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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Simon Haberle, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Vasiliki Margari, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

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

Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Georgina Falster, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

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

Clare College (Latimer Room).

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

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

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

Dr. Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College.

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

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing deep ocean circulation pathway and strength using sediment dispersion

Alex Piotrowski (Dept of Earth Science).

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Please note different time/venue

Samuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Please note different venue

Phil Hughes, University of Manchester.

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Quaternary Discussion Group seminar

Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes

Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Fault friction and behaviour

Dr Alex Copley, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tim Greenfield, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The Himalaya, the Hadean, In-between, and Beyond

Prof Alex Webb, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California

Dr Jessica Hawthorne, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The relation between waves and structure: How to explore, exploit, exhume

Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A global view of volcano deformation

Dr Juliet Biggs, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mixed rheology shear zones and the spectrum of fault slip styles

Dr Ake Fagereng, University of Cardiff.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Isotopic constraints on atmospheric loss and climate change on Mars

Prof Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Late stages of continental rifting in Afar, Ethiopia - magnetotellurics in a multi-disciplinary study

Prof Kathy Whaler, University of Edinburgh.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Earthquake precursors linked to high compressibility fluids at oceanic fracture zones

Prof Louis Geli, Ifremer.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Periodic Crustal Deformation and Seismicity

Prof Roland Burgmann, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Wedge evolution, surface processes and dynamics of deep-seated structures in the Zagros foreland basin

Dr Mortaza Pirouz, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Monday 29 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Compaction around a spherical inclusion in partially molten rock

Dr Laura Alisic, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stalagmites as excellent recorders of major volcanic eruptions

Prof Dr. Dominik Fleitmann (University of Reading).

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe from P-to-s conversions

Dr Sanne Cottaar, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A seismic image for the base of an oceanic plate from high resolution, shot-generated, seismic reflection waves

Prof Tim Stern, Victoria University of Wellington.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The Earth’s core - not just a homogeneous ball of pure iron

Prof Lidunka Vočadlo, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

What lies beneath? Interactions between Antarctica and the solid Earth

Dr Pippa Whitehouse, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Rate- (and state-) dependent brittle deformation in crustal rocks

Dr Nicolas Brantut, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The role of dynamic topography in closing the mid-Pliocene ice volume budget

Jacqueline Austermann, Harvard University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A microgeodynamic approach in detecting partial melting in the Earth's mantle

Dr Sash Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The nature and properties of fracture damage surrounding faults

Dr Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Large earthquakes in stable continental plate interiors: the need for a new paradigm

Dr Eric Calais, ENS Paris.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:15-17:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Looking inside moons using gravity and topography

Dr Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Magmatism on the terrestrial planets

Dr Chloe Michaut, IPGP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Death of a dynamo: a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body

Dr Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

From mapping to temporal monitoring: Exploring the characteristics of fault creep with SAR Interferometry

Dr Romain Jolivet, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Observations of Stress on Faults

Dr Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Fluid dynamics of core-mantle differentiation

Dr Renaud Deguen, University of Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A new paradigm for the geodynamo: a gentle introduction

Prof Andy Jackson, ETH Zurich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The dynamics of marine ice sheet

Prof Grae Worster, University of Cambridge, DAMTP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Molten Earth: Silicate Melt in the Deep Interior

Prof Lars Stixrude, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Linking geodynamics and seismic observations in the lowermost mantle

Dr James Wookey, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Traveltime dispersion in an isotropic elastic mantle derived from a geodynamic model

Dr Bernhard Schuberth, LMU Munich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Dr Eric Debayle, ENS Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Applications of adjoint methods to modelling post-glacial sea level

David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Dynamic topography, true polar wander and their potential role in the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations

Dr Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global seismic tomography based on 3D wave simulations and adjoint methods

Dr Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Terrane stations: intra-oceanic subduction assembled Cordilleran North America

Dr Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Estimates of elastic thickness from GOCE data

Prof Dan McKenzie, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle Dynamics, Isostasy, and Surface Topography

Prof Peter Molnar.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Core-mantle differentiation in planetesimals and planetary embryos

Prof Yanick Ricard, ENS-Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Flow and flexure in the Earth’s crust

Dr Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Full-waveform inversion: high-resolution, high-fidelity, seismic properties from 3D field data

Prof Mike Warner, Imperial College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Ongoing deglaciation in Iceland: the impact on volcanic activity

Dr Andy Hooper, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Recording P waves everywhere in the oceans

