ymg21's list


2006-05-05 11:00: Colloids and coatings for colours (Dr Andrew M. Howe, Kodak European Research, Cambridge)

2006-05-12 11:00: Lattice-kinetic approach to microfluidics (Professor Sauro Succi, IAC-CNR, Rome)

2006-05-19 11:00: Soft particle liquids (Dr David Heyes, Division of Chemistry, University of Surrey)

2006-05-26 11:00: The collapse of granular columns (Professor Rich Kerswell, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)

2006-06-02 11:00: Hydrodynamic modes of resuspension (Dr Stuart B. Dalziel, GK Batchelor Laboratory & DAMTP)

2006-09-22 13:00: The ABC of auxin transport (Angus Murphy (Purdue University))

2006-09-29 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Warren Bentley)

2006-10-06 13:00: Effects of long term free air ozone fumigation on the cytokinin content of mature beech (Joanna Winwood)

2006-10-06 14:00: Yield stress liquids (Professor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI)

2006-10-06 14:00: Yield stress liquids (Professor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI)

2006-10-09 14:15: 1st year PhD student presentations (Louise O'Brien, Scott Hosking, Angela Symington, Neil Dickson (CAS))

2006-10-12 16:00: Metal cofactor assembly in chloroplasts (Dr Marinus Pilon, Colorado State University)

2006-10-13 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Nadia Bystryakova)

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)

2006-10-19 16:00: Advantages of travelling by tube - explorations of fungal networks (Professor Lynne Boddy, Cardiff University)

2006-10-20 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kit Wilkins)

2006-10-23 14:15: Some highlights of the RETRO project (Dr Nick Savage, Met. Office (ex. CAS))

2006-10-24 11:00: Prospects for All-Weather Microwave Radiance Assimilation (Prof. Albin Gasiewski, NOAA, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

2006-10-26 16:00: Population structure and evolution of virulence in plant viruses (Professor Fernando García-Arenal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

2006-10-27 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Amanda Cottage)

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

2006-11-02 16:00: Getting to grips with the metabolic network of Arabidopsis (Dr Lee Sweetlove, University of Oxford)

2006-11-03 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Sabrina Russo)

2006-11-06 14:15: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica: 800,000 years of climate and environmental change from ice cores (Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey)

2006-11-09 16:00: Small RNA-directed pathways in plants (Professor Jim Carrington, Oregon State University)

2006-11-10 13:00: hydrogen production from a photosynthetically driven semi-biological device (Martin Croft)

2006-11-13 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Andrew Robinson, Dept. of Chemistry)

2006-11-16 16:00: Chloroplast DNA - the case of the vanishing genome (Professor Chris Howe, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-17 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ulli Seibt)

2006-11-20 14:15: An annual cycle of long lived stratospheric gases from MIPAS (Dr Martin Juckes, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

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)

2006-11-23 16:00: Hormonal control of shoot branching (Professor Ottoline Leyser, University of York)

2006-11-24 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Heather Whitney)

2006-11-30 16:00: Grasses bite back: Silica as an anti-herbivore defence (Professor Susan Hartley, University of Sussex)

2006-12-08 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Lionel Dupuy)

2006-12-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Mat Lewsey)

2007-01-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Mike Webb, Plant Metabolism)

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

2007-01-24 13:00: Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull (Michael Depew, King's College, London)

2007-01-25 16:00: Exploiting Cowpea mosaic virus in bio- and nano-technology: 101 things to do with a plant virus (Dr George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre)

2007-01-26 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Katrine Bych, Plant Biochemistry)

2007-01-29 10:30: How permeable is the tropopause ? - Simulations with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) (Dr Paul Konopka, Forschungszentrum Juelich)

2007-01-30 12:00: How to develop a cumulus parameterization logically and consistently (Dr Jun-Ichi Jano, Meteo France (Toulouse))

2007-02-01 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Thilo Weimar, Cell Walls and Trafficking)

2007-02-01 14:00: Multiphase flow in porous media from the micron to kilometre scale (Martin Blunt (Imperial))

2007-02-01 16:00: The first cyanobacterium. A redox switch hypothesis for the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis. (Professor John Allen, Queen Mary, University of   London)

2007-02-02 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ellen Nisbet, Photosyn & Mol Evolution)

2007-02-02 16:30: Receiver function observations of mantle discontinuities (Jennifer Andrews)

2007-02-05 14:15: Convective-scale modelling, predictability and simulation of the "Hector" thunderstorm (Dr Richard Forbes, UK Met. Office)

2007-02-05 14:45: High resolution models: understanding tropical convection and transport through the tropical tropopause layer. (Dr Maria Russo, Chemistry Dept.)

2007-02-07 13:00: The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates (Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France)

2007-02-08 14:00: Mixing in stratified fluids: More questions than answers (Colm Caulfield (DAMTP & BPI))

2007-02-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Antony Dodd, Signal Transduction)

2007-02-09 16:30: Models of crustal flow in the India-Asia collision zone (Alex Copley)

2007-02-11 14:15: Understanding the properties and impacts of multicomponent atmospheric aerosol (Dr Gordon McFiggans, Univ. Manchester)

2007-02-14 17:00: Neanderthal Genomics (Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)

2007-02-15 14:00: The stratosphere and climate (Mark Baldwin (Reading))

2007-02-15 16:00: About the importance of molybdenum for life (Dr Florian Bittner, Technische Universität Braunschweig)

2007-02-16 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Photosyn & Mol Evolution)

2007-02-16 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Jennifer Eccles)

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)

2007-02-21 13:00: The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas (Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee)

2007-02-22 16:00: The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex (Professor John Crawford, University of Abertay, Dundee)

2007-02-23 16:30: Solitary waves and melt migration in the mantle (John Rudge)

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

2007-02-26 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Guang Zeng, Dept. Chemistry (CAS))

2007-02-28 13:00: Embryos and Ancestors (Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

2007-03-01 14:00: A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology (Danny Feltham (UCL))

2007-03-01 16:00: Are treelines responding to climate change? (Professor Emeritus Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews)

2007-03-02 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kate Parsley, Mol Physiology)

2007-03-02 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Brian Emmerson)

2007-03-05 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Carlos Buontempo, UK Met. Office)

2007-03-07 13:00: Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED) (Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-03-08 14:00: H2O in melt inclusions - what can we learn? (Madeline Humphreys (DES))

2007-03-08 16:00: Natural variation in Antirrhinum and Arabidopsis (Dr Andrew Hudson, University of Edinburgh)

2007-03-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Matt Lewsey, Mol Virology)

2007-03-09 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Mahnaz Rezaeian)

2007-03-12 14:15: Recent Antarctic climate change (Dr John Turner, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-03-14 13:00: Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories (Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A.)

2007-03-15 16:00: The legume toolbox for the Rhizobium root nodule symbiosis (Professor Ton Bisseling, Wageningen University)

2007-03-23 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Christine Newell, Mol Biology)

2007-03-30 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ma Wei, Plant Metabolism)

2007-04-03 12:30: The prize for integrating Time Lapse seismic and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Greg Walker BP)

2007-04-20 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Diane Lister, Photosyn & Mol Evolution)

2007-04-25 13:00: Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development (Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-04-27 11:30: Large-scale simulation technique for shock and blast loaded structures (Dr Fehmi Cirak CUED)

2007-04-27 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Neil Macpherson, Ion Transport)

2007-05-02 13:00: Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types (Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2007-05-03 16:00: Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes and plant  development (Professor Garry Whitelam, University of Leicester)

2007-05-04 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Sophie Janacek, Mol Physiology)

2007-05-04 13:00: Professor Andy Woods (Professor AW Woods, BP Institute)

2007-05-07 14:00: Oil spill detection and prediction in the Mediterranean Sea (Jose M Redondo, Dept. Fisica Aplicada, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

2007-05-09 13:00: Gene Networks and Natural Selection (Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-05-11 11:30: Numerical simulation of the dynamics of a sailing boat (Matteo Lombardi)

2007-05-11 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Richard Fu, Mol Virology)

2007-05-18 11:30: Fundamentals and applications of complex phase behaviour from a molecular perspective (Amparo Galindo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London)

2007-05-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Katharine Hubbard, Signal Transduction)

2007-05-25 14:15: Dam-break flows of visco-plastic and granular materials (Dr Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol)

2007-05-31 10:30: Long wave transition to instability of flows in horizontally extended domains of porous media (Professor Andrej Il'ichev, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Science and Professor George Tsypkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanics)

2007-06-01 11:30: Migrating and interacting solid particles in a Brinkman fluid (Antoine Sellier LadHyX)

2007-06-01 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Nadexda Bystriakova, Cons & Com Ecology)

2007-06-06 13:00: High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms (Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2007-06-07 14:15: Contrails and water vapour (Dr Michael Ponater, DLR)

2007-06-08 11:30: Development of anisotropy of permeability in expanding vesicular magma (Ed Llewellin, Earth Sciences, University of Durham)

2007-06-08 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Diana Marshall, Mol Physiology)

2007-06-13 13:00: Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways (Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-06-15 11:30: Ice and Ice cream (Dr Martin Izzard Unilever)

2007-06-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kaushik Saha, Plant Metabolism)

2007-06-19 16:00: Investigations of Rutford Ice Stream using DELORES (the BAS DEep-LOoking Radio-Echo Sounder) (Dr Ed King, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-06-20 14:15: Observations and modelling of the effects of aerosols on the anvil outflow from deep tropical convection. (Dr Paul Connolly, UMIST)

2007-06-21 16:15: Thermochronological strategies for reconstructing long-term orogenic growth histories: examples from the Himalaya (Dr. Andy Carter (University College London))

2007-06-22 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kazunari Yasuhara, Mol Development)

2007-06-25 14:15: Halogen chemistry in the troposphere: From aerosol particles to volcanic plumes. (Dr Roland von Glasow, UEA)

2007-06-25 15:00: Geochemical and Mineralogical Records of Atmospheric Photochemistry (Dr Doug Rumble, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington DC.)

2007-06-26 11:00: Sustainable Energy - Without the BS (David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory)

2007-06-27 16:00: Ocean mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation: the Southern Ocean crossroads (Dr Alberto Naveira Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2007-06-28 16:15: Palaeozoic evolution of the north-central margin of the Proto Andes (David Chew (Trinity College Dublin))

2007-06-29 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Inka Borchers)

2007-07-05 14:00: Improving Waterflood Oil Recovery: Understanding the Habitat and Targetting Recovery of Remaining Oil (Cliff Black, BP Senior Advisor Waterflood Management & IOR)

2007-07-06 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Laura Spence, Cons & Com Ecology)

2007-07-13 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Monique Surette, Mol Virology)

2007-07-19 11:00: Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra (Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford)

2007-07-26 11:00: Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders (Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)

2007-07-28 14:15: New Second Years' short talks (Ailsa Benton, Luke Knowles, Evgenia Ilyinskaya)

2007-07-31 11:00: Revisiting Levy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer (Andrew Edwards, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-08-07 11:00: The effect of a maturation time on plankton patchiness generated by chaotic stirring (Alexandra Tzella, Atmospheric Dynamics Group, DAMTP, U. Cambridge)

2007-08-07 16:00: Focussing on the peripheral: grounding lines, coastal stress-boundaries, and the inside-out ice sheet. (Rob Arthern, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-08-13 09:00: Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue (Nick Watkins (Organiser), British Antarctic Survey)

2007-08-13 09:20: Is a Grand Unified Earth System Science possible? And if so, what might it look like? My best GUESS. (John Harte, University of California, Berkeley)

2007-08-13 10:05: Ice cores and climate: Patterns and causes of change (Eric W. Wolff, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-08-13 11:20: Tipping Elements in the Earth System (Tim Lenton, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)

2007-08-13 12:05: Qualitative Physics: An alternative approach to assess coupled human-environment systems ( Jurgen P. Kropp, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany)

2007-08-13 14:00: Unnatural Complexity: Towards Achievable Aims for Complicated Simulation Models in Applications with Data (Weather-like) and those without (Climate-like) (Leonard A. Smith, London School of Economics, London, U.K.)

2007-08-13 14:45: Patterned segregation: Order out of complexity (Tom Mullin, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, U.K.)

2007-08-13 16:00: The Scaling Laws of Human Travel – New Approaches to the Forecast of Epidemics (Theo Geisel,  Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany
)

2007-08-13 16:45: Title to be announced [speaker to be confirmed] (Geoff West, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, U.S.A.)

2007-08-21 11:00: Dissolved Oxygen and Argon in some areas of the Southern Ocean, a proxy for the estimation of Marine Productivity (Karel Castro-Morales, UEA)

2007-08-28 10:30: Scaling in the geometrical features of the gradient contact process (Gunnar Pruessner, University of Warwick and Imperial College)

2007-09-04 11:00: Expression and function of spider Wnt genes (Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)

2007-09-11 11:00: Diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage (Andy Thompson, UEA)

2007-09-11 14:00: Some Recent Results in the Theory of Free and Confined Levy Flights (A. V. Chechkin, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kharkov, Ukraine)

2007-09-12 13:00: Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull (Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-09-13 16:15: Ice cores and tree-rings give a new slant on the great plagues of history (Prof. Mike Baillie, Queens University Belfast)

2007-09-20 16:15: Geochemical fluxes to the oceans from rivers: why they are wrong and consequences for marine geochemical budgets (Dr. Derek Vance)

2007-09-25 16:00: The role of crystal fabric on ice flow and radar stratigraphy near the ice divide (Carlos Martin, BAS)

2007-10-02 10:30: Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling:  The Importance of Stationary Planetary Waves (Edwin Gerber, Columbia University)

2007-10-02 16:00: Physical controls on the location and initiation of a regular phytoplankton bloom north of the Crozet Plateau (Hugh Venables, BAS)

2007-10-04 16:00: Green light effects on plant growth and development (Professor Kevin Folta, University of Florida)

2007-10-04 16:15: Deciphering Antarctic ice sheet history and landscape evolution with geomorphology and cosmogenic isotopes. (Dr. Mike Bentley, Durham University)

2007-10-05 13:00: Does the wheat orthologue of the rice cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2 (OsCKX2) regulate grain yield in hexaploid wheat? (Sabine Mameaux)

2007-10-08 14:15: Second Year Project Talks (Ailsa Benton, Luke Knowles, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-09 11:00: The Atlantic; strong but subservient in the meridional overturning circulation (Agatha de Boer, UEA)

2007-10-10 13:00: Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles (Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-10-11 11:00: Probabilistic weather forecasting: scientific research and commercial application (Emily Shuckburgh, BAS)

2007-10-11 11:30: Separation Control in Over-expanded Supersonic Nozzles: Improving the Performance of Ballistic Drug and Vaccine Delivery Devices (Dr Maynard Marrion BPI)

2007-10-11 14:00: A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology (Danny Feltham (UCL))

2007-10-11 16:00: Biogenesis and regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus (Professor Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva)

2007-10-11 16:15: News and views of Falklands geology (Dr. Phil Stone, British Geological Survey)

2007-10-12 13:00: Stromules and starch granule formation in wheat (Dan Shaw)

2007-10-16 10:30: Natural Complexity Programme group meeting (Nick Watkins, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-10-17 14:00: Climate change and the polar ice sheets (Andy Shepherd, University of Edinburgh)

2007-10-18 11:30: Microcapsules with liquid cores and solid shells for pressure-release applications (Dr Michael O'Sullivan BPI)

2007-10-18 14:00: The melt inclusion record of concurrent mixing and cooling in basaltic magma chambers (John Mclennan (Earth Sciences))

2007-10-18 16:00: Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees (Dr Jérôme Chave, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

2007-10-19 13:00: Economic Epidemiology (Martial Ndeffo Mbah, Plant Sciences)

2007-10-22 14:15: TALK POSTPONED, new date TBA (Dr Bill Sturges, University of East Anglia)

2007-10-23 11:00: Sustainable Energy - Without the BS (Director's Cut) (David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory)

2007-10-24 11:00: The ablation of icebergs and ice shelves (Andrew Wells, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-24 13:00: Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints? (Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-10-25 11:30: Segregation in Frictional Granular Flows (Dr Jim McElwaine DAMTP)

2007-10-25 14:00: Volatile geochemistry of volcanic eruptions (Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences))

2007-10-25 16:00: 21st century crop science man (Professor Andy Greenland, NIAB)

2007-10-25 16:15: Antarctic Fossil Forests: Attack of the Insects (Claire McDonald, University of Leeds)

2007-10-26 13:00: The Barley Circadian Clock (Zoe Rutterford)

2007-11-01 11:30: Stirring the Cahn-Hilliard fluid (Dr Lennon O'Naraigh, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College)

2007-11-01 14:00: Marvelous mathematical models (Hassan Aref (Virginia & Denmark))

2007-11-01 16:00: Asking the plant about what's important in plant-herbivore interactions (Professor Ian T. Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Biology, Jena)

2007-11-07 13:00: Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution (Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France)

2007-11-08 11:30: Numerical models for dam-break flows at the intitial stage (Dr Dongfang Liang, Engineering, Cambridge)

2007-11-08 16:00: Genome- and species-wide analysis of sequence variation and its functional consequences (Professor Detlef Weigel, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen)

2007-11-12 14:15: The observed trend in the Southern Annular Mode: is it the ozone hole or is it greenhouse gases? (Dr Howard Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge)

2007-11-13 11:00: A recent subglacial volcanic eruption in West Antarctica (David Vaughan, BAS)

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

2007-11-14 13:00: Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis (Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

2007-11-15 16:00: Cell-to-cell transport of PVX involves novel features of the endomembrane network (Professor Jeanmarie Verchot Lubicz, Oklahoma State University)

2007-11-16 13:00: Development of trichome in tomato and relation with MIXTA gene (Kaz Yasuhara)

2007-11-19 14:15: Studying lightning-produced nitrogen oxides; methods and uncertainties (Dr. Lorenzo Labrador, University of Manchester)

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

2007-11-21 13:00: The Great Divide:  Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition (Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2007-11-21 13:00: Aviation and climate (Dr. Piers Forster, Univeristy of Leeds)

2007-11-21 14:00: Tropical fingerprints on the polar mesosphere (Dr R E Hibbins, British Antarctic Survey)

2007-11-22 11:30: Life at High Peclet Numbers (Professor R. Goldstein, DAMTP)

2007-11-22 14:00: Climate change and the trillion-dollar millennium mathematics problem (Tim Palmer (ECMWF))

2007-11-22 16:00: Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes (Dr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, HRI Warwick)

2007-11-23 13:00: Regulation of vitamin B1 metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Michael Moulin)

2007-11-26 14:15: The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of chlorine peroxide (ClOOCl) and implications for polar ozone chemistry (Dr Francis Pope (University of Cambridge))

2007-11-29 14:00: The stability of ice sheets: current understanding (Geoffrey Boulton (Edinburgh))

2007-11-29 16:00: Plant water-use efficiency and optimisation: From minutes to millennia (Dr Peter J. Franks)

2007-11-30 13:00: Hairpin-induced gene silencing in Arabidopsis (Ben Hunter)

2007-12-03 14:15: Significance of deep tropical storms as agents of stratosphere-troposphere exchanges: Insights from high-resolution numerical simulations (Dr Charles Chemel , Centre for Atmospheric & Instrumentation Research, University of Hertfordshire)

2007-12-06 14:00: Mechanisms of ocean heat uptake in coupled climate models (Helene Banks, Hadley Centre)

2007-12-10 14:15: Using DOAS to study  tropospheric chemistry: From volcanoes to airports (Dr  V. Tsanev, CAS)

2007-12-12 13:00: The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm (Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.)

