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The Earth’s inner core: a review and way forward

User Prof. Hrvoje Tkalčić from the Australian National University.

House Wolfson Lecture Teatre, Bullard Labs, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Monday 18 July 2022, 12:00-13:00

Crustal strain of the Northeast Tibetan Plateau -- implications for tectonics and seismic hazard

User Qi Ou - Leeds.

House Wolfson Lecture Teatre, Bullard Labs, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Friday 15 July 2022, 16:00-16:45

Displacement history of the Alpine Fault and origin of New Zealand’s Southern Alps

User Simon Lamb (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).

House Wolfson Lecture Teatre, Bullard Labs, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Friday 21 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Geobiology and palaeontology in the 21st century: new approaches using Big data, high-throughput digitisation, and machine learning

User Allison Hsiang - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

The Orosirian Period: exiting the GOE (Great Oxidation Event) and setting the stage for the mid-Proterozoic

User Malcolm Hodgskiss - Stanford University.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 16 September 2019, 14:30-15:30

Investigating storm and tsunami recurrence in the historical and geological record: Where are we now and where do we go?

User Prof Adam Switzer (EOS, NTU, Singapore) .

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 15 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Indium in SW England

User Jens Christian Andersen - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Gas emissions from volcanoes and active tectonic regions: Implications for the deep carbon cycle

User Prof. Tobias Fischer, University of New Mexico. Chair of Deep Earth CArbon Degassing (DECADE), Deep Carbon Observatory .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Seismic Full Waveform Inversion for Fundamental Scientific and Industrial Problems

User Prof Satish Singh from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

House Wolfson Lecture Teatre, Bullard Labs, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 16:00-16:45

Hypervelocity impact on Earth: Cratering mechanics, shock processes and environmental consequences

User Professor John G. Spray, University of New Brunswick.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 12:00-13:00

Dynamics of a chemically pulsing mantle plume

User Dr Rex Taylor, University of Southampton.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

The geologic history of seawater d18O

User Professor Itay Halevy - Weizmann Institute in Israel.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 12 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Insights into global carbon cycling and weathering from a 35 Ma record of Sr isotopes in seawater

User Adina Paytan, UC Santa Cruz.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 10:00-11:00

Quartz deformation microstructures and crystallographic preferred orientations - new insights on old paradigms

User Dr Ruediger Kilian from Basel University.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 25 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

The search for extraterrestrial life

User Dr. Seth Shostak, SETI Institute.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 16:45-17:30

If Sedgwick explored Mars - a field geologist's perspective on the search for extraterrestrial life

User Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 16:00-16:45

Climate change now and in the future

User Dame Julia Slingo, Cabot Institute, University of Bristol.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 14:45-15:30

Defining the Anthropocene

User Professor Mark Maslin, University College London.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 14:00-14:45

Earthquake warnings - a practical approach to an impossible problem

User Dr Lucy Jones, California Institute of Technology.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 12:00-12:45

Partly cloudy with a chance of eruption - the future of forecasting volcanic events, large and small

User Dr Mike Poland, United States Geological Survey.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 11:15-12:00

The co-evolution of life and environments

User Professor Nick Butterfield, University of Cambridge.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 10:00-10:45

Sedgwick’s legacy

User Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Street.

Saturday 22 September 2018, 09:15-10:00

The Harland collection

User Simon Kelly - CASP.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 10 September 2018, 13:10-14:00

Kimberlites from micro- to mega-scopic: Tales of melt evolution and mantle dynamics

User Andrea Giuliani (Macquarie Univeristy, Sydney).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Madness in their Method? problematic practices in Palaeobiogeography illustrated by the study of dinosaurs.

User Paul Upchurch, Dept. Earth Sciences, UCL .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Enhanced δ13C and δ18O differences between the South Atlantic and South Pacific since the last glaciation gives us clues on how the ocean exhaled: The deep gateway hypothesis'

User Elizabeth Sikes, Rutgers University .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Early Earth’s atmosphere: Biogeochemistry and climate

User Prof. David Catling, University of Washington, Seattle.

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Paleo-perspectives on the changing Arctic Ocean

User Leonid Polyak from the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

User Professor Dan Schrag, Harvard University .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

The Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: A “Big-Data” Approach

User Bob Hazen, Carnegie Institution, Washington.

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

Wednesday 04 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Impact-driven tectonism during the Hadean

User Craig O'Neill,, Director of the Macquarie Planetary Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia..

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

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

Understanding Our Protoplanetary Disk by Chemical Analysis of Components in Meteorites

User Dr Luke Daly - Glasgow.

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

Monday 26 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

The Great Migration: 3.8 billion years of carbon circulation through Earth

User Matthieu Galvez, ETH-Zurich.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Bayesian Trans-dimensional Geophysical Inversion

User Rhys Hawkins (ANU).

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall..

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

History of the Solar Nebula from Meteorite Paleomagnetism

User Prof. Ben Weiss.

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

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Transport, deposition and migration of magmatic sulfide liquid

User Dr Steve Barnes from CSIRO, Australia.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 30 August 2017, 15:00-16:00

From the outcrop to the mass spectrometer: tracing the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth

User Dr. Matthew Warke from St Andrews.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Sourcing hydrogen and volatiles in the inner solar system: Insights from basalts

User Adam Sarafian, MIT/WHOI.

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

Monday 12 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend: New Evidence

User Richard G. Gordon - Rice University .

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall..

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Tracing Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Adélie and George V Land: A proxy calibration study.

