Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)


2008-02-10 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Jeanne Gherardi Scao)

2008-10-14 16:30: U-Th-Pb isotopes in continental mantle roots: Tracing lithospheric metasomatism, melting and anthropogenic contamination (Nadine Wittig, Durham University)

2008-10-21 16:30: Monogenetic Volcanism: A Window into Mantle Heterogeneity and Magmatic Processes (Ninad Bondre (Nature Geoscience, London))

2008-10-28 16:30: Driving mechanisms for globally correlatable Phanerozoic eustatic sequences? (Mike Simmons (Netflex Petroleum, Oxford))

2008-11-04 16:30: Solving the high level nuclear waste problem (Lou Vance (ANSTO, Australia))

2008-11-11 16:30: Going with the flow: modelling the distribution and life history of Antarctic krill (Sally Thorpe (British Antarctic Survey) - Challenger Talk)

2008-11-18 16:30: Modern Himalayan erosion: a geochemical approach of river transport (Christian France-Lanord (CRPG, Nancy, France))

2008-11-25 16:30: Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle (Catherine Jeandel (LEGOS, Toulouse, France))

2008-12-02 16:30: Quantifying Fault Damage Zone Permeability in Crystalline Rocks (Dan Faulkner (University of Liverpool))

2009-01-20 16:30: Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle (Lars Stixrude, University College London)

2009-01-27 16:30: Catastrophic megafloods in the English Channel explain how Britain became an island (Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2009-02-03 16:30: Heavy Stable Isotopes in Marine Geochemistry - Insights from Cadmium (Mark Rehkamper, Imperial College London)

2009-02-10 16:30: Deglacial Meridional Overturning changes inferred from sedimentary 231Pa/230Th records from the North Atlantic (Jeanne Gherardi Scao, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)

2009-02-17 16:30: Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe (Don Dingwell, University of Munich)

2009-02-24 16:30: Mineral magnetism and palaeoclimate (Ted Evans, University of Alberta)

2009-03-03 16:30: Characterising geomorphic responses to tectonic perturbation:  Insights and implications. (Alex Whittaker, Imperial College London)

2009-03-10 16:30: Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle (Catherine Jeandel, LEGOS, Toulouse)

2009-04-09 11:30: Marginal stability of explosive volcanic columns (Guillaume Carrazo)

2009-04-28 16:30: The solidification of gabbros (Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-05 16:30: Implications of Quaternary sea-level variability for the debate on Messinian Mediterranean lower evaporite cycles (Eelco Rohling)

2009-05-12 16:30: Orbital forcing of western Antarctic Peninsula Holocene climate (Amelia Shevenell)

2009-05-19 16:30: Accretion of the Earth and formation of the core (Bernie Wood, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2009-10-13 16:30: Constraints on mantle geochemistry and planetary differentiation derived from Fe isotopes (Helen Williams, University of Oxford)

2009-10-20 16:30: Structure and Development of Oceanic Core Complexes (Roger C. Searle, Durham University)

2009-11-03 16:30: Optimal excitation of Atlantic ocean variability and implications for predictability (Laure Zanna, University of Oxford)

2009-11-10 16:30: Up the down escalator: Formation and exhumation of (ultra) high pressure rocks (Clare Warren, Open University)

2009-11-17 16:30: Morphologic and Geochemical Evolution of the Submarine Kermadec – Tonga Arc (Ian Wright, National Oceanography Centre Southampton)

2009-11-24 16:30: The oxygen side of sulphate: Sulphur and oxygen isotope effects related to microbial sulphur cycling (Benjamin Brunner, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany)

2009-12-01 17:00: The cycle of petrogenic organic carbon during orogeny: from metamorphism to erosion (Olivier Beyssac, CNRS, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris, France)

2010-01-26 16:30: High 3He/4He in proto-Iceland plume basalts: implications for the deep Earth (Fin Stuart, SUERC, East Kilbride)

2010-02-02 16:30: Fractionation effects in turbidity currents (Bill McCaffrey, University of Leeds)

2010-02-09 16:30: Cradle of life or barren wasteland? Geochemical constraints on early martian water (Nick Tosca, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-16 16:30: Bedrock Rivers (Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University)

2010-02-23 16:30: 4.5 Gyr of maturation of the Upper Continental Crust?  Evidence from stable isotope ratios. (Ed Tipper, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-02 16:30: Challenging the assumptions of functional analysis of fossils: diet, feeding and tooth wear analysis. (Mark Purnell, University of Leicester)

2010-03-09 16:30: Millennial scale variability in the oxygen minimum zone off Baja California inferred by elemental composition over the past 70 kyr (Kazuyo Tachikawa, CEREGE)

2010-04-27 16:30: Methane plumes from the seafloor of West Spitsbergen: do they come from dissociation of methane hydrate caused by global warming? (Graham Westbrook, University of Birmingham)

2010-05-11 16:30: Dust Provenance in Polar Regions (Aloys Bory, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)

2010-05-25 16:30: Excursions and paleointensity: Integration of magnetic and oxygen isotope stratigraphies (Jim Channell, University of Florida)

2010-10-12 16:30: Tracking the solidification of a basaltic crystal mush (Madeleine Humphreys, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-19 16:30: The motion and rheology of the Indian plate, and their effects upon Tibetan tectonics (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-26 16:30: Melting above the (nominally) anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs (Richard Katz, University of Oxford)

2010-11-02 16:30: Deforming the Earth: Runny Solids in the Deep Mantle (David Dobson, University College London)

2010-11-09 16:30: Rock records: when two are better than one (Andrew B. Smith, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum)

2010-11-16 16:30: Pleistocene glacial cycles: interactions amongst ice, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2. (Peter Huybers, Harvard)

2010-11-23 16:30: Middle Miocene Expansion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Triggered by pCO2 decline (Gavin Foster, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

2010-11-30 16:30: Reactive melt migration and the evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt (C. Johan Lissenberg, Cardiff University)

2011-01-25 16:30: Climate change and volcanism: The Siberian Traps and Yellowstone volcanic provinces (Marc Reichow, University of Leicester)

2011-02-01 16:30: Comparative palaeoecology of mass extinction events (Richard Twitchett, University of Plymouth)

2011-02-08 16:30: Large scale tectonic framework of SE Asia and the structure and deformation of the lithosphere beneath SE Tibet (Rob van der Hilst, MIT)

2011-02-22 16:30:  Recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction (Prof. Mike Benton, University of Bristol)

2011-03-01 16:30: Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on S oxidation processes in modern and ancient ecosystems (Aubrey Zerkle, University of Newcastle)

2011-03-08 16:30: The microbial biogeochemistry of the sediment/water interface - players, processes, and rates (Dr Volker Bruchert, Stockholm University)

2011-05-03 16:30: Ocean Ridge Perspectives on Mantle Heterogeneity (Charlie Langmuir, Harvard)

2011-05-10 16:30: Volcanic-Magmatic Interplays on Mid-Ocean Ridge Construction and Petrogenesis (Ken Rubin, University of Hawaii)

2011-05-17 16:30: In situ mineral carbonation (and hydration) in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (and geodynamics) (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2011-09-20 16:00: Simulation of seismic wave propagation through geometrically complex basins - the Dead Sea basin (Michael Tserarsky, Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel)

2011-10-11 16:30: Extreme change in sulfide concentrations near the Bosporus Inlet (Black Sea) during the Little Ice Age tracked using molybdenum isotopes (Gail Arnold, MPI Bremen)

2011-10-18 16:30: Relating atmospheric CO2 levels to biogeochemical processes (Phil Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2011-10-25 16:30: Virtual Fossils and the Herefordshire Lagerstatte (Mark Sutton, Imperial College)

2011-11-01 16:30: Strontium in the oceans: Where does it come from and where does it go? (Chris Pearce, Open University)

2011-11-08 16:30: Zooming into the subduction plate interface:  constraints from petrology, geodynamics and modelling (Philippe Agard, University Paris VI)

2011-11-15 16:30: Unravelling the complexity of the geometry and nucleation phase of Apennininc extensional systems: the case of the 2009  MW 6.1 L’Aquila normal fault system (Central Italy). (Lauro Chiaraluce, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome)

2011-11-22 16:30: Tracing tephra horizons in the Greenland ice-cores and the potential for integrating disparate proxy records in the North Atlantic region (Siwan Davies, University of Swansea)

2011-11-29 16:30: Silicate liquid immiscibility in tholeiitic basalt (Bernard Charlier, MIT)

2012-01-24 16:30: The capture of the Tsangpo by the Brahmuputra River and rapid exhumation of the Namche Barwa eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya:  testing the erosion-tectonic feedback hypothesis by new  provenance methods using rutile and zircon U-Pb in situ dating, and im (Randy Parrish, NIGL and University of Leicester)

2012-01-31 16:30: Bubbles and Bangs: Volatile Controls on Magma Fragmentation (Kathy Cashman, University of Oregon)

2012-02-07 16:30: Evolution and climate in the Cenozoic oceans (Paul Pearson, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University)

2012-02-14 16:30: Under the geological rug: The fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration (Jerome Neufeld, BPI, Cambridge)

2012-02-21 13:00: NOTE TIME! 1-2pm! Cryptic Neoproterozoic mountain building events around the margin of Rodinia (Rob Strachan, University of Portsmouth)

2012-02-28 16:30: The orbital pacing of Palaeogene hyperthermals - can we believe model results? (Dan Lunt, University of Bristol)

2012-03-06 16:30: Ocean turbulence, fronts, and the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom (Dr. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-13 16:30: A window on deep geological time: exceptional fossils studied using new methods (Roy Wogelius, University of Manchester)

2012-05-01 16:30: Intrusive LIPs: Petrological Interpretation of Deep Crustal Cumulate Bodies beneath Oceanic Hotspot Provinces (Mark Richards, Univeristy of California, Berkeley)

2012-05-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota)

2012-05-15 16:30: SCALING LAWS FOR AGGRADATION AND PROGRADATION  OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD (Peter Sadler, University of California at Riverside)

2012-05-22 16:30: The eve of biomineralisation (Rachel Wood, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

2012-10-09 16:30: Geological Histories of Earth and Mars (Vic Baker, University of Arizona)

2012-10-16 16:30: Magma chamber processes in ferrobasaltic layered intrusions (Oliver Namur)

2012-10-23 16:30: Life and times in the Cambrian and its stratigraphic constraints on Himalayan geology, tectonics, and uplift history (Prof. Nigel Hughes, University of California, Riverside)

2012-10-30 16:30: Orogenesis - CO2 source or sink? Insight from quantification of fossil organic carbon weathering rates in Taiwan (Robert Hilton, Department of Geography, University of Durham)

2012-11-06 16:30: Fingerprints of past carbon cycle-climate changes in the Bern3D model (Fortunat Joos, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)

2012-11-13 16:30: Stable vanadium isotope fractionation at high temperatures: a proxy for oxygen fugacity?  (Julie Prytulak, Imperial College)

2012-11-20 16:30: The origin of a phylum: soft-bodied fossils and early mollusc evolution (Martin Smith, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-27 16:30: The source of siderophile elements in the silicate Earth – clues from the Archean rock record (Matthias Willbold, University of Bristol)

2013-01-16 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Stefano Bernasconi,, ETH Zurich)

2013-01-22 16:30: Banded Iron Formation and Ancient Life (Professor Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta)

2013-01-29 16:30: Decoding the fossil record of the earliest animals and their embryology (Professor Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2013-02-05 16:30: Walking on broken glass: investigating magmatic processes in explosive and effusive rhyolitic eruptions (Hugh Tuffen, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University)

2013-02-12 16:30: In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth (Rob Ellam, SUERC, Min Soc Distinuished Lecturer)