Prof Guust Nolet, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Shear-velocity structure, tectonics and volcanism of the Tyrrhenian Sea: mantle (de)hydration of a back-arc basin

Dr Hanneke Paulssen, University of Utrecht.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismic Interferometry - New Theory and Applications

Prof Andrew Curtis, University of Edinburgh .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Gravitational flow of the Calabrian Arc and plate motion of the Ionian Sea

Nicola D'Agostino, INGV Rome.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Recent tectonism and sea-level change in the Aegean: disentangling the coastal sedimentary record

Prof Andy Cundy, University of Brighton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Energetics of Earth's Core and Mantle

Prof Jason Morgan, Royal Holoway, University of London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Biominearlization in marine calcifies from a geochemical perspective

Dr Jess Adkins, Caltech.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

TBA.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The interplay of crustal stress and structure at Kīlauea Volcano inferred from seismic anisotropy

Dr Jessica Johnson, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Hemispheres, anisotropy and rotation of Earth's inner core

Dr Lauren Waszek, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Fracture and flow: simulations of magma dynamics from the asthenosphere to the crust

Dr Tobias Keller, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A seismological perspective on the southwestern corner of the Baltic Shield

Dr Valerie Maupin, University of Oslo.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Learning from experience: New approaches to geophysical inversion and classification

Dr Andrew Valentine, University of Utrecht.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions

Note unusual time

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Channeled flow at the base of the oceanic asthenosphere: evidence from full waveform tomography

Prof Barbara Romanowicz, College de France, IPG Paris, and Univ. of California, Berkeley..

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Following in Bullard's footsteps: the spin of Earth's core

Dr Phil Livermore, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Cretaceous-Recent Dynamic Support of Australia from River Profile Inversion

Gareth Roberts, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption: insights from microseismicity

Jon Tarasewicz, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The dynamics of magma intrusion: Insights from field studies and analogue experiments

Janine Kavanagh, Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The enigmatic climatic footprint of supercontinental cycles and the fundamental challenge of snowball earth

Mark Jellinek, UBC.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle plumes and associated flow beneath Arabia and East Africa from joint tomography

Sung-Joon Chang, UEA.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Generation of Plate Tectonics from Grain-Damage and Pinning

David Bercovici, Yale.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Structure of the Sumatra subduction zone

Tim Henstock, NOC Southampton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Hunting surface ruptures for the Mw 8.1 1934 Bihar Nepal earthquake

Magali Rizza, EO Singapore/Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The Relationship Between Shear Wave Velocity, Temperature, Attenuation and Viscosity in the Shallow Part of the Mantle

Dan McKenzie, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Testing the Bytham river hypothesis

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Orogen-scale thermochronolgic trends and tectonic-climate coupling in the Andes

Peter Reiners, U. Arizona.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Fast source determination of large earthquakes by using W phase

Luis Rivera, Strasbourg.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Continental earthquake surface ruptures: New constrains on earthquake cycle and the fault structures

Yann Klinger, IPG Paris.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Friday 08 February 2013, 12:00-01:00

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mixing mantle melts

John Rudge, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Palaeomagnetism and mantle dynamics from the bottom up

Andy Biggin, Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Measuring and Modelling the Earthquake Deformation Cycle

Tim Wright, Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New estimates of tropical ice age temperature

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

No talk - part 3 poster day

No talk - part 3 poster day.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Please note change of speaker

Dr Emilie Capron (BAS).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Glacial rebound once more: is there more to be learnt from sea-level analyses?

Kurt Lambeck, ANU.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Stratigraphy: stranger than fiction?

Philip Allen, Imperial.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Plate - mantle dynamics with strong plates

John Crowley, Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Laboratory simulations of crustal processes: The missing link between field and model

Philip Benson, Portsmouth.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

No talk - special seminars downtown

No talk - special seminars downtown.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Magma poor rifting and continental breakup

Tim Reston, Birmingham.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:45-17:45

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Multi-Scale Dynamics and Rheology of Mantle Flow with Plates

Laura Alisic, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Core Flows from Above and Below

Jon Mound, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The fate of Himalayan sediments during their transfer from the High range to the Bengal Fan

Jérôme Lavé, Nancy.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

What is the asthenosphere, and why does it matter?

Mark Richards, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Quaternary palaeoclimate changes from the margins of the Indian Thar Desert

Prof. Hema Achyuthan (Anna University, Chennai).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Stratigraphy: Stranger than Fiction?