2007-12-14 12:00: Humpback and minke whale density distributions in the Southern Ocean: relationships with the sea ice edge (Bas Beekmans (BAS))

2007-12-14 13:00: Mechanics of Plant and Fungal Movements: Traps, Slingshots, and Catapults (Jacques Dumais from Harvard Biolabs)

2007-12-17 11:00: Functional genomics of salinity tolerance in plants (Prof Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, Australia)

2008-01-08 11:00: High resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling (Dave Stevens, UEA)

2008-01-16 13:00: The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies (Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London)

2008-01-17 11:30: Streaming potentials generated by a two-phase flow in capillary (Etienne Lac)

2008-01-18 13:00: Advances in sequencing and mapping technology and multi-locus single molecule PCR (Justin Pachebat, Plant Sciences)

2008-01-22 11:00: Unstructured meshes and adaptivity for 3D multi-scale ocean modelling (Matthew Piggott, Imperial College London)

2008-01-22 13:00: Porous ceramics by controlled solidification of (colloidal) suspensions (Sylvain Deville (Saint-Gobain))

2008-01-24 11:30: The challenge of consumer products: the prediction of complex fluid flow behaviour in both the consumer and industrial manufacturing processes: today's challenges and tomorrow's needs (Dr Mark Meili, Proctor & Gamble)

2008-01-24 14:05: Thermal evolution of the Earth: evidence from Archean komatiites and basalts (Nick Arndt (LGCA, Universite J Fourier))

2008-01-24 16:00: Improving wheat for processing and nutrition (Professor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden)

2008-01-25 13:00: Interactions between proteins and between organisms (Severin Sasso, Plant Sciences)

2008-01-28 14:15: A new chemiluminescent technique for ozone observations (Dr. Jim B. McQuaid, University of Leeds)

2008-01-29 11:00: The observed trend in the Southern Annular Mode: is it the ozone hole or is it greenhouse gases? (Howard Roscoe, BAS)

2008-01-29 13:00: Static zones in granular flows (Chris Cawthorn (ITG, DAMTP))

2008-01-31 11:30: Internal solitary waves in shallow water (Professor Peter Davies, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee)

2008-01-31 14:05: Geophysical evidence for highly focused fluid flow in sedimentary basins (Joe Cartwright (Cardiff))

2008-01-31 16:00: Recent dynamics and biomass carbon balance in the Amazon forests - what on earth is going on? (Professor O.P. Phillips, University of Leeds)

2008-02-01 13:00: Native-exotic species richness relationships in Mountain Beech forest understorey, New Zealand (Laura Spence, Plant Sciences)

2008-02-05 10:00: Second and third order structure functions calculated from QuikSCAT measured near-surface winds over the Pacific Ocean (Greg King (University of Warwick, UK and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal))

2008-02-05 13:00: Vortices and jets in geophysical flows (Andy Thompson (DAMTP))

2008-02-06 13:00: Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls (David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.)

2008-02-06 16:30: The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado)

2008-02-07 11:30: Plume dynamics associated with volcanism: atmospheric flows; submarine flows and lake eruptions (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge))

2008-02-07 14:05: Mixing induced in oceanic overflows and dense gravity currents: a new entrainment parameterization (Claudia Cenedese (WHOI))

2008-02-07 14:15: The Antarctic ozone hole:  review and update (Prof. Susan Solomon, NOAA/ERL, Chemical Sciences Division)

2008-02-07 16:00: How repeatable is evolution? The genetics of parallel architectural evolution in Brassicaceae (Professor David Baum, University of Wisconsin)

2008-02-08 13:00: The D-type cyclin CYCD4;1 controls lateral root density in Arabidopsis (Jeroen Nieuwland, Institute of Biotechnology)

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

2008-02-12 13:00: Reactive symplectite formation as tracers of late-stage liquids: Skaergaard Intrusion, East Greenland (Gemma Stripp (Earth Sciences))

2008-02-12 16:15: New Perspectives on Linkages between Ozone Depletion and Climate Change (Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado)

2008-02-13 13:00: Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse (Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London)

2008-02-14 11:30: Soft, self-assembled systems: structure and flow properties (Dr Erika Eiser)

2008-02-14 14:05: Rossby waves in the Ocean: Theoretical advances and recent satellite observations (Nathan Paldor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem))

2008-02-14 16:00: Towards an interdisciplinary view of shoot apical meristem function (Professor Jan Traas, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon)

2008-02-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (iGem Team/Library)

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

2008-02-18 14:15: Part III student talks (Clare Davis , Colin Berkley, Joe Moed , Peter Smith , Lee Harper , Lay May Leow)

2008-02-19 13:00: Modelling meltwater plumes from tidewater glaciers (Ruth Mugford (Earth Sciences))

2008-02-20 11:00: The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode (James Screen (BAS/UEA))

2008-02-20 13:00: The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates (Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain)

2008-02-21 12:00: How oscillating collapsible tubes extract energy from a viscous flow (Professor Matthias Heil, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manchester)

2008-02-21 14:05: Models of convective exchange between lava lakes and magma chambers (Steve Blake (Open University))

2008-02-21 16:00: Building plant bodies from hair (Professor Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, Norwich)

2008-02-22 13:00: The iron-sulfur protein IND1 is required for complex I assembly in Yarrowia lipolytica (Katrine Bych, Plant Sciences)

2008-02-25 14:00: Insect Pest Control: overcoming the problems? (Professor Lin Field, Head of Insect Molecular Biology, Rothamsted Research)

2008-02-25 14:15: Producing a nudged version of the UKCA (Dr. Paul Telford, CAS)

2008-02-26 13:00: Ripples on icicles and stalactites (Kazuto Ueno (Nagoya University Japan))

2008-02-27 10:00: Induced epigenetic variation and its impact on Arabidopsis phenotype (Dr Brande B H Wulff, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas Cuidad Politecnica de la Innovacion Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

2008-02-27 13:00: Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record (Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-28 11:30: Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean (Professor Tom Peacock, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

2008-02-28 14:05: Advances in simulating wave propagation in complex media: applications to rotational seismology and scattering (Heiner Igel (LMU Munich))

2008-02-28 16:00: First steps in manipulating cell wall polysaccharide synthesis: functional and industrial implications (Dr Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-29 13:00: Proteomics analysis of organelle membrane proteins in Arabidopsis (Arnoud Groen, a postdoc in Kathryn Lilley's group)

2008-03-03 14:15: Parameterisations of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Reactions: Recent work of the IUPAC Kinetics Data Evaluation Panel (Dr. R. A. Cox, CAS, Chairman, The IUPAC Subcommittee for Kinetics Data Evaluation for Atmospheric Chemistry)

2008-03-04 13:00: Vortex ring interaction with a particle layer (Nastja Bethke (DAMTP))

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

2008-03-06 11:30: Transport in heterogeneous porous media (Dr Diogo Bolster, Dept. of Geotechnical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalunya)

2008-03-06 14:05: Development of hydrocarbon miscibility in water and gas injection (Tara La Force (Imperial College))

2008-03-06 16:00: Everything you always wanted to know about potassium (Dr Anna Amtmann, University of Glasgow)

2008-03-10 14:15: "Isoprene and biofuels: Sensitivity studies in a global chemistry-climate model" (Rachel) / "Emissions, transport and deposition of volcanic aerosol in the
troposphere" (Jane) (Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Dept. of Geography, and Rachel Pike, CAS)

2008-03-11 11:00: Dynamic thinning and thickening of coastal Antarctica - a new, high-resolution view of comtemporary change. (Hamish Pritchard (BAS))

2008-03-12 13:00: A new view on arthropod limb evolution (Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin)

2008-03-13 11:30: Title to be confirmed (WY Chow, I Stöcker, L Foley and C Smith)

2008-03-13 14:05: CANCELLED - Submarine  granular flows: how the interstitial fluid dramatically influences the granular dynamics (Olivier Pouliquen (IUSTI, Marseille))

2008-03-13 16:00: To grow or not to grow (Professor Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford)

2008-03-13 16:00: Recent fieldwork over Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica (Andy Smith (BAS))

2008-03-18 11:00: Snow Falling on Sea Ice: Antarctic Snow, Ice Thickness, and the Quest for the "Holy Grail" (Ted Maksym (British Antarctic Survey))

2008-03-18 13:00: Premelting phenomena and rock fracturing/Sector flow of viscous gravity currents (Ioanna Vlahou/Daisuke Takagi (ITG, DAMTP))

2008-03-27 10:30: Multipoint measurements of correlation in complex systems (Robert Wicks University of Warwick)

2008-03-28 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Raffaele Lafortezza, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-01 11:00: Engineering in Antarctica - A Summer in the Field - 2007-2008 (Matthew Gascoyne (BAS))

2008-04-02 14:00: Transient simulations of the Little Ice Age and beyond with a global reduced complexity model (Prof Lawrence Mysak (McGill University, Canada))

2008-04-04 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Fernan Federici and James Brown, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-08 11:00: EGU talks (Stéphane Bauguitte / Regine Röthlisberger (BAS))

2008-04-11 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ericka Havecker, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-18 13:00: A role for inositol hexakisphosphate in the maintenance of basal resistance to pathogens in plants (Alex Murphy, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-21 14:00: PLATO: an autonomous, diesel/solar powered, station for astronomy and atmospheric science at Dome A (Michael C. B. Ashley  (University of New South Wales))

2008-04-22 11:00: Glacial Cycles and Carbon Dioxide: A conceptual model (Andy Hogg (The Australian National University))

2008-04-23 13:00: Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.)

2008-04-24 10:30: Generalizing the Reynolds number from turbulence to Self Organized Criticality and ecosystems (Sandra C. Chapman (University of Warwick))

2008-04-24 11:30: Pattern formation in permafrost (Dr Lucas Goehring, BP Institute)

2008-04-25 13:00: Effects of floral surface structures on colour and pollinator behaviour (Heather Whitney)

2008-04-28 14:15: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Prof. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory)

2008-04-30 13:00: The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis (Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday))

2008-05-01 10:00: The open/closed field line boundary in the ionosphere as a diagnostic of magnetospheric dynamics (Peter Boakes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester)

2008-05-01 11:30: Buckling of elastic plates: theory and experiment (Prof Richard Craster, Imperial College Dept. of Mathematics)

2008-05-07 13:00: Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution (Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2008-05-08 11:30: The world in a bowl of mush: solidification and fluid flow from the inner core to the Arctic Ocean (Dr Jerome Neufeld, ITG)

2008-05-13 11:00: Rothera, environmental change and you (Jon Shanklin (BAS))

2008-05-13 14:00: Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability (Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2008-05-14 13:00: Evo-devo in the tropics (Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2008-05-15 11:30: Encapsulation by microcapsules (Grace Yow, BP Institute)

2008-05-19 14:15: The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission (Dr. Hartmut Boesch, University of Leicester)

2008-05-19 16:00: Slicing, Spreading and Copying Silent Heterochromatin with RNAi (Rob Martienssen)

2008-05-21 13:00: Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation (Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

2008-05-22 11:30: Microbiological Responses and Population-Adaptation to Chemical Stress (Sujata Ray, BP Institute)

2008-05-22 14:15: Understanding 20th century surface temperature variability (David W J Thompson, Colorado State University)

2008-05-23 13:00: Modelling the interactions of circadian clocks with physiology in plants (Neil Dalchau (University of Cambridge))

2008-05-28 13:00: The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles (Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

2008-05-29 11:30: An adaptive numerical method for multi-scale problems arising in phase-field modelling of solidification (Prof Peter Jimack, Computational PDEs Unit, University of Leeds)

2008-05-30 13:00: Calcium-permeable cation channel formation by plant annexins (Anuphon Laohavisit, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-05-30 13:30: Demographic analyses of New Zealand forests (David Wright, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-02 14:15: Blowing snow and bromine explosion- a model study (Dr. Xin Yang, Centre for Atmospheric Science)

2008-06-03 11:00: Observing mean Ekman currents in Drake Passage (Yueng-Djern Lenn (Bangor University))

2008-06-03 13:00: Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera) (Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A.)

2008-06-05 10:00: Web-based Experiments with Earth System Models of Different Complexity used for Education at Freie Universität (Dr Ingo Kirchner (Freie Universtät Berlin, Germany))

2008-06-05 16:00: Delivering 'born-again' (Virus-Eliminated) sweet potato to half a million small holder farmers in Zimbabwe (Dr Ian Robertson, University of Zimbabwe)

2008-06-06 13:00: Virus accumulation and movement in non-transgenic and transgenic Nicotiana species (Wing-Sham Lee, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-06 13:30: Evolution of the ‘beetle daisy’ petal spot: Insights from gene characterisation, development and population genetics (Murphy Thomas, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-10 11:00: GEF project summary (Joan Junyent (BAS))

2008-06-11 12:00: Cetacean conservation in the Southern Ocean - relevance of the CCAMLR and the Madrid Protocol (Dr Daniel Owen)

2008-06-11 14:00: Effects of Current Flow in the Global Circuit on Winter Storm Vorticity and Polar Surface Pressures (Brian Tinsley, Centre for Space Sciences, Univ. of Texas, Dallas, USA)

2008-06-12 10:30: Why do we need a theory of non-elephants? (Kim Christensen, Imperial College, London)

2008-06-12 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Tej Bhinde and Seung Yeon Lee, BP Institute)

2008-06-13 13:00: Characterisation of the GUN1 plastid-to-nucleus signalling pathway in Arabidopsis (Linh Tran, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-17 11:00: Human control of the Radiation Belts. Protecting satellites from "terrorists" with nuclear weapons (Craig J Rodger, Physics Department, University of Otago)

2008-06-20 13:00: The role of pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase in remobilisation of nitrogen from senescing leaves (Lucy Taylor, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-20 13:30: Cell division and elongation in Arabidopsis root (Fernan Federici, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-20 14:15: Data fusion and the reconstruction of the 20th century temperature record (Dr Julian Hill, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire)

2008-06-23 14:15: "Atmospheric ozone: chemistry/climate interactions in the troposphere and stratosphere" AND "Understanding the relation between V(PSC) and Arctic ozone loss" (Prof. John Pyle & Dr. Neil Harris, CAS)

2008-06-24 11:00: The proximal cause of glacial terminations (Eric Wolff (BAS))

2008-06-27 13:30: Phytate mediated basal resistance in plants (Bettina Otto, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-27 14:30: Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Prof. Bill Johns, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)

2008-07-01 11:00: MASIN: Airborne Meteorological Science in BAS (Tom Lachlan-Cope (BAS))

2008-07-04 13:00: Role of sugar in Ca2+ signalling pathways in the Arabidopsis circadian clock (Leon Baek, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-07-11 13:00: Cytokinins and Potato Tuber Dormancy (Jenny Bromley, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-07-11 13:30: Distribution, Function and Regulation of Stromules in Wheat (Dan Shaw, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-07-14 11:00: Annual, seasonal & diurnal dynamics at the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (Dr Alun Hubbard (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University))

2008-08-05 11:00: Back to basics: Trace metal evidence for a more alkaline glacial ocean (Ros Rickaby (Oxford University))

2008-08-06 10:30: The risk of an abrupt climate change: probabilities from a deterministic model using emulators (Peter Challenor (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2008-08-14 14:00: Studies of Natural and Artificial Ice (Prof Ian Baker (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA))

2008-08-27 14:00: Variability of Southern Ocean mode and intermediate waters during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: The view from Drake Passage (Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton))

2008-09-17 11:00: Sailors in the southern oceans: logbooks and climatic research (Dennis Wheeler, University of Sunderland)

2008-09-18 14:15: The TES instrument on NASA Aura. (Dr Annmarie Eldering, JPL)

2008-09-19 12:00: Atmospheric complexity or scale by scale simplicity? (Shaun Lovejoy, McGill University)

2008-09-23 11:00: The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic shelf seas (Clare Postlethwaite (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory))

2008-09-24 11:30: Coping with ice: How do Antarctic fish survive in ice-laden water? (Prof. Clive Evans (University of Auckland))

