Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences


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)

2010-10-12 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)

2010-11-09 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)

2011-02-16 17:30: Shell Lecture 2011 - Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Subduction Zones: The 2004-2005 Sumatra Earthquakes (Dr Lisa McNeill (National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton))

2015-03-13 13:00: The lithospheric structure of Pangea (Professor Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 13:30: Fire on Earth: an intimate history (Professor Andrew Scott (Royal Holloway University of London))

2015-03-13 14:45: Enceladus - a miniature, active ice-world (Professor Francis Nimmo (University of California Santa Cruz))

2015-03-13 15:15: A few evolutionary myths (Professor Simon Conway Morris)

2015-03-13 15:45: Imaging Moving Wet Stuff: An Introduction to Seismic Oceanography (Professor Nicky White (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 17:00: Ophiolite insights into the oxygen isotope composition of the Cambrian ocean (Dr Sasha Turchyn (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-13 17:30: Field observations of the hydraulic jump phenomenon in turbidite deposits of the Tabernas Basin, Spain (Tom McCormick-Cox (Shell))

2018-10-23 14:00: Welcome event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-03-15 13:00: Ophiolite perspectives on oceanic mantle compositional heterogeneity (Dr Brian O'Driscoll - University of Manchester)

2019-03-15 13:30: The Impact of Wintertime Sea Ice Anomalies on High Heat Flux Events in the Iceland and Greenland Seas (Dr James Pope - British Antarctic Survey)

2019-03-15 15:00: Earthquakes of the Silk Road (Dr Richard Walker - University of Oxford)

2019-03-15 15:30: Building resilience through drone-based strategies for volcano monitoring (Dr Emma Liu - University of Cambridge)

2019-03-15 16:45: Motion in the fossil record: Reconstructing dinosaur limb kinematics from fossil footprints (Dr Peter Falkingham - Liverpool John Moores University)

2019-03-15 17:15: Sink or Stall: Subduction Transition Zone Dynamics (Dr Saskia Goes - Imperial College London)

2023-01-23 18:00: Mapping college geology; history of building stone use in Cambridge (Dr Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences Department of the University of Cambridge)

2023-02-06 18:00: Computational fluid dynamics as a tool for testing functional and ecological hypotheses in fossil taxa (Dr Imran Rahman, Natural History Museum)

2023-02-13 18:00: When did humans start to influence rivers? A contribution to the Anthropocene debate (Professor Martin Gibling, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University)

2023-02-20 18:00: A Career in Hydrogeology (Victoria Price, Hydrogeologist at Mott MacDonald)

2023-02-27 18:00: Unravelling geochemical zoning in subduction zone garnet: ubiquitous patterns = ubiquitous process?  (Dr Freya George, University of Bristol)

2023-03-06 18:00: Volcanoes where the Earth rips apart: basaltic processes in the Ethiopian Rift (Dr Kevin Wong, University of Bologna)

2023-03-13 18:00: What can lab-generated earthquakes tell us about natural earthquakes? (Louisa Brotherson, University of Liverpool)

2023-11-10 12:30: REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN THE BALLACHULISH AREA, SW HIGHLANDS, SCOTLAND: A NEW LOOK AT A FAMOUS OLD DEBATE (Dave Pattison - University of Calgary)

2024-01-23 19:30: Exploring Mars: 4000 Sols with the Curiosity Rover (Professor John Bridges - University of Leicester)

2025-10-28 19:00: Astrophysical discs: from Saturn's rings to black holes (Gordon Ogilvie, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics)