximilian Guenther (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

The role of meta-stable fluids in present-day surface processes on Mars: a laboratory investigation

Dr Susan Conway (The Open University).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Crustal Melting in the Himalaya, Collision tectonics and the Origin of Granite

Professor Nigel Harris (The Open University).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

The Long-Range Societal Impacts of Large Eruptions

Professor Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Shifting Sediment Sources in the World's Longest RIver: An 8,000-year Record From Northern Sudan

Prof Jamie Woodward (The University of Manchester).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 02 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

General Artificial Intelligence: The Great Failure of Computer Science (& The Impending Success of Geology)

Matouš Ptáček (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Forensic Geology - Hero or Villain?

Dr Andrew Moncrieff (Hawkins).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Reactive Transport in Aqueous Geochemistry: Theory, Experiments, and Applications

Dr Benjamin Tutolo (University of Oxford).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 12 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Field observations of the hydraulic jump phenomenon in turbidite deposits of the Tabernas Basin, Spain

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Tom McCormick-Cox (Shell).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 17:30-18:00

Ophiolite insights into the oxygen isotope composition of the Cambrian ocean

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Dr Sasha Turchyn (University of Cambridge).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 17:00-17:30

Imaging Moving Wet Stuff: An Introduction to Seismic Oceanography

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Professor Nicky White (University of Cambridge).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 15:45-16:15

A few evolutionary myths

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 15:15-15:45

Enceladus - a miniature, active ice-world

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Professor Francis Nimmo (University of California Santa Cruz).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 14:45-15:15

Fire on Earth: an intimate history

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Professor Andrew Scott (Royal Holloway University of London).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 13:30-14:00

The lithospheric structure of Pangea

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

Professor Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

New Jurassic Dinosaurs from the Gobi Desert of Western China

Professor James Clark & Professor Catherine Forster (George Washington University).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

ERC Equipoise Wine & Cheese Evening 2015

FREE wine and cheese this Thursday evening!

Dr Adam Law & Nicola Pocock (ERC Equipoise).

Harker Room 1 and Common Room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Novel applications of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analyses: rock, ice and nanoparticles

Dr Carl Stevenson (University of Birmingham).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Copper Giants: Geology, Genesis and New Pathways to Discovery

Dr Jamie Wilkinson (Natural History Museum).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

The transition to a forested planet: Devonian forest ecosystems in New York and Svalbard

Dr Chris Berry (University of Cardiff).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Learning about the early Solar System from cometary dust

Dr Natalie Starkey (Open University).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Does the kiss of a LIP ever linger for long?

Professor Conall Mac Niocaill (University of Oxford).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Earthquakes triggered by seismic waves

Professor Emily Brodsky (University of California Santa Cruz).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Food for thought: Edible explorations of volcanic processes

Dr Alison Rust (University of Bristol).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 19 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Taking the "absolute" temperature in ice cores: another of those dreaded Physics lectures

Professor Hubertus Fischer (University of Bern).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:00

Dates, Rates, Ages and Stages: New developments in determining metamorphic timescales

Dr Clare Warren (Open University).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Getting to the root of the Gamburtsev Mountains: enigma hidden beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Dr Fausto Ferraccioli (British Antarctic Survey).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Darwin’s “beloved barnacles” - an evolutionary success story

Note: this talk begins at 6pm

Professor Andrew Gale (University of Portsmouth).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 10 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Darwin's Beagle fossils and their significance for his evolutionary thought

Professor Adrian Lister (Natural History Museum).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Shell Seminar - Life as a Shell Graduate

Amy Nicholson & Catherine Wasse (Shell).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Active tectonics and geomorphology

Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Exploring the controls on earthquakes and tectonics; from the plains of India to the greatest mountain range on Earth

Dr Alex Copley (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Underground laboratories for geological disposal research

Dr Adrian Bath (Intellesci).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Foraminifera as bioindicators of marine environments

Sigal Abramovic (Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

101 years of Geochronology and the EARTHTIME revolution (2003 to present)

Dan Condon, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

5 million years of tropical ocean temperature evolution

Dr Charlotte O'Brien (University of Oxford).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

The Pleistocene History of Birmingham

Sebastian Gibson.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Behind the Scenes of Science Broadcasting: How science TV and radio programmes are made and how you can get involved.

Anna Lacey (BBC).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

A philosophy for geology: Charles Lyell and the uniformity of nature

Professor Jim Secord (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

The origin of higher taxa: reflections on the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological circumstances

Dr Tom Kemp (University of Oxford).

Harker Room 2, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Nanoparticles in Sandstone Groundwaters

Professor John Tellam (University of Birmingham).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

Evolution of dinosaur respiratory systems and what it might mean

Dr Paul Barrett (National History Museum).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The role of Innovation and Technology in meeting future Energy Challenges

Dr Keith Gerdes (President of the European Region of the AAPG).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Geological mapping: from maps to models

Dr Rachel Dearden and Mr Holger Kessler (British Geological Survey).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Why the ground matters: why tunnels need geologists

Thomas Robinson (London Bridge Associates).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Mapping tips tricks and tales

Part 2 students.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

From our own correspondent: BBC Stories

Professor Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Palaeontology and the tree of life

Dr Robert Asher (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

I (want to) know what you did last summer!

Part 2 and Part 3 students.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 14 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

'50 Shades of Grey: Communicating Geology'

Prof. Iain Stewart (University of Plymouth).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Antarctic sea-ice and the global climate

Dr. Claire Allen, BAS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 11 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Geological Mapping of British Antarctic Territory

Dr. Teal Riley. BAS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 04 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Early Terrestrial Animals

Dr. Russell Garwood (University of Manchester).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 25 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Rates of Ocean Acidification: linked to Oceanic Extinction Patterns?

