Thirkill Room, Clare College


2010-06-11 17:00: The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University (Richard West (Professor emeritus, Cambridge University, Clare College))

2011-02-18 17:00: Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains: new results from North Africa and the Balkans (Dr Phillip Hughes, The University of Manchester)

2011-05-19 17:00: Orbital forcing of Late Pleistocene climate variability - From the global monsoon to glacial terminations (Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University)

2011-10-26 17:00: New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation (Dr Ian Bailey (School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton))

2011-11-04 17:00: Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume from the Mid Pleistocene Climate Transition (Professor Harry Elderfield (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2012-01-20 17:00: Genetic diversity, global phylogeography and seasonality of the planktonic foraminifera G. bulloides: implication for palaeoproxies (Kate Darling (University of Edinburgh))

2012-02-24 17:00: Lessons from the High Arctic: new results from late Quaternary studies in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard (Prof. Veli-Pekka Salonen (Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall))

2012-04-27 17:00: Quaternary palaeoclimate changes from the margins of the Indian Thar Desert (Prof. Hema Achyuthan (Anna University, Chennai))

2012-05-04 17:00: A bipolar seesaw in Atlantic deep-water ventilation: Wally was right (Dr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-10 20:45: Heraldic Bookplates ( John Titford)

2012-05-11 17:00: The Moravian Gate project: new insights into the human food quest in Stage 3 Central Europe (Prof. Martin Jones (Archaeology, University of Cambridge))

2012-05-18 17:00: Carbon isotopes and glacial-interglacial CO2: the curious case of Marine Isotope Stage 12 (Dr Natalia Vazquez-Riveiros (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2012-10-11 20:45: Clare College Heraldry (David Broomfield)

2012-10-25 20:45: London livery companies (Paul Jagger)

2012-10-26 17:00: Decoupled ocean circulation and carbon cycling during glaciations: Implications for the dynamics of glacial cycles (Dr David Wilson (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2012-11-08 20:45: Oral history (Juliana Vandegrift)

2012-11-09 17:00: Precipitation changes in the Amazon Basin during the last 240 ka (Dr Aline Govin (MARUM, Bremen))

2012-11-22 20:45: Electronic recording of genealogical data (Peter Walker)

2012-11-23 17:00: Using nitrogen isotopes to constrain the age of the air extracted from antarctic ice cores (Dr Emilie Capron (BAS))

2012-11-30 17:00: New estimates of tropical ice age temperature (Dr Anna-Lena Grauel (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2013-01-10 17:00: The release of Δ14C and δ18O-depleted water from the Arctic Ocean upon glacial termination (Dr. David Thornalley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA))

2013-01-17 20:45: Scott Polar Research Institute (Naomi Boneham)

2013-01-24 17:00: Modern human adaptations to Pleistocene rainforest: the archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo (Prof. Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, U. of Cambridge))

2013-01-26 14:00: Heraldry walking tour (David Broomfield)

2013-01-31 20:45: Heraldry in Ely Cathedral (Chloe Cockerill)

2013-02-07 17:00: Late Quaternary loess records from northern China and central Asia: implications for variations in monsoon and westerly circulation (Prof. Liping Zhou (Peking University, China))

2013-02-14 20:45: Heraldry and ceremonial in Holy Roman Empire (Berthold Kress)

2013-02-21 17:00: The Bytham river story - key evidence for understanding pre-glacial environmental change and early human occupance in Britain (Prof. James Rose (Dept. of Geography, Royal Holloway U. of London))

2013-02-21 17:00: Testing the Bytham river hypothesis (Prof. Philip Gibbard (Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge))

2013-02-28 20:45: The Thorpe family, their arms and Cambridge University (Robert Kinsey)

2013-03-14 17:15: Evidence for enhanced Antarctic climate variability during the last interglacial period (Dr. Katy Pol (British Antarctic Survey))

2013-04-25 20:45: Public School Heraldry (Damian E. Riddle)

2013-05-09 20:45: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-10-17 17:00: Taking a closer look at the last glacial sediments (Dr. Maryline Vautravers (Cambridge))

2013-11-07 17:00: Interglacials of the last 800,000 years (Prof. Eric Wolff (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2013-11-27 17:00: Benthic foraminiferal assemblages as proxies of paleoceanographic changes across Pleistocene glacial terminations in the NE Atlantic (Dr. Patrick Grunert (U. of Graz, Austria))

2014-11-06 17:30: Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle over the last 800,000 years - an ice core perspective (Prof Dr Hubertus Fischer (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern))

2014-12-04 17:30: Cryptotephrochronology in the North Atlantic Region: Linking North Atlantic Marine Sediments to the Greenland ice-cores (Dr Peter Abbott (University of Swansea))

2015-02-19 17:30: New DNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems (Prof Mary E. Edwards, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton (UK))

2015-03-05 17:30: Retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet; landforms, sediments, dates and the BRITICE-CHRONO project (Prof Chris D. Clark, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (UK))

2016-04-21 17:30: 1 million years of Pacific Ocean paleoceanography viewed from IODP Exp350 sites 1436C and 1437B foraminifers' records recovered near the IZU subduction Arc (Maryline Vautravers (University of Cambridge))

2016-05-05 17:30: A formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Mike Walker, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University)

2016-05-12 17:30: Large CO2 emissions from pre-industrial land use change – Does the carbon budget add up? (Benjamin Stocker. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)

2016-10-13 20:45: The Heraldry of Queens' College (Mr. David Broomfield, CUHAGS)