Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences


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))

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)

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)

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

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

2014-07-07 17:00: Fracking the fjords: Earthquakes and glacial erosion, with some additional thoughts about stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Professor Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geoscience, Penn State University, USA)

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))

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)

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

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)

2017-05-09 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)

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))

2019-10-22 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))

2022-03-17 13:30: Silicate weathering: the universal planetary thermostat (Edward Tipper (Department of Earth Sciences))

2022-05-19 13:30: Life as a planetary phenomenon: the evolution of ecological complexity over planetary lifetimes (Emily Mitchell (Department of Zoology))