Isotope Coffee: Geochemistry and Petrology Seminars Department of Earth Sciences


2006-10-17 19:00: Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions (Professor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-31 19:00: The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever? (Professor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-21 19:00: Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution (Dr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-23 19:00: Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells (Dr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-17 13:30: EarthTalk (Dr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier)

2007-02-20 19:00: Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic (Dr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-26 11:00: Dinosaurs from Mongolia (Dr Altangerel Perle, National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar)

2007-11-13 19:00: The Sedgwick in the Galapagos (Dr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-20 19:00: Colours in Gemstones (Mrs Gill Mallet)

2008-02-16 13:30: EarthTalk (Dr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences)

2008-03-04 19:00: Lapis Lazuli (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2012-01-27 11:30: Part III Project talks (Rebecca Williams and Christine Yallop)

2012-02-03 11:30: Part III Project talks (Jenny Roberts and Pedro Waterton)

2012-02-10 11:30: Sulphur Cycling during mass extinction intervals. (Rob Newton - Leeds University)

2012-02-17 11:30: Part III Project talks (Emma Woodward and Robert Emberson)

2012-02-24 11:00: Lithium Isotopic History of Cenozoic Seawater - Continental silicate weathering and reverse weathering. (Sambuddha Misra)

2012-03-02 11:00: Weathering fluxes of the Irrawaddy and Salween Rivers, along the Road to Mandalay in Burma. (Hazel Chapman)

2012-03-09 11:00: Ground truthing satellite measurements of SO2 degassing from Tungurahua volcano, Ecuador (Brendan McCormick)

2012-10-05 11:00: Annual Chemical Safety Review (Dr Jason Day)

2012-10-12 11:00: Magma transport, storage and eruption at Kilauea Volcano (Marie Edmonds)

2012-10-19 11:00: "Beer is safe" (Max Wigley)

2012-10-26 11:00: Can we constrain the age of the solar system with short-life nuclide? Lessons from Paris (Albert Galy)

2012-11-02 11:00: Space, the geochemical frontier. (Oliver Shorttle)

2012-11-09 11:00: An 8.2ka event style outburst flood during MIS 5e (Joe Nicholl)

2012-11-16 11:00: CO2 Fluid-Rock Interactions in Basalts - A Natural Analogue: Soda Springs, Idaho (Alex Maskell)

2012-11-23 11:00:  Landslide-induced weathering: insight from a deep bedrock tunnel in Taiwan    (Caroline Martin)

2012-11-30 11:00:  Reconsrtucting Atlantic Ocean Circulation from Nd isotopes	       (Jake Howe)

2013-01-18 11:00: Oh no, not another time-scale! (Alan Smith)

2013-01-25 11:00: Picrites and ferropicrites from Etendeka, Namibia: Mantle source and crustal emplacement in a continental flood basalt setting (Ellie Jennings)

2013-01-25 11:00: How do I analyse for …..???   Special Session on analytical techniques available in Department of Earth Sciences.      Suitable for research students and post-docs. (Giulio Lampronti et al.)

2013-01-25 11:00: Picrites and ferropicrites from Etendeka, Namibia: Mantle source and crustal emplacement in a continental flood basalt setting (Ellie Jennings)

2013-02-01 11:00: Picrites and ferropicrites from Etendeka, Namibia: Mantle source and crustal emplacement in a continental flood basalt setting (Ellie Jennings)

2013-02-08 11:00: Organic carbon export from temperate forested hillslopes (Jo Smith)

2013-02-15 11:30: Part III Project Talks (Tom Norwood & Will Miller)

2013-02-22 11:00: Radiation damage, He diffusion, and thermochronology of zircon; Shergottite Martian meteorites: volcanic or impact melts? (Pete Reiners – University of Arizona   )

2013-03-01 11:30: Part III Project Talks (Marthe Kloecking  - Disequilibrium during volcanic eruption: effect of cooling rate on plagioclase-liquid element exchange and Lois Salem  -  Satellite observations of lava fountaining at Etna)