Philip Allen, Imperial.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC MODEL OF THE EARTH

Andreas Fichtner, Utrecht.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 15:00-15:45

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Constraining fault growth and linkage

Jon Bull, NOC Southampton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Dynamics and stability of ice sheets

Roiy Sayag, DAMTP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Tethyan carbonates: Linking tropical seas and crashing plates to some of the largest oil and gas fields in the world

Keith Gerdes, Shell.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismological Observations Beneath the Oceans: Implications for Lithospheric Structure

Stewart Fishwick, University of Leicester.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The petrographic record of solidification of mafic magmas

Marian Holness, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Slab detachment and continental collision

Jeroen van Hunen, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismological geomorphology

Niels Hovius, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Kate Darling (University of Edinburgh).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The age, extent, and potential causes of late Quaternary uplift of the coast of north and west Africa

Richard Walker, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Rates of hydration in the crust: implications for rheology and the strength of deep faults

Bruce Yardley, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Insights into the inner core: hemispherical and regional structure

Jessica Irving, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Tectonic versus magmatic seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges: where, how, why ...and how much?

Chris MacLeod, Cardiff University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Iceland Plume pulsing, V-Shaped Ridges and the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Steve Jones, University of Birmingham.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Evidence for small-scale features throughout the deep Earth: high frequency, exotic P-wave observations of the Earth's mantle and outer core

Elizabeth Day, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismic anisotropy and superplume boundaries in the D" region

Sanne Cottaar, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 September 2011, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A special set of QDG talks

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

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A seismologist's view on mantle dynamics

Jeannot Trampert (Utrecht University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Genesis and evolution of Archean cratonic upper mantle

*Note change of time*

Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 11:15-12:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Deep structure of the continents

Keith Priestley, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The development of a magmatic rifted margin: evidence from Ethiopia

Dr Ian Bastow (University of Bristol).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismological and dynamic structure of Earth's core

Dr Arwen Deuss (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle strain-dependant rheology and long-term lithosphere strength

Frédéric Gueydan, Université Rennes.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Volcano seismology in a wider volcanological context

Professor Jurgen Neuberg (University of Leeds).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr Phillip Hughes, The University of Manchester.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Shell Lecture 2011 - Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Subduction Zones: The 2004-2005 Sumatra Earthquakes

*Note change of time and venue*

Dr Lisa McNeill (National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Thermal structure beneath Hawaii inferred from seismic (inverse scattering) images of upper mantle discontinuities

Professor Rob van der Hilst (MIT).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle upwelling and lithospheric destruction beneath North America

Prof. Richard M Allen (U.C. Berkeley).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

New Flowlines from the North Atlantic Ocean

Nicky White, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Earth's core: an interdisciplinary afternoon

Further details can be found at: http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~seminar/core_meet.html

Speakers from across the University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 January 2011, 14:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Dynamics of dyke intrusion in the mid-crust of Iceland

Prof. Bob White (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A numerical model for dyke propagation in presence of elastic, density and strength discontinuities

Francesco Maccaferri (University of Bologna).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Andy Leonard.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Geological Storage of CO2

Cor Hofstee (TNO, Utrecht).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismic monitoring of surface processes: Toward a continuous monitoring of river sediment transport and hillslope processes

Arnaud Burtin (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Unraveling the dynamics of subduction: models and plate motions

Saskia Goes (Imperial College).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Waveform Technologies for Monitoring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Ross Heyburn (AWE Blacknest).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University

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

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations

Dr Rhodri Davies (Imperial College, London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Structure and Lateral Variation of the West Sumatran Subduction Zone as Revealed by Local Seismicity

Dr Dietrich Lange (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Laterally varying structure and solidification texture of the inner core - Special Seminar

Prof. Vernon Cormier (University of Connecticut).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Monday 10 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Numerical geodynamo modelling - Deciphering the magnetic signal

Dr Julien Aubert (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

POSTPONED DUE TO VOLCANO: Evidence of water in the mantle transition zone from multimode surface waves

Professor Jeannot Trampert (Universiteit Utrecht).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Slab geometry and mantle flow in the Rivera-Cocos subduction zone

Professor James Ni, New Mexico State University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

On Carbon Sequestration

Professor Andy Woods, BPI Institute, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Surface rupture and landsliding in the great 12 May 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Dr Alexander Densmore, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Sweeping carbon under the geological rug: leakage and mixing in carbon sequestration

