Sedgwick Club talks


2008-10-13 17:00: I know what you did last summer... (Various)

2008-10-16 17:00: I know what you did last summer (2) (Various)

2009-01-26 17:00: Part III Project Talks (Various)

2009-02-09 17:00: Sedgwick Club Meal (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-02-16 17:00: The Geological, Geophysical and Geomorphological Evidence for relocating Odysseus' Homeland, Ancient Ithaca. (John Underhill, University of Edinburgh)

2009-03-02 17:00: Geology 50 years ago (Prof. Dan McKenzie)

2009-03-09 17:00: Equipoise Cheese and Wine evening (Equipoise)

2009-10-12 17:00: I know what you did last summer (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-19 17:00: I still know what you did last summer... (Samantha Simic - Talks Co-ordinator)

2009-10-26 17:00: 'The Little Geologists': monsters, minerals, and Victorian children (Melanie Keene)

2009-11-02 17:00: Geology in Antarctica through the ages (Dr Tara Deen - British Antarctic Survey)

2009-11-09 16:00: What Energy Future after the World Oil Production Peak? (Pierre Mauriaud - Total)

2009-11-16 17:00: Geologists make great Reservoir Engineers (Martin Towns - BP)

2009-11-23 17:00: A geology graduate 10 years on (Grace Chillingworth - Environment Agency)

2010-01-18 17:00: [POSTPONED - DATE TBA] Geology and archaeology in Egypt: the Memphis survey (David Jeffreys - UCL)

2010-01-25 17:00: Digging for Development; Diamonds, De Beers and Africa's Resources Curse (James Suzman - De Beers)

2010-02-01 17:00: Avulsion mechanics and patterns in deep marine channel levee systems (Bill McCaffrey - Leeds)

2010-02-08 16:30: Annual Cheese and Wine Evening - hosted by Equipoise (Adam Law)

2010-02-15 17:00: Seesaw Tectonics vs. Eustasy: deconvolving tectono-climatic signals in deep-marine siliciclastics (Kevin Pickering - UCL)

2010-02-22 17:00: AGM and Jurassic Park(!) Film Night (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-03-01 17:00: Slippery When Wet - Journey to the centre of the San Andreas Fault Zone (Prof. Bob Holdsworth - Durham)

2010-03-08 17:00: Contoversy in action: Continental Collisions as sites of Crustal Growth (Prof. Yaoling Niu - Durham)

2011-01-31 17:00: A Career in Oil and Gas Consulting (Adam Law, ERC Equipoise Ltd)

2011-02-07 17:00: Landscape and Climate change through Ancient Egypt (Dr Judith Bunbury (University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences Dept.))

2011-02-14 17:00: Mount Erebus, Antarctica (Dr Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-21 17:00: The Two Types of El Nino and Their Consequences (Prof. Hans-F. Graf (University of Cambridge, Geography Dept.))

2011-02-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Gillian R. Foulger, (Durham Universitry))

2011-10-10 17:00: I know what you did last Summer (Part II and Part III students)

2011-10-17 17:00: I know what you did last Summer (Part II and Part III students)

2011-10-24 17:00: Radioactive waste disposal and the issues it raises (Roger Wilmot (Galson Sciences))

2011-10-31 17:00: Turning up the heat on Snowball Earth (Professor Ian Fairchild (University of Birmingham))

2011-11-07 17:00: Highs and Lows - The tectonic evolution of the Canadian Arctic Islands (Dr Stephen Rippington (CASP))

2011-11-14 17:00: The pterosaur Darwinopterus: Evidence for a modular mode of evolution? (Dr David Unwin (University of Leicester))

2011-11-21 17:00: Dam(n) Geology! Geohazards assessment for large civil engineering projects (Dr Clark Fenton (Imperial College))

2011-11-28 17:00: Tectonics and magmatism in collision zones; observations from the Himalaya and Caucasus (Professor Nigel Harris (The Open University))

2012-01-23 17:00: Far-from-passive Passive Margins: How gravity tectonics generates structures in deep water (and why they matter...) (Frank Peel, Chief Geologist at BHP Billiton Petroleum Exploration, Texas)

2012-02-06 17:00: A Tale of Two Plumes – Magmatism and Mantle convection beneath the African Plate (Professor Nick Rogers, The Open University)

2012-02-13 17:00: The Role of the Geologist in International Development (Joel Gill (King’s College London / Director, Geology for Global Development))

2012-02-20 17:00: Are palaeobiodiversity patterns more apparent than real? (Graeme Lloyd, Oxford University)