2013-03-08 11:00: Magmatic Mushes and the Behaviour of Volatiles at Skuggafjoll in the Eastern Volcanic Zone of Iceland (David Neave)

2013-04-15 11:00: Incorporation of Neptunium into Alteration Products of UO2 Spent Nuclear Fuel (Fred Lord)

2013-04-19 11:00: The Kiglapait Intrusion from Space to Thin Section (Prof Tony Morse, University of Massachusetts Amherst )

2013-04-26 11:00: Constraining the amount of recycled material in the mantle (Oliver Shorttle)

2013-05-03 11:00: Deep Ocean Temperatures of the Plio-Pleistocene (India Weidle)

2013-05-10 11:00: Magmatic processes and parental melt compositions of kimberlites: the Majuagaa kimberlite (southern Western Greenland) (Llewellyn Pilbeam)

2013-05-17 11:00: Incorporation of Neptunium into Alteration Products of UO2 Spent Nuclear Fuel (Fred Lord)

2013-10-11 11:00: Annual Earth Sciences Chemical Safety Review  (Dr Jason Day - Earth Sciences Chemistry Officer)

2013-10-18 11:00: Probing Palaeoproxy Prudence: Insights from Synchrotrons. (Oscar Branson (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-25 11:00: Unique isotopic fingerprint during anaerobic oxidation of methane (Gilad Antler)

2013-11-01 11:00: Records of trace metals in sediments from the Oregon shelf and slope: Investigating the occurrence of hypoxia in the past hundreds to thousands of years (Andrea Erhardt)

2013-11-05 11:00: Speleothem Science - the book (Ian Fairchild (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham))

2013-11-22 11:00: Using Nd isotopes to distinguishing between deep current and detrital input changes to the NE Atlantic (Natalie Roberts)

2014-01-24 11:00: Part III students (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-01-31 11:00: Massive volcanism, evaporite deposition, and the chemical evolution of the Early Cretaceous ocean (Jennifer Mills)

2014-02-07 11:00: Evaporative fractionation of volatile stable isotopes and their bearing on the origin of the Moon (James Day, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, )

2014-02-18 18:15: “Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry” (Joanna Kerr and India Weidle)

2014-02-21 11:00: High-Mg benthic foraminifera Miliolacea: a new proxy for temperature and carbonate ion saturation of ocean bottom waters (Aleksey Sadekov)

2014-02-28 11:00: REE and trace-element compositions of fertile peridotites from the South Patagonian lithosphere (Eve Rooks)

2014-03-07 11:00: Paleoceanographic reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous oil shale sequence in Israel (Sigal Abramovich)

2014-04-25 11:00: Can isotopic signatures in carbonates be preserved for more than a year? (Eric Oeklers (UCL))

2014-05-02 11:00: The role of the lithosphere in the largest terrestrial lava eruptions (Jussi Heinonen (Finnish Museum of Natural History))

2014-05-09 11:00: The Atlantic Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum: Was it really so different? (Jake Howe)

2014-05-16 11:00: Temperature reconstructions from melt-affected ice cores (Shawn Marshall (University of Calgary))

2014-05-21 11:00:  Time-resolved dynamo activity on small-bodies in the early solar system: the death of a dynamo  (James Bryson)

2014-10-10 11:00: Safety in the lab (Jason Day, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-17 11:00: The phase relationship of the Mg/Ca palaeothermometer to orbital eccentricity  (Simon Crowhurst)

2014-10-24 11:00: Origin of the Mt Kinabalu granite, Borneo: Melt evolution, emplacement and tectonic implications for SE Asia (Dr Alex Burton-Johnson (BAS))

2014-10-31 11:00: Cave minerals in Paleoenvironmental Research and Planetary Exploration (Fernando Gazquez-Sanchez)