2008-09-25 09:30: Mixing by turbulent plumes (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge))

2008-09-25 10:45: Some transient studies in stratified flow with horizontal shear (Cristobal Arratia, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

2008-09-25 11:45: Mixing in oceanic (and laboratory) overflows (Claudia Cenedese, WHOI)

2008-09-25 13:45: Maximal mixing efficiency (Stuart Dalziel, DAMTP)

2008-09-25 14:45: Interaction of natural convection and chemical kinetics (Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering)

2008-09-25 16:00: On the energetics of turbulent mixing in stratified fluids (Remi Tailleux, Meteorology, University of Reading)

2008-09-26 09:30: Interfacial mixing by horizontal vortices and shear turbulence (Jan-bert Flor, LEGI Grenoble)

2008-09-26 10:45: The role of angular momentum conservation in rotating turbulence (Peter Davidson, CUED)

2008-09-26 11:45: The role of convective chimneys in the Greenland Sea (Peter Wadhams, DAMTP)

2008-09-26 13:45: Global shear instabilities in flames and their effect on the response to acoustic forcing. (Matthew Juniper, CUED)

2008-09-26 14:45: Bounds on mixing efficiency and Richardson number in stably stratified turbulent shear flow (Colm-cille Caulfield, BPI & DAMTP)

2008-10-01 13:00: The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects (Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany))

2008-10-01 13:30: The ecology of a melting glacier: biotic feedbacks upon surface melt rates and biogeochemical significance. (Dr Andy Hodson (University of Sheffield))

2008-10-02 10:30: Long Memory Networks in Climatological Studies (Ed Bullmore (University of Cambridge; Dept of Psychiatry))

2008-10-07 13:00: Close encounters of the viscous kind - First contact in a viscous fluid (Chris Cawthorn (ITG))

2008-10-09 11:30: The dynamics of Vulcanian plumes: Insights from laboratory analogue experiments (Jerry Phillips, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

2008-10-09 14:05: Whither sea ice (John Wettlaufer (Yale))

2008-10-13 17:00: I know what you did last summer... (Various)

2008-10-14 13:00: Miscible flow in porous media (Richard Booth (Oxford))

2008-10-14 16:30: U-Th-Pb isotopes in continental mantle roots: Tracing lithospheric metasomatism, melting and anthropogenic contamination (Nadine Wittig, Durham University)

2008-10-15 13:00: Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye (Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany))

2008-10-15 16:30: Antarctic Engineering (Murray Mitchell (OPUS Engineering - New Zealand))

2008-10-16 10:30: Underlying dynamics of glacial millennial-scale climate transitions derived from ice-core data (Frank Kwasniok (University of Exeter))

2008-10-16 11:30: Turbulent jets with off-source heating (Andy Aspden, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2008-10-16 16:00: Blue light sensing in plants and bacteria: all you need is a little LOV (Dr John Christie, University of Glasgow)

2008-10-16 17:00: I know what you did last summer (2) (Various)

2008-10-17 11:00: Numerical simulation of the Filchner overflow (Alexander Wilchinsky, University College London)

2008-10-17 13:00: Understanding mannan biosynthesis: a key target for biofuel production. (Dr Jenny Mortimer, Dept. Biochemistry)

2008-10-20 14:15: Uncertainties in estimates of the aerosol radiative effects – Efficiency of primary and secondary aerosols. (Dr Philip Stier)

2008-10-20 16:00: Trends and Properties in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials (Professor Tony Cheetham (Materials Science and Metallurgy))

2008-10-21 13:00: Fluid dynamics of carbon dioxide sequestration (Jerome Neufeld (ITG))

2008-10-21 16:30: Monogenetic Volcanism: A Window into Mantle Heterogeneity and Magmatic Processes (Ninad Bondre (Nature Geoscience, London))

2008-10-23 11:30: Magma mixing in channels and chambers under Iceland: Observations in dire need of models (John Maclennan, Department of Earth Sciences)

2008-10-23 14:05: Past changes in the marine carbon cycle (Harry Elderfield (Earth Sciences))

2008-10-23 16:00: Cajal bodies, the nucleolus and fibrillarin are required for a plant virus systemic infection (Dr Michael Taliansky, SCRI Dundee)

2008-10-24 13:00: Rubisco: no substitution for the pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Moritz Meyer, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-10-27 10:30: Probing the temporal power-law characteristics of the global atmospheric circulation (Dmitry Vyushin, Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

2008-10-27 14:15: Spectroscopic studies of the chlorine monoxide dimer (ClOOCl) (Isla  Young, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge)

2008-10-27 14:15: A brief introduction to Astrochemistry (Dr Valentine Wakelam, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.)

2008-10-27 16:00: Introducing quantum nuclear effects in the calculation of structural properties of crystals (Dr Jorge Kohanoff (Queen’s University Belfast))

2008-10-28 11:00: Regional modelling of ocean processes in the Bellingshausen Sea (Paul Holland, British Antarctic Survey)

2008-10-28 13:00: Washboard road (Jim McElwaine (DAMTP))

2008-10-28 16:30: Driving mechanisms for globally correlatable Phanerozoic eustatic sequences? (Mike Simmons (Netflex Petroleum, Oxford))

2008-10-29 16:30: Antarctic subglacial hydrology (Anne Le Brocq (University of Durham))

2008-10-30 10:30: What we can learn about Climate Dynamics from ice-cores (Peter Ditlevsen (Niels Bohr Institute, Kobenhagen))

2008-10-30 11:30: Capillary waves as a label-free detection tool of biomolecules: Perspective for a droplet-based lab on a chip (Cyril Picard, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics)

2008-10-30 14:05: Physical Limnology: A review (Jorg Imberger (Western Australia))

2008-10-30 16:00: New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants (Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth)

2008-10-31 13:00: Misexpression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Arabidopsis and tobacco leaves (Anna Leiss, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-11-03 14:15: Optical control and characterisation of aerosol particles (Dr Jon Wills, University of Bristol)

2008-11-04 13:00: Non-monotonic rate-and-state friction: consequences of the physics of friction on earthquake mechanics (Thibaut Putelat (ITG))

2008-11-04 16:30: Solving the high level nuclear waste problem (Lou Vance (ANSTO, Australia))

2008-11-04 16:30: Solving the high level nuclear waste problem. (Dr Lou Vance (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation))

2008-11-05 12:00: Detecting and mapping vegetation distribution on the Antarctic Peninsula from remote sensing data (Peter Fretwell (BAS))

2008-11-05 13:00: Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies. (Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University)

2008-11-06 11:30: Dynamics of fluid-filled gelatin cracks (Onno Bokhove, Department of Mathematics, University of Twente)

2008-11-06 14:00: A regime view of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Atlantic jetstream variability (Tim Woollings (University of Reading))

2008-11-06 14:05: Influence of laterial variations in the mantle on the geodynamo (David Gubbins (Leeds))

2008-11-06 16:00: Discovery and analysis of novel riboswitches (Professor Ronald Breaker, Yale University)

2008-11-06 17:30: So you want to be an environmental consultant? (Dr Melissa Barrett (Arthur D. Little) and Dr Nick Betson (RPM))

2008-11-07 13:00: The Concealed Carbon Cycle – Partitioning Tropical Forest Soil co2 efflux (Andrew Nottingham, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-11-10 10:30: Equivalence of the fractional Fokker-Planck and subordinated Langevin equations (M. Magdziarz and A. Weron (Wroclaw University of Technology))

2008-11-10 14:15: Size resolved modelling of UTLS aerosol (Dr Rene Hommel, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-10 16:00: 3D Nanoscale Imaging using Electron Tomography (Professor Paul Midgley (Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge))

2008-11-11 11:00: The aerosol indirect effect in mixed phase and ice clouds (Tom Choularton, The University of Manchester)

2008-11-11 13:00: Bending and buckling of slender viscous threads/Fracturing of an elastic porous rock (Maurice Bount/Ioanna Vlahou (ITG))

2008-11-11 14:00: FARIMA modeling of solar flare activity from empirical time series of soft X-ray solar emission (K.Burnecki and A. Weron (Wroclaw University of Technology))

2008-11-11 16:30: Going with the flow: modelling the distribution and life history of Antarctic krill (Sally Thorpe (British Antarctic Survey) - Challenger Talk)

2008-11-12 13:00: Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development (Greg Elgar, University of London)

2008-11-12 16:30: TBA (Adrian Luckman (Swansea University))

2008-11-13 11:30: Snowflakes:  Letters from the sky and scientific messages from far beyond. (Professor John Wettlaufer, Bateman Professor of Geophysics & Physics, Yale University)

2008-11-13 14:05: Air-sea exchange of trace gases (Peter Liss (UEA))

2008-11-13 16:00: Getting to the root of developmental networks (Professor Philip Benfey, Duke University)

2008-11-14 13:00: Modelling Epidemics on Realistic Landscapes. (Dr Erik DeSimone, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-11-17 14:15: Measured Optical Properties of Aerosols (Dr Dan Peters, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)

2008-11-17 16:00: The Anomalous Physics of Ultra-Flexible Framework Materials (Dr Andrew Goodwin (Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2008-11-18 11:00: Spin-up of Southern Hemisphere subpolar gyres in a warming climate (Zhaomin Wang, British Antarctic Survey)

2008-11-18 13:00: APS DFD practice talks (Various speakers)

2008-11-18 16:30: Modern Himalayan erosion: a geochemical approach of river transport (Christian France-Lanord (CRPG, Nancy, France))

2008-11-19 13:00: Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro  evolutionary research (Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London)

2008-11-20 11:30: Extrusion of industrial pastes: A health warning (Milan Patel, BP Institute)

2008-11-20 16:00: Why equalising trade-offs aren't always neutral (Dr Lindsay Turnbull, ETH Zürich)

2008-11-20 16:30: Biodiversity loss: Mechanisms and consequences (Dr Andy Hector, ETH Zürich)

2008-11-21 13:00: TobEA: An Atlas of Tobacco Gene Expression from Seed to Senescence. (Dr Kieron Edwards, Advanced Technologies (Cambridge))

2008-11-24 14:15: Pre-industrial changes in atmospheric methane: is it possible to differentiate between changes in sources and changes in sinks? (Dr James Levine, British Antartic Survey, Cambridge)

2008-11-24 16:00: Advanced Structural Characterisation Techniques for Amorphous Materials: Case Study of Rare-earth Phosphate Glasses (Dr Jacqui Cole (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge))

2008-11-25 11:00: Attribution of recent climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula: a synthesis of ACES science (John King, British Antarctic Survey)

2008-11-25 16:30: Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle (Catherine Jeandel (LEGOS, Toulouse, France))

2008-11-26 13:00: Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development (Sinead Drea, University of Leicester)

2008-11-26 16:30: In situ glacial geophysical investigations of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica (Robert Bingham (British Antarctic Survey))

2008-11-27 10:30: Using Bayesian Network Inference to Examine Zooplankton Ecology and Herring   Interactions in the Irish Sea (Emily King (British Antarctic Survey))

2008-11-27 14:05: Underwater granular flows (Olivier Pouliquen)

2008-11-27 14:15: Solution properties and rheology of telechelic associating polymers based on poly(ethylene glycol) (Rob English, Centre for Water Soluble Polymers, Glyndwr University)

2008-11-27 16:00: Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity (Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-28 13:00: Small RNA directed chromatin changes in Chlamydomonas? (Dr Andrew Bassett, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-12-01 16:00: The signal of mantle heterogeneity in Icelandic basalts (Dr John MacLennan (Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2008-12-02 11:00: Characterisation of zooplankton vertical migration in two high Arctic fjords using moored ADCPs (Mags Wallace (University of St Andrews))

2008-12-02 13:00: Rayleigh-Taylor driven mixing (Andrew Lawrie (DAMTP))

2008-12-02 16:30: Quantifying Fault Damage Zone Permeability in Crystalline Rocks (Dan Faulkner (University of Liverpool))

2008-12-03 11:00: Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic constraints on the budget of NOx and nitrate in polar regions (Dr Samuel Morin of Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geohysique de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France)

2008-12-03 13:00: Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea (Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham)

2008-12-04 11:30: Stretching, droplets & instabilities in non-newtonian flow: The role of visco-elasticity (Jerry Gollub, Department of Physics, Haverford College)

2008-12-04 14:00: Ecological networks and global change (Jose Montoya, Marine Sciences Institute (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona (Spain))

2008-12-04 16:00: The (micro)diversity of pollination systems in the genus Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): biogeographic and phylogenetic perspectives (Dr Jeff Ollerton, University of Northampton)

2008-12-09 11:00: Animal-borne sensors and the Global Ocean Observing System (Lars Boehme (University of St. Andrews))

2008-12-15 16:00: Anomalous electron-(magneto)phonon interaction in doped LaOFeAs (Jose M Soler, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

2009-01-14 14:00: Energetics of Nanoparticles and Implications for Earth and Environmental Science (Alexandra Navrotsky (UC Davis))

2009-01-15 11:30: A Lagrangian Computational Method for Viscoelastic Flow:
Simulations of inkjet printing & particle migration in 3D viscoelastic flow (Neil Morrison, Department of Mathematics, University of Leeds.)

2009-01-15 16:00: Early farming pathways: recent work on the archaeology and genetics of barley and broomcorn millet (Professor Martin Jones - Archeology, Cambridge)

2009-01-19 14:15: Measurements of OH and HO2 in the Tropics (Dr Lisa Whalley, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds)

2009-01-20 16:30: Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle (Lars Stixrude, University College London)

2009-01-20 16:30: Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle (Lars Stixrude (UCL))

2009-01-22 11:30: Ventilation: Is it just a lot of hot air (Shaun Fitzgerald, BPI & e-stack)

2009-01-22 16:00: RNA degradation and polyadenylation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dr Dominique Gagliardi - IBMP, Strasbourg)

2009-01-23 17:15: A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration "Out of Africa" of early modern humans 120,000 years ago. (Anne Osborne (Bristol University))

2009-01-26 14:15: Troposphere-to-stratosphere exchange: constraints by water vapour (Yu Liu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge)

2009-01-26 16:00: Electronic transport and the origin of Urbach tails in amorphous silicon (David Drabold (University of Ohio))

2009-01-26 17:00: Part III Project Talks (Various)

2009-01-27 13:00: Seismic oceanography and turbulent mixing in the southern ocean (Katy Sheen (Earth Sciences))

2009-01-27 16:30: Catastrophic megafloods in the English Channel explain how Britain became an island (Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2009-01-29 11:30: Colloidal interfaces in confinement (Dirk Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2009-01-29 14:05: The impact of climate change on the global oceanic sink for CO2 (Corinne Le Quere (UEA/BAS))

2009-01-29 16:00: Pollen tube growth: of male gametophytes and the need for models (Professor José Feijó - University of Lisbon)

2009-01-30 13:00: Recombination distributions and epigenetic information (Dr Ian Henderson, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-01-30 17:00: How can the invasive Asian clam help us tackle freshwater pollution? (Nicole Spann)

2009-01-30 17:15: The carbon cycle during the Pleistocene (Peter Koehler (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany))

2009-01-30 17:30: The interaction of epigenetic remodelling and nuclear reprogramming, following nuclear transfer to an amphibian oocyte (Richard Halley-Stott)

2009-02-02 16:00: Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions (Kostya Trachenko)

2009-02-03 13:00: Ensembles of stochastic Lagrangian trajectories and the variability of the turbulent diffusion in the atmosphere (Ignacio Pisso (DAMTP))

2009-02-03 16:30: Heavy Stable Isotopes in Marine Geochemistry - Insights from Cadmium (Mark Rehkamper, Imperial College London)

2009-02-05 11:30: Delamination of thin sheets from sticky substrates (Dominic Vella, ITG)

2009-02-05 14:00: Formation and Transformation of Secondary Organic Aerosol (Prof. Urs Baltensperger, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerlzand.)

