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This is the list of the Departmental Seminars at the Department of Earth Sciences, on the Downing Site. This series covers a wide spectrum of topics of general interest to Earth Scientists. This series is complemented by a range of more specialist seminar series in Geophysics, Fluid Dynamics, Palaeontology, Mineral Physics, Geochemistry and Quaternary Studies that are fully or partly managed by the department.

The seminars will normally take place in the Tilley Lecture Theatre at 12:00.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Dr Rachael Rhodes; Ali Mashayek. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

10 upcoming talks and 341 talks in the archive.

A geochemical test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis.

UserFrancis Macdonald, UC Berkeley.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean

UserSimon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

The Red Queen, Mars, living and dying fast and young: macroevolution in graptoloids

UserJames Crampton, Victoria University of Wellington.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Towards a 500 Million-Year History of Earth’s Atmospheric CO2

UserHana Jurikova, University of St Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Mapping the core-mantle boundary

UserSanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Fresh perspectives on the origins of major animal groups: insights from the late Ediacaran of Namibia

UserAlex Lui, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Paallavvik Island and the search for Earth's primitive water

UserLydia Hallis, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

The TTG window and the formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust.

UserRichard White, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Data-driven slow earthquake dynamics

UserAdriano Gualandi, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds

UserAmy Balanoff, John Hopkins University.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Turbulence

UserAli Mashayek, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

After the Moon

UserStephen J. Mojzsis, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CsFK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Nick Shackleton and the Big White Box in the Car Park

UserDavid Hodell, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Preservation of H2O heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle

UserSimon Matthews (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Taphonomy and The Tree: are Fossil Taxa Misleadingly "Primitive"?

UserRobert Asher, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

A pinch of salt: Halogen cycling through the solid Earth

UserMargaret Hartley, University of Manchester.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling

UserAlberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

A Palaeontological view of the modern climate and biodiversity crisis

UserDanila Schmidt, University of Bristol.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

UserSusannah Maidment, Natural History Museum.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Battery Metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero

UserNick Gardiner, University of St. Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Understanding the Lithosphere

UserSergei Lebedev, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cold Blood in Hot Times: Using the vertebrate fossil record to understand biotic responses to climate change

UserProf. Jason Head, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Redox processes in subduction systems

Barrow Award

UserKaty Evans, Curtin University.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences - Harker I.

ClockThursday 15 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

The eccentricities of calcite production by coccolithophores

UserRosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

The evolution of the geobiological nitrogen cycle

This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.

UserEva Stüeken, University of St Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 02 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserJacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

The origin of stress- and fluid-driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective

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

UserDr Philip Benson, University of Portsmouth.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

A view across rifting events: Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Eastern Africa and Madagascar

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

UserPatrick O'Connor, University of Ohio.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

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)

UserJames Rae, University of St. Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

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

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)

UserKate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

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

Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution

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

UserEmily Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution

UserEmily Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Fast faults and fluids in the earthquake cycle

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

UserTom Mitchell, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.

UserNatasha Dowey, Sheffield Hallam University.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Productivity and dissolved oxygen controls on the Southern Ocean deep-sea benthos during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.

UserJoseph Stewart, University of Bristol.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Just how weird is the solar system?

This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.

UserTim Elliott, University of Bristol.

HouseZoom Seminar.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Marine sedimentary carbon cycling

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

UserHarold Bradbury, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

The influence of seawater infiltration on oceanic transform fault slip behavior

This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.

UserJessica Warren, University of Delaware.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

The history of the global carbon cycle as recorded by the chemical composition of shallow-water marine carbonate sediments

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

UserJohn Higgins, Princeton University.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

The Green Transition in Natural Resources

UserPanel discussion: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fuana International) and Andy Whitmore (London Mining Network).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Reconstructing a deep time Earth system: The penultimate ice house

UserProf Isabel Motañez (UC Davis) and Sophia Macarewich (U Michigan).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/98188045146.

ClockThursday 22 April 2021, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. David Bercovici.

HouseZoom Seminar.

ClockThursday 01 April 2021, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Global climate change mitigation under the COVID-19 new normal

UserProf Dabo Guan & Dr Can Cui.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/94218164135.