2014-11-07 11:00: Stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) in the Southern Ocean over the last 800ka (Tom Williams)

2014-11-14 11:00: Enriched mantle domains reveal the role of recycled oceanic crust in the solid Earth oxygen cycle (Oli Shorttle)

2014-11-21 11:00: Submicron measurements of Mg isotopes in biogenic carbonate using LA-MC-ICPMS: a new window into bio-mineralisation (Aleksey Sadekov)

2014-12-05 11:00: AGU practice talks (James Bryson, Jo Kerr, Julia Gottschalk, Vicky Rennie, Natalie Roberts)

2015-01-16 11:00: Fluid Speciation and Solubility of Aragonite under Subduction Zones Conditions (Sébastien Facq)

2015-01-23 11:00: Reduced El Niño–Southern Oscillation during the Last Glacial Maximum (Heather Ford (LDEO))

2015-01-30 11:00: Scanning instruments in the department (Iris Buisman, Giulio Lampronti, Richard Harrison and Josh Einsle)

2015-02-06 11:00: Plasma and thermal mass spectrometers in the department (Mervyn Greeves, Jason Day, Ed Tipper, Aleksey Sadekov, Hazel Chapman and Hal Bradury)

2015-02-13 11:00: Stable isotope and sediment characterising instruments in the department (David Hodell, James Rolfe, Nick McCave and Gilad Antler)

2015-02-20 11:00: On the feasibilty of mapping rare earth element deposits using remote sensing (David Neave)

2015-02-27 11:00: Part III projects (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-03-06 11:00: Paleoceanography at intermediate water depth in the Subtropical Western North Pacific Ocean near the Kuroshio Current over the last 1 My (Sites U1436 and U1437) using stable isotopes and  foraminifer assemblages (including taphonomy) . IODP Expedition 350 (Maryline Vautravers)

2015-04-17 11:00: Tropical SST reconstructions for the past four centuries, and what they tell us about the progression of Industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents (Nerilie Abram)

2015-04-24 11:00: Radiocarbon Based Evidence for Changes in Atlantic Ocean Circulation and Links to Atmospheric CO2  (Emma Freeman)

2015-05-01 11:00: Analogue experiments on packing of particles: with relevance to magma chamber mushes (Llewellyn Pilbeam (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-08 11:00: Fragmentation, equilibration, and the Hf-W isotopic record of Earth accretion (Francis Nimmo (UCSC))

2015-05-15 11:00: The information locked in 17O records of modern and ancient seawater sulfate (David Johnston)

2015-05-22 11:00: Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation (Sambuddha Misra)

2015-10-09 11:00: The role of bioturbation in the carbon-sulfur-iron interplay- a lesson from salt marsh sediments (Gilad Antler, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-16 11:00: Safety in the Lab (Jason Day)

2015-10-23 11:00: High pressure solubility of sulfate minerals in high density and low density water (Sébastien Facq)

2015-10-30 11:00: What to do with non-replicating speleothem stable isotope time series - an example from Siberia (Sebastian Breitenbach)

2015-11-06 11:00: "Chicken or egg? Investigating the phase relationship between temperature and CO2 over the last deglaciation" (Jenny Roberts (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-20 11:00: Toxic Metals in Iron Age Humans from the Faynan Area (Jordan): What Can Geochemical Tools Tell Us? (Yigal Erel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

2015-11-27 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Edward Tipper (Dept. Earth Sciences))

2015-12-04 11:00: AGU practice talks (Josh Einsle, Jenny Roberts, Nono Lascu)

2015-12-11 11:00: Particle flux in the deep Sargasso Sea: Insights from the Oceanic Flux Program time series (Maureen Conte (WHOI))

2016-02-26 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Joy Muraszko)

2016-03-04 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Nick Evans)

2016-09-09 11:00: Origins of Mineral Diversity: the Tellurium Story. (Dr Andrew Christy, Australian National University.)