2012-02-27 17:00: "Equipoise" cheese and wine evening! (ERC Equipoise)

2012-03-05 17:00: Sedimentary processes beneath Antarctic ice streams (Poul Christoffersen - Scott Polar Research Institute)

2012-03-12 17:00: The Meanderings and Maunderings of an Old Petroleum Geologist in South America and The Middle East (Peter Llewellyn)

2012-04-26 17:00: Geohazards in On-shore Energy Projects (David Shilston - president designate of the Geological Society)

2012-10-08 17:00: I know what you did last Summer (Part II and Part III students )

2012-10-15 17:00: Nabro Volcano, Eritrea (Dr. Clive Oppenheimer)

2012-10-22 17:00: Hydrocarbon exploration trends – is the past the key to the future?  (Andy Leonard, BP )

2012-10-29 17:00: Engineering in Sediments  (Prof. Malcolm Bolton, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group)

2012-11-05 17:00: Ice cores, climate and interglacials (Prof. Eric Wolff, BAS)

2012-11-12 17:00: The temperature of the top of the mantle (Prof. Dan McKenzie )

2012-11-19 17:00:  Earthquake Damage Assessment: how, where and why? (Dr. Roxane Foulser-Piggott, CARLtd )

2012-11-26 17:00: Glaciovolcanic sequences and reconstructing past Antarctic ice sheets  (Professor John Smellie (University of Leicester, Dept of Geology))

2013-01-21 17:00: Sourcing Antarctic ice rafted debris: potential and pitfalls for recording past ice sheet dynamics (Dr. Michael Flowerdew)

2013-01-28 17:00: The geological record of ocean Acidification (Prof. Andy Ridgwell, University of Bristol)

2013-02-04 17:00: Tracing Visitors To Our Shores Over The Last 5000 Years (Prof. Jane Evans, BGS)

2013-02-12 16:30: In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth (Dr. Rob Ellam )

2013-02-18 17:00: Terrestrial biodiversity in Antarctica  (Prof. Peter Convey, BAS)

2013-02-21 15:30: Rates of Ocean Acidification: linked to Oceanic Extinction Patterns? (Dr. Ellen Thomas (Yale))

2013-02-25 17:00: Early Terrestrial Animals (Dr. Russell Garwood (University of Manchester))

2013-03-04 17:00: Geological Mapping of British Antarctic Territory (Dr. Teal Riley. BAS)

2013-03-11 17:00: Antarctic sea-ice and the global climate (Dr. Claire Allen, BAS)

2013-03-13 16:30: '50 Shades of Grey: Communicating Geology' (Prof. Iain Stewart (University of Plymouth))

2013-10-14 17:00: I (want to) know what you did last summer! (Part 2 and Part 3 students)

2013-10-21 17:00: Palaeontology and the tree of life (Dr Robert Asher (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-28 17:00: From our own correspondent: BBC Stories (Professor Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-29 17:00: Mapping tips tricks and tales (Part 2 students)

2013-11-04 17:00: Why the ground matters: why tunnels need geologists (Thomas Robinson (London Bridge Associates))

2013-11-11 17:00: Geological mapping: from maps to models (Dr Rachel Dearden and Mr Holger Kessler (British Geological Survey))

2013-11-18 17:00: The role of Innovation and Technology in meeting future Energy Challenges (Dr Keith Gerdes (President of the European Region of the AAPG))

2013-11-25 17:00: Evolution of dinosaur respiratory systems and what it might mean (Dr Paul Barrett (National History Museum))

2013-12-02 17:00: Nanoparticles in Sandstone Groundwaters (Professor John Tellam (University of Birmingham))

2014-01-20 17:00: The origin of higher taxa: reflections on the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological circumstances (Dr Tom Kemp (University of Oxford))

2014-01-27 17:00: A philosophy for geology: Charles Lyell and the uniformity of nature (Professor Jim Secord (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-03 17:00: Behind the Scenes of Science Broadcasting: How science TV and radio programmes are made and how you can get involved. (Anna Lacey (BBC))

2014-02-10 17:00: The Pleistocene History of Birmingham (Sebastian Gibson)

2014-02-17 17:00: 5 million years of tropical ocean temperature evolution (Dr Charlotte O'Brien (University of Oxford))

2014-02-24 17:00: 101 years of Geochronology and the EARTHTIME revolution (2003 to present) (Dan Condon, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey)

2014-03-03 17:00: Foraminifera as bioindicators of marine environments (Sigal Abramovic (Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva))