ClockThursday 25 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

The Future Green Economy: Panel Discussion

UserProf. Gargi Bhattacharya (Professor of Sociology at the University of East London), Kate Metcalf (Co-director of the Women’s Environment Network) and Dr. Natalie Jones (Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Structural and magnetic transitions in minerals and functional materials: the pervasive roles of strain and elasticity

UserProf. Michael Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseZoom Seminar.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Steve Shirey, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science.

HouseZoom Seminar.

ClockThursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Barbara Sherwood Lollar (U Toronto).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/93736964527.

ClockThursday 11 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Paleocene–Eocene climate and carbon cycle: tales from the 'boring background'

UserKate Littler, University of Exeter.

HouseZoom Seminar.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World

UserProf Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Arizona) & Dr Rona Oran (MIT).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/93801059161.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Jennifer Druhan, University of Illinois.

HouseZoom Seminar.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Sally Benson (Stanford).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/96800255636.

ClockThursday 14 January 2021, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

Science and Justice in the Anthropocene

UserProfessor Jill Schneiderman (Vassar College).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Atmospheres of Earth and Icy planets

UserDr Craig Poku (Leeds) & Naomi Rowe-Gurney (Leicester).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/93027658238.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Strong Acid

UserProf. Macalady (Penn State) and Prof M Torres (Rice).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/96498930455.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

Unique Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S.

UserKarletta Chief (University of Arizona).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Earth2Earth

tbd

UserDr. Laura Wallace of UT Austin and GNS Science, New Zealand.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

The Chicxulub Impact Structure: The formation of large impact structures and the consequences

UserAuriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom seminar: https://zoom.us/j/99730271908.

ClockSunday 18 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Ice sheets and sea level in a changing climate

UserE2E: Prof Natalya Gomez (McGill Univ) & Prof Jerry Mitrovica (Harvard).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Intraplate faults and Australian earthquakes

UserTamarah King, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford.

HouseZoom seminar: https://zoom.us/j/96218879660.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Earth2Earth

3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms

UserProf Zachary Ross (CalTech).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/93818634948.

ClockThursday 01 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

Decolonising the curriculum: lessons from sociology

UserAli Meghji, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 24 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Earth2Earth

Mapping and characterizing enigmatic habitats in the last great wilderness on Earth

UserProf Andrew Davies (University of Rhode Island).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/93105252952.

ClockThursday 17 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

Fieldwork in context: challenges and opportunities

UserSam Giles, University of Birmingham.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 August 2020, 12:00-13:00

Geoscience in Context

Uncomfortable Histories: working to decolonise the Sedgwick Museum

UserLiz Hide, Sedgwick Museum.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 28 July 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserDavid Wallis (U. Cambridge).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserJenny Druhan (The University of Illinois).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserRachael Rhodes (University of Cambridge).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Mineralogical Controls on Earth's Climate

UserCaroline Peacock (Leeds).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Unnatural Selection: evolution at the hand of man

UserKatrina Van Grouw (Tring).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Functional consequence of extinctions: from the Miocene to the Anthropocene

UserCatalina Pimiento-Hernandez (Swansea University).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

The Sedimentary Cycle on Early Mars

UserScott McLennan (Stonybrook).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 14 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Interfacial Network Geometry

UserKatharina Marquart (Imperial College London).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

Icy alteration on Mars: Glacial alteration of volcanic terrains

UserAlicia Rutledge (University of Oxford).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

A deep-time perspective on macroecology

UserErin Saupe (University of Oxford).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Modelling atmospheric CO2 and O2 evolution over Earth history

UserBenjamin Mills (University of Leeds).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Terrestrial hydrothermal environments as windows to prebiotic worlds

UserClaire Cousins (University of St Andrews).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Linking ages to stages and dates to rates

UserDr Clare Warren, Open University.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

The thermal evolution of the continents

UserProf. Claude Jaupart, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

UserDr Anja Schmidt, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

I wasn't born cubic, said Ca-rich almandine garnet

UserProf. Bernardo Cesare, University of Padova, Italy.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

A Twenty-first Century View of Plutons

UserProf. Allen Glazner, MSA Distinguished Lecturer, University of North Carolina.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Natural nanomagnets (magnetosomes) offer inspirational solutions to green production of magnetic nanoparticles

UserDr Sarah Staniland, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental geochemistry

UserDr Eleanor Jennings, Birkbeck University of London.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

East Asian palaeodrainage evolution and Himalayan-Tibet tectonics

UserDr Yani Najman, Lancaster University.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Equilibrium, disequilibrium, and basaltic Plinian eruptions

UserDr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Causes of episodic volcanism

UserProf. Steve Sparks, University of Bristol.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

The oceanic cycling of trace metal micronutrients

UserDr Susan Little, Imperial College.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Planetary investigations beyond the Solar system.

