Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Polar bear's range dynamics in the Holocene

Prof. Heikki Seppa (University of Helsinki).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum

Dr. Jack Wharton (University College London).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking the behaviour of sulfur in oxidised magmas using sulfur isotopes

Zoltán Taracsák (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Dr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

The formation of co-genetic silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated igneous rocks: pressure, fractional crystallisation and crustal assimilation

Carrie Soderman (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring changes in exposure to glaciovolcanic hazard

Max Van Wyk De Vries (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Simon Haberle, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Vasiliki Margari, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

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

Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Building global resilience to volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and to better inform disaster risk management?

Blaise Mafuko Myandwi (University of Goma, DRC) and Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Georgina Falster, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Film Screening: Pure Clean Water

[Producer: Tony Eva].

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Alistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

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

Saija Saarni, University of Turku.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

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

Abi Stone, University of Manchester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

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

Gina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Aidan Starr, Department of Geography.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

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

Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Mark Sier, CENIEH.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

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

Lauren Davies, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Chris Day, University of Oxford.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

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

Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

A Peculiar Haze, a Sulphuric Smell, and Bloodred Sunsets: The Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Eruption on Europe

Dr Katrin Kleemann, German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

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

Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Amy McGuire, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Storms, surf, & swells: Bedrock breakdown and the geodynamic demise of volcanic ocean islands

Kim Huppert - GFZ Postdam.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Crystallisation temperatures as a proxy for mantle temperature; and the 2021 eruption in Reykjanes

Simon Matthews - University of Iceland.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

2018 Eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano – Use of Social Media and the U.S. Department of Interior Strategic Sciences Group

Aleeza Wilkins and Alice Pennaz (USGS).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Refined eruptive history of Mount Pelée volcano and implications for tephra fallout hazard in Martinique

Dr Audrey Michaud-Dubuy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Looking Through the Sunda Arc: An Overview of Java’s Magmatism

Dr Esti Handini, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring volcanoes in Central Iceland as Analogs for Planetary Environments

Jacob Richardson, NASA/GSFC.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

A Caribbean Vacay: Sun, Sand, Sea and Volcanoes?! An introduction into volcanic outreach in the Eastern Caribbean

Alia Juman, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Modeling volcano-tectonic interactions in a youthful continental rift: the East African Rift System

Joshua Jones (Virginia Tech).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Integrating social and institutional vulnerabilities into volcanic risk scenarios: A case study at Nevado Cayambe, Ecuador

Dr Julie Morin, Department of Geography.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Snapshot of a magmatic system immediately prior to an explosive eruption: Tenerife 289 ka

Emma Horn, University of Southampton.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring controls on the distribution of sulfur-loving elements in Icelandic magmas

Callum Reekie, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Using documentary archive material to develop an improved historical chronology of cyclones in Mauritius and lessons for disaster risk reduction

Rory Walshe (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanic activity along the enigmatic South Sandwich arc

Dr Emma Liu, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Assessing hazards in distributed volcanic fields

Lis Gallant (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Initiation of a composite volcano: The complex beginnings of the long-lived Dunedin Volcano, New Zealand

Rachael Baxter, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:00-10:00

Experimental insights on volcanic ash as a reactive agent in the environment

Dr Elena Maters (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin).

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

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

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

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

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

Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America

Lauren Davies, University of Alberta.

Harker II, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America

Lauren Davies, University of Alberta.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Volcanic mercury and plant mutagenesis during the end-Permian mass extinction

Niall W. Paterson, CASP.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Clare College (Latimer Room).

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

Introduction of new PhD students

CED new PhDs.

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

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

The evolution of laminar thermals - from blob, to jellyfish, to ring.

Jack Atkinson (Department of Geography, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Daly Lecture Preview

Marie Edmonds.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking sulfur and its chalcophile allies at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: A story of sulfide saturation, sulfide resorption and magmatic degassing

Cambridge University.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:00-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Nick McCave, University of Cambridge.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Unusual techniques for an unusual volcano: monitoring at Ol Doinyo Lengai

Kate Laxton, University College London.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

New insight on the mycorrhizal fungus–host association, expected to emerge from combining dendrochronology, wood anatomy, mycology and ecology

Giada Centenaro (Department of Geography, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

The magmatic and eruptive evolution of the 1883 explosive, caldera-forming eruption of Krakatau, Indonesia

Amber Madden-Nadeau, University of Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Unravelling the Echo Canyon deposit: Explosive-effusive transitional volcanism, Ascension Island, South Atlantic - Insights from the field and the lab

Bridie Davies, University of East Anglia.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

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

Volcanic history archived in glacial ice

Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute, USA).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Earth Sciences Department, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

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

Clare College (Latimer Room).

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

How volcanism controls the interiors of lava-worlds

Dan Spencer, University of Oxford.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

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

Validating the NAME dispersion model with TROPOMI satellite observations for the 2019 Raikoke eruption

Hans de Leeuw, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Rm Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

New PhD students introductions - Cambridge Volcanology

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

Christine Bachelor (SPRI).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking chalcophile elements from source to vent at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

Penny Wieser, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:10-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Masterclass: An introduction to distal tephrochronology and cryptotephra methods

Professor Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Moments of crisis – volcanic eruptions, environmental impacts and societal change in the northern European past

Prof. Felix Riede, Aarhus University .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Monday 15 April 2019, 17:30-18:30

The anatomy of abrupt climate change over Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles seen from the North Atlantic/Nordic Seas

Trond Dokken, Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise.