2013-02-19 16:30: (U-Th)/He dating of secondary Fe- and Mn-oxides in bedrock (Peter Reiners, University of Arizona)

2013-02-26 16:30: Clumped-isotope geochemistry of carbonates: A new tool to study geological processes from palaeoclimatology to low-grade metamorphism (Stefano Bernasconi)

2013-03-12 16:30: Searching for the earliest signs of cellular life on Earth (Martin Brasier, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2013-05-07 16:30: Seismic Tremors and Wagging Magma: Key Precursors of Explosive Volcanism? (Marc Jellinek, University of British Columbia)

2013-05-14 16:30: Magma ocean Influence on early atmosphere composition and mass (Marc Hirschmann, University of Minnesota)

2013-10-08 16:30: Challenges in constraining and understanding Strombolian (and Hawaiian) volcanism (Bruce Houghton, University of Hawaii)

2013-10-15 16:30: Why don't tomographic models have error bars? (David Al-Attar, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-22 16:30: Past Abrupt Climate Change and Freshwater Forcing: What do we know? (Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts)

2013-10-29 16:30: Effects of source heterogeneity on segmentation and melt production at mid-ocean ridges (Vincent Salters, Florida State)

2013-11-05 16:30: Magma intrusive rates and the growth of melt reservoirs and magma chambers (Catherine Annen, University of Bristol)

2013-11-12 16:30: Ni partitioning between olivine and silicate melts, and insights into Hawaiian petrogenesis (Andrew Matzen, University of Oxford)

2013-11-19 16:30: Sea ice in a Cretaceous greenhouse world? (Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-11-26 16:30: Why no Phanerozoic Snowball Earth? Changes in biogeochemical cycling across the Precambrian-Cambrian transition (Dr Graham Shields-Zhou (UCL))

2013-12-03 16:30: Atmospheres and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets  (Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-21 16:30: The deep ocean's role in glacial cycles with an emphasis on stratification and potential energy storage (Jess Adkins, Caltech)

2014-01-28 16:30: The Frasnian-Famennian Mass Extinction (John Marshall, University of Southampton)

2014-02-04 16:30: The pulse of the Southern Ocean (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol)

2014-02-11 16:30: Hydrated peridotite as a sink for boron: implications for mantle heterogeneity and arc volcanism (Jason Harvey, University of Leeds)

2014-02-18 16:30: Hydrothermal sediments are a source of water column Fe and Mn in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica (Dr Rachel Mills ( Southampton University))

2014-02-25 16:30: The application of X-ray computed  microtomography to Geosciences: examples from the world of Volcanology and Petrology (Margherita Polacci, INGV, Italy)

2014-03-04 16:30: The Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Dr. Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh)

2014-05-06 15:30: Fast Crystal Clocks, at the Speed of Magma Ascent (Terry Plank, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

2014-10-07 16:00: The deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: what was it and why? (Madeline Miller, Harvard University)

2014-10-14 16:00: Copper isotopes and the role of sulfides during Earth’s differentiation (Paul Savage, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2014-10-22 16:00: QDG WEDNESDAY SPECIAL - Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis (Prof Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US))

2014-10-28 16:00: Reservoir architectures of flood basalt systems - a 3D Reservoir architectures of interlava systems - a 3D photogrammetric study of Eocene cliff sections, Faroe Islands (Simon Passey, CASP)

2014-11-04 16:00: Chasing waterfalls: constraining the global sulfur isotopic budget in rivers (Andrea Burke, St Andrews)

2014-11-11 16:00: Simulating radiocarbon in ocean and atmosphere through the deglaciation (Mathis Hain, University of Southampton)

2014-11-18 16:00: A Dual Rift Model for the Opening of the NE Atlantic (Richard Walker, University of Leicester)

2014-11-25 16:00: Detachment-mode seafloor spreading and the tectonics of oceanic core complexes (Antony Morris, University of Plymouth)

2014-12-02 16:00: Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates (Tom Dunkley Jones, University of Birmingham)

2015-01-20 16:00: The chalcophile (sulfur-loving) cycle: from MORB to crust (Frances Jenner, Open University)

2015-01-27 16:00: The composition of the lower mantle and its influence on the redox state of the Earth (Dan Frost, Bayreuth)

2015-02-03 16:00: Environmental effects of sulfur emitted by large-scale flood lava eruptions (Anja Schmidt, University of Leeds)

2015-02-10 16:00: Rift initiation in a continental setting: the western Balkan peridotites (Uli Faul, MIT)

2015-02-17 16:00: Influence of large Sulfur Bacteria on the Geochemistry of Coastal Sediments (Heide Schulz-Vogt, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research)

2015-02-24 16:00: Searching for Bird Origins in the Gobi Desert of China; The Middle-Upper Jurassic Shishugou Fauna of Xinjiang (Jim Clark, George Washington University)

2015-03-03 12:00: A molecular approach to the bioenergetics of sulfate reduction  (Inês Cardoso Pereira, ITQB/UNL)

2015-03-10 16:00: Greenhouse-icehouse shifts and the evolution of latitudinal diversity gradients (Alastair Crame, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-04-21 16:00: Beyond the age of fishes: assembling the other half of vertebrate diversity (Dr Matt Friedman, University of Oxford)

2015-04-28 16:00: Feedbacks  between early animal evolution and  global  geochemical cycles (Richard Boyle, University of Southern Denmark)

2015-05-05 16:00: Temperature-dependent carbon cycling in the Eocene greenhouse (Professor Paul Pearson, Cardiff University)

2015-05-12 16:00: Copper porphyries (TBC) (Steve Sparks, University of Bristol)

2015-05-19 16:00: TBD (Professor David Johnston, Harvard University)

2015-10-20 16:00: Understanding sulfur isotopes in modern and ancient marine sediments: From the microbial to the global scale (Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2015-10-27 16:00: Constraining sediment routing system responses to tectonics and climate (Alex Whittaker, Imperial College)