UserDr Amaury Triaud, University of Birmingham.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Geochemical Constraints for Prebiotic Chemistry

UserDr Paul Rimmer, Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

From genes to functions: Microbial life in Movile Cave ecosystem

UserDeepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-13:00

Microbial growth on isoprene-an abundant climate active trace gas

UserProfessor Colin Murrell University of East Anglia.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 12:00-12:30

Sea-level changes and extreme waves between past and future worlds

UserAlessio Rovere, MARUM - University of Bremen; ZMT - Leibniz center for tropical marine research.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

A guide to the science of Equality & Diversity

UserFionnuala Murphy and Rogier Kievit.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Indian Monsoon: Trends, Rhythms and Thresholds since Eocene

If you would like to meet with Liviu please let me know asap (il261@cam.ac.uk). There are opportunities to talk to him before the seminar and after 2:00 pm

UserLiviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 20 April 2017, 12:00-13:00

Granulite facies metamorphism and melting: the message from the metabasites

UserRichard White, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

The metamorphic rock record: insights from eclogites

UserOwen Weller, University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Understanding the carbon isotope record during early Paleogene greenhouse conditions

UserDr. Gerald Dickens, Rice University, Houston USA.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

The Bardarbunga volcanic system, Iceland, and its 2014-2015 dyking event, major eruption, and slow caldera collapse

UserFreysteinn Sigmundsson, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

Oxygen distribution in Earth's core

UserTetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

A geochemical journey in time: on the track of uranium and nickel

UserBalz Kamber, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Uranium isotope ratios as redox sensors : Toward a predictive understanding

UserAnirban Basu, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Looking at Last Interglacial Sea Level records through a solid Earth lens

UserJacky Austermann, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

The composition of Earth and Exo-planets

UserAmy Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Melt transport in the mantle: constraints from field observations and ideas for future work

HOSTED AT NEWTON INSTITUTE

UserPeter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

HouseNEWTON INSTITUTE - CLARKSON ROAD.

ClockMonday 18 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Could early land vegetation have bioengineered the planet?

UserDianne Edwards, Cardiff University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Partitioning of water fluxes across the Himalayas

UserChristoff Andermann, GFZ Potsdam.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Himalaya: from mountains to drilling in the Bengal fan

UserChristian France-Lanord, Nancy.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Principles of triple oxygen isotope geochemistry

UserDaniel Herwartz (University of Cologne).

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Disparities in the evolution of multicellularity

UserPhil Donoghue, University of Bristol.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

TBD

UserProfessor David Johnston, Harvard University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Copper porphyries (TBC)

UserSteve Sparks, University of Bristol.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Temperature-dependent carbon cycling in the Eocene greenhouse

UserProfessor Paul Pearson, Cardiff University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Feedbacks between early animal evolution and global geochemical cycles

UserRichard Boyle, University of Southern Denmark.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Influence of large Sulfur Bacteria on the Geochemistry of Coastal Sediments

UserHeide Schulz-Vogt, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

The chalcophile (sulfur-loving) cycle: from MORB to crust

UserFrances Jenner, Open University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates

UserTom Dunkley Jones, University of Birmingham.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

A Dual Rift Model for the Opening of the NE Atlantic

UserRichard Walker, University of Leicester.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Simulating radiocarbon in ocean and atmosphere through the deglaciation

UserMathis Hain, University of Southampton.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

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

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Copper isotopes and the role of sulfides during Earth’s differentiation

UserPaul Savage, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Fast Crystal Clocks, at the Speed of Magma Ascent

UserTerry Plank, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

The Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of the Dinosaurs

UserDr. Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

The pulse of the Southern Ocean

UserKate Hendry, University of Bristol.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

The Frasnian-Famennian Mass Extinction

UserJohn Marshall, University of Southampton.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Atmospheres and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets

UserNikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Sea ice in a Cretaceous greenhouse world?