2014-03-10 16:30: Underground laboratories for geological disposal research (Dr Adrian Bath (Intellesci))

2014-10-13 17:00: Exploring the controls on earthquakes and tectonics; from the plains of India to the greatest mountain range on Earth (Dr Alex Copley (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-20 17:00: Active tectonics and geomorphology (Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-27 17:00: Shell Seminar - Life as a Shell Graduate (Amy Nicholson & Catherine Wasse (Shell))

2014-11-03 17:00: Darwin's Beagle  fossils and their significance for his evolutionary thought (Professor Adrian Lister (Natural History Museum))

2014-11-10 18:00: Darwin’s “beloved barnacles” - an evolutionary success story (Professor Andrew Gale (University of Portsmouth))

2014-11-17 17:00: Getting to the root of the Gamburtsev Mountains: enigma hidden beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet (Dr Fausto Ferraccioli (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-11-24 17:00: Dates, Rates, Ages and Stages: New developments in determining metamorphic timescales (Dr Clare Warren (Open University))

2014-12-01 17:00: Taking the "absolute" temperature in ice cores: another of those dreaded Physics lectures (Professor Hubertus Fischer (University of Bern))

2015-01-19 17:00: Food for thought: Edible explorations of volcanic processes (Dr Alison Rust (University of Bristol))

2015-01-26 17:00: Earthquakes triggered by seismic waves (Professor Emily Brodsky (University of California Santa Cruz))

2015-02-02 17:00: Does the kiss of a LIP ever linger for long? (Professor Conall Mac Niocaill (University of Oxford))

2015-02-09 17:00: Learning about the early Solar System from cometary dust (Dr Natalie Starkey (Open University))

2015-02-16 17:00: The transition to a forested planet: Devonian forest ecosystems in New York and Svalbard (Dr Chris Berry (University of Cardiff))

2015-02-23 17:00: Copper Giants: Geology, Genesis and New Pathways to Discovery (Dr Jamie Wilkinson (Natural History Museum))

2015-03-02 17:00: Novel applications of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analyses: rock, ice and nanoparticles (Dr Carl Stevenson (University of Birmingham))

2015-03-05 17:00: ERC Equipoise Wine & Cheese Evening 2015 (Dr Adam Law & Nicola Pocock (ERC Equipoise))

2015-03-09 17:00: New Jurassic Dinosaurs from the Gobi Desert of Western China (Professor James Clark & Professor Catherine Forster (George Washington University))

2015-03-13 13:00: The lithospheric structure of Pangea (Professor Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 13:30: Fire on Earth: an intimate history (Professor Andrew Scott (Royal Holloway University of London))

2015-03-13 14:45: Enceladus - a miniature, active ice-world (Professor Francis Nimmo (University of California Santa Cruz))

2015-03-13 15:15: A few evolutionary myths (Professor Simon Conway Morris)

2015-03-13 15:45: Imaging Moving Wet Stuff: An Introduction to Seismic Oceanography (Professor Nicky White (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 17:00: Ophiolite insights into the oxygen isotope composition of the Cambrian ocean (Dr Sasha Turchyn (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 17:30: Field observations of the hydraulic jump phenomenon in turbidite deposits of the Tabernas Basin, Spain (Tom McCormick-Cox (Shell))

2015-10-12 17:00: Reactive Transport in Aqueous Geochemistry: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (Dr Benjamin Tutolo (University of Oxford))

2015-10-19 17:00: Forensic Geology - Hero or Villain? (Dr Andrew Moncrieff (Hawkins))

2015-10-26 17:00: General Artificial Intelligence: The Great Failure of Computer Science (& The Impending Success of Geology) (Matouš Ptáček (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-02 17:00: Shifting Sediment Sources in the World's Longest RIver: An 8,000-year Record From Northern Sudan (Prof Jamie Woodward (The University of Manchester))

2015-11-09 17:00: The Long-Range Societal Impacts of Large Eruptions (Professor Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-16 17:00: Crustal Melting in the Himalaya, Collision tectonics and the Origin of Granite (Professor Nigel Harris (The Open University))

2015-11-23 17:00: The role of meta-stable fluids in present-day surface processes on Mars: a laboratory investigation (Dr Susan Conway (The Open University))

2015-11-30 17:00: The Search For New Planets (Maximilian Guenther (University of Cambridge))

2016-01-18 17:00: Mountains to Deserts: Insights from Garnet (Dr Anna Bird (University of Hull))

2016-01-25 17:00: Changing the paradigm - new views of magmatic systems provide new perspectives on volcanic processes (Professor Katharine Cashman (University of Bristol))