Dr. Ellen Thomas (Yale).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Terrestrial biodiversity in Antarctica

Prof. Peter Convey, BAS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 18 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth

Dr. Rob Ellam .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Tracing Visitors To Our Shores Over The Last 5000 Years

Prof. Jane Evans, BGS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 04 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

The geological record of ocean Acidification

Prof. Andy Ridgwell, University of Bristol.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Sourcing Antarctic ice rafted debris: potential and pitfalls for recording past ice sheet dynamics

Dr. Michael Flowerdew.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 21 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Glaciovolcanic sequences and reconstructing past Antarctic ice sheets

Professor John Smellie (University of Leicester, Dept of Geology).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Earthquake Damage Assessment: how, where and why?

Dr. Roxane Foulser-Piggott, CARLtd .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

The temperature of the top of the mantle

Prof. Dan McKenzie .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 12 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Ice cores, climate and interglacials

Prof. Eric Wolff, BAS.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 05 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Engineering in Sediments

Prof. Malcolm Bolton, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Hydrocarbon exploration trends – is the past the key to the future?

Andy Leonard, BP .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Nabro Volcano, Eritrea

Dr. Clive Oppenheimer.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 15 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

I know what you did last Summer

Part II and Part III students .

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 08 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Geohazards in On-shore Energy Projects

David Shilston - president designate of the Geological Society.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

The Meanderings and Maunderings of an Old Petroleum Geologist in South America and The Middle East

Peter Llewellyn.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sedimentary processes beneath Antarctic ice streams

Poul Christoffersen - Scott Polar Research Institute.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

"Equipoise" cheese and wine evening!

ERC Equipoise.

Main foyer, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 27 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Are palaeobiodiversity patterns more apparent than real?

Graeme Lloyd, Oxford University.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

The Role of the Geologist in International Development

Joel Gill (King’s College London / Director, Geology for Global Development).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

A Tale of Two Plumes – Magmatism and Mantle convection beneath the African Plate

Professor Nick Rogers, The Open University.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 06 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Far-from-passive Passive Margins: How gravity tectonics generates structures in deep water (and why they matter...)

Frank Peel, Chief Geologist at BHP Billiton Petroleum Exploration, Texas.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Tectonics and magmatism in collision zones; observations from the Himalaya and Caucasus

Professor Nigel Harris (The Open University).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 28 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Dam(n) Geology! Geohazards assessment for large civil engineering projects

Dr Clark Fenton (Imperial College).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

The pterosaur Darwinopterus: Evidence for a modular mode of evolution?

Dr David Unwin (University of Leicester).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 14 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Highs and Lows - The tectonic evolution of the Canadian Arctic Islands

Dr Stephen Rippington (CASP).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 07 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Turning up the heat on Snowball Earth

Professor Ian Fairchild (University of Birmingham).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 31 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Radioactive waste disposal and the issues it raises

Roger Wilmot (Galson Sciences).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 24 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

I know what you did last Summer

Part II and Part III students.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

I know what you did last Summer

Part II and Part III students.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Gillian R. Foulger, (Durham Universitry).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 28 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

The Two Types of El Nino and Their Consequences

Prof. Hans-F. Graf (University of Cambridge, Geography Dept.).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 21 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Mount Erebus, Antarctica

Dr Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 14 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Landscape and Climate change through Ancient Egypt

Dr Judith Bunbury (University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences Dept.).

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 07 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

A Career in Oil and Gas Consulting

Adam Law, ERC Equipoise Ltd.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 31 January 2011, 17:00-18:00

Contoversy in action: Continental Collisions as sites of Crustal Growth

Prof. Yaoling Niu - Durham.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Slippery When Wet - Journey to the centre of the San Andreas Fault Zone

Prof. Bob Holdsworth - Durham.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

AGM and Jurassic Park(!) Film Night

Speaker to be confirmed.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-19:30

Seesaw Tectonics vs. Eustasy: deconvolving tectono-climatic signals in deep-marine siliciclastics

Kevin Pickering - UCL.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 15 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Annual Cheese and Wine Evening - hosted by Equipoise

Adam Law.

Common Room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 08 February 2010, 16:30-18:30

Avulsion mechanics and patterns in deep marine channel levee systems

Bill McCaffrey - Leeds.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 01 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Digging for Development; Diamonds, De Beers and Africa's Resources Curse

James Suzman - De Beers.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

[POSTPONED - DATE TBA] Geology and archaeology in Egypt: the Memphis survey

David Jeffreys - UCL.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 18 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

A geology graduate 10 years on

Grace Chillingworth - Environment Agency.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Geologists make great Reservoir Engineers

Martin Towns - BP.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

What Energy Future after the World Oil Production Peak?

Pierre Mauriaud - Total.

Bullard Lecture Theatre, Bullard Labs..

Monday 09 November 2009, 16:00-18:00

Geology in Antarctica through the ages

Dr Tara Deen - British Antarctic Survey.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

'The Little Geologists': monsters, minerals, and Victorian children

Melanie Keene.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

I still know what you did last summer...

Samantha Simic - Talks Co-ordinator.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

I know what you did last summer

Speaker to be confirmed.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 12 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Equipoise Cheese and Wine evening

Equipoise.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Geology 50 years ago

Prof. Dan McKenzie.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

The Geological, Geophysical and Geomorphological Evidence for relocating Odysseus' Homeland, Ancient Ithaca.

John Underhill, University of Edinburgh.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 16 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Sedgwick Club Meal

Speaker to be confirmed.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 09 February 2009, 17:00-00:00

Part III Project Talks

Various.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

I know what you did last summer (2)

Various.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

I know what you did last summer...

Various.

Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 13 October 2008, 17:00-18:00