2009-02-05 14:05: The three-dimensional morphology and topology of dendritic mushes (Peter Voorhees (Northwestern))

2009-02-05 16:00: The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates (Mr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen)

2009-02-06 13:00: RNA silencing in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dr Attila Molnar, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-06 17:00: Microcephaly genes and primate brain size evolution (Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group))

2009-02-06 17:30: Information-Energy trade-offs in spiking and graded cells (Biswa Sengupta (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Vision Group))

2009-02-09 14:15: Reactive nitrogen in the environment: Single plume, landscape and UK-scale assessment methods (Dr Christine Braban, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh)

2009-02-09 16:00: Modelling disorder in nuclear related materials (Robin Grimes (Imperial College))

2009-02-09 17:00: Sedgwick Club Meal (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-02-10 13:00: Ablation - and maybe growth - at the base of floating ice sheets (Dan Hatton (ITG/DAMTP))

2009-02-10 14:00: The science of space weather (Jonathan Eastwood (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley))

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)

2009-02-12 11:30: BPI Research Colloquia (Lotty Gladstone, Michael O'Sullivan, Maynard Marrion - BP Institute)

2009-02-12 14:05: Spin-up, adjustment and equilibrium state of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (David Marshall (Oxford))

2009-02-12 16:00: Regulatory role of ribosomes in plant development (Dr Mary Byrne - John Innes Centre, Norwich)

2009-02-13 13:00: Chlorophyll Degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dr Sylvain Aubry, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-13 17:00: Somatic knock-ins + Chemical Genetics = Unveiling the specific roles of Cdk1 and Aurora A (Paola Marco (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group))

2009-02-13 17:15: Glacial Chronologies Spanning the Past 450 ka Around the Margins of the Southern North Sea and implications for the age of the Strait of Dover (Steven Pawley (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2009-02-13 17:30: Large-scale genetic structure and the demographic history of the domestic horse (Vera Warmuth (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Archaeogenetics Group))

2009-02-16 17:00: The Geological, Geophysical and Geomorphological Evidence for relocating Odysseus' Homeland, Ancient Ithaca. (John Underhill, University of Edinburgh)

2009-02-17 13:00: Tides in the middle Atmosphere (Jian Du (DAMTP))

2009-02-17 16:30: Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe (Don Dingwell, University of Munich)

2009-02-17 16:30: Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe (Donald Dingwell (University of Munich))

2009-02-18 16:30: Erebus volcano, Antarctica: eruption dynamics and atmospheric impacts (Clive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-19 11:30: The treatment of turbulence in engineering simulations (Paul  Tucker, CUED)

2009-02-19 14:05: Investigating the earthquake cycle and crustal deformation using space geodesy (Barry Parsons (Oxford))

2009-02-19 16:00: Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (Professor Nicholas Talbot - University of Exeter)

2009-02-20 11:00: Recent shelf-slope studies in the Arctic Ocean: observations and modeling (Vladimir Ivanov (Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Oban))

2009-02-20 13:00: Regulation of thiamine metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dr Michael Moulin, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-20 17:00: Genetic linkage and reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies (Richard Merrill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Butterfly Genetics Group))

2009-02-20 17:30: Pups and personality: Individual variation in helping behaviour in cooperative meerkats (Sinead English (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group))

2009-02-23 14:15: Deep convective parameterization: Some issues (and some solutions?) (Dr Bob Plant, University of Reading)

2009-02-23 16:00: Structural hierarchies and phase transitions in perovskites: group theoretical constraints and practical applications (Chris Howard (University of Newcastle, NSW))

2009-02-24 13:00: Fossil fuel power generation and carbon dioxide emission (John Young (Engineering))

2009-02-24 16:30: Mineral magnetism and palaeoclimate (Ted Evans, University of Alberta)

2009-02-25 13:00: Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg (Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany)

2009-02-26 11:30: Hilbert-Huang transform - A new method of analyzing unsteady, nonlinear turbulent flow data (Julien Landel, BPI & DAMTP)

2009-02-26 14:00: Towards the Probabilistic Earth-System Model. (Tim Palmer (ECMWF))

2009-02-26 14:05: The porridge (and magma) problem: Viscoplastic Rayleigh-Benard convection (Alison Rust (Bristol))

2009-02-26 16:00: Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants (Professor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf)

2009-02-27 13:00: From hops biotechnology to the study of conical cells (Dr Ruben Alvarez-Fernandez, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-27 14:30: Turbulence Acceleration - Dynamo mechanism by transport flow (Prof Chang-Mo RYU (POSTECH, Pohang, Korea))

2009-02-27 17:00: Investigating nuclear reprogramming of the mammalian inactive X chromosome by somatic cell nuclear transfer to Xenopus laevis oocytes (Vincent Pasque (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-02-27 17:30: The importance of forest fragments in the oil-palm matrix. Could parasitoids save the rainforest? (Tim Cockerill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Ecology Group))

2009-03-02 14:15: Air Quality in the 21st Century - How Important are SOA? (Dr Gerd Folberth, Met Office)

2009-03-02 16:00: How Good is Damped Molecular Dynamics as a Method for Simulating Radiation Damage in Metals? (Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College London))

2009-03-02 17:00: Geology 50 years ago (Prof. Dan McKenzie)

2009-03-03 10:15: Decadal variability of tropospheric ozone (Dr Martin Schultz, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany,)

2009-03-03 13:00: Prediction of the response of a tropospheric climate to weak perturbations (Fenwick Cooper (DAMTP))

2009-03-03 16:30: Characterising geomorphic responses to tectonic perturbation:  Insights and implications. (Alex Whittaker, Imperial College London)

2009-03-04 16:30: Geophysical surveys of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica: implications for in-situ exploration (John Woodward, Northumbria University)

2009-03-05 11:30: Internal wave beams: Transport and attractors. (Jeroen Hazewinkel, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)

2009-03-05 14:05: Thermoviscous coupling in ice-sheets and its influence on grounding line migration (Richard Hindmarsh (BAS))

2009-03-05 16:00: Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants (Professor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne)

2009-03-06 13:00: Identification of regulators and targets of circadian calcium signalling (Dr Fiona Robertson, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-03-06 17:00: Deceptive signalling strategies in the fork-tailed drongo (Tom Flower (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Bird Behavioural Ecology Group))

2009-03-06 17:30: Evo-devo and the bristle patterning of flies: attempting targeted transfer of gene regulatory regions between species (Richard Wallbank (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Skylab))

2009-03-09 14:15: Investigating natural impacts on atmospheric composition and climate in the remote troposphere (Dr Steve Arnold, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment,  University of Leeds)

2009-03-09 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-09 17:00: Equipoise Cheese and Wine evening (Equipoise)

2009-03-10 13:00: Ice shelf dynamics / The effect of channel boundaries on the flow of gravity currents in a porous medium (Sam Pegler / Madeleine Golding  (ITG, DAMTP))

2009-03-10 16:30: Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle (Catherine Jeandel, LEGOS, Toulouse)

2009-03-11 13:00: Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass (Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago)

2009-03-12 11:30: Silent Secrets of a Seemingly Simple System: Segregation in Particle-Laden Rimming Flow (Prof Peter Thomas, School of Engineering, University of Warwick)

2009-03-12 14:05: Origin of the Earth and Moon (Alex Halliday (Oxford))

2009-03-12 16:00:  Between a rock and a hard place: metal nutrition in Chlamydomonas (Professor Sabeeha Merchant - UCLA)

2009-03-13 13:00: Membrane association of the Arabidopsis ARF exchange factor GNOM involves interaction of conserved domains (Dr Nadine Anders)

2009-03-16 14:15: Ozone Depletion: Science and Scientific Assessments (Dr Keynyn Brysse, Princeton University)

2009-03-19 10:05: Processing and Storage Within Neurons (Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA)

2009-03-19 10:30: Why is it useful to treat the magnetosphere as a complex system ? (Nickolas watkins (BAS))

2009-03-19 11:30: Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain (Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology)

2009-03-19 12:00: What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains? (Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2009-03-19 12:30: Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders (Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics)

2009-03-19 15:00: Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease (Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine.)

2009-03-19 15:30: Gambling and the Brain (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.)

2009-03-19 16:00: Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease. (Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience)

2009-03-19 16:45: In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits (Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA)

2009-03-19 18:00: What is Consciousness For? (Professor Chris Frith, University College London)

2009-03-24 11:00: Quantum cascade laser heterodyne radiometry for atmospheric sounding: application to atmospheric ozone monitoring (Dr Damien Weidmann, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

2009-03-24 11:00: Quantum cascade laser heterodyne radiometry for atmospheric sounding: application to atmospheric ozone monitoring (Dr Damien Weidmann, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

2009-03-26 14:00: Lévy flights and the search behaviour of top predators (David Sims (School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth))

2009-04-09 11:30: Marginal stability of explosive volcanic columns (Guillaume Carrazo)

2009-04-16 10:30: Substorms - A random walk from Earth to Saturn and back (Mervyn Freeman (British Antarctic Survey))

2009-04-20 11:30: About charge effects and depletion zones: Interactions of proteins in  solution and with interfaces (F. Schreiber, Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen)

2009-04-22 16:30: Mechanisms of englacial conduit formation and their implications for subglacial recharge (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-04-23 11:30: Cracking during lateral drying of alumina suspensions (Dr W. J. Clegg, from the Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)

2009-04-24 13:00: Small RNA profiling of tomato towards trait engineering (Dr Padubidri Shivaprasad)

2009-04-24 17:00: Elucidation of cyclin A function in the human cell cycle through proteomics (Felicia Walton (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group))

2009-04-24 17:30: The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea (Neil Walsh (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group))

2009-04-27 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Lucy Carpenter, Department of Chemistry, University of York)

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

2009-04-30 11:30: About charge effects and depletion zones: Interactions of proteins in  solution and with interfaces (F. Schreiber, Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen)

2009-04-30 14:05: Modelling laminar flow over curved substrates as a prelude to turbulent flows (Tony Roberts (University of Adelaide))

2009-05-01 13:00: A C4 protein that may represent a novel kinase-dephosphorylase (Holly Astley)

2009-05-01 13:30: Spurring the evolution of new species (Matthew Box)

2009-05-01 17:00: Contextual influences in filial imprinting; behaviour and neural correlates (Stephen Town (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-05-01 17:30: Silicification in Eukaryotes (Alan Marron (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Development and Evolution Group))

2009-05-05 16:30: Implications of Quaternary sea-level variability for the debate on Messinian Mediterranean lower evaporite cycles (Eelco Rohling)

2009-05-07 14:00: Observational Evidence of Changes in the Brewer-Dobson Circulation (Qiang Fu (University of Washington/Seattle))

2009-05-08 13:00: Iron-sulphur cluster assembly factors in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (James Godman)

2009-05-08 13:30: Cell-specific transcript accumulation in a model C4 plant Cleome gynandra (Kaisa Kajala)

2009-05-08 17:00: Histone modification changes upon DNA damage (Jorrit Tjeertes (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-05-08 17:30: The Past, Present and Future of Energy Technology inside BP (David Eyton, BP)

2009-05-11 14:15: Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere:  From Birmingham to Borneo (Dr Jacqueline Hamilton, Department of Chemistry, University of York.)

2009-05-12 14:00: Reconstruction of the Atlantic bipolar seesaw during the last deglaciation (Dr Stephen Barker, Cardiff University)

2009-05-12 16:30: Orbital forcing of western Antarctic Peninsula Holocene climate (Amelia Shevenell)

2009-05-14 11:30: Ablation -and maybe growth - at the base of floating ice sheets (D. Hatton, ITG)

2009-05-15 17:00: Genetic susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in UK cattle (Erin Driscoll (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Molecular Ecology Group))

2009-05-15 17:30: Variation in response to intruder scent cues in meerkats (Cesar Raff Mares (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group))

2009-05-18 14:15: Continuous wave cavity ring down spectroscopy - sensing of atmospheric trace gases (Dr Manik Pradhan, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-19 16:30: Accretion of the Earth and formation of the core (Bernie Wood, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2009-05-20 14:15: Ocean iron-fertilisation by volcanic ash (Baerbel Langmann, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg)

2009-05-20 16:30: Where Have All the Icebergs Gone? (Chris Woodworth-Lynas (NW Atlantic Ocean Observing System Partnership))

2009-05-21 11:30: BPI Research Colloquia (M Marrion/L Goering, BP Institute)

2009-05-22 13:00: Bundle sheath leakiness in C4 crops (Wanne Kromdijk)

2009-05-22 13:30: Optimal control of SIR epidemics in interconnected regions (Martial Ndeffo Mbah)

2009-05-27 11:00: Dispersion Relations for the Nonlinear Response of Chaotic Dynamical Systems (Valerio Lucarini, Department of Physics, University of Bologna)

2009-05-28 11:30: New approaches in reconstructing the oxygen isotopic composition of  the ocean over Earth history (S. Turchyn Earth Sciences)

2009-05-29 13:00: Expression of vitamin B12 enzymes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast (Zarina Zainuddin)

2009-05-29 13:30: Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2 (CKX2):a novel potential to increase grain yield in Bread Wheat? (Sabine Mameaux)

2009-06-01 14:15: Assessing the longwave radiative effect of Saharan dust using (Dr Helen Brindley, Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College, London.)

2009-06-04 11:30: Modelling wave run-up and sediment transport (D. Pritchard Mathematics, Strathclyde University)

2009-06-05 13:00: Salicylic acid biosynthesis in higher plants (Keith Macaulay)

2009-06-05 13:30: The barley circadian clock (Zoe Rutterford)

2009-06-08 14:15: DOAS studies of volcanic emissions (Dr Vitchko Tsanev, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge)

2009-06-12 13:00: Spurring the evolution of new species (Matthew Box)

2009-06-12 13:30: Community-level changes in fine root traits along a long-term soil chronosequence in New Zealand (Robert Holdaway)

2009-06-19 13:00: "Molecular-genetic analysis of natural variation influencing photoperiodic flowering in arabidopsis thaliana" Daylength perception: a story of balance? (Dr Antonis Giakountis)

2009-06-22 14:05: Effects of subduction geometry on mountain building and volcanism in Japan (Selwyn Sacks (Carnegie Institution, Washington))

2009-09-17 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Daniel Peavoy (University of Warwick))

2009-09-25 14:00: Estimating baseline trends and regional emissions from surface observations (Dr Alistair Manning, Met Office)

2009-10-08 11:30: Capillary effects on the dynamic sequestration of CO2 (Adrian Farcas, BP Institute)

2009-10-09 11:00: On formation of multiple zonal jets in the ocean (Pavel Berloff , Imperial College)

2009-10-12 14:15: Transport and processing of ozone in the West African monsoon (Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-12 17:00: I know what you did last summer (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-13 13:00: Nonlinear peristaltic waves: the python's bitter pill to swallow (Daisuke Takgi (ITG/DAMTP))

2009-10-13 16:30: Constraints on mantle geochemistry and planetary differentiation derived from Fe isotopes (Helen Williams, University of Oxford)

2009-10-14 11:00: Tropical Western Pacific Currents and the Origin of Intraseasonal Variability Below the Thermocline (Pierre Dutrieux, BAS)

2009-10-14 13:00: Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-14 16:00: The Pacific Greenhouse Gases Measurement Project (Prof. Kuo-Ying Wang)

2009-10-15 14:05: Geological storage of CO2; lessons learned from Australia's CO2CRC Otway Project (Peter Cook (CR2CRC))

2009-10-15 16:00: Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants. (Kirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University)

2009-10-16 13:00: Super Broccoli & Soggy Tomatoes – IP considerations of plant biotechnology (Anton Hutter)

2009-10-16 16:30: Attenuation and velocity structure of the Earth's inner core (Lauren Waszek)

2009-10-19 14:15: An Isoprene Mechanism Intercomparison (Dr Alex Archibald, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-19 16:00: Energy Landscapes of clusters, glasses, and biomolecules (David Wales (Dept. Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-19 17:00: I still know what you did last summer... (Samantha Simic - Talks Co-ordinator)

2009-10-20 13:00: Transport and dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer (Sue Liu (DAMTP))

2009-10-20 16:30: Structure and Development of Oceanic Core Complexes (Roger C. Searle, Durham University)

2009-10-21 13:00: How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs (Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA)

2009-10-22 14:05: Sailing On Diffusion (Tom Peacock (MIT))

2009-10-22 14:30: What will it take to avoid two degrees of warming -- the tale of the trillionth tonne (Myles Allen (Oxford))

2009-10-22 16:00: What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat (Cristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre)

2009-10-23 13:00: Plasmodesmata mediated cell-to-cell transport during Arabidopsis embryogenesis (Patricia Zambryski)

2009-10-23 16:30: To be confirmed (Bob Myhill)

2009-10-26 14:15: CHARACTERISATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS: THE URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE BURNING OF BIOMASS (Dr Ana Calvo, Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics, Universidad de León)

2009-10-26 16:00: Characterisation of the nature of the tetragonal to orthorhombic phase transition in SrFe2As2 by measuring the local order parameter using transmission electron microscopy (James Loudon (Department Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-26 17:00: 'The Little Geologists': monsters, minerals, and Victorian children (Melanie Keene)

2009-10-27 13:00: Dynamics and spatiotemporal variability of ice streams (Roiy Sayag (ITG/DAMTP))

2009-10-28 16:30: Marine Ice in Larsen Ice Shelf (Paul Holland (British Antarctic Survey))

2009-10-29 11:30: Shear banding and demixing in complex and biologically active fluids (Suzanne Fielding, Department of Physics, Durham University)

2009-10-29 13:00: Cambridge iGEM 2009 (Jim Ajioka, James Brown, Tom Ellis, Jim Haseloff, Gos Micklem, Duncan Rowe Cambridge iGEM Advisors)

2009-10-29 14:05: Seismogenic fracture of magma (Hugh Tuffen (Lancaster))

2009-10-29 16:00: Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis? (Gwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2009-10-30 16:30: To be confirmed (Al Sloan)

2009-11-02 14:15: The Elusive HO3 Radical: Kinetics of formation, thermochemistry and atmospheric role (Prof. Ian Smith, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-02 17:00: Geology in Antarctica through the ages (Dr Tara Deen - British Antarctic Survey)

2009-11-03 13:00: Paint and mud: cracks in drying dispersions (Lucas Goehring (BPI))

2009-11-03 16:30: Optimal excitation of Atlantic ocean variability and implications for predictability (Laure Zanna, University of Oxford)

2009-11-04 15:00: Characterising the Geosphere: Predicting spatial and temporal variations in along-fault fluid flow (Rebecca Lunn (University of Strathclyde, Department of Civil Engineering))

2009-11-05 14:05: Anoxia, methanogenesis, and uniformitarianism (Dan Schrag (Harvard))

2009-11-05 16:00: Coordination of homologous recombination the key to accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis in Arabidopsis (Chris Franklin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)

2009-11-06 13:00: Immunological analysis of chloroplast-derived HIV-1 antigens (Nuria Gonzalez-Rabade)

2009-11-06 16:30: To be confirmed (Ross Hartley)

2009-11-09 14:15: Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change (Dr Manoj Joshi, NCAS Climate, University of Reading)

2009-11-09 16:00: Time-resolved X-ray diffraction on shocked crystals (Thierry d'Almeida (University of Cambridge, Department of Physics))

2009-11-09 16:00: What Energy Future after the World Oil Production Peak? (Pierre Mauriaud - Total)

2009-11-10 13:00: Estimating uplift rate histories from longitudinal river profile (Gareth Roberts (Bullard))

2009-11-10 16:30: Up the down escalator: Formation and exhumation of (ultra) high pressure rocks (Clare Warren, Open University)