2016-02-01 17:00: The Ignorance Project (Ekbal Hussain (University of Leeds; Geology for Global Development))

2016-02-08 17:00: Landscape Response to Active Normal Faulting: Rivers, Rates and Dates (Dr Alexander Whittaker (Imperial College, London))

2016-02-15 17:00: Climate Change Impacts in Polar Regions: Lessons from Antarctic Moss Bank Archives (Professor Howard Griffiths (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-22 17:00: Dr Woodward's Cabinet of Dangerous Dreams: Geology in the Age of Enlightenment (Dr Kenneth McNamara (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-29 17:00: Linking Earth’s Deep Interior with its Surface Evolution: Constraints from Galápagos Volcanoes (Dr Sally A Gibson (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-07 17:00: Dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park (Professor Joe Cain (University College London))

2016-10-10 17:00: The evolution of the early solar system: What magnetism can tell us (James Bryson, Cambridge)

2016-10-17 17:00: The secret life of magma revealed by zoning patterns in volcanic crystals (Prof. Jon Blundy, Bristol )

2016-10-24 17:00: Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet (David Rothery, Open University)

2016-10-31 17:00: Abiotic chemical cycling on earth and beyond (Dr Oli Shorttle, Cambridge)

2016-11-07 17:00: Rocks and Stones: Geology in the Built Environment (Ruth Siddall, UCL)

2016-11-14 17:00: Populating a post-extinction world: the resurgence of vertebrate diversity in the early Carboniferous (Prof. Jenny Clack, Zoology)

2016-11-21 17:00: #ArchivesRock - treasures from the Sedgwick Museum Archive (Sandra Freshney, Sedgwick Museum)

2016-11-28 17:00:  Hot Rocks Under Our Feet; Seismic Imaging of Igneous Geology in Sedimentary Basins (Prof. Christopher Jackson, Imperial )

2017-01-23 17:30: What keeps the Earth habitable? (Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL Birkbeck)

2017-01-30 17:30: Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet (David Rothery, Open University)

2017-02-06 17:30: Magmatic flare ups along continental margin arcs: evidence from the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia (Teal Riley, BAS)

2017-02-07 17:00: 20,000 Rocks Under The Sea: Journey to the Pito Deep (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-02-13 17:30: Humans as the new geology (Mike Ellis, BGS)

2017-02-20 17:30: PhD Showcase (Lawrence Cowton, Victoria Honour, Luke Grinham)

2017-02-27 17:30: Volcano hunting in Papua New Guinea (Lois Salem, Cambridge)

2017-03-02 17:00: RESCHEDULED: ERC Equipoise careers presentation (ERC Equipoise )

2017-03-06 17:30: Lessons from a restless caldera: multi-parameter studies to understand the past, present and future of volcanic activity at Santorini volcano, Greece (Tamsin Mather, Oxford)

2017-03-13 17:30: Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater (Auriol Rae, Imperial)

2017-03-17 10:30: Sedgwick Club Conference 2017 (Speakers from Cambridge and beyond...)

2017-03-17 11:30: Cosmic Dust: The fastest little rocks on Earth (Matt Genge, Imperial)

2017-03-17 13:30: It's O(1) compaction length to Cambridge: successes and challenges for magma dynamics since McKenzie (1984) (Rich Katz, Oxford)

2017-03-17 14:00: A lot of hot air: gas in volcanic eruptions (Marie Edmonds, Cambridge)

2017-03-17 14:45: How to weigh a dinosaur (Susie Maidment, Cambridge)

2017-03-17 15:15: Indirect signatures of life in the alluvial stratigraphic record (Neil Davies, Cambridge)

2017-03-17 16:15: Planetary geology and the long-term scientific benefits of space resources (Ian Crawford, UCL Birkbeck)

2017-10-09 17:30: Isotopes in volcanic emissions: links to Earth’s ancient past and not-so-distant future (Emily Mason (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-16 17:30: G5a: the geology, origin and celebrity of Shap Granite. (Dr Nigel Woodcock (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-23 17:30: Redrawing the Dinosaur family tree (Matt Baron (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-30 17:30: Living with Earthquakes: bridging the physical and social sciences (Dr Emily So (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-06 17:30: Department PhD Showcase (tbc)

2017-11-13 17:30: The perils of planetary geology: why no one should ever complain about mapping in Britain and Ireland (Jack Wright (Open University))

2017-11-20 17:30: National Geographic Explorers (Dr Claire McNulty (National Geographic Society))