Thomas J. Aubry, University of British Columbia.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Lithium, rhyolites, and the green revolution

Ben Ellis, ETH Zurich.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Measuring gas emissions at the 2018 Leilani Estates eruption, Kilauea

Penny Wieser, Emily Mason; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Climate and human health in the last two millennia

Prof Hans Linderholm, University of Gothenburg.

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Phosphorous pathways in Deep Time / Atmospheric Fingerprints of Volcanism

Craig Walton, Pip Liggins; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

tbc // Sulfur isotopes as tracers for stratospheric volcanic sulfur loading

Nick Barber, Johnny Staunton-Sykes; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College.

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

World Enough & Time: Tephrostratigraphy and Modern Human Evolution in Middle-Late Pleistocene East Africa

Dr Nick Blegen, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Globally Significant CO2 Emissions From Katla, a Subglacial Volcano in Iceland

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Leeds.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

Prof. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

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

Varves and tephras in the palaeoclimate record of the Dead Sea

Dr Ina Neugebauer, GFZ Potsdam (Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanic applications for understanding the evolution of human behavior in East Africa

Nick Blegen, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

An unusual patient: quantifying 3D deformation around analogue magma intrusions by using X-ray Computed Tomography

Sam Poppe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Orbital-scale East Asian-Australian summer monsoon dynamics and a centennial earth magnetic reversal event at 98 ka

Chuan-Chou Shen, National Taiwan University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

The Eastern Sahara: From Holocene climate to prehistoric archaeology to the desert roots of Pharaonic civilisation and World Heritage

Stefan Kröpelin, University of Cologne.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

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

Quantifying transport time and degradation of terrigenous organic carbon across the East Siberian Arctic shelf

Climate Environmental Dynamics Research Group Seminar

Lisa Bröder.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 09 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Recent developments and debates in East Asian monsoon palaeoclimatology

Barbara Maher, Lancaster University.

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

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

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

Dr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:15-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Walter Immerzeel, University of Utrecht.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation

Francesco Muschitiello ( Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles

Normal time and place

Andrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

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

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

Department of Geography - other talks

Greenland ice cores tell tales on past sea level changes

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Reconciling centennial-scale climate variation during the last millennium in reconstructions and simulations

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Department of History, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University.

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

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing deep ocean circulation pathway and strength using sediment dispersion

Alex Piotrowski (Dept of Earth Science).

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Fundamental Limits to Volcanic Cooling and its Implications for Past Climate on Earth

David Wade, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Please note different time/venue

Samuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Wind shear and mid-level convection in the Convective Cloud Field Model (CCFM)

Dr. Eimear M. Dunne (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Please note different venue

Phil Hughes, University of Manchester.

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

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

Dendrochronology in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Paul Krusic - Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Quaternary Discussion Group seminar

Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University.

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

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

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Deep time continental weathering and climate change in the Palaeozoic

Dr Jennifer Morris, University of Cardiff.

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

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Measuring landscape resilience: tephra, soil and spatial patterns

Dr Richard Streeter, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Developing land surface and vegetation models... by a field working ecologist!

Dr Rachael Turton, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Origins of Mediterranean flora

Harriet Allen.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climatic controls on peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter.

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

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

Tree-rings and genetics

Dr Alma Piermattei, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Influence of Himalayan river dynamics on the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation in NW India

Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London.

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

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Oxygen-isotope records of the Early Holocene climate of Europe

Jonathan Holmes, University College London.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chronicling Ethiopia’s explosive volcanic past using lake sediments

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

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

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Under the Physical Geography Parasol: Climate and History

Professor Christine Lane and Professor Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-18:00

Brown Bag Discussion: Fungal Ecology and Global Change

Carrie Andrew (Geography).

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

Thursday 15 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Cultures of Forecasting on Mt. Merapi

Adam Bobbette (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Brown Bag Discussion: Tales from the Rift

Céline Vidal & Yves Moussallam (Geography).

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

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Masterclass: Crystal growth kinetics

Marian Holness (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Shaun Marcott, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

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

Brown Bag Discussion: EGU Debrief

Michael Herzog (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Masterclass: The health impacts of volcanic gases

Peter Baxter (University of Cambridge).

Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Chris Stokes, Durham University.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Plume sampling with UAVs on Guatemalan volcanoes

Emma Liu (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Thomas Chalk, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology

The 2011 Nabro eruption

Amy Donovan (UCL).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Francis Wenban-Smith, Archaeology, University of Southampton.

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Masterclass: Non-traditional stable isotopes

Helen Williams (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

Seismic velocity structure of volcanic rift zones in Iceland

Dr Rob Green, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Assessing volatile heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle and transport of volatiles from mantle to surface

Saemundur Halldorsson, University of Iceland.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Masterclass: Calculating P-T-t paths in basalts

John Maclennan (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes

Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology

The 1257 Samalas eruption

Celine Vidal (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

TBA

Freysteinn Sigmundsson (Nordic Volcanological Centre, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Bullard .