2015-11-03 16:00: The interplay between brittle and ductile processes at oceanic transform faults (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2015-11-10 16:00: Chilean Volcanoes constrain global models of convergent margin volcanism (Steve Turner, University of Oxford)

2015-11-17 16:00: Oscillations in stratified, bubbly magma and long-period volcanic seismicity at Kilauea, Hawaii AND The role of magmatic lithospheric thickening on arc front migration (Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon)

2015-11-24 16:00: New insights into early Cenozoic glaciation: Eocene-Oligocene climate records from IODP Exp. 318, Wilkes Land, Antarctica (Claire Huck, National Oceanography Centre, Univ of Southampton)

2015-12-01 16:00: Disparities in the evolution of multicellularity (Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2016-01-26 16:00: Principles of triple oxygen isotope geochemistry (Daniel Herwartz (University of Cologne))

2016-02-02 16:00: Himalaya: from mountains to drilling in the Bengal fan (Christian France-Lanord, Nancy)

2016-02-09 16:00: One of the many relationships between mantle petrology and atmospheric chemistry: The case of nitrogen. (Sami Mikhail, University of St Andrews)

2016-02-16 16:00: Partitioning of water fluxes across the  Himalayas (Christoff Andermann, GFZ Potsdam)

2016-02-23 16:00: Earth history’s largest carbon isotopic shift: Constraints on the origin and timing of the Cryogenian Trezona d13C anomaly  (Dr. Catherine Rose, Trinity College Dublin)

2016-03-01 16:00: Could early land vegetation have bioengineered the planet? (Dianne Edwards, Cardiff University)

2016-03-08 16:00: Tectonic pulsing, climate cycles and contourites: drilling results from IODP Expedition 339 (Dorrik Stow, Heriot-Watt University )

2016-04-18 16:00: Melt transport in the mantle: constraints from field observations and ideas for  future work (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2016-04-19 16:00: Relamination, delamination and tadpole zones: Formation of lower continental crust by density sorting of buoyant arc lavas and plutons (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2016-05-10 16:00: Our ocean in motion: How currents carry plankton, and how that affects palaeoproxy reconstructions (Erik van Sebille, Imperial College London)

2016-05-17 12:00: Working with Natural Hazards: Perspectives from a Catastrophe Modelling Company (Caroline McMullan, AIR Worldwide)

2016-10-11 12:00: Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact OR What really killed the dinosaurs? (Prof Mark Richards, University of California, Berkeley)

2016-10-18 12:00: Application of Se stable isotopes: From microbial redox reactions to environmental cycling of Se (Kathrin Schilling, Royal Holloway University of London)

2016-10-25 12:00: The composition of Earth and Exo-planets (Amy Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-01 12:00: Impacts of Depositional Environments on δ34S Records: Rethinking Stratigraphic Trends and Geobiological Interpretations (Professor David Fike, Washington University in St Louis)

2016-11-08 12:00: Looking at Last Interglacial Sea Level records through a solid Earth lens (Jacky Austermann, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-15 12:00: Uranium isotope ratios as redox sensors : Toward a predictive understanding (Anirban Basu, Royal Holloway University of London)

2016-11-22 12:00: A geochemical journey in time: on the track of uranium and nickel (Balz Kamber, Trinity College Dublin)

2016-11-29 12:00: Oxygen distribution in Earth's core (Tetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh)

2017-01-17 12:00: The Bardarbunga volcanic system, Iceland, and its 2014-2015 dyking event, major eruption, and slow caldera collapse (Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland)

2017-01-24 12:00: Understanding the carbon isotope record during early Paleogene greenhouse conditions (Dr. Gerald Dickens, Rice University, Houston USA)

2017-02-07 12:00: Isotopic reactive transport approaches to unraveling (bio)geochemical processes in groundwater systems (Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

2017-02-14 12:00: Assessing volatile heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle and transport of volatiles from mantle to surface (Saemundur Halldorsson, University of Iceland)

2017-02-21 12:00: Stickiness: a key ingredient in process to product relations of sedimentary systems (Daniel Parsons, University of Hull)

2017-02-28 12:00: Atoms on the move: deformation-induced trace element redistribution in zircon (Sandra Piazolo, University of Leeds)

2017-03-07 12:00: The metamorphic rock record: insights from eclogites (Owen Weller, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-14 12:00: Granulite facies metamorphism and melting: the message from the metabasites (Richard White, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2017-04-20 12:00: Indian Monsoon: Trends, Rhythms and Thresholds since Eocene (Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2017-05-02 12:00: A guide to the science of Equality & Diversity (Fionnuala Murphy and Rogier Kievit)

2017-05-02 16:00: Sea-level changes and extreme waves between past and future worlds (Alessio Rovere, MARUM - University of Bremen; ZMT - Leibniz center for tropical marine research)

2017-05-04 14:00: Altering volcanic rocks at the Earth’s surface: A progress report (Lou Derry, Cornell University, USA)

2017-05-09 12:00: Microbial growth on isoprene-an abundant climate active trace gas (Professor Colin Murrell University of East Anglia)

2017-05-09 12:30: From genes to functions: Microbial life in Movile Cave ecosystem (Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast)

2017-05-16 12:00: Why the Boring Billion is the most interesting period in Earth History (Ray Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford)

2017-05-23 12:00: Rivers and climate change: three short stories of their partnership (Andrew Wickert, University of Minnesota)

2017-10-10 12:00: Biologically-induced weathering and soil development in the earliest land-plant ecosystems (Dr Ria Mitchell, Natural History Museum, London)

2017-10-17 12:00: Iron and zinc stable isotope constraints on slab dehydration and devolatilisation processes (Dr Helen Williams, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-24 12:00: The origin and early diversification of land plants (Prof. Charles Wellman, University of Sheffield)

2017-10-31 12:00: Controls on microbial communities in subseafloor environments investigated by ocean drilling (Prof. Mark Lever, ETH Zürich)