2017-11-27 17:30: Predation In The Cambrian (Stephen Pates (University of Oxford))

2018-01-22 17:30: Disaster Risk Reduction: Seismic hazard analysis in Nepal (Dr Victoria Stevens (RMS))

2018-01-29 17:30: Development and Hydrogeology in Nepal: Spring Revival Experiments in the Mid Hills  (Matt Lees (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-05 17:30: Killing Machines: Studying Predation in the Fossil Record and Beyond (Alice Pullen (British Antarctic Survey))

2018-02-12 17:30: Illuminating the origins of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems  (Dr Emily Mitchell (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2018-02-19 17:30: Chronicling Ethiopia’s explosive volcanic past using lake sediments (Dr Catherine Martin-Jones ( Department of Geography, University of Cambridge))

2018-02-26 17:30: The formation of the solar system (Prof Sara Russell (Natural History Museum))

2018-03-05 17:30: Conservation at the Natural History Museum London (Lorraine Cornish (Natural History Museum))

2018-03-12 17:30: Sedimentology of Paralic Reservoirs: applications to a super-giant oil field in South Iraq (Emma Jude (BP))

2018-10-08 17:30: My summer was better than yours...  (Part II and Part II students)

2018-10-15 17:30: Forming planetary cores without magma oceans: an alternative view from in-situ tomographic imaging at extreme conditions (Dr Geoff Bromiley - University of Edinburgh)

2018-10-22 17:30: PhD showcase (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-29 17:30: Assessment of lithospheric controls on Mesozoic volcanism in Mongolia (Thomas Sheldrick - University of Leicester )

2018-11-05 17:30: The causes and consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (Professor Rachel Flecker - University of Bristol)

2018-11-12 17:30: Patterns of tetrapod diversification on land (and possible explanations) (Dr Roger Benson - University of Oxford)

2018-11-19 17:30: Taking the planet to the IMAX: Diving into the volcano and other stories (Dr Katherine Dobson - Durham University)

2018-11-26 17:30: Microfossil and model constraints on the global climate during the Cambrian ‘explosion’ (Tom Hearing - University of Leicester)

2019-01-21 18:00: #PlumeTeam - tracing a massive Hawaiian eruption from source to exposed communities (Emily Mason - University of Cambridge)

2019-01-28 18:00: Cornish Lithium and life as an exploration geologist (Lucy Crane - Cornish Lithium)

2019-02-04 18:00: Mental Wellbeing During Fieldwork - A Potential Barrier to Broader Diversity in Geosciences and Related Disciplines (Dr Cédric John - Imperial College London)

2019-02-11 18:00: Rapid physical weathering in the Arctic and impacts on modern atmosphere CO2 (Dr Emily Stevenson - University of Cambridge)

2019-02-18 18:00: Mars InSight: Geophysical investigations on another planet (Dr Robert Myhill - University of Bristol)

2019-02-25 18:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Camilla Penney - University of Cambridge)

2019-03-04 18:00: Polar Operations – the support behind the science (Simon Garrod - British Antarctic Survey)

2019-03-11 18:00: Granite and Ice Cream: ‘Meltamorphism' and Crystal Growth at (Relatively) Low Temperatures (Allen F. Glazner - University of North Carolina)

2019-03-15 13:00: Ophiolite perspectives on oceanic mantle compositional heterogeneity (Dr Brian O'Driscoll - University of Manchester)

2019-03-15 13:30: The Impact of Wintertime Sea Ice Anomalies on High Heat Flux Events in the Iceland and Greenland Seas (Dr James Pope - British Antarctic Survey)

2019-03-15 15:00: Earthquakes of the Silk Road (Dr Richard Walker - University of Oxford)

2019-03-15 15:30: Building resilience through drone-based strategies for volcano monitoring (Dr Emma Liu - University of Cambridge)

2019-03-15 16:45: Motion in the fossil record: Reconstructing dinosaur limb kinematics from fossil footprints (Dr Peter Falkingham - Liverpool John Moores University)

2019-03-15 17:15: Sink or Stall: Subduction Transition Zone Dynamics (Dr Saskia Goes - Imperial College London)

2019-10-14 18:00: Hydrogeology: why is it important? (Victoria Price (Alumna))

2019-10-21 18:00: Magmatism and volcanism on Io: Understanding the interiors of lava-worlds (Dan Spencer (University of Oxford))

2019-10-28 18:00: I know what you did last summer... (Part II Students)