User Taryn Noble (Tasmania).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 06 September 2016, 14:00-15:00

Precipitation-discharge hysteresis to quantify seasonal water storage in monsoon Asia. - Association for Women Geoscientists Distinguished Lecturer Series

User Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College.

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

Thursday 19 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Stability in Ediacaran ecosystems.

User Dimitryi Grazhdankin (Novosibirsk).

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Seawater Cd isotopes

User Dr. Ruifang Xie - Climate and Geochemistry Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 15:00-16:00

Understanding the role of microbes in the formation of dolomite

User Dr. Tomaso Bontognali, ETH-Zurich.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

A first look at the Pluto system from the New Horizons mission

User Dr John Spencer (Southwest Research Institute) .

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

Tuesday 29 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Tectonics, erosion and the Earth’s topography: linking the deep Earth and surface dynamics across convergent domains through numerical landscape evolution and geodynamic modeling

User Pietro Sternai.

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall..

Monday 06 July 2015, 11:30-12:30

Recent unprecedented state of eastern Mediterranean Sea within the last millennium

User Prof. Aldo Shemesh, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 30 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Using GPS, corals and historical earthquakes to understand the earthquakes in Sumatra

User Emma Hill from EOS Singapore.

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall..

Monday 29 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Theory of iron and iron-bearing minerals in the Earth: Electrical conductivity in the mantle and core and implications for the geodynamo

User Ronald Cohen, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, and Dept. Earth Sciences, UCL, London, UK.

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

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Isotopes, Microbes, and Enzymes in the Earth System: a sulfur story.

User Wil Leavitt - Dartmouth.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Friday 17 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Gas Fractionation in Two-Phase Flow: Theory, Observation, and Experiments

User Kiran Sathaye (University Texas, Austin) .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Friday 20 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Ocean circulation and deep temperature response to orbital forcings: what the model says.

User Michel Crucifix UC Louvain.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Magmatic Ni-Cu-Co (± PGE) ore deposits: How the Voisey’s Bay discovery in Labrador influenced scientific thought

User Andy Kerr, Senior Geologist, Mineral Deposits Section, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Meridional variations of mountain erosion in response to Plio-Pleistocene cooling

User Frédéric Herman, L'Université de Lausanne .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fractionation of stable isotopes and trace elements in individual crystals of CaCO3: An experimental approach.

User Dr. Rinat Gabitov - Mississippi State University .

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:00-12:00

Belizean Speleothem, North Atlantic Climate, and NAO Forcings

User Sebastian Breitenbach (ETH-Zurich) .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 12:00-12:30

'When the Monsoon rocks the Himalaya

User Jean-Philippe Avouac - BP Foundation McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, access from Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Investigating deep sea corals as a new archive of d15N records for studies of N cycle through time

User Dr Maria Prokopenko, Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 13:15-14:00

A spectacular new soft-bodied fossil assemblage from the Burgess Shale at Marble Canyon, Kootenay National Park

User Bob Gaines (Pomona College) .

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

A new approach to reconstructing Phanerozoic atmospheric pO2

User Alex Wolfe.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 23 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Discovering Dolomite, how this will affect our understanding of Mg/Ca cycling in the ocean

User Brad Opdyke, ANU.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Friday 19 September 2014, 15:00-16:00

Recent fluctuations in magma supply to Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi

User Michael Poland, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 18 August 2014, 16:00-17:00

Has the Probability of Big Earthquakes Recently Increased

User Peter Shearer of IGPP, Scripps Institute, UCSD.

House Bullard Labs tearoom, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Friday 04 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Paleobotanical research down south: Cenozoic fungi, ferns, flowers, fruits, leaves from diatomite/amber Conservation Lagerstatten in southern New Zealand.

User Professor Daphne Lee (Otago University).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Geological mapping: still a basic training for geologists?

User John Ramsay (ETH Zurich).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Ichnology of Jurassic Black Shales

User Liam Herringshaw, Durham University.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Tuesday 14 January 2014, 12:30-13:00

Mixing and Unmixing in Planets

User Prof Dave Stevenson (Cal Tech).

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Friday 27 September 2013, 16:30-17:30

Shale gas - Opportunities and Challenges

User Peter Cook - University of Melbourne and CO2CRC.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 26 September 2013, 16:30-17:30

CCS Research Down Under

User Peter Cook - University of Melbourne and CO2CRC.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 25 September 2013, 16:30-17:30

Two tales from the Bushveld: The tapped liquid shift effect - an inconvenient truth; and The pyroxenite marker - evidence for slow mixing in a stratified dish-shaped magma chamber

User Grant Cawthorn (University of the Witwatersrand).

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 11 September 2013, 11:00-12:00

Ultralow-velocity zones at the base of the mantle

User Dan Bower (Caltech).

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Tuesday 20 August 2013, 15:30-16:30

Shrinking Ice Sheets, Rising Sea Level, Today and in the Last InterGlacial

User Frederik Simons, Princeton.

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 14 August 2013, 14:00-15:00

Non-linear modelling: breaking through the magnetic materials barrier

User David Jiles, Iowa State University.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 20 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Amorphous calcium carbonate stabilization and alternative crystal growth mechanisms - lessons from leaves

User Assaf Gal, Weizmann Institute of Science,Israel.

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

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Dealing with climate hazard: leadership towards adaptation is the key

User Professor Bob Carter of the Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne .

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

Friday 07 June 2013, 16:45-17:45

When the Monsoon rocks the Himalaya

User Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac from the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech..

House Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

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