UserJane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Past Abrupt Climate Change and Freshwater Forcing: What do we know?

UserAlan Condron, University of Massachusetts.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Why don't tomographic models have error bars?

UserDavid Al-Attar, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Magma ocean Influence on early atmosphere composition and mass

UserMarc Hirschmann, University of Minnesota.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Seismic Tremors and Wagging Magma: Key Precursors of Explosive Volcanism?

UserMarc Jellinek, University of British Columbia.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Searching for the earliest signs of cellular life on Earth

UserMartin Brasier, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

(U-Th)/He dating of secondary Fe- and Mn-oxides in bedrock

UserPeter Reiners, University of Arizona.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

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

Sedgwick Club special talk

UserRob Ellam, SUERC, Min Soc Distinuished Lecturer.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Walking on broken glass: investigating magmatic processes in explosive and effusive rhyolitic eruptions

UserHugh Tuffen, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Decoding the fossil record of the earliest animals and their embryology

UserProfessor Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Banded Iron Formation and Ancient Life

UserProfessor Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

UserStefano Bernasconi,, ETH Zurich.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Fingerprints of past carbon cycle-climate changes in the Bern3D model

UserFortunat Joos, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Geological Histories of Earth and Mars

UserVic Baker, University of Arizona.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

The eve of biomineralisation

UserRachel Wood, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

SCALING LAWS FOR AGGRADATION AND PROGRADATION OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD

UserPeter Sadler, University of California at Riverside.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

UserDavid Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Ocean turbulence, fronts, and the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom

UserDr. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and climate in the Cenozoic oceans

UserPaul Pearson, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Bubbles and Bangs: Volatile Controls on Magma Fragmentation

UserKathy Cashman, University of Oregon.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Virtual Fossils and the Herefordshire Lagerstatte

UserMark Sutton, Imperial College.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Relating atmospheric CO2 levels to biogeochemical processes

UserPhil Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction

UserProf. Mike Benton, University of Bristol.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Comparative palaeoecology of mass extinction events

UserRichard Twitchett, University of Plymouth.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Reactive melt migration and the evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt

UserC. Johan Lissenberg, Cardiff University.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Middle Miocene Expansion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Triggered by pCO2 decline

UserGavin Foster, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Rock records: when two are better than one

UserAndrew B. Smith, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Deforming the Earth: Runny Solids in the Deep Mantle

UserDavid Dobson, University College London.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Tracking the solidification of a basaltic crystal mush

UserMadeleine Humphreys, University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Dust Provenance in Polar Regions

UserAloys Bory, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bedrock Rivers

UserEllen Wohl, Colorado State University.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Fractionation effects in turbidity currents

UserBill McCaffrey, University of Leeds.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

The cycle of petrogenic organic carbon during orogeny: from metamorphism to erosion

UserOlivier Beyssac, CNRS, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris, France.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

The oxygen side of sulphate: Sulphur and oxygen isotope effects related to microbial sulphur cycling

UserBenjamin Brunner, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Morphologic and Geochemical Evolution of the Submarine Kermadec – Tonga Arc

UserIan Wright, National Oceanography Centre Southampton.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Structure and Development of Oceanic Core Complexes

UserRoger C. Searle, Durham University.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Accretion of the Earth and formation of the core

UserBernie Wood, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

The solidification of gabbros

UserMarian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle

UserCatherine Jeandel, LEGOS, Toulouse.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Mineral magnetism and palaeoclimate

UserTed Evans, University of Alberta.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe

Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer

UserDon Dingwell, University of Munich.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Heavy Stable Isotopes in Marine Geochemistry - Insights from Cadmium

UserMark Rehkamper, Imperial College London.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle

UserLars Stixrude, University College London.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Quantifying Fault Damage Zone Permeability in Crystalline Rocks

UserDan Faulkner (University of Liverpool).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle

UserCatherine Jeandel (LEGOS, Toulouse, France).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Modern Himalayan erosion: a geochemical approach of river transport

UserChristian France-Lanord (CRPG, Nancy, France).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Going with the flow: modelling the distribution and life history of Antarctic krill

UserSally Thorpe (British Antarctic Survey) - Challenger Talk.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Solving the high level nuclear waste problem

UserLou Vance (ANSTO, Australia).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

UserJeanne Gherardi Scao.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockSunday 10 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

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