2019-11-04 18:00: Quantifying fault slip over multiple earthquake cycles: the past is the key to the present (Dr Laura Gregory (University of Leeds))

2019-11-11 18:00: Intra-slab seismicity: an under-appreciated source of seismic hazard (Dr Timothy Craig (University of Leeds))

2019-11-18 18:00: Oil and water don't mix: a view inside the scientific response to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Professor David Valentine (UCSB))

2019-11-25 18:00: Exploring the Hydrothermal Evolution of Ocean Crust using Scientific Ocean Drilling (Dr Rosalind Coggon (University of Southampton))

2019-12-02 18:00: The adventures of the Curiosity rover in Gale crater: exploring Mars geology by robot (Professor Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College, London))

2020-01-20 18:00: The Fifth Element: Boron recycling in the Iceland mantle plume (Dr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2020-01-27 18:00: Birds made of stone (Dr Daniel Field)

2020-02-03 18:00: Geology, resources and sovereignty: the ongoing effort to map Arctic Canada (Professor Marc St-Onge, Geological Survey of Canada and University of Oxford)

2020-02-10 18:00: Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): early animals under the microscope (Dr Tom Harvey, University of Leicester)

2020-02-17 18:00: GfGD-Sedgwick Talk (Sanna Markkanen (CISL) and Allie Mitchell (Wardell Armstrong))

2020-02-24 18:00: Rivers in the Rock Record: From Utah to Wales (Dr Catherine Russell, University of Leicester)

2020-03-02 18:00: Highs and lows of the South Atlantic (Dr Lucia Perez Diaz, University of Oxford)

2020-03-09 18:00: Conservation Palaeobiology:  utilising the fossil record to address the current biodiversity crisis (Dr. Alex Liu (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2020-03-13 14:00: Erebus (Professor Clive Oppenheimer, University of Cambridge)

2020-03-13 14:40: How does the Earth recover from extreme climate perturbations? (Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL)

2020-03-13 16:25: The evolution of sea floor ecology in the Cenozoic of Antarctica (Dr Rowan Whittle - British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge)

2020-03-13 17:20: Lost Meteorites of Antarctica (Dr Jane MacArthur, Manchester)

2020-10-12 18:00: Journey to the Centre of the earthquake: how does damage affect earthquake source properties? (Louisa Brotherson - University of Liverpool)

2020-10-19 18:00: Quaternary Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction (Professor Philip Gibbard - Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-26 18:00: Towards an inclusive and global Earth science: unravelling the legacies of empire (Dr Liz Hide - Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-09 18:00: Exploration Geology, and Looking for Lithium in the UK (Lucy Crane - Cornish Lithium)

2020-11-16 18:00: Titan's Atmosphere in the Cassini Era and Beyond (Dr Melody Sylvestre - University of Bristol)

2020-11-23 18:00: Direct Dating of Hydrothermal Cu-Au Systems Using Calcite U-Pb Dating (Dr Catherine Mottram - University of Portsmouth)

2020-11-30 18:00: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs (Dr Susannah Maidment - Natural History Museum)

2021-01-25 17:00: Geodynamic of rifted margins: pre-rift inheritance and post-rift movements (Dr Mohamed Gouiza - University of Leeds)

2021-02-01 17:00:  Improving EDI in academic and field settings (Anya Lawrence, University of Birmingham; Ben Fernando, University of Oxford)

2021-02-08 17:00: Responsible sourcing of metals – geologists help get it right from the start! (Professor Frances Wall - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter)

2021-02-15 17:00: Predictive and invertible models of sediment geochemistry from catchment to continental scales (Alex Lipp, Imperial College London )

2021-02-22 17:00: Title TBC (Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford)

2021-03-01 17:00: The Energy Transition in industry and its impact on earth science careers (Sir Mark Moody-Stuart)

2021-03-01 17:00: Title TBC (Dr Sean McMahon, University of Edinburgh)

2021-03-08 17:00: The birth, death and reincarnation of Snowball Earth (Professor Ian Fairchild)

2021-03-15 17:00: Pseudofossils and the Search for Life on Mars (Dr Sean McMahon - University of Edinburgh)

2021-03-26 10:00: GNSS for monitoring the earth system: earthquake and volcano deformation, ionospheric tsunami, tropospheric water vapour, sea-level rise, and so much more! (Professor Emma Hill - Earth Observatory of Singapore)

2021-03-26 10:35: Volcanic crystals as archives of pre-eruptive processes (Dr Teresa Ubide - University of Queensland)

2021-03-26 11:30: Testing of an amalgamated sill hypothesis for the origin of magic-ultramafic layered intrusions (Dr Rais Lapytov - University of the Witwatersrand)