2009-11-11 13:00: Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space. (Julie Hawkins, University of Reading)

2009-11-11 16:30: Linking North and South Atlantic deep water circulation using Nd isotopes (Alex Piotrowski (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-12 11:30: Flow through and around groups of bodies (Ian Eames, Mechanical Engineering, University College, London)

2009-11-12 14:05: Dynamics of thermal plumes in newtonian and non-newtonian fluids (Anne Davaille (CNRS Paris))

2009-11-12 16:00: The secrets of a plant killer: Evolutionary and functional dynamics of Phytophthora infestans effector genes (Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory)

2009-11-13 13:00: Seeking the Meiotic Trigger in Arabidopsis (Liz Alvey)

2009-11-13 16:30: To be confirmed (Steven Squires)

2009-11-13 17:00: The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Blood (John Cannon)

2009-11-16 16:00: Computer Design of new Non-Volatile Memory Materials: Interface Engineering (Stephen Elliott (University of Cambridge, Dept. Chemistry))

2009-11-16 17:00: Geologists make great Reservoir Engineers (Martin Towns - BP)

2009-11-17 16:30: Morphologic and Geochemical Evolution of the Submarine Kermadec – Tonga Arc (Ian Wright, National Oceanography Centre Southampton)

2009-11-18 14:15: Interpreting recent changes in atmospheric methane using satellite observations of gravity (Professor Paul Palmer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

2009-11-18 16:30: Neogene terrestrial environment of Antarctica (Alan Ashworth (Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University))

2009-11-19 11:00: High-throughput Applications for Heterogeneous Catalysts (Professor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ())

2009-11-19 14:05: CANCELLED - Understanding contemporary change in West Antarctica: ocean interactions (Tony Payne (Bristol))

2009-11-19 16:00: Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants (Giles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre)

2009-11-20 13:00: To Cap it All? Root Development, Evolution and the Root Cap (Tom Bennett)

2009-11-20 17:30: Seabirds as Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean (Claire Tancell)

2009-11-23 14:15: Changes in tropospheric ozone: anthropogenic emissions, meteorology and long-range transport (Dr Oliver Wild, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University)

2009-11-23 16:00: Structures and Phase Transitions of Perovskite Oxides and Hybrids Inorganic-Organic Frameworks (Paul Saines (University of Cambridge, Department of Materials  Science and Metallurgy)

2009-11-23 17:00: A geology graduate 10 years on (Grace Chillingworth - Environment Agency)

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)

2009-11-25 13:00: Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans (Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2009-11-26 11:30: NMR studies of displacement propagators in rocks and related porous media (Michael Johns, Chemical Engineering)

2009-11-26 12:30: Pumping iron to save the planet? (Dr Cliff Laws (NIWA))

2009-11-26 16:00: Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story… (Malcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham)

2009-11-27 13:00: CMV 2b silencing suppressor disrupts jasmonic and salicylic acid signalling (Alex Murphy)

2009-11-27 17:00: Biomechanical Problems of Load Transport: How Grass-Cutting Ants Avoid Falling Over (Karin Moll)

2009-11-27 17:30: Natural Hybridization in Heliconius Butterflies and the Role of Hybridization in Biological Diversification (Patricio Salazar)

2009-11-30 11:00: How fast do ice shelves melt? (Nicholls, Keith W , British Antarctic Survey)

2009-11-30 14:15: UKCA: NOT the United Kingdom Cheerleading Association (Dr Luke Abraham, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge)

2009-12-01 13:00: Disequilibrium melting of a two phase multicomponent mantle (John Rudge (ITG/Bullard))

2009-12-01 14:00: Convective Troposphere to Stratosphere Transport in the tropics. How important at the global scale? (Jean-Pierre Pommereau)

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)

2009-12-02 13:00: Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb (Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2009-12-02 16:30:     Subaerial salt extrusions in Iran as analogues of ice sheets, streams & glaciers (Christopher Talbot (Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala))

2009-12-03 11:30: IR thermography and heat flux measurements in high enthalpy hypersonic flows (Gennaro dello Ioio, BP Institute)

2009-12-03 16:00: Long term drivers of aboveground-belowground linkages - evidence from invaders, islands and chronosequences (David Wardle, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2009-12-04 13:00: Bio-Photovoltaic (BPV) devices: wiring photosynthetic material (Paolo Bombelli)

2009-12-04 17:00: A Bird's Eye View: Egg Pattern Mimicry by the Common Cuckoo (Mary Caswell Stoddard)

2009-12-04 17:30: Information and Energy Optimization in the Fly Visual System (Nikon Rasumov)

2009-12-09 11:00: Changes in the outflow of dense water from the Weddell Sea into the Atlantic overturning circulation (Mike Meredith, British Antarctic Survey)

2009-12-11 11:00: Estimating ocean circulation and mixing: A contourwise view (Jan Zika, Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), Grenoble, France)

2009-12-11 13:00: Cucumber mosaic virus influences plant defences against insects and fitness of its transmission vector (Jack Westwood)

2009-12-16 13:00: Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution (David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews)

2010-01-08 13:00: Silencing RNAs are mobile and trigger DNA methylation in distant tissue (Attila Molnar)

2010-01-12 14:15: MCM Box Modelling of the OP3 Aircraft Campaign (Mr Daniel Stone, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds)

2010-01-14 16:00: Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genome (Ursula Goodenough, University of Washington, St Louis)

2010-01-15 13:00: Transcription profiling of calcium and circadian clock signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana (Sylvain Aubry)

2010-01-15 17:00: The Influence of Phase Change on Learning and Memory in Desert Locusts (Patricio Simoes)

2010-01-15 17:30: Signatures of Historical Demography and Pathogen Richness on MHC Genes (Nouar Qutob)

2010-01-18 14:15: Analysis of clouds and cloud-aerosol interactions with satellite data and general circulation models (Dr Johannes Quaas, Max Planck Institut fur Meteorologie, Germany)

2010-01-18 16:00: Energy Storage and Conversion:  Using Local Structural Probes to Understand and Optimise Function of Battery and Fuel Cell Materials (Clare Grey (University of Cambridge/SUNY Stony Brook))

2010-01-18 17:00: [POSTPONED - DATE TBA] Geology and archaeology in Egypt: the Memphis survey (David Jeffreys - UCL)

2010-01-19 11:00: Stochastic parametrization in numerical weather prediction (Glenn Shutts (MetOffice and ECMWF))

2010-01-19 13:00: Pressure ridges and their role in the Arctic Ocean energy budget (Peter Wadhams (DAMTP))

2010-01-20 16:30: The effects of coastal ocean warming and increased supra-glacial run-off on water temperature and circulation in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland (Andrew Sole (University of Aberdeen))

2010-01-21 16:00: Unwinding the circadian clock with systems biology (Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh)

2010-01-22 13:00: The road to C4 rice (Sarah Covshoff)

2010-01-22 17:00: Integrating Costs into Priorities for Conservation Planning in a Biodiversity Hotspot (Jonathan Green)

2010-01-22 17:30: Top Tips for Organ Shape (Helen Weavers)

2010-01-25 17:00: Digging for Development; Diamonds, De Beers and Africa's Resources Curse (James Suzman - De Beers)

2010-01-26 13:00: Aspects of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction mechanisms of relevance to decontamination (Maurice Blount (ITG/DAMTP))

2010-01-26 16:30: High 3He/4He in proto-Iceland plume basalts: implications for the deep Earth (Fin Stuart, SUERC, East Kilbride)

2010-01-27 13:00: The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning (Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex)

2010-01-27 13:00: The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha as an emerging model plant (Kimitsune Ishizaki, Kyoto University)

2010-01-28 14:05: Predicting thrusting sequences and in-situ stress states by optimization (Yves Leroy (ENS Paris))

2010-01-28 16:00: Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics' (Maarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne.)

2010-01-29 13:00: Golden Rice... Coming soon (Dr Adrian Dubock)

2010-01-29 17:00: Shells and Stones: Molluscan Analyses as a Means of Characterizing Hominin Habitats during the Pleistocene (Tom White)

2010-01-29 17:30: Analysis of Kinesin-1 function during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis (Lucy Williams)

2010-02-01 11:00: Direct Coupling between the Solar Wind and the Thermosphere (George Siscoe, Center for Space Physics, Boston University)

2010-02-01 17:00: Avulsion mechanics and patterns in deep marine channel levee systems (Bill McCaffrey - Leeds)

2010-02-02 13:00: Diagnosis of relative humidity changes in a warmer climate using tracers of last saturation (Jonathan Wright (DAMTP))

2010-02-02 14:15: Detection and Attribution of changes in European Temperature and Precipitation (Prof. Simon Tett, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh)

2010-02-02 16:30: Fractionation effects in turbidity currents (Bill McCaffrey, University of Leeds)

2010-02-03 16:30: Environmental Protection in the Arctic Ocean (Paul Berkman (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-04 14:05: The implications of climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation on food, water, energy and human security (Bob Watson (Defra))

2010-02-04 16:00: Using Pathogen Effectors to Investigate Host Plant Resistance Mechanisms (Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory)

2010-02-05 13:00: Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis (Becky Mosher)

2010-02-05 17:30: Population Dynamics in Meerkats (Andrew Bateman)

2010-02-08 14:15: No talk this week (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-02-08 16:00: Enhanced Superconductivity near an exciton-driven structural phase transition. (Jasper van Wezel (University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory))

2010-02-08 16:30: Annual Cheese and Wine Evening - hosted by Equipoise (Adam Law)

2010-02-09 13:00: Transient phenomena in natural ventilation flows (Imran Coomaraswamy (DAMTP/BPI))

2010-02-09 16:30: Cradle of life or barren wasteland? Geochemical constraints on early martian water (Nick Tosca, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-10 13:00: The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa (Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham)

2010-02-11 11:30: Part III Reports (Alice Mannion, Peter Breen & Adam Brewer (Chemistry))

2010-02-11 14:05: Eddies, jets, meanders and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Chris Hughes (Proudman))

2010-02-11 16:00: The Evolution and Development of Leaves (Jane Langdale, University of Oxford)

2010-02-12 13:00: Cellular redox homeostasis and regulation in the cell proliferation in relation to stress tolerance (Christine H. Foyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds)

2010-02-12 17:00: The Regulation of Motoneuron Dendrite Growth in the Fruit Fly Larva (Maarten Zwart)

2010-02-12 17:30: Identifying PCNA Interactors in Human Cells (Simon Cooper)

2010-02-15 14:15: Impacts of different transport modes on the global atmosphere: present and future. (Dr Olivier Dessens, Dept. Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-15 17:00: Seesaw Tectonics vs. Eustasy: deconvolving tectono-climatic signals in deep-marine siliciclastics (Kevin Pickering - UCL)

2010-02-16 13:00: Mixing, jet sharpening and angular momentum in shallow atmospheres (Richard Wood (DAMTP))

2010-02-16 16:30: Bedrock Rivers (Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University)

2010-02-17 16:30: Automatic satellite monitoring of East Greenland's calving glacier fronts: seasonal signals and southern retreat (Anthony Seale (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-18 14:05: Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance & Uncertainty: the Royal Society study (John Shepherd (Southampton))

2010-02-18 16:00: Wood mechanics, allometry, and life-history variation in a tropical rain forest tree community (Lourens Poorter, University of Wageningen)

2010-02-19 13:00: Creating a High-Resolution Meiotic Recombination Map in Arabidopsis (Natasha Elina)

2010-02-19 17:00: A Total Evidence Analysis of Ruminant Systematics (Eva Baermann)

2010-02-19 17:30: Life-history trade-offs in the evolution of insect parental care (redux) (James Gilbert)

2010-02-22 14:15: No talk this week (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-02-22 17:00: AGM and Jurassic Park(!) Film Night (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-02-23 11:00: Did Neogene climate change  impact the mountain belts of Europe? (Hugh Sinclair,  The University of Edinburgh)

2010-02-23 13:00: PP and P'P' precursor observations of the mantle transition zone (Elizabeth Day (ITG/DES))

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)

2010-02-25 14:05: Regime change in volcanic systems (Geoff Wadge  (Reading))

2010-02-25 16:00: Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat (Graham Moore, John Innes Centre)

2010-02-26 13:00: Tools for engineering self-organisation and pattern formation in microbes and plants (James Brown)

2010-02-26 17:00: Replication Fork Dynamics - In Vivo Analysis of PCNA-interacting Proteins (Shiphali Shetty)

2010-02-26 17:30: Organizational Principles of the Locomotor Network of Drosophila Melanogaster (Temur Yunusov)

2010-03-01 14:15: Pinatubo and UKCA hindcasts (Dr Paul Telford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-01 16:00: The structural chemistry of nano-FeS and ferrihydrite (John Parise (Dept. Geosciences/Chemistry, SUNY- Stony Brook))

2010-03-01 17:00: Slippery When Wet - Journey to the centre of the San Andreas Fault Zone (Prof. Bob Holdsworth - Durham)

2010-03-02 13:00: Turbulent plumes with heterogeneous chemical reaction (Silvana Cardoso (Chemical Engineering))

2010-03-02 16:30: Challenging the assumptions of functional analysis of fossils: diet, feeding and tooth wear analysis. (Mark Purnell, University of Leicester)

2010-03-03 13:00: Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution. (Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.)

2010-03-03 16:30: Flow, fracture and modelled stability of the Larsen C ice shelf (Bernd Kulessa (Swansea University))

2010-03-04 11:30: Fault Rocks and Permeability in the Upper Crust (Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences, CU)

2010-03-04 12:00: Who's most vulnerable? Latitudinal comparisons of thermal sensitivity across marine environments (Dr Simon Morley (BAS))

2010-03-04 14:05: The climate impacts of non-CO2 emissions by aviation (Keith Shine (Reading))

2010-03-04 16:00: Genetic and environmental factors determine the stability of gene silencing in Arabidopsis (Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid,Gregor Mendel Institute)

2010-03-05 11:00: Southern Ocean thermocline ventilation (Jean-Baptiste Sallee , CSIRO in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

2010-03-05 13:00: Annexin function in stress signalling (Anuphon Laohavisit)

2010-03-05 17:00: Exploring the Relationship between Extinction Risk and Skewed Adult Sex Ratios (Jo Venables)

2010-03-08 14:15: Constraints on Atmospheric CO2  from other Trace Species (Dr Parvadha Suntharalingam, Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia)

2010-03-08 16:00: Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes under pressure (David Dunstan (Queen Mary, London))

2010-03-08 17:00: Contoversy in action: Continental Collisions as sites of Crustal Growth (Prof. Yaoling Niu - Durham)

2010-03-09 11:00: Evaluating CO2 as a primary driver of Mesozoic climate change (Gregory D. Price, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth)

2010-03-09 13:00: Outlining an investigation into flows in lakes and reservoirs / Propagation and dissipation of Kelvin waves in the tropical tropopause layer (Charlie Hogg (ITG/DAMTP) / Tom Flannaghan (DAMTP))

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)

2010-03-10 11:00: SEISMIC ACOUSTIC IMAGES OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT (K. L. Sheen, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

2010-03-12 13:00: sRNA-directed heterochromatin formation in Chlamydomonas? (Andrew Bassett)

2010-03-17 14:00: Variability and trend in the Brewer-Dobson circulation (Howard Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey)

2010-03-19 13:00: Rapid evolution of the RNA polymerase 3 transcriptome in mammals (Claudia Kutter (CRI))

2010-04-15 12:00: Extending our knowledge into the Past: The rescue, reanalysis and accessibility of historic plankton data from the Discovery Investigations 1925-1951 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-04-16 13:00: Understanding metabolism for ecological and environmental purposes (Dr Matt Davey)

2010-04-19 14:15: Flight measurements of lightning produced NOx during the ACTIVE campaign (Lorenzo Labrador, University of Manchester)

2010-04-22 13:30: The politics of climate change (Tony Giddens)

2010-04-23 13:00: Enabling Genome Biology with the Illumina HiSeq 2000 System TALK IS CANCELLED (Gary P. Schroth, Gene Expression Applications R&D)

2010-04-26 14:15: Polar Ozone – open issues and first results from RECONCILE (Dr Marc von Hobe, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)

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)

2010-04-28 13:00: The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates (Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield)

2010-04-29 11:30: Dynamic mode Decomposition of Numerical and Experimental Data (Peter Schmid: LadHyX at Ecole Polytechnique)

2010-04-29 14:05: Climate change: where science and policy meet (Ron Oxburgh)

2010-04-30 13:00: Assessing the Roles of Parallelism versus Convergence in the Evolution of Floral Diversity (Sam Brockington)

2010-05-06 11:30: Overturning Magma Chambers (Alex Cowan, BP institute)

2010-05-07 10:30: The Antarctic Ozone Hole: Then and Now (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-05-07 13:00: Regulation of thiamine biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Zetty Northana Balia Yusof)

2010-05-10 10:30: No talk this week (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-05-11 16:30: Dust Provenance in Polar Regions (Aloys Bory, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)

2010-05-13 11:30: Soil Mechanics at the Particle Scale - Discrete Element Modelling and Micro Computed Tomography (Catherine O'Sullivan & Joana Fonseca Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London)

2010-05-14 09:00: First Year Graduate Student Seminars I (Various)

2010-05-17 14:15: Interactions between the OH radical and atmospheric gases (Dr Craig Murray, University of Bristol)

2010-05-20 09:00: First Year Graduate Student Seminars II (Various)

2010-05-20 11:30: Designing for climate change. (Torwong Chenvidyakarn (Architecture))

2010-05-20 14:05: The sound of climate change (Walter Munk)

2010-05-21 13:00: Evolution of vitamin B12 auxotrophy determined by methionine synthase isoform (Katherine Helliwell)

2010-05-24 14:15: Understanding The Adverse Health Effects of Air Pollution One Particle at a Time (Dr Allen Haddrell, University of Bristol)

2010-05-25 16:30: Excursions and paleointensity: Integration of magnetic and oxygen isotope stratigraphies (Jim Channell, University of Florida)

2010-05-27 11:30: Engineering in the cryosphere (Ben Lishman (Earth Sciences, University College, London))

2010-05-28 13:00: Identifying molecular determinants of C4 photosynthesis (Ben Tolley)

2010-06-03 11:30: Intrusive gravity currents and the solitary wave lifecycle in a cylindrical geometry (Justine McMillan (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta))

2010-06-03 14:00: Panagrolaimus davidi, an Antarctic nematode model for the survival of extreme environmental stress (David Wharton, Department of Zoology, University of Otago)

2010-06-03 14:05: Extreme Events in Finance and Geophysics. What Geophysics could teach Central Bankers (Philip Bond)

2010-06-04 13:00: Modelling the Control of Fungal Crop Disease: Challenging traditional assumptions (Matthew Castle)

2010-06-08 14:15: Organic Aerosol: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (Prof. Colette Heald, Colorado State University.)