2017-11-07 12:00: Influence of Himalayan river dynamics on the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation in NW India (Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2017-11-14 12:00: Directly dating faults: in-situ U-Pb calcite dating (Dr Catherine Mottram, University of Portsmouth)

2017-11-21 12:00: Mg-silicate gels, limestones and the opening of the South Atlantic: the bizarre giant reservoirs of offshore Brazil (Prof. Paul Wright, Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff)

2017-11-28 12:00: Deep time continental weathering and climate change in the Palaeozoic (Dr Jennifer Morris, University of Cardiff)

2017-12-12 12:00: When you squish magma, its structure changes, and this affects trace element partitioning (Dr Eleanor Mare, University of St Andrews)

2018-01-16 12:00: Modern versus ancient controls on sedimentary systems; the present is not always the key to the past  (Prof. Poppe de Boer, Utrecht University)

2018-01-23 12:00: The Moon as an Archive of Collisional Processes in the inner Solar System: New Views from Apollo Samples and Lunar Meteorites (Dr Katherine Joy, University of Manchester)

2018-01-30 12:00: Understanding cranial biomechanics and skull evolution in fossil vertebrates (Prof. Emily Rayfield, University of Bristol)

2018-02-06 12:00: A phosphorus control on Earth's oxygenation history (Prof. Simon Poulton, University of Leeds)

2018-02-13 12:00: Applications of correlated optical and electron spectroscopy to nanomaterials (Dr Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-27 12:00: CANCELLED (weather): Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in evaporites (Dr Carl Stevenson, University of Birmingham)

2018-03-06 12:00: Geochemical and sedimentological constraints on pre-GOE ocean chemistry (Dr Nick Tosca, University of Oxford)

2018-03-13 12:00: Acoustic imaging of catastrophic flood terrains in the English Channel: How Britain became an island (Prof. Jenny Collier, Imperial College London)

2018-05-08 12:00: Jurassic Black Shales and the Exceptional Carrots of Yorkshire (Dr Liam Herringshaw, University of Hull)

2018-05-15 12:00: Structural style and evolution of an understudied salt-related extensional basin: the Sverdrup Basin (NE Canadian Arctic) (Dr Berta Lopez-Mir, CASP)

2018-05-22 12:00: Active faults, ancient earthquakes, and past climates in eastern Iran and Turkmenistan (Dr Richard Walker, University of Oxford)

2018-05-29 12:00: Insights into the volcanic forcing of climate from high-resolution sulfur isotopes in ice cores (Dr Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews)

2018-10-09 12:00: Geochemical Constraints for Prebiotic Chemistry (Dr Paul Rimmer, Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-16 12:00: Rapid changes or gradual transitions? Holocene climate and its impact on societies. (Dr Heinz Wanner, University of Bern)

2018-10-30 12:00: The story of Mt Everest: metamorphism, deformation, and the 1933 summit attempt (Dr Dave Waters, University of Oxford)

2018-11-06 12:00: The rare earth elements: critical raw materials for the 21st century (Dr. Kathryn Goodenough, BGS)

2018-11-13 12:00: Devil is in the detail: micro-scale record of deposition, deformation and ice dynamics during ‘Snowball Earth’ (Dr Marie Busfield, Aberystwyth University)

2018-11-20 12:00: Planetary investigations beyond the Solar system. (Dr Amaury Triaud, University of Birmingham)

2018-11-27 12:00: The oceanic cycling of trace metal micronutrients (Dr Susan Little, Imperial College)

2019-01-22 12:00: Dinosaur Resurrection: The rise of modern birds from the ashes of an asteroid (Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-29 12:00: Causes of episodic volcanism (Prof. Steve Sparks, University of Bristol)

2019-02-05 12:00: Equilibrium, disequilibrium, and basaltic Plinian eruptions (Dr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2019-02-12 12:00: East Asian palaeodrainage evolution and Himalayan-Tibet tectonics (Dr Yani Najman, Lancaster University)

2019-02-19 12:00: Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental geochemistry (Dr Eleanor Jennings, Birkbeck University of London)

2019-02-26 12:00: Natural nanomagnets (magnetosomes) offer inspirational solutions to green production of magnetic nanoparticles  (Dr Sarah Staniland, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield)

2019-03-05 12:00: The trouble with tubules: pseudofossils and the palaeontology of the deep subsurface (Dr Sean McMahon, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-12 12:00: A Twenty-first Century View of Plutons (Prof. Allen Glazner, MSA Distinguished Lecturer, University of North Carolina)

2019-04-30 12:00: I wasn't born cubic, said Ca-rich almandine garnet (Prof. Bernardo Cesare, University of Padova, Italy)

2019-05-07 12:00: Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol:  past, present and future (Dr Anja Schmidt, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-14 12:00: The thermal evolution of the continents (Prof. Claude Jaupart, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP))

2019-05-21 12:00: Linking ages to stages and dates to rates (Dr Clare Warren, Open University)

2019-05-28 12:00: Geochemistry and geochronology of minerals and interfaces: A nanoscale perspective (Prof. Steven Reddy, Curtin University)

2019-10-08 12:00: Terrestrial hydrothermal environments as windows to prebiotic worlds (Claire Cousins (University of St Andrews))

2019-10-15 12:00: The end-Permian mass extinction from a high southern palaeolatitude perspective (Prof. Chris Fielding, University of Nebraska)

2019-10-22 12:00: Modelling atmospheric CO2 and O2 evolution over Earth history (Benjamin Mills (University of Leeds))

2019-10-29 12:00: The Rise of the Silk Roads c. 5,000 years ago: how Earth and Materials Sciences reveal the making of the first global economic network (Miljana Radivojevic (UCL))

2019-11-05 12:00: A deep-time perspective on macroecology (Erin Saupe (University of Oxford))

2019-11-12 12:00: New methods for old bones – Reconstructing fossil evolution and palaeobiology using new technologies (Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Birmingham))