Dr Jerome Neufeld, ITG, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Elastic anomalies and anelastic loss mechanisms due to phase transitions in minerals

Professor Michael Carpenter, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

New insights into folding and faulting in the Zagros mountains (Iran)

Dr Ed Nissen, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Geochronological studies on causes and consequences of an expanding eastern Tibet

Dr Andy Carter, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A consideration of the effects of dust aerosol and surface dust on Snowball Earth deglaciation

Dorian Abbot (Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Actively deforming magma systems in the East African Rift

Juliet Biggs (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Great Sumatran earthquakes and tsunamis from recent marine studies

Satish Singh (IPGP, Paris).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Grumbling Glaciers: Microearthquakes and subglacial dynamics in Antarctica

Andy Smith (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Unfinished business regarding the Milankovitch theory of the Ice Ages

David Hodell (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Quantitative monitoring of underground CO2 storage.

Andy Chadwick (British Geological Survey).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A geochemical model of the formation of the Earth's core.

John Rudge (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

From Minerals to Mantles: The Planetary Mosaic

Lars Stixrude (University College London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global seismic tomography (NOTE: 11:15 AM)

Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 11:15-12:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

What will the next Sumatran earthquake be like?

John McCloskey (University of Ulster).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia collision

Mark Allen (University of Durham).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global Radial Anisotropy in the Earth's Upper Mantle and Transition Zone

Ana Ferreira (University of East Anglia).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Canceled

Steven Pawley (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Volatiles in arc magmas and their role in triggering and sustaining volcanic eruptions

Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The North Sea: there is life in the old dog yet

Andy Leonard (BP).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Hot blobs, swells and sea level

Bryan Lovell (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Sustainable energy plans that add up

David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

"Reconstructing the Pleistocene glacial history of the central North Sea using 3D seismic data"

Note change of time to 14:00

Lidia Longeran (Imperial College, London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismic oceanography (full title TBA)

Steve Jones (Trinity College, Dublin).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Determining the timescales of magmatic processes from measurement of short-lived U- and Th-decay series isotopes in volcanic gases and lavas.

Note change of date and time

Ken Sims (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

"The active tectonics of aseismic regions. Examples from Mongolia and Iran."

Richard Walker (University of Oxford).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global seismology (full title TBA)

Sebastian Rost (University of Leeds).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Active tectonics (full title TBA)

Steve Roecker (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

"Thermal and fertility pulses in the Iceland Plume"

Godfrey Fitton (University of Edinburgh).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

"Topography: a window into the Earth's Mantle"

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (University College, London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

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

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

What field sedimentology in the Caucasus can tell you about the Arabia-Eurasia collision

Steve Vincent (CASP).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A new approach to solving 3D geodynamical problems: applications to folding, subduction and other large-scale flows

Jean Braun (University of Rennes).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Tara Deen (British Antarctic Survey).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismic scattering in the lower mantle: Evidence for small-scale chemical heterogeneity

Peter Shearer (Scripps Institute of Oceanography).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Architecture and construction of the Slave craton derived from joint interpretation of multiple seismic techniques and geochemistry

David Snyder (Geological Survey of Canada).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Seismic IMAGES of hydraulic fracture

Leo Eisner (Schlumberger Cambridge Research).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Some observations of highly extended continental lithosphere

Tim Minshull (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mapping the lithosphere with surface waves

Keith Priestley (Bullard Labs).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Vertical and lateral changes in composition beneath a craton as revealed by seismic surface waves

Helle Pedersen (LGIT, Grenoble).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Modelling lithospheric deformation through time and space

Nicky White (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Some observational constraints on ridge-hotspot interactions

Marcia Maia (University of Brest).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Statistically determining errors of velocity models

Richard Hobbs (Durham University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Passive seismic monitoring, seismic anisotropy, and the state-of-stress in a reservoir

Mike Kendall (Bristol University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Geological constraints on Himalaya - Tibet collision processes

Mike Searle (Oxford University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Phase and Correlation in `Random' Seismic Fields: Imaging with background noise and coda

Michel Campillo (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Surface wave tomography: insights into the structure of the upper mantle beneath Australia

Stewart Fishwick (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global MORB Chemistry and Ridge Axial Depth - A New Interpretation

Yaoling Niu (University of Durham).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The deep roots of volcanoes: models of magma-mantle interaction

Richard Katz (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:30-17:30