2021-03-26 12:05: Continental reconstructions using palaeomagnetism, Title TBC (Professor Ricardo Trindade - University of Sao Paulo )

2021-03-26 14:00: When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history (Professor Dame Jane Francis - British Antarctic Survey)

2021-03-26 14:35: Surfing Cambrian shorelines: Early land-going animals and slime (Dr James Hagadorn - Denver Museum of Nature and Science)

2021-10-11 18:00: Where Do We Come From? In Search of Human Origins (Dr Amelie Beaudet, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-18 18:00: The Feeding Ecology of Mesozoic Mammals: A Biomechanical Approach (Dr Melisa Morales-Garcia, University of Bristol)

2021-10-25 18:00: Geophysics in Antarctica (Dr Alex Brisbourne, British Antarctic Survey)

2021-11-01 18:00: The Energy Transition and the Decarbonisation of Heat (Professor Andy Woods)

2021-11-08 18:00: Tracking the Earth's Mantle Through Space and Time (Dr Tiffany Barry, University of Leicester)

2021-11-15 18:00: Winchcombe: The First UK Meteorite in 30 Years (Dr Natasha Stephen, Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre)

2021-11-22 18:00: Mud Forensics - Assessing Geological Risks (Professor Andy Cundy, University of Southampton)

2021-11-29 18:00: How Do Rocks React to Outbursts from the Sun? (Dr Juliane Huebert, British Geological Survey)

2022-01-24 18:00: How the US government addresses international geological hazards and risk (Gari Mayberry, USGS)

2022-01-31 18:00: (Not) Under the Sea: how animal life first moved onto land (Dr Anthony Shillito, University of Oxford)

2022-02-07 18:00: Can a Record of Ocean Chemistry be Preserved in the Oceanic Crust? (Dr Sasha Turchyn, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-14 18:00: Impact Cratering: From Microstructure to Mass Extinction (Dr Auriol Rae, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-21 18:00: How to Choose a Career in Tackling Climate Change (Yujia Du)

2022-02-28 18:00: Seismology on Mars: how the InSight mission is revealing the internal structure of the red planet (Dr Anna Horleston, University of Bristol)

2022-03-07 18:00: What controls sediment bypass in submarine channels?: Insights from turbidity current modelling applied to the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (Adriana Crisostomo-Figueroa, University of Leeds)

2022-03-14 18:00: Building a model from scratch: Gravity, the earth’s figure, and the problems of measurement in geoscience, 1680-1924 (Miguel Ohnesorge, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-10 18:00: Rocky planet atmospheres in the solar system and beyond (Dr Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-17 18:00: The Origin of the Ornithischian Bauplan (Professor David Norman, University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences)

2023-01-23 18:00: Mapping college geology; history of building stone use in Cambridge (Dr Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences Department of the University of Cambridge)

2023-01-30 18:00: Ancient volcanic activity on the Moon: input from the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission (Prof. Lionel Wilson, Lancaster University)

2023-02-06 18:00: Computational fluid dynamics as a tool for testing functional and ecological hypotheses in fossil taxa (Dr Imran Rahman, Natural History Museum)

2023-02-13 18:00: When did humans start to influence rivers? A contribution to the Anthropocene debate (Professor Martin Gibling, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University)

2023-02-20 18:00: A Career in Hydrogeology (Victoria Price, Hydrogeologist at Mott MacDonald)

2023-02-27 18:00: Unravelling geochemical zoning in subduction zone garnet: ubiquitous patterns = ubiquitous process?  (Dr Freya George, University of Bristol)

2023-03-06 18:00: Volcanoes where the Earth rips apart: basaltic processes in the Ethiopian Rift (Dr Kevin Wong, University of Bologna)

2023-03-13 18:00: What can lab-generated earthquakes tell us about natural earthquakes? (Louisa Brotherson, University of Liverpool)

2023-10-23 18:00: Ecosystem Relocation on Snowball Earth: polar-alpine ancestry of the modern surface biosphere (Paul Hoffman - University of Victoria (BC) and Harvard University)

2023-10-30 18:00: Experiences and sustainability in mining (Katy Relph - Centamin)

2023-11-10 12:30: REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN THE BALLACHULISH AREA, SW HIGHLANDS, SCOTLAND: A NEW LOOK AT A FAMOUS OLD DEBATE (Dave Pattison - University of Calgary)

2023-11-13 18:00: Exploring Martian Geology for Signs for the Potential for Life (Benjamin Tutolo - University of Calgary)

