Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences


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)

2009-11-16 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)

2010-02-15 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)

2012-03-05 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)

2013-10-14 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))

2014-01-27 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))

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

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)

2017-02-13 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)