2019-11-19 12:00: Rethinking Marine Hydrocarbon Biogeochemistry with a Biological Source (David Valentine (UCSB))

2019-11-26 12:00: Icy alteration on Mars: Glacial alteration of volcanic terrains (Alicia Rutledge (University of Oxford))

2019-12-03 12:00: Interfacial Network Geometry (Katharina Marquart (Imperial College London))

2020-01-14 12:00: The Sedimentary Cycle on Early Mars (Scott McLennan (Stonybrook))

2020-01-21 12:00: Functional consequence of extinctions: from the Miocene to the Anthropocene (Catalina Pimiento-Hernandez (Swansea University))

2020-01-28 12:00: Unnatural Selection: evolution at the hand of man (Katrina Van Grouw (Tring))

2020-02-04 12:00: Mineralogical Controls on Earth's Climate (Caroline Peacock (Leeds))

2020-02-11 12:00: Mount St. Helens: a 40-yr perspective on the 18 May 1980 eruption and its impact on volcano science (Katharine Cashman (University of Bristol))

2020-02-18 12:00: Interplay of core and recycled crust signals in mantle plumes: the coupled geodynamics of He and W (Matt Jackson (UCSB))

2020-02-25 12:00: Biomineralisation and boron proxies: the possible, the impossible and the likely (Oscar Branson (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-03 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Rachael Rhodes (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-10 12:00: The formation and early evolution of the Solar System: An oxygen isotope perspective (Richard Greenwood (OU))

2020-05-12 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Jenny Druhan (The University of Illinois))

2020-05-26 12:00: Title to be confirmed (David Wallis (U. Cambridge))

2020-07-28 12:00: Uncomfortable Histories: working to decolonise the Sedgwick Museum (Liz Hide, Sedgwick Museum)

2020-08-11 12:00: The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent (Jazmin Scarlett)

2020-08-25 12:00: Fieldwork in context: challenges and opportunities (Sam Giles, University of Birmingham)

2020-09-17 15:00: Mapping and characterizing enigmatic habitats in the last great wilderness on Earth (Prof Andrew Davies (University of Rhode Island))

2020-09-24 15:00: Decolonising the curriculum: lessons from sociology (Ali Meghji, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-01 15:00: 3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms (Prof Zachary Ross (CalTech))

2020-10-07 12:00: Intraplate faults and Australian earthquakes (Tamarah King, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford)

2020-10-15 15:00: Ice sheets and sea level in a changing climate (E2E: Prof Natalya Gomez (McGill Univ) & Prof Jerry Mitrovica (Harvard))

2020-10-18 15:00: The Chicxulub Impact Structure: The formation of large impact structures and the consequences (Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-29 15:00: tbd (Dr. Laura Wallace of UT Austin and GNS Science, New Zealand)

2020-11-05 16:00: Unique Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. (Karletta Chief (University of Arizona))

2020-11-12 15:00: Strong Acid (Prof. Macalady (Penn State) and Prof M Torres (Rice))

2020-11-26 15:00: Atmospheres of Earth and Icy planets (Dr Craig Poku (Leeds) & Naomi Rowe-Gurney (Leicester))

2020-12-03 15:00: Science and Justice in the Anthropocene (Professor Jill Schneiderman (Vassar College))

2020-12-10 15:00: Shaking it loose and burning it up: The carbon budget of erosion from earthquakes to floodplains (Joshua West (USC) & Gen LI (Caltech))

2021-01-14 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Sally Benson (Stanford))

2021-01-21 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Jennifer Druhan, University of Illinois)

2021-01-28 15:00: Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World (Prof Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Arizona) & Dr Rona Oran (MIT))

2021-02-04 15:00: Paleocene–Eocene climate and carbon cycle: tales from the 'boring background' (Kate Littler, University of Exeter)

2021-02-11 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Barbara Sherwood Lollar (U Toronto))

2021-02-18 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Steve Shirey, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science)

2021-02-25 15:00: Volatiles in Earth’s mantle: primordial or subducted? Insights from new generation nitrogen and sulfur isotope systematics (Dr Jabrane Labidi (IPGP) and Dr James Dottin III)

2021-03-04 15:00: Structural and magnetic transitions in minerals and functional materials: the pervasive roles of strain and elasticity (Prof. Michael Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2021-03-11 15:00: How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation? (Chen Zhu ( Indiana University))

2021-03-12 13:00: The Future Green Economy: Panel Discussion (Prof. Gargi Bhattacharya (Professor of Sociology at the University of East London), Kate Metcalf (Co-director of the Women’s Environment Network) and Dr. Natalie Jones (Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk))

2021-03-18 15:00: How are water isotopes influencing our understanding of Antarctic climate variability over the past 2000 years? (Anaïs Orsi)

2021-03-25 15:00: Global climate change mitigation under the COVID-19 new normal (Prof Dabo Guan & Dr Can Cui)

2021-04-01 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. David Bercovici)

2021-04-08 15:00: The small and mighty: the role of microbes and minerals in melting the Greenland Ice Sheet (Prof Liane Benning (GFZ))

2021-04-22 15:00: Reconstructing a deep time Earth system: The penultimate ice house (Prof Isabel Motañez (UC Davis) and Sophia Macarewich (U Michigan))

2021-05-17 15:00: The Green Transition in Natural Resources (Panel discussion: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fuana International) and Andy Whitmore (London Mining Network))

2021-10-06 16:00: Geoscience in Context: A clean energy future isn't set in stone (Thomas Franssen and Mandy de Wilde )

2021-10-07 15:00: The history of the global carbon cycle as recorded by the chemical composition of shallow-water marine carbonate sediments (John Higgins, Princeton University)

2021-10-14 15:00: The influence of seawater infiltration on oceanic transform fault slip behavior (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2021-10-22 15:00: Marine sedimentary carbon cycling (Harold Bradbury, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-28 15:00: Just how weird is the solar system?  (Tim Elliott, University of Bristol)

2021-11-04 15:00: Productivity and dissolved oxygen controls on the Southern Ocean deep-sea benthos during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (Joseph Stewart, University of Bristol)

2021-11-11 15:00: Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Natasha Dowey, Sheffield Hallam University)

2021-11-18 15:00: Fast faults and fluids in the earthquake cycle (Tom Mitchell, University College London)

2021-11-25 15:00: Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution (Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-25 15:00: Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution (Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2022-01-20 15:00: Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry (Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-01-27 15:00: Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales (James Rae, University of St. Andrews)

2022-02-03 15:00: A view across rifting events: Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Eastern Africa and Madagascar (Patrick O'Connor, University of Ohio)

2022-02-10 15:00: The origin of stress- and fluid-driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective (Dr Philip Benson, University of Portsmouth)

2022-02-17 15:00: Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-02-24 15:00: Priming patterns of volcanic eruptions revealed by deep-time diffusion chronometry (Martin Mangler, Durham University)

2022-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds)

2022-03-17 15:00: Mid-Cenozoic faunal dynamics in the Western Branch of the EARS: A view from the Rukwa Rift Basin (Nancy Stevens)

2022-05-02 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-10 12:00: The evolution of the geobiological nitrogen cycle (Eva Stüeken, University of St Andrews)

2022-05-17 12:00: [Geoscience in Context]  Skills for sustainable geoscience: evidencing transition in Energy and Higher Education (Jen Roberts, University of Strathclyde)

2022-05-24 12:00:  Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-05-31 12:00: Investigating the role of ozone-depleting substances in driving observed and projected Arctic climate change (Mark England, University of California Santa Cruz)

2022-06-07 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-14 12:00: The eccentricities of calcite production by coccolithophores (Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford)

2022-09-15 14:00: Redox processes in subduction systems (Katy Evans, Curtin University)

2022-10-18 12:00: Cold Blood in Hot Times: Using the vertebrate fossil record to understand biotic responses to climate change (Prof. Jason Head, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-01 12:00: Quantifying complexity in challenging data: fault slip rates on millennial timescales (Laura Gregory, University of Leeds)

2022-11-08 12:00: Raising the Colorado Plateau – tales from xenoliths and petrological modeling (Richard Palin, University of Oxford)

2022-11-15 12:00: Understanding the Lithosphere (Sergei Lebedev, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-22 12:00:  Battery Metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero (Nick Gardiner, University of St. Andrews)

2022-11-29 12:00: Biogenic magnetite tracing of ocean oxygenation across Cenozoic warming events (Liao Chang, Peking University)

2023-01-24 12:00: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs (Susannah Maidment, Natural History Museum)

2023-01-31 12:00:  Geochemical Insights into Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability  (Carrie Lear, Cardiff University)

2023-02-07 12:00: A Palaeontological view of the modern climate and biodiversity crisis (Danila Schmidt, University of Bristol)

2023-02-14 12:00: Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling (Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton)

2023-02-28 12:00: A pinch of salt: Halogen cycling through the solid Earth  (Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2023-03-07 12:00: The eruptive tempo and long-term behaviour of open vent volcanoes  (Emma Liu, University College London)

2023-03-14 12:00: Taphonomy and The Tree: are Fossil Taxa Misleadingly "Primitive"? (Robert Asher, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-02 12:00: Ice, mud, and models: how paleo data assimilation is helping illuminate our geologic past (Matthew Osman, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-09 12:00:  Preservation of H2O heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle (Simon Matthews (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-16 12:00: Nick Shackleton and the Big White Box in the Car Park (David Hodell, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-23 12:00: A chronostratigraphic framework for the Ediacaran Period and the chronostratigraphic potential of sedimentary carbonates using U-Pb carbonate LA-ICP-MS (Marjorie Cantine, Goethe University Frankfurt)

2023-05-30 12:00: A new look at the past provides perspectives for biodiversity management (Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-06 12:00: Seawater calcium concentration may be a key driver of long-term pCO2 (David Evans, University of Southampton)

2023-06-13 12:00: Novel applications of non-traditional stable isotopes to studying near-equilibrium geochemical kinetics with applications to carbon removal and storage (Chen Zhu, Indiana University, Bloomington)

2023-10-10 12:00: Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth (and Mars?) (Benjamin Tutolo, University of Calgary)

2023-10-17 12:00: After the Moon (Stephen J. Mojzsis, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CsFK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2023-10-24 12:00: Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-31 12:00: Teaching a new trick to old data: reassessing the Neogene history of C4 grasses in the Great Plains of North America (David Fox, University of Minnesota)

2023-11-07 12:00: Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds (Amy Balanoff, John Hopkins University)

2023-11-14 12:00: Metals, Magnetism and Meteorites: A brief guide to magnetic field generation on small planetary bodies (Dr Claire Nichols, University of Oxford)

2023-11-21 12:00: How to form a rare-earth rich carbonatite, and why that might be a good thing (Sam Broom-Fendley, University of Exeter)

2023-11-28 12:00: The Holocene history of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, West Antarctica, revealed through subaerial and subglacial archives (Keir Nichols, Imperial College London)

2024-01-23 12:00: A paleoclimate perspective on the (in)stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-01-30 12:00: At the Edge of Reactivity: Exploring the Dynamics of Fluid-Mineral Interactions (Oliver Plumper, Utrecht University)

2024-02-06 12:00: Antarctic summer sea-ice variability reconstructed from novel biological archives (Erin McClymont, Durham University)

2024-02-13 12:00: Data-driven slow earthquake dynamics (Adriano Gualandi, Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-02-20 12:00: Rapid temperature fluctuations in the early Iceland plume revealed by olivine-spinel and melt thermometry (Elliot Carter, Trinity College Dublin)

2024-02-27 12:00: The TTG window and the formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust. (Richard White, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews)

