Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences


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

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

2011-02-22 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)

2011-05-10 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: TBA (Dr Rachel Mills, Southampton University)

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)

2014-10-28 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 )

2016-04-19 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)