2010-06-10 11:30: BPI Research Colloquium: (Joel Taylor, BPI & Harry McLelland, Earth Sciences)

2010-06-11 13:00: Global vegetation responses to deer: ecosystem changes and recovery (Andrew Tanentzap)

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

2010-06-15 10:30: Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009 (Dr Yvonne Hinssen, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University)

2010-06-15 11:00: Management of Antarctic baleen whales amid past exploitation, current problems, emerging threats and complex marine ecosystems (Rebecca Leaper (Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute University of Tasmania) & Cara Miller (Pacific Islands Programme, WDCS International))

2010-06-16 11:00: Variability and trends of drifter pathways near the Antarctic Peninsula and potential ecological impacts (Angelika Renner, British Antarctic Survey)

2010-06-16 12:00: Exploring Antarctic Lichen Biodiversity (Dr William Purvis (Natural History Musuem))

2010-06-18 13:00: What we can learn from deforestation patterns and historical disturbance effects in tropical rain forests of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (Shauna-Lee Chai)

2010-06-21 14:15: Observations and Simulations of Borneo Vortex (Prof. Azizan Abu Samah, IOES, Univ of Malaya)

2010-06-23 12:00: Estimating acclimation temperatures at the assemblage level in the marine environment: towards macrophysiology (Dr Joelle Richard (British Antarctic Survey))

2010-06-25 13:00: Clues for Climate Change Concealed in the Canopy - Diversity and Ecophysiology of Bryophytes in Peru (Aline Horwath)

2010-06-30 11:00: Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An Observationally-Driven Theoretical Study (Dr. Stephanie Waterman, National Oceanography Centre and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London)

2010-07-05 14:30: Molecular perspectives of adaptations to challenges of polar environment (C-H Christina Cheng (University of Illinois))

2010-07-21 16:00: Observing the behavior of individual crustacean zooplankton using optics and acoustics. (Dr Jules Jaffe (SCRIPPS, University of California))

2010-07-29 14:05: CANCELLED - Physical Limnology: Recent Results from Lake Iseo (Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia))

2010-08-27 11:00: Observing atmospheric transport and mixing using the world's smallest controllable balloon (Paul Voss, Smith College, USA)

2010-09-08 11:00: Turbulence profiling beneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound with particular attention to topographic and cryographic effects (Craig Stevens (National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand))

2010-09-14 14:15: Understanding and using the tropopause: trends and characterization (Dr. Juan Anel, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.)

2010-09-21 11:00: The unified neutral theory of biodiversity (Robin Hankin (Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research))

2010-10-04 14:15: CAS Second year student talks (Gregor Stewart, Zadie Stock and Steve Fuller)

2010-10-05 11:00: The evolutionary history of baleen whales in an Antarctic context (Jennifer Jackson (British Antarctic Survey))

2010-10-06 11:00: The influence of tides on melting and freezing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, and Antarctic Bottom Water production (Keith Makinson (British Antarctic Survey))

2010-10-07 11:30: How to control structure and rheology of particle-laden interfaces (Jan Vermant, Uni of Leuven)

2010-10-07 16:30: Lives on The Ice - Changing Patterns of Antarctic Experience from Scott to Byrd (Lisle A. Rose)

2010-10-08 13:00: Functional study of CROWN ROOTLESS1, a AS2/LOB-domain protein essential for crown root development in rice. (Yoan Coudert)

2010-10-08 14:15: Recent evidence concerning road vehicle emissions of nitrogen oxides (Dr David Carslaw (Kings College London))

2010-10-12 14:15: Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss (Dr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA)

2010-10-12 16:30: Tracking the solidification of a basaltic crystal mush (Madeleine Humphreys, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-14 11:30: Infrared thermography for temperature and velocity measurements in gas flows (Mauro Gallo, ETH Zurich)

2010-10-14 16:00: UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions (Dr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre)

2010-10-15 13:00: Silencing signals in plants: A big journey for small RNAs (Charles Melnyk)

2010-10-18 14:15: The reactivity, hygroscopicity and volatility of atmospheric aerosols (Dr Francis Pope (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-18 16:00: Crackling noise of crumbling minerals (Ekhard Salje (Department of Earth Sciences))

2010-10-19 13:00: Building a network model for metallic foams (Anthony Anderson (ITG/DAMTP))

2010-10-19 16:30: The motion and rheology of the Indian plate, and their effects upon Tibetan tectonics (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-20 16:30: Northernmost Antarctic Peninsula glacial and climate changes (Daniel Nývlt (Czech Geological Survey))

2010-10-21 11:30: From Confinement to Composites:  Bio-inspired Crystallisation (Fiona Meldrum, Uni of Leeds)

2010-10-21 16:00: CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental (Prof. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

2010-10-22 13:00: Phylogenomic analysis of tobacco; identifying the genes selected during domestication (Kieron Edwards, Applied Molecular Breeding manager of Advance Technologies)

2010-10-22 16:30: Time Domain Elastic Full Waveform Inversion of Time-lapse Multi-component OBC Data (York Zheng)

2010-10-25 14:15: Optical Absorptivity versus Molecular Composition of Model Organic Aerosol Matter (Dr Angela-G. Rincon-Benavides)

2010-10-25 16:00: NMR of Vacancies: Defect Structures and Mobility in Doped Perovskites and Related Phases (Frédéric Blanc (Department of Chemistry))

2010-10-26 13:00: Locomotion on a slime layer: water snails versus land snails (Sam Pegler (ITG/DAMTP))

2010-10-26 16:30: Melting above the (nominally) anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs (Richard Katz, University of Oxford)

2010-10-28 11:30: Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystals (David L. Patrick, Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University)

2010-10-28 14:05: Decadal climate variability over the past 100 years (Peter Baines (Bristol/Melbourne))

2010-10-28 16:00: From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities (Prof. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany)

2010-10-29 13:00: There's no Business Like Flow Business (Rachael Walker, Stem Cell research department Flow cytometry specialist)

2010-10-29 16:30: Fast differential inner-core rotation questioned by body-wave studies (Anna Mäkinen)

2010-11-01 14:15: No Seminar This Week ()

2010-11-01 16:00: An Experimental and Modelling Approach to Understanding Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Structures (Martin Dove (Department of Earth Sciences))

2010-11-01 16:30: Ice Stream Tides (Hilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey))

2010-11-02 13:00: Cave rings (Emma Boland (DAMTP/BAS))

2010-11-02 16:30: Deforming the Earth: Runny Solids in the Deep Mantle (David Dobson, University College London)

2010-11-04 11:30: Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Urban Flows (Wengbo Tang, ASU)

2010-11-04 14:05: Missing mixing in the ocean mixed layer (Stephen Belcher (Reading))

2010-11-04 16:00: Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism (Dr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

2010-11-05 13:00: The Perennial Plant Clock: Implications for Growth and Winter Survival (Maria Eriksson, Department of Plant physiology - Umea University)

2010-11-05 16:30: Case study: wave propagation through basalts in well VM1 (Jurg Schuler)

2010-11-08 14:15: Constraining the secondary organic aerosol budget and the impact of soot aerosol on cloud albedo (Dr Dominick Spracklen)

2010-11-08 16:00: Beyond the Chemical Cemetery: in situ X-ray Characterisation of Structural Changes in Solids (Anthony Phillips (Cavendish Laboratory))

2010-11-09 13:00: CANCELLED - Dispersion and mixing in quasi two-dimensional jets	 (Julien Landel (DAMTP/BPI))

2010-11-09 16:30: Rock records: when two are better than one (Andrew B. Smith, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum)

2010-11-11 11:30: Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences (Prof Helmuth Mohwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)

2010-11-11 14:05: Climate science informing policy (Emily Shuckburgh (BAS))

2010-11-11 16:00: Plant membrane transport (Prof. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre)

2010-11-11 17:00: The Shape of the World: Measuring Global Development (Professor Angus Deaton)

2010-11-12 13:00: Using 2nd generation sequencing for delineating relationships between the genome, epigenome, transcriptome and  proteome (Dr Abizar Lakdawalla, Senior product manager for sequencing - Illumina)

2010-11-12 16:30: Earthquake distribution patterns in Africa (Tim Craig)

2010-11-12 17:00: Jaws 5: The Beginning (Kelly Richards)

2010-11-12 17:30: The Ins and Outs of Fly Guts (Paula Cognigni)

2010-11-15 14:15: Reconciling top-down versus bottom-up isoprene emissions from the Amazon Basin (Dr Michael P. Barkley, University of Leicester)

2010-11-15 16:00: Calculated phase equilibria in high pressure metamorphic rocks and the deep mantle (Tim Holland (Department of Earth Sciences))

2010-11-16 13:00: CANCELLED - APS DFD practice talks (Various speakers)

2010-11-16 16:30: Pleistocene glacial cycles: interactions amongst ice, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2. (Peter Huybers, Harvard)

2010-11-17 16:30: Calving Laws for Ice Sheet Models - Recent Progress and Future Prospects (Douglas Benn (University Centre in Svalbard and the University of St. Andrews))

2010-11-18 11:30: TBC (Richard Trueman, Richard Mott, BP Institute)

2010-11-18 11:30: Self segregation in water-borne latex coatings. (Richard Truman, BP Institute)

2010-11-18 14:05: Drumlins (Andrew Fowler (Oxford))

2010-11-18 16:00: Structure and function of photosystem-I (Prof. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA)

2010-11-19 11:00: Southern Ocean iron fertilisation by baleen whales and Antarctic krill (Dr Steve Nicol (Australian Antarctic Division))

2010-11-19 13:00: An Overview of Plant Structural Colour (Murphy Thomas, Beverley Glover group)

2010-11-19 16:30: Towards a joint tomography of body wave and surface wave data: Studying the processes of continental collision beneath the Tibetan Plateau (Ceri Nunn)

2010-11-22 14:15: High-Resolutin Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Complexes of Atmospheric Interests. (Dr Bin Ouyang, CAS Cambridge)

2010-11-22 16:00: Phase transitions in the spin and charge coupled EuTiO3 (Leszek Spalek (Cavendish Laboratory))

2010-11-23 16:30: Middle Miocene Expansion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Triggered by pCO2 decline (Gavin Foster, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

2010-11-25 11:30: Numerical studies of droplet impacting and splashing. (Kensuke Yokoi, Uni of Cardiff)

2010-11-25 14:05: Ice cores and climate: how long is an interglacial? (Eric Wolff (BAS))

2010-11-25 16:00: Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development (Dr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre)

2010-11-26 13:00: The long and the short of it: dez implicates Zn homeostasis in skotomorphogenesis (Mike Haydon, Alex Webb group)

2010-11-26 17:00: Scans and Skulls and Holes and Moles (Nick Crumpton)

2010-11-26 17:30: Developmental and functional crosstalk between the Drosophila gut and its neighboring tissues (Gerit Linneweber)

2010-11-29 14:15: Conservation in realistic simulations of composition beyond the mixing timescale (Dr John Methven, University of Reading)

2010-11-29 16:00: Nanocomposite Oxides for Enhanced Functionality (Judith Driscoll (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy))

2010-11-30 13:00: Uncapping the Southern Ocean: evidence for a physical/dynamical barrier in the Southern Ocean and its role in glacial-interglacial CO2 variability (Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences))

2010-11-30 16:30: Reactive melt migration and the evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt (C. Johan Lissenberg, Cardiff University)

2010-12-01 19:00: ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture (Paul A. Berkman (University of Cambridge) & David W. H. Walton (British Antarctic Survey))

2010-12-02 11:30: TBC (Seung Yeon Lee, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute)

2010-12-02 11:30: Richard Mott & Seung Yeon Lee: BPI Research Colloquium (Richard Mott & Seung Yeon Lee)

2010-12-02 11:30: Interfacial Studies on a Charged Surface in Oil by Contact Angle Measurements / Natural ventilation of an enclosed space driven by periodic gusting of wind (Seung Yeon Lee / Richard Mott, BP Institute)

2010-12-02 16:00: Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization (Prof. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

2010-12-03 11:00: Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW): Observations of annual mode water anomalies and long term (40-85yr) intermediate water trends (Sunke Schmidtko, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)

2010-12-03 13:00: The mitochondrial ABC transporter ATM3 plays a key role in the biogenesis of cytosolic Fe-S proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana (Delphine Bernard, Janneke Balk group)

2010-12-03 17:30: Friday night at the movies: Fluorescence, lasers and 4D (Matt Benton)

2010-12-08 11:00: Southern Ocean Circulation and Atmospheric pCO2 (David Munday (University of Oxford))

2010-12-10 13:00: Sugar beet breeding, bolting resistance and Gibberellins (Helen Holmes, Broom’s Barn)

2010-12-16 11:00: Genetic and stable isotope studies on a top marine predator, the killer whale (Andrew Foote, The Centre for GeoGenetics, Universiy of Copenhagen)

2011-01-14 13:00: Patterning the Arabidopsis leaf (Sarah Robinson, JIC)

2011-01-20 11:00: Multi-decadal trends of ocean circulation in the southeast Indian Ocean (Ming Feng (CSIRO))

2011-01-20 16:00: Thermosensory mechanisms in plants (Dr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

2011-01-21 13:00: Cambridge iGEM 2010: E.glowli (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-01-21 17:30: Planar Cell Polarity: pointing towards the right direction (Pedro Saavedra)

2011-01-24 14:15: Ground-based and aircraft LIF systems using thermal dissociation techniques: instrument description and field campaigns results (Dr Piero Di Carlo, CETEMPS-University of L'Aquila (Italy))

2011-01-25 13:00: Mountain ranges as viscous gravity currents (Alex Copley (Earth Sciences))

2011-01-25 16:30: Climate change and volcanism: The Siberian Traps and Yellowstone volcanic provinces (Marc Reichow, University of Leicester)

2011-01-26 11:00: A new mechanism for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes (Arnaud Czaja (Imperial College London))

2011-01-26 16:30: Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica (Adrian Jenkins (British Antarctic Survey))

2011-01-27 11:30: Random sphere packings/Thermo-responsive polymers in porous media (Larry Melidis and Alexis Tran-Viet)

2011-01-27 14:05: Underground CO2 Storage: using monitoring and prediction to prove the concept (Andy Chadwick (British Geological Survey))

2011-01-27 16:00: Environmental physiology (Prof. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster)

2011-01-28 13:00: Extraordinary phenotypes of hybrids are influenced by epigenetics and small silencing RNAs (Padubidri Shivaprasad, David Baulcombe's group)

2011-01-28 16:30: Local seismicity at the Krafla and Eyjafjallajökull volcanoes, Iceland (Jon Tarasewicz)

2011-01-28 17:00: The Arts of Aerobatics and Origami in Insect flight (Kristien de Clercq)

2011-01-28 17:30: How do cells coordinate entry to mitosis? (Agata Lichawska)

2011-01-31 14:15: Influences of microphysical processes on atmospheric humidity: observations and model results (Dr Jonathon Wright, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-31 16:00: Metallic glasses (Lindsay Greer (Dept. Materials Science and Metallurgy))

2011-01-31 17:00: A Career in Oil and Gas Consulting (Adam Law, ERC Equipoise Ltd)

2011-02-01 13:00: Elastic response of a sheet-shelf system near the grounding line (Roiy Sayag (ITG, DAMTP))

2011-02-01 16:30: Comparative palaeoecology of mass extinction events (Richard Twitchett, University of Plymouth)

2011-02-03 11:30: Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response. ( Dr Andy Leonard BP)

2011-02-03 14:05: Compaction and crystallisation in magma chambers: the Skaergaard Intrusion (Dan McKenzie (Earth Sciences))

2011-02-03 16:00: New Insights into Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis and Other Plants (Prof. Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

2011-02-04 13:00: Breaking down the (cell) walls: simplifying xylan in Arabidopsis (Jenny Mortimer, Dupree Lab, Biochemistry Dept.)

2011-02-04 16:30: Intracratonic Basins of Australia (Karol Czarnota)

2011-02-04 17:00: The centipede Strigamia maritima and the evolution of arthropod head patterning (Vera Hunnekuhl)

2011-02-04 17:30: Landscape change and its biological consequences in the Amazonian forest (Jose Ochoa-Quintero)

2011-02-07 14:15: Assessing air quality forecasts using a new evaluation technique (Dr Helen Dacre, University of Reading)

2011-02-07 17:00: Landscape and Climate change through Ancient Egypt (Dr Judith Bunbury (University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences Dept.))

