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Alexander Mattin, Victoria University of Wellington.
Wednesday 02 July 2025, 13:00-14:00
Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site
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Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography
Climatic and biogeochemical impacts of the ~25.5ka Εruanui supereruption (New Zealand)
β οΈ Informal Cambridge Tephra Group Seminar.
Department of Geography - other talks
How can music propel environmental action?
Department of Geography - other talks
Climate justice, financing and resistance in the Indian Sundarbans
Department of Geography - other talks
PlotToSat: A Tool for Generating Time-series Signatures from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at field-based plots for Machine Learning applications
Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories
β οΈ Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Dr Max van Wyk de Vries
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?
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Prof Sarah Hall
Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography
Film Screening: Pure Clean Water
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
In search of stardust β the discovery of cosmic dust on rooftops
Department of Geography - other talks
In search of stardust: the discovery of cosmic dust on rooftops
Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia
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Cambridge Natural History Society
Insects in Flight
Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe
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Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts
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Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows
Icebergs and Oil in the North Atlantic, Reframing Human Relationships with Ice
Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records
Cambridge Natural History Society
Truffles in a warming world
β οΈ Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission
Cambridge Natural History Society
Natura Urbana (film and discussion)
β οΈ Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Geographies of Knowledge Annual Lecture: Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health: Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease
Cambridge Natural History Society
Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?
β οΈ Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission
Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows
Public Lecture: In Praise of Floods: homo sapiens and rivers
Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography
Moments of crisis β volcanic eruptions, environmental impacts and societal change in the northern European past
Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography
The anatomy of abrupt climate change over Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles seen from the North Atlantic/Nordic Seas
Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography
Stratigraphical discourse in the Anthropocene: towards a more critical geographical tradition
Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography
Bloody Geography: injured bodies and the spaces of modern war
Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows
Public Lecture: Can we save nature by selling it?
CU Nature Society
Bertie Gregory The New Face of Nat Geo
Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography
Climate Changed Urban Futures: imaginaries, experiments & justice in the Anthropocene city
Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography
Border crossings: geographies of class, gender, mobility and migration
Department of Geography - other talks
Greenland ice cores tell tales on past sea level changes
β οΈ Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture
Department of Geography - other talks
Racial banishment: Old and new forms of urban transformation in the United States
β οΈ Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture
Societies, Markets, States - Department of Geography
The Death of the Clinic: surgical strikes and spaces of exception
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Critique of Punitive Reason
Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks
βGeographies of Radical Differenceβ
Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows
Commodifications, Capitalism, Counter-movements: Perspectives from Southeast Asia
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862)
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that donβt stay put
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?
Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows
Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Biodiversity in a World of Human Dominance and Rapid Change β Anthropocene Challenges and Opportunities
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Trees, βtribes' and taboos: The political ecology of conservation and culture in Madagascar
Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows
Climate and Poverty in the Americas
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Science in a human-dominated world
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: Are The Challenges What We Thought They Were?
Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks
Professor Lynn Staeheli: "Producing Citizenship - Cosmopolitanism & the Citizenship Industry"
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Evaluating the social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions: Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Biodiversity and the feel good factor
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn? Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Is Evolution (Not) Working for Infected Amphibians?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Extending freshwater conservation beyond shorelines by linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Tracking marine turtles for conservation
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Environmental and Science Learning through Participation in Scientific Research: From Learning to Conservation Action
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
MPAs, mangroves and carpets: cause for #OceanOptimism?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
How do we know if we're making a difference? Finding solid ground in the shifting sands of conservation evaluation
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds'
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land
β οΈ rescheduled from end of 2013-14 series
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Planetary Boundaries and Action2020: Innovations in corporate Sustainability
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India?
β οΈ Joint seminar, hosted with the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS)
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Lessons from the conservation of Europe's Large Blue butterflies
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services to environmental change
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?)
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Commercial Whaling:Β Science, Society and International Relations
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Valuing nature for better environmental decision-making: A collaborative toolkit for real-world conservation
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy
β οΈ ** Note:one-off THURSDAY seminar - no Wednesday session this week ** Joint seminar with CRASSH - Humanitas.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track
β οΈ **Last talk in Series!**
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Making Poverty History β what role for biodiversity conservation?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Expert judgements, Delphi groups, prediction markets: forecasting the future for conservation and national security
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Rethinking the scope of REDD+ : Carbon stocks or triple wins?
Travel and Expeditions
Spike Reid: Circumnavigating the Globe
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Conservation of migratory species: the importance of seasonal interactions
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Conservation and climate change: how radical do we need to be?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture
β οΈ **First for Lent Term**
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
β οΈ **last for Michaelmas Term**
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Smarter ways to monitor wildlife
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
How useful is local ecological knowledge for conservation management? Case studies from the EDGE
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future?
β οΈ ** First talk of term **
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement?
β οΈ Last in Series for 2012!
Cambridge University Geographical Society
Professor Nigel Thrift
Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks
Professor Nigel Thrift
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Geodiversity, geoconservation & geomorphological services: Challenges beyond 2012.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Why Monitoring Matters when designing payment for ecosystem services schemes.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Getting the measure of biodiversity: birds as indicators of environmental change.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Wombats, Weapons & Water: the making of international conservation treaties.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
How high should Climate Change taxes be?
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Linking science, policy & practice for wildlife conservation on farmland.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour
β οΈ First in Lent Term's Series
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss.
β οΈ Last talk of term
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Getting real about Marine Protected Areas: pragmatism in design and implementation.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The Natural Way to Care: how exposure to natural environments shapes human relationships.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Counting and Conserving the World's 'Missing' Species
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Conserving India's Forests: participation, forest rights and ecosystem services.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The Ecosystem Service Paradigm: progress towards a more sustainable future.
Cambridge Conservation Seminars
Trade-offs, team work and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some lessons and thoughts from the Amazon.
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Spectacular Events, Urban Space and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Beyond
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