2023-11-20 18:00: Shedding the light on shear zone development, evolution and rheology: Case studies and remaining questions (Sandra Piazolo - University of Leeds)

2023-11-27 18:00: African roots of the dinosaur family tree (Paul Barrett - Natural History Museum)

2024-01-22 18:00: Earth Systems Palaeobiology: using climate models to better understand the habitats of marine animals through geologic time (Richard Stockey - University of Southampton)

2024-01-23 19:30: Exploring Mars: 4000 Sols with the Curiosity Rover (Professor John Bridges - University of Leicester)

2024-01-29 18:00: Microbial Metabolic Innovation: A Constraint On The Early Animal Fossil Record? (Phil Vixseboxse - University of Cambridge)

2024-02-05 18:00: Exploring the seafloor: the rock record of hydrothermal fluid circulation (Jessica Warren - University of Delaware)

2024-02-12 18:00: Understanding the circumstances surrounding Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions in Australia (Matthew Adeleye - Department of Geography)

2024-02-19 21:00: Disasters by design (Ekbal Hussain - British Geological Survey)

2024-02-26 18:10: Geoarchaeological evidence for climate change in Ancient Egypt (Judith Bunbury - Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-03-04 18:00: Differences in Fluvial Geomorphology between Earth and Mars (Lisanne Braat - European Space Agency)

2024-03-11 18:00: Tracing horizons of habitability on Venus (Sean Jordan - Institute of Astronomy)

2024-04-23 11:00: Sedgwick Club Conference 2024 (N/A)

2024-04-23 11:30: Destruction and regrowth of lithospheric mantle beneath large igneous provinces (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Simon Stephenson - University of Oxford)

2024-04-23 14:00: Towards developing an Indian Ocean Dipole Watch System for Southeast Asia (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Dr Shipra Jain - University College London)

2024-04-23 14:45: Journey to the centre of the earthquake (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Professor Daniel Faulkner - University of Liverpool)

2024-04-23 15:45: A journey in (geo)science communication (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Professor Chris Jackson - Jacobs)

2024-04-23 16:30: What has Earth's magnetic field ever done for us? The role of the geodynamo in creating a habitable planet (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Dr Claire Nichols - University of Oxford)

2024-10-14 18:00: Forams! Time, evolution, climate (Professor Paul Pearson - UCL)

2024-10-21 18:00: Phanerozoic seawater chemistry: Using Monte Carlo to to quantify calcium, magnesium and sulfate concentrations (Dr Ross Whiteford - Royal Holloway)

2024-11-04 18:00: Linking Geology and Art in the field - insights from mountains and fold-thrust structures (Phoebe Sleath - University of Aberdeen)

2024-11-11 18:00: A Short History of Plate Tectonics (Dr Robert Seidel - Sedgwick Museum)

2024-11-18 18:00: Living with Volcanoes (Professor David Pyle - University of Oxford)

2024-11-25 18:00: The Hunt for Invisible Miners: Bioprospecting for Sustainable Mineral Management in Arsenic Rich Environments. (Neda Tomlinson - Natural History Muesum)

2024-12-02 18:00: Searching the Core-Mantle Boundary for the roots of plumes (James Atkins (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-27 18:00: The magic of log ratios: A different look at geochemistry (Dr Max Frenzel - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

2025-02-03 18:00: Measuring landscape change in the polar regions with thermochronometry (Dr Matthew Fox - UCL)

2025-02-10 18:00: Growing a Carboniferous Forest: Planning, Developing and Executing a Unique Palaeontological Excavation & Visitor Attraction (Dr Tim Astrop - Brymbo Fossil Forest)

2025-02-17 18:00: How to run a library: 20 years of employment  (Sarah Humbert (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-19 18:00: I know what you did last summer Pt3 version (Part 3 students)

2025-03-03 18:00: Context from marine geological records for present West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics and implications for future change (Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, British Antarctic Survey)

2025-03-10 18:00: Critical Transitions: Responsible Resource Management in a Complex World (Dr Eva Marquis - University of Exeter)

2025-03-17 18:00: Influence of metamorphism and partial melting on creating LCT-enriched granitic melts (Dr Barbara Kunz - The Open University)

2025-10-13 18:00: The Bushveld Intrusion: Geology, Petrology and Mineral Deposit formation (Professor Wolfgang Maier, Cardiff University)

2025-11-03 18:00: Monitoring Coastal Cliff erosion using Distributed Sensing (Dr Jess Johnson, UEA)