2011-02-08 13:00: The Atlantic Overturning Circulation is not driven by meridional density gradients (Agatha De Boer (Environmental Sciences, UEA))

2011-02-08 16:30: Large scale tectonic framework of SE Asia and the structure and deformation of the lithosphere beneath SE Tibet (Rob van der Hilst, MIT)

2011-02-09 11:00: Icebergs, meltwater and the overturning circulation during Marine Isotope Stage 6 (Mattias Green (Bangor University))

2011-02-10 11:30: Effects of turbulence on the ignition of flames. (Prof. Epaminondas Mastorakos, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-10 14:05: Solidification of poly-phase systems: what can gabbroic microstructures tell us? (Marian Holness (Earth Sciences))

2011-02-10 16:00: Mating systems, hybridization, polyploidy, and continuing evolution in Senecio (ragworts) and Sorbus (whitebeams) (Prof. Simon Hiscock, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol)

2011-02-11 13:00: Transient loss of membrane potential in single plant mitochondria (Markus Schwarzlander, University of Oxford)

2011-02-11 16:30: Uplift Histories From River Profiles: Examples From Africa and the Colorado Plateau (Gareth Roberts)

2011-02-11 17:30: Investment and maternal strategies in cooperative breeders (James Savage)

2011-02-14 14:15: Solar Effects on the Polar Atmosphere: The Role of Energetic Particle Precipitation (Dr Annika Seppälä, BAS)

2011-02-14 16:00: Elastic anomalies and acoustic dissipation associated with phase transitions in minerals (Zhiying Zhang (Department of Earth Sciences))

2011-02-14 17:00: Mount Erebus, Antarctica (Dr Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-15 13:00: Turbulent plumes in the Southern Ocean (Paul Holland (BAS))

2011-02-16 14:00: A dynamical mechanism for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole (Dr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey))

2011-02-16 16:30: Quantifying the predictive uncertainty of numerical mass balance models (Cameron Rye (University of Oxford))

2011-02-17 11:30: Numerical modelling of the respiratory system. (Bertrand Maury, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud)

2011-02-17 13:00: Sustainability of Antarctic krill (Dr Simeon Hill, British Antarctic Survey)

2011-02-17 14:05: Venice - sustainability and the impacts of the flood protection barriers (Paul Linden (DAMTP))

2011-02-17 16:00: Is there a limit to tomato yield? (Prof. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

2011-02-18 13:00: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis: a role for small RNAs? (Donna Bond, David Baulcombe's group)

2011-02-18 16:30: Transient convective uplift of an ancient buried landscape (Ross Hartley)

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)

2011-02-21 14:15: Isotopic constraints on atmospheric methane sources (Dr Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway University of London)

2011-02-21 17:00: The Two Types of El Nino and Their Consequences (Prof. Hans-F. Graf (University of Cambridge, Geography Dept.))

2011-02-22 13:00: Constraints on mush processes in solidifying gabbro (Madeleine Humphreys (DES, Oxford))

2011-02-22 16:30:  Recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction (Prof. Mike Benton, University of Bristol)

2011-02-23 14:00: Thoughts about Chemistry-Climate Modelling and Geoengineering (Dr Peter Braesicke (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-23 16:30: Oceanography in Arctic fjords (Finlo Cottier (Scottish Association for Marine Science))

2011-02-24 11:30: When is one very much less than one? Lee wave tracing in stratified shear flow experiments (Dr Colm Caulfield, BP Institute, DAMPT and Churchill College)

2011-02-24 14:05: TBA (Thierry Alboussiere (ENS Lyon))

2011-02-24 16:00: Why study early land plants? (Prof. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff)

2011-02-25 13:00: Electrogenic photosynthetic microorganisms: harnessing solar energy in bio-photovoltaic (BPV) systems (Alistair McCormick, Plant Metabolism)

2011-02-25 16:30: Resolving super-rotation of the Earth's inner core using hemispherical seismic velocity and attenuation structure (Lauren Waszek)

2011-02-25 17:00: Neural Circuits Involved in Kicking and Jumping in Locusts and Crickets (Armando Castillo)

2011-02-25 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Tom Clements)

2011-02-28 16:00: Plutonium solid solubility and radiation damage in xenotime (YPO4) (Katie Gunderson (Dept. Earth Sciences))

2011-02-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Gillian R. Foulger, (Durham Universitry))

2011-03-01 13:00: CANCELLED - Reconciling the hemispherical structure of Earth's inner core with its super-rotation (Lauren Waszek (ITG, Earth Sciences))

2011-03-01 16:30: Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on S oxidation processes in modern and ancient ecosystems (Aubrey Zerkle, University of Newcastle)

2011-03-03 11:30: Part III Presentations (Harry Frankish  Becky Welbourn  Paul Verhaak Earth Sciences Part III students)

2011-03-03 16:00: Shaping the plant endomembrane system (Prof. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University)

2011-03-04 17:30: The genetic basis of Mullerian mimicry in Heliconius melpomene (Carolina Pardo-Diaz)

2011-03-07 14:15: On trends and feedbacks in the Contemporary Global Carbon Cycle (Prof Emanuel Gloor, University of Leeds)

2011-03-07 16:00: Predicting the interfacial properties of the perovskite oxide SrTiO3 (Roger A. De Souza (RWTH Aachen University))

2011-03-08 13:00: CANCELLED - Instabilities in viscous particle plumes (Andrew Crosby (ITG, DAMTP))

2011-03-08 16:30: The microbial biogeochemistry of the sediment/water interface - players, processes, and rates (Dr Volker Bruchert, Stockholm University)

2011-03-09 13:00: Continental Shelf and Slope Variability in the Southeast Weddell Sea (Cedric Chavanne (University of East Anglia))

2011-03-09 14:00: Atmospheric Responses to Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure (Dr Hua Lu (British Antarctic Survey))

2011-03-10 11:30: Encapsulation of inhibitors for Down-well applications/Adventures of salty water droplets in oil (Wei Jin Gun & Michael O'Sullivan)

2011-03-10 16:00: Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis (Prof. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France)

2011-03-11 13:00: The role of small non-coding RNAs in mouse primordial germ cell specification and epigenetic reprogramming (Delphine Cougot, Gurdon Institute)

2011-03-11 16:30: Possible thermal controls on the seismic-aseismic transition in intraplate regions:   Can the mantle have significant long-term strength? (Alastair Sloan)

2011-03-14 14:15: Real-time measurements of volatile organic compounds by CIR-ToF-MS (Dr Iain White, University of Leicester)

2011-03-14 16:00: Electrostatic, polarisation and redox effects in oxide nano-structures (Nick Bristowe (Dept. Earth Sciences/Cavendish Lab))

2011-03-15 13:00: Convective dissolution in CO2 sequestration: Porous media convection at high Rayleigh number/Brine drainage in sea ice (Duncan Hewitt/David Rees-Jones (ITG, DAMTP))

2011-03-16 16:30: Antarctic subglacial hydrology and topography (Anne Le Brocq (University of Exeter))

2011-03-17 11:30: Lubricating with polymer brushes (Prof. Dr. Nicholas D. Spencer, ETH Zürich)

2011-03-17 16:00: Polyploidy and epigenetics (Prof. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin)

2011-03-18 13:00: The FRIGIDA complex-mediated FLC activation in winter annuals of Arabidopsis thaliana (Kyuha Choi)

2011-03-18 16:30: Controls on seismic deformation in subducting slabs (Bob Myhill)

2011-03-22 14:00: Elastic response of an ice sheet-ice shelf system near the grounding line (Dr. Roiy Sayag (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-23 14:00: Climatology and recent change of westerly winds over the Amundsen Sea Embayment derived from six re-analyses (Dr Thomas Bracegirdle (British Antarctic Survey))

2011-03-25 13:00: Algal biodiesel – challenging cell walls (Irmi Horst, Alison Smith’s group)

2011-04-01 13:00: Priming: fine-tuning of plant innate immunity (Jurriaan Ton, Rothamsted Research)

2011-04-06 14:00: Analysis of a rapid sea-ice retreat event in the Bellingshausen Sea (Dr John King (British Antarctic Survey))

2011-04-08 13:00: Development of leaf venation in C3 and C4 species (Britta Kuemper)

2011-04-08 13:30: Potential benefits of cultivar mixtures (Joseph Helps)

2011-04-28 11:30: Experimental and Theoretical Modeling of Internal Tide Generation (Morris R. Flynn, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Alberta)

2011-04-28 16:00: Molecular determinants of the pyrenoid and carbon concentrating mechanism  in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Madeline Mitchell)

2011-04-28 16:30: Small RNAs and hybridization in the unicellular green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Daisy Hessenberger)

2011-04-28 17:00: Pleistocene Fleuve Manche palaeoriver discharges : Response to glacial oscillations and climate changes (Dr Samuel Toucanne (IFREMER, France))

2011-05-03 16:30: Ocean Ridge Perspectives on Mantle Heterogeneity (Charlie Langmuir, Harvard)

2011-05-05 11:30: Granular research in extremes- from sand dunes in the desert to snow avalanches in the mountains (Dr Nathalie M. Vriend (DAMTP))

2011-05-05 16:00: Regulation of thiamine biosynthesis by riboswitches (Trinh Nguyen)

2011-05-05 16:30: Investigating aspects of algal-bacterial symbiosis (Matthew Cooper)

2011-05-06 13:00: Pol IV in Tomato (Amy Beeken)

2011-05-06 13:30: Title to be confirmed (Elena Kazamia)

2011-05-09 14:15: Atmospheric bromine: from tropics to polar regions (Dr. Xin Yang ( Centre for Atmospheric Science))

2011-05-10 13:00: Instability of a viscous particle plume (Andrew Crosby, ITG, DAMTP)

2011-05-10 16:30: Volcanic-Magmatic Interplays on Mid-Ocean Ridge Construction and Petrogenesis (Ken Rubin, University of Hawaii)

2011-05-12 11:30: Effects of natural convection on thermal explosions in a closed vessel (Ting-Yueh Liu, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-12 13:00: The effects of capillary forces in two-phase gravity currents (Madeleine Golding, ITG, DAMTP)

2011-05-12 16:00: Is there a role for sRNAs in C4 Photosynthesis? (Ewan Gage)

2011-05-12 16:30: Evolution and Diversity of MIXTA-like genes (Katrina Alcorn)

2011-05-13 13:00: Molecular regulation and morphological development of petal spot evolution (Rachel Walker)

2011-05-13 13:30: The Influence of PPDK on Nitrogen Remobilisation in Wheat during Senescence (Maria Herse)

2011-05-16 14:15: CANCELLED ##### Air Pollution and health: myths and realities ####### (Prof Jon Ayres, Director of Institue of Occupational and Environmental Medicene, University of Birmingham)

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)

2011-05-19 11:30: How little we know about geological carbon storage (Prof Mike Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-19 13:00: Earth's inner core: hemispheres, anisotropy and rotation (Lauren Waszek, Bullard, DES & ITG)

2011-05-19 13:00: Reclaiming South Georgia from its rats: the story so far (Prof Tony Martin, Dundee University)

2011-05-19 16:00: Inositol hexakisphosphate, a key factor controlling plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses (Ruth Le Fevre)

2011-05-19 16:30: Marchantia polymorpha: A model for developmental biology and a novel chassis for synthetic biology (Nuri Purswani)

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

2011-05-20 12:30: Interpreting environmental signals from Antarctic peat cores (Jessica Royles)

2011-05-20 13:00: Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with data (Emily Lines)

2011-05-20 13:30: A forward genetic approach to elucidate the microRNA and chromatin silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Craig Thompson)

2011-05-24 13:00: Flow of rivers through lakes (Charlie Hogg, ITG, DAMTP)

2011-05-26 09:30: Special Seminars in Multiphase Flow (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-05-26 16:00: RNA Based Mechanism in genetic and epigenetic regulation (Bruno Santos)

2011-05-26 16:30: Plasma membrane electron transport in the green alga Chlamydomonas  reinhardtii (Xander Anderson)

2011-05-27 13:00: Petal Epidermal Patterning and Pollinator Attraction (Alison Reed)

2011-05-27 13:30: Challenging existing paradigms of pathogen dispersal (James Cox)

2011-05-31 17:00: A special set of QDG talks (Dr Axel TImmermann (SOEST, University of Hawai'i, USA); Dr Jess Adkins (CALTECH, USA))

2011-06-01 15:30: Australian HFC, PFC and SF6 emissions: atmospheric verification (Dr Paul Fraser, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research)

2011-06-02 16:30: Conservation of stem cell function in land plants (Chris White)

2011-06-03 13:00: Cucumber mosaic virus and its RNA silencing suppressor alter plant odour as perceived by pollinators (Niels Groen)

2011-06-03 13:30: Identification & characterization of CML23 and CML24 in Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock (Nur Izzati Mohd Noh)

2011-06-07 14:15: Modelling organic aerosol: sensitivities and simplifications (Prof Gordon McFiggans, University of Manchester)

2011-06-09 16:00: Molecular studies of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum (Carsten Reinhard)

2011-06-09 16:30: Can Argonautes provide demethylation specificity in Arabidopsis thaliana? (Laura Taylor)

2011-06-10 13:00: Design of Self-Organising Circuits for Multicellular Systems (Tim Rudge)

2011-06-10 13:30: The role of cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein in subverting plant defensive signalling pathways (Trisna Tungadi)

2011-06-14 10:30: Genetic monitoring and single stock assessment of the New Zealand subantarctic southern right whale (Emma Carroll, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)

2011-06-15 14:00: Antarctic Meteorological Data at the British Antarctic Survey (Steven Colwell (British Antarctic Survey))

2011-06-16 16:00: Investigating the Spread of Disease at the Landscape Scale (Richard Stutt)

2011-06-16 16:30: Too big to fail? Disease control versus market breakdown (Mathieu Moslonka-Lefebvre)

2011-06-20 17:30: Mr Keynes and the Moderns (Prof Paul Krugman, Princeton University)

2011-06-21 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Neil Harris)

2011-06-23 16:00: Nutrient cycling and carbon dynamics: the effects of leaf litter manipulation in a tropical lowland forest in Panama (Sara Neihaus)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-11 16:00: Regenerative Antioxdant Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles (Dr Sudiptal Seal)

2011-07-18 15:00: Mapping Epithermal Gold Deposits on the Island of Milos, Greece, using an integrated Spectral Reflectance and Spectral Emissivity Dataset (Dr Graham Ferrier (University of Hull))

2011-07-19 14:00: Coupling climate and ice sheet models: experiments for the Greenland Ice Sheet (Guðfinna Tollý Aðalgeirsdóttir)

2011-07-20 11:00: Ice edge to island blooms: carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean (Elizabeth Jones (NIOZ))

2011-07-26 15:00: Metabolic Rate in Seabirds – Influences, Limits & Consequences (Jon Green, Liverpool University)

2011-07-27 11:00: Anisotropic eddy transport in models and observations (Igor Kamenkovich (RSMAS, University of Miami))

2011-07-27 16:00: Establishing baseline emissions rates for REDD+ (Beccy Wilebore)

2011-07-28 14:00: ESF-IMCOAST: a European South American integrated study of coastal climate change at King-George Island (Doris Abele (AWI))

2011-08-10 13:00: Dense water cascading off the continental shelf - overview and recent modelling results (Fred Wobus (Plymouth University))

2011-08-30 11:20: Sublithospheric small-scale convection (Prof. Slava Solomatov)

2011-09-16 11:30: Stratosphere-Troposphere interaction and climate prediction. (Dr Adam Scaife, Met Office Hadley Centre.)