2024-03-05 12:00: Paallavvik Island and the search for Earth's primitive water (Lydia Hallis, University of Glasgow)

2024-03-12 12:00: Microbial responses to warming and their impact on carbon stocks (Cara Magnabosco)

2024-04-23 12:10: Preservation of very old climate records in ice cores from Allan Hills, Antarctica (Edward Brook, Oregon State University )

2024-04-30 12:00: Fresh perspectives on the origins of major animal groups: insights from the late Ediacaran of Namibia (Alex Lui, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-21 12:00: Mapping the core-mantle boundary (Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-28 12:00: Towards a 500 Million-Year History of Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 (Hana Jurikova, University of St Andrews)

2024-06-04 12:00: The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron (oxyhydr)oxides (Jordon Hemingway, ETH Zurich)

2024-10-15 12:00: The Red Queen, Mars, living and dying fast and young: macroevolution in graptoloids (James Crampton, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-10-22 12:00: Exploring Central Africa's Lithium Pegmatites: Geology, Resource Potential, and Geopolitical context (Anouk Borst, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)

2024-10-29 12:00: Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean (Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-11-05 12:00: A geochemical test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. (Francis Macdonald, UC Berkeley)

2024-11-12 12:00: The post-Variscan evolution of Ireland – a case study in constraining shallow crustal exhumation and deformation (David Chew, Trinity College Dublin)

2024-11-19 12:00: Exceptional preservation in tropical settings: A glimpse into the fossil record of northern South America (Javier Luque, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-26 12:00: A Systems Approach to Sustainability Transformation: science-based and stakeholders co-designed solution pathways (Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business )

2024-12-03 12:00: Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse?  (David Thornalley, University College London)

2025-01-28 12:00: Fluid Physics of Ice-Covered Oceans (Nicole Shibley, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-04 12:00: The interplay of large-scale tectonics, metamorphism, and earthquake cycles (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-11 12:00: Environmental controls on mineral-associated permafrost organic carbon fate (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham)

2025-02-18 12:00: Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes, and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Maximillian Van Wyk De Vries, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-25 12:00: Evolution and effects of ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic  (Alison Cribb, University of Southampton)

2025-03-04 12:00: Isotopic composition of samples returned from the Ryugu and Bennu asteroids  - insights into the initial composition of the solar protoplanetary disk (Martin Bizarro, University of Copenhagen)

2025-03-11 12:00: From Sediment to Spodumene (Claire Bucholz, Caltech)

2025-03-18 12:00: Direct observations of sub-ice environments immediately after large calving event off George VI Ice Shelf, West Antarctica (Dr Sasha Montelli)

2025-05-13 12:00: Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush (Marian Holness, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-20 12:00: Silica enrichment (and depletion) in the cratonic lithosphere (Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin)

2025-05-27 12:00: The world’s least loved sedimentary structures: Sole marks as guides to flow dynamics, substrates, and the misidentification of life (Jeff Peakall, University of Leeds)

2025-06-03 12:00: How crustal exhumation rates determine the fate of porphyry copper deposits (Frances Cooper, University College London)

2025-06-10 12:00: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form (Frances Dunn, Oxford University Museum of Natural History & University of Oxford)

2025-09-30 12:00: Carbon Capture and Mineralization (Siggi Gislason, University of Iceland)

2025-10-14 12:00: Late Miocene Uplift of the Lesser Himalaya Recorded by Clumped Isotope Compositions of Detrital Carbonate (Dr Uri Ryb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2025-10-21 12:00: Cambridge Zero: maximising Cambridge’s contribution towards a zero-carbon world through research, education, policy & innovation (Dr Eric Mackie, Head of Research Engagement, Cambridge Zero)

2025-10-28 12:00: Antarctic glacier geophysics - uncovering ice sheet evolution (Professor Martin Siegert, University of Exeter)

2025-11-04 12:00: Mixing and melting: turbulence in the ice shelf/ocean boundary layer (Professor John Taylor, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-10 12:00: Formation and importance of copper-gold-iron deposits in back-arc environments (Professor Adam Simon, University of Michigan)

2025-11-11 12:00: Bridging the gap between isotope geochemistry and plant sciences (Dr Rebekah Moore, Imperial College London)

2025-11-18 12:00: Decoding carbonate (bio)mineralisation using high-throughput mineralogy (Professor Julie Cosmidis, University of Oxford)

2025-11-24 17:00: Decoding Deep Time with author Laura Poppick (Laura Poppick)

2025-11-25 12:00: Insights into the drivers of Ediacaran-Cambrian phosphogenesis from phosphorites of the Khuvsgul Group, Mongolia (Dr Eliel Antilla, ETH Zurich)

2025-12-02 12:00: Core–mantle isotopic fractionation in large terrestrial planets (Dr Edith Kubik, University College Dublin)

2026-01-27 12:00: Birth, Life and Death of the early animals of the Ediacaran  (Dr Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-03 12:00: Does the Isua supracrustal belt preserve the oldest sedimentary rocks on Earth? (Dr Kristoffer Szilas (Natural History Museum Denmark))

2026-02-10 12:00: Assessing the role of the Gephyrocapsa complex during the Mid-Brunhes interval (Dr Alba Gonzalez-Lanchas (University of Oxford/University of Salamanca))

2026-02-17 12:00: Iron rain and iron snow in planetary interiors: insights from fluids experiments (Dr Quentin Kriaa (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-24 12:00: The journey of volcanic crystals: the time lords of eruptive history (Dr Chiara Maria Petrone (Natural History Museum London))

2026-03-03 12:00: Sulphur stories from the land, sulfur stories from the sea (Dr Guillaume Paris, University of Lorraine)

2026-03-10 12:00: Making Sense of a Geological Dog's Dinner - Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Motzfeldt REE-Nb-Ta deposit, South Greenland (Professor Adrian Finch, University of St Andrews)

2026-03-17 12:00: Large-eddy simulations of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath basal terraces (Dr Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, University of Cambridge)