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Volcanology

TBA

Freysteinn Sigmundsson (Nordic Volcanological Centre, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Earth Sciences Department.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Rethinking volcanism from a trans-crustal perspective

Kathy Cashman (University of Bristol).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology

The importance of compaction in the formation of adcumulates in the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland

Zoja Vukmanovic (University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Monday 14 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Crystal settling and convection: perspectives from the Totternish Sill Complex & Komatiite Lava flow

Gautier Nicoli (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Monday 14 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Archaeological insights into the 8.2 ka event

Lucy Farr, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The separation of Britain from mainland Europe in the late Quaternary

Jenny Collier, Imperial College London.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Kate Hendry, University of Bristol.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Maryline Vautravers (University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

James Scourse (Bangor University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Eric Galbraith (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain),.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using the Land-Ocean Transition to understand coastal landscapes

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stalagmites as excellent recorders of major volcanic eruptions

Prof Dr. Dominik Fleitmann (University of Reading).

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation

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

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Saksunarvatn melts

Dr. David Neave.

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

The propagation of gigantic volcanic eruption clouds through the atmosphere

Prof. Herbert Huppert.

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Gas Monitoring at Holhraun

Nahum Clements, Dept of Earth Sciences.

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:15-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Peter Abbott (University of Swansea).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

The Siđa Formation of SE Iceland: Emplacement Processes and Depositional Environment

Dr. Ian Skilling.

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Volcanology

Periodicity in gas emissions from Erebus lava lake

Tehnuka Ilanko, Geography Department.

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

CHANGE OF DATE: now on Wednesday Nov. 27th

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Combining field observations and the volcanic plume model ATHAM to examine "dirty thunderstorm" dynamics of ancient and modern eruptions

Dr Alexa Van Eaton (U.S Geological Survey, Vancouver).

Seminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

Friday 22 November 2013, 15:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions

Note unusual time

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Fire, Ice and Non-Linear Time Series Analysis: Cycles in Motion of the Erebus Lava Lake

Nial Peters (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

The Mt. Paektu Geoscientific Experiment: Tales from Fieldwork in North Korea

Kayla Iacovino (University of Cambridge).

Harker 2, Earth Sciences Department.

Monday 21 October 2013, 18:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Taking a closer look at the last glacial sediments

Canceled

Dr. Maryline Vautravers (Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Unlocking the secrets of melt inclusions at Kilauea Volcano

Marie Edmonds.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Earth Sciences Department.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Volcanology

Thermal models of dyke intrusion during development of Continent-Ocean Transition

Katherine Daniels.

Harker II, Geology Department.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evidence for enhanced Antarctic climate variability during the last interglacial period

Dr. Katy Pol (British Antarctic Survey).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Testing the Bytham river hypothesis

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Prof. Liping Zhou (Peking University, China).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The release of Δ14C and δ18O-depleted water from the Arctic Ocean upon glacial termination

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New estimates of tropical ice age temperature

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Please note change of speaker

Dr Emilie Capron (BAS).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Precipitation changes in the Amazon Basin during the last 240 ka

Dr Aline Govin (MARUM, Bremen).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Eruption en tu boca! Chile 2012 Volcanic monitoring at Villarrica, Puyehue and Lascar volcanoes

Nial Peters and Yves Moussallam.

Harker II, Geology Department.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 17:30-18:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Volcanic Caves

Organised by Cambridge University Caving Club

Yves Moussallam and Nial Peters.

ALB, Clare Hall, Herschel Road.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Santorini and CVG field trip to the Etna & the Aeolian

Brendan McCormick and Lois Salem.

Harker II, Geology Department.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Volcanology

The volcanic activity of Stromboli volcano: magma dynamics of a steady-state volcano

Dr Chiara Maria Petrone (University of Cambridge).

Harker II, Geology Department.

Friday 07 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Volcanology

The Record of Deep Magmatic Processes in the AD 1783 Laki Fires Eruption, Iceland.

David Neave & Margaret Hartley.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Earth Sciences Department.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Rifting of a Continent: the North Tanzanian Divergence Zone, East African Rift System

Sara Mana (Rutgers University).

Harker II, Geology Department.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Volcanology

Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds.

This talk is part of the Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars series

Dr Mario Montopoli, Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge,.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Cambridge Volcanology

Volcanoes on borders

Clive Oppenheimer.

Seminar room, Departement of Geography main building, Downing Site.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Quaternary palaeoclimate changes from the margins of the Indian Thar Desert

Prof. Hema Achyuthan (Anna University, Chennai).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Kate Darling (University of Edinburgh).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Role of the Tropical Pacific in Millennial-Scale Climate Events

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

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A special set of QDG talks

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Samuel Toucanne (IFREMER, France).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Phillip Hughes, The University of Manchester.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Canceled

Steven Pawley (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The carbon cycle during the Pleistocene

Peter Koehler (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Anne Osborne (Bristol University).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

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