2011-09-20 16:00: Simulation of seismic wave propagation through geometrically complex basins - the Dead Sea basin (Michael Tserarsky, Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel)

2011-10-03 14:15: Modelling changes in the global methane hydrate inventory (Stephen Hunter, University of Leeds)

2011-10-06 13:00: Assessing the effusion rate of lava flows from thermal remote-sensing: theoretical and experimental studies of the spreading and cooling of viscous gravity currents (Fanny Garel (IPGP))

2011-10-06 16:00: Comparative genomics: lessons, rationales and perspectives (Jerome Salse, INRA Versailles)

2011-10-06 16:15: Climate Change -- A summary of latest IPCC results (Prof John Pyle, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry)

2011-10-07 13:00: Illuminating diverse RNA silencing pathways using the Arabidopsis Argonautes (Ericka Havecker, Gene Silencing Group)

2011-10-10 14:15: Second Year PhD Presentations - I (Oliver Squire (University of Cambridge), Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-10 17:00: I know what you did last Summer (Part II and Part III students)

2011-10-11 13:00: Impact of boundaries on ocean vortex patch dynamics (Andrew Crosby (DAMTP))

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)

2011-10-12 11:00: Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf (Karen M. Assmann (BAS))

2011-10-12 17:00: Trade-offs, team work and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some lessons and thoughts from the Amazon. (Dr Toby Gardner ( Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology))

2011-10-13 11:30: Natural ventilation of double-skin facades, Energy Implications of Stratification (Nicola Mingotti, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-13 14:00: How does the data assimilation method in the Northern Hemisphere affect the representation of mid-Holocene climate? (Aurélien Mairesse (Université catholique de Louvain))

2011-10-13 16:00: Chromosome structure in the establishment and divergence of polyploids (Andrew Leitch, QMUL)

2011-10-14 13:00: Of water flumes, waxy walls and toilet bowls: trapping strategies of carnivorous pitcher plants (Ulrike Bauer, Forest Ecology & Conservation Group)

2011-10-14 16:30: Evolution of Dynamic Support in Madagascar and Africa through the Cenozoic Era (Jon Paul (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-17 13:00: Bacteria foraging in a turbulent ocean (John Taylor (DAMTP))

2011-10-17 14:15: Second Year PhD Presentations - II (James Keeble (University of Cambridge), Matthew McLeod (University of Cambridge) and Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-17 17:00: I know what you did last Summer (Part II and Part III students)

2011-10-18 13:00: Dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional turbulent jets (Julien Landel (DAMTP, BPI))

2011-10-18 16:30: Relating atmospheric CO2 levels to biogeochemical processes (Phil Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2011-10-19 16:30: Why do glaciers fall apart? (Martin O'Leary, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan)

2011-10-19 17:00: The Ecosystem Service Paradigm: progress towards a more sustainable future. (Steve Albon, Valuing Nature Network,The James Hutton Institute)

2011-10-20 11:30: Two-phase gravity currents in carbon dioxide sequestration /  Miscible viscous fingering induced by a simple chemical reaction (Madeleine Golding, DAMTP / Thomas  Gérard, BPI)

2011-10-20 16:00: Evolution of C4 grasses: from genes to globe (Colin Osborne, Sheffield)

2011-10-20 16:15: Organic aerosols in the atmosphere: composition and reactivity. (Dr Markus Kalberer, Univserity of Cambridge)

2011-10-21 11:00: Water mass transformations and air-sea exchange in the Barents Sea (Marius Årthun (BAS))

2011-10-21 13:00: The constraints on growing algae for biofuel (Nic Ross, Plant Metabolism Group)

2011-10-21 16:30: 40 Million years of the Iceland Plume (Ross Parnell-Turner (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-24 13:00: Dynamical mechanisms for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole (Andrew Orr (BAS))

2011-10-24 17:00: Radioactive waste disposal and the issues it raises (Roger Wilmot (Galson Sciences))

2011-10-25 13:00: Mixing of a stable linear density stratification in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow (Rosie Oglethorpe (DAMTP, BPI))

2011-10-25 16:15: Timescales of chemical reactions (Prof Michael Pilling, University of Leeds)

2011-10-25 16:30: Virtual Fossils and the Herefordshire Lagerstatte (Mark Sutton, Imperial College)

2011-10-26 13:00: Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK)

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))

2011-10-26 17:00: Conserving India's Forests: participation, forest rights and ecosystem services. (Bhaskar Vira, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-27 11:30: Why and how does organic matter in sediment matter to climate change science? (Dr Albert Galy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-27 16:00: Control of orientated cell division and cell expansion during plant development (Simon Turner, Manchester)

2011-10-27 16:15: Carbon sequestration in forests. (Dr David Coomes)

2011-10-28 13:00: Uncovering new abilities of RNA silencing suppressors from viruses of the Potyviridae family (Adrian Valli, Gene Silencing Group)

2011-10-28 16:30: Normal mode sensitivity to structure in Earth’s D’’ layer and CMB topography: What we can and cannot see (Paula Koelemeijer (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-31 13:00: Mixing at high Richardson number (Colm Caulfield (BPI, DAMTP))

2011-10-31 16:15: Where the Crystal Lattice meets the Double Helix (Peter J.Leggo (Department of Earth Sciences))

2011-10-31 17:00: Turning up the heat on Snowball Earth (Professor Ian Fairchild (University of Birmingham))

2011-11-01 16:30: Strontium in the oceans: Where does it come from and where does it go? (Chris Pearce, Open University)

2011-11-02 13:00: Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head (Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany)

2011-11-02 16:30: Imaging contemporary subglacial landscapes: detailed geophysical surveys of Antarctic ice streams (Dr Ed King, British Antarctic Survey)

2011-11-02 17:00: Counting and Conserving the World's 'Missing' Species (Lucas Joppa, CEES Microsoft Research)

2011-11-03 11:30: Interfaces and mixing in CO2 sequestration (Dr Jerome Neufeld, BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-03 15:00: Climate Science Symposium (Dr Andrew Friend, University of Cambridge, Prof. Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey and Prof. Julia Slingo, Met. Office.)

2011-11-03 16:00: From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production (Maurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead)

2011-11-04 13:00: C4 photosynthesis transcriptomics: From Cleome to rice (Sylvain Aubry, Molecular Physiology Group)

2011-11-04 16:30: S receiver functions from the Tien Shan (Amy Gilligan (University of Cambridge))

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))

2011-11-04 17:00: Genome re-sequencing reveals narrow islands of divergence among radiating butterflies.  (Simon Martin)

2011-11-04 17:30: Offspring sex ratio bias in meerkats (or a lack thereof).  (Kirsty MacLeod)

2011-11-07 13:00: Air quality, ozone layer depletion and chemistry-climate interactions - measurements and modelling (John Pyle (Chemistry))

2011-11-07 16:15: Some recent results on the interaction between two order parameters : the case of linear-quadratic coupling (Ekhard Salje (Department of Earth Sciences))

2011-11-07 17:00: Highs and Lows - The tectonic evolution of the Canadian Arctic Islands (Dr Stephen Rippington (CASP))

2011-11-08 13:00: Gravity driven intrusions in stratified fluids (Ben Maurer (DAMTP))

2011-11-08 16:30: Zooming into the subduction plate interface:  constraints from petrology, geodynamics and modelling (Philippe Agard, University Paris VI)

2011-11-09 13:00: Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica (Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France)

2011-11-09 17:00: The Natural Way to Care: how exposure to natural environments shapes human relationships. (Netta Weinstein, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2011-11-10 11:30: The Existence and Significance of Deeply Buried Landscapes (Dr Nicholas White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-10 16:00: From Armadillos to Abscisic Acid (Juliet Coates, Birmingham)

2011-11-10 16:15: Ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions around Greenland (Dr Poul Christoffersen, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2011-11-11 13:00: Fish, Fungus, and Filaments: Cellular Interactions in a Diversity of Systems (Paul Grant, Synthetic Biology Group)

2011-11-11 16:30: Evolution of Intracratonic Basins (Matthew Parsons (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-14 13:00: Modelling melt, water routing and the filling and drainage of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Ian Willis (SPRI))

2011-11-14 13:00: Modelling melt, water routing and the filling and drainage of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Dr Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2011-11-14 14:15: The role of glassy aerosol in cirrus ice cloud formation (Theodore Wilson, University of Leeds)

2011-11-14 17:00: The pterosaur Darwinopterus: Evidence for a modular mode of evolution? (Dr David Unwin (University of Leicester))

2011-11-15 15:30: Modelling the living world? (Dr Mike Harfoot, United Nations Environment Programme - WCMC)

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)

2011-11-16 11:30: What are the battery technologies around the corner with or without Li? (Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne)

2011-11-16 13:00: Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila (Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

2011-11-16 16:30: Understanding contemporary change in West Antarctica: Insights from a higher order ice sheet model with dynamic subglacial processes (Dr Marion Bougamont, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2011-11-16 17:00: Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential (Ruth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-17 16:00: Stomatal development and evolution (Julie Gray, Sheffield)

2011-11-17 16:15: The Recent Increase of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent (Prof. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey)

2011-11-18 16:30: Full-waveform inversion for exploration-seismic land near-surface characterization (Philip Knaute (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-18 17:00: Traces of the Baltic Ice Lake drainage in the northern Baltic Sea and southern Finland (Outi Hyttinen (Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FInland))

2011-11-21 17:00: Dam(n) Geology! Geohazards assessment for large civil engineering projects (Dr Clark Fenton (Imperial College))

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)

2011-11-23 13:00: Axial homologies re-examined:  a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa (Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-11-23 16:30: Microbial Communities in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. (Dr Mark Skidmore, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University)

2011-11-23 17:00: Getting real about Marine Protected Areas: pragmatism in design and implementation. (Amanda Vincent, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.)

2011-11-24 11:30: Clay: the forgotten particle in submarine sediment density flows (Dr Esther Sumner, University of Leeds)

2011-11-24 16:00: The endodermis - a selective and protective interface between plant and soil (Niko Geldner, Lausanne)

2011-11-24 16:15: A geological perspective on climate change: forcings, feedbacks and tipping points. (Dr Luke Skinner, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Science)

2011-11-25 13:00: Pyrenoid formation is associated with RuBisCO small subunit alpha-helices in Chlamydomonas (Moritz Meyer, Physiological Ecology Group)

2011-11-25 14:00: The effect of high-pressure on ABO3 perovskite-type oxides: Ferroelastics, ferroelectrics & multiferroics (Jens Kreisel (CNRS, Grenoble))

2011-11-25 16:30: 3-D Tomographic Inversion of Local Microseismic Events to Image the Askja Magma Chamber, Iceland (Mike Mitchell (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-25 17:30: Stripes and rings: how to make a centipede.  (Jack Green)

2011-11-28 13:00: Seismic Oceanography: High resolution imaging of thermohaline circulation to abyssal depths (Nicky White (DES))

2011-11-28 14:15: A novel satellite mission concept for upper air water vapour, aerosol and cloud observations using Integrated Path Differential Absorption LiDAR Limb Sounding (Alex Hoffman, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-28 17:00: Tectonics and magmatism in collision zones; observations from the Himalaya and Caucasus (Professor Nigel Harris (The Open University))

2011-11-29 13:00: The fluid mechanics of ice-shelf buttressing (Sam Pegler (DAMTP))

2011-11-29 16:30: Silicate liquid immiscibility in tholeiitic basalt (Bernard Charlier, MIT)

2011-11-30 13:00: Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates (Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France)

2011-11-30 16:30: Polar ozone loss (Dr Neil Harris, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-30 17:00: Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss. (Kerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends)

2011-12-01 11:30: On the propagation of non-isothermal gravity currents in an inclined porous layer /  Propulsion in Stokes flow ( Will Rayward-Smith, BP Institute, University of Cambridge /  Tom Johnson, University of Birmingham)

2011-12-01 16:00: Mycorrhizal fungal power- harnessing photosynthate and transforming the Earth (Jonathon Leake, Sheffield)

2011-12-01 16:15: Brine Fluxes from Sea Ice (Prof. Grae Worster, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2011-12-02 13:00: How to get on with your weedy neighbours? A study of root to root interactions between wheat and black grass (Stephanie Swarbreck, Ion Transport Group)

2011-12-02 17:00: Role of the Tropical Pacific in Millennial-Scale Climate Events (Dr Aleksey Sadekov (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2011-12-07 14:00: The edge region of the Antarctic stratospheric vortex:  its existence and its importance. (Dr Howard Roscoe (BAS))

2011-12-09 17:30: Flies and cameras in times of economic crisis. (Francisco Hernandez)

2011-12-12 16:00: Geoengineering Mini Symposium. (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-01-06 14:00: The response of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere  system to changes in the dipole moment of the Earth's magnetic field (Dr Ingrid Cnossen (NCAR))

2012-01-16 14:15: Anatomy of ice cores: continuous-flow chemical analysis of polar ice cores (Dr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-01-17 14:30: Gelation phenomena in cluster-cluster aggregation (Colm Connaughton (Mathematics Institute and Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick))

2012-01-18 14:00: Dynamical heating controls the stratospheric temperature reduction associated with the Antarctic ozone hole (Dr Andrew Orr (BAS))

2012-01-19 11:30: Encapsulation of microorganisms in colloidosomes / Encapsulation of Inhibitors for Down-well Applications (Polly Keen, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Wei Jin Gun, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2012-01-19 16:00: Strigolactone signalling and the control of shoot branching (Ottoline Leyser, SLCU)

2012-01-19 16:15: Southern Ocean processes and circulation, and impacts on carbon drawdown (Jean-Baptiste Sallee, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-01-20 13:00: iGEM Team 2011 (iGEM Team 2011)

2012-01-20 16:30: Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Dynamic Support of Arabia (Johnny Wilson (University of 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))

2012-01-23 13:00: Why is predicting the future of ice sheets so difficult? (David Vaughan (BAS))

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)

2012-01-24 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)

2012-01-25 14:00: More precise predictions of future polar winter warming (Dr Tom Bracegirdle (BAS))

2012-01-25 16:30: Ice-ocean interactions in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord (Dr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2012-01-25 17:00: iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour (David Roberts, DICE, University of Kent)

2012-01-26 11:30: PlaqueTec Limited (Joseph Corrigan, Head of R&D, PlaqueTec Limited)

2012-01-26 16:00: The control of flowering time (Richard Morris, JIC)

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

2012-01-27 13:00: Crop pioneers across Eurasia: insights from phylogeographic analysis using SSRs (Harriet Hunt, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)

2012-01-31 16:30: Bubbles and Bangs: Volatile Controls on Magma Fragmentation (Kathy Cashman, University of Oregon)

2012-02-01 13:00: The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm (Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden)

2012-02-01 16:30: The timing and rate of deglaciation along the north Svalbard margin (Dr Bill Austin, University of St Andrews)

2012-02-01 17:00: Linking science, policy & practice for wildlife conservation on farmland. (Lynn Dicks, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology)

2012-02-02 11:30: Title to be confirmed (BPI Students)

2012-02-02 16:00: Drought and diversity in tropical rain forests (Patrick Meir, Edinburgh University)

2012-02-02 16:15: Different types of El Niño and impact on Eurasian Climate (Prof Hans Graf, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

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

2012-02-03 13:00: Epigenetic remodeling of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis DNA methyltransferase mutants (Natasha Elina, Epigenetics)

2012-02-03 16:30: Lithological variation in the Iceland plume and its implications for geochemical dispersal of the plume head (Oliver Shorttle (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-06 13:00: Ocean observations beneath the floating tongue of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: tales from an autonomous yellow submarine and its friends. (Pierre Dutrieux (BAS))

2012-02-06 17:00: A Tale of Two Plumes – Magmatism and Mantle convection beneath the African Plate (Professor Nick Rogers, The Open University)

2012-02-07 13:00: Towards the dynamic modelling of brine fluxes from sea ice (David Rees-Jones (DAMTP))

2012-02-07 16:30: Evolution and climate in the Cenozoic oceans (Paul Pearson, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University)

2012-02-08 13:00: The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker? (Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete)

2012-02-08 16:30: The central-west sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the LGM - the story from offshore evidence (Dr Kelly Hogan, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2012-02-08 17:00: How high should Climate Change taxes be? (Chris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School)

2012-02-09 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-02-09 16:00: How plants survive the night (Alison M. Smith, JIC)

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

2012-02-10 13:00: Hybrid networks in tomato (Vera Pancaldi, Gene Silencing)

2012-02-10 16:30: Geophysical analysis of basalt flows penetrated by the Brugdan and William boreholes on the Faroes shelf (Juerg Schuler (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-10 17:30: An invasive species as a biofilter to improve water quality: using the bad guys for good.  (Claire McLaughlan)

2012-02-10 17:30: Understanding locust phase-shift.  (Katja Stettin)

2012-02-13 13:00: Carbon storage in the glacial ocean: radiocarbon recipes (Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences))

2012-02-13 17:00: The Role of the Geologist in International Development (Joel Gill (King’s College London / Director, Geology for Global Development))

2012-02-14 13:00: Elastica Fantastica - wrinkling, blistering, stretching and sticking of elastic sheets (Till Wagner (DAMTP, BAS))

2012-02-14 16:30: Under the geological rug: The fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration (Jerome Neufeld, BPI, Cambridge)

2012-02-15 17:00: Wombats, Weapons & Water:  the making of international conservation treaties. (Catherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-16 11:30: Pore Network Modelling for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (Paul Hammond, Schlumberger Cambridge Research)

2012-02-16 16:00: Hidden Signposts of Plant Development (Enrico Coen, JIC)

2012-02-16 16:15: CCfCS Post Grad/Post Doc Poster Afternoon (Around 25 post-grads and post-docs from CCfCS)

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

2012-02-17 13:00: Structural analysis of Arabidopsis cell wall arabinogalactan polysaccharides (Dora Tryfona, Dupree Lab, Biochemistry)

2012-02-17 16:30: Time-lapse waveform inversion of ocean bottom cable seismic data (York Zheng (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-20 13:00: Long-life sea surface temperature (Mike Davey (DAMTP))

2012-02-20 17:00: Are palaeobiodiversity patterns more apparent than real? (Graeme Lloyd, Oxford University)

2012-02-21 13:00: NOTE TIME! 1-2pm! Cryptic Neoproterozoic mountain building events around the margin of Rodinia (Rob Strachan, University of Portsmouth)

2012-02-21 13:00: Structure from chaos: vigorous convection in porous media (Duncan Hewitt (DAMTP))

2012-02-22 13:00: What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development (Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa)

2012-02-22 16:30: Densification in the Greenland dry snow zone - implications for altimetry (Prof Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar Research Insitute)

2012-02-22 17:00: Getting the measure of biodiversity: birds as indicators of environmental change. (Richard Gregory, RSPB)

2012-02-23 11:30: Multiphase Flow in Pipes (Trevor Hill, BP)

2012-02-23 14:00: Climate Science Symposium II (Prof Corinne Le Quéré, Prof Peter Cox and others)

2012-02-23 16:00: Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up (Julian Ma, St. George’s, University of London)

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

2012-02-24 13:00: Cucumber mosaic virus promotes its transmission by manipulating plant-insect interactions (Jack Westwood, Virology)

2012-02-24 16:30: The seismogenic and thermal structure of Tibet, and its relationship to regional tectonics (Tim Craig (University of Cambridge))

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))

2012-02-24 17:30: Are epiphytes important in oil palm plantations?  (Graham Prescott)

2012-02-24 17:30: Roles of sperm factors in the nuclear reprogramming. (Marta Teperek)

2012-02-27 13:00: Assessing Antarctica's contribution to global sea level rise over the next century: progress made within the EU ice2se project (Tony Payne (Bristol, Geographical Sciences))

2012-02-27 14:15: The Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and it's role in Climate. (Dr Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO)

2012-02-27 17:00: "Equipoise" cheese and wine evening! (ERC Equipoise)

2012-02-28 13:00: The formation of non-zonal jets over sloped topography in the ocean (Emma Boland (DAMTP, BAS))

2012-02-28 16:30: The orbital pacing of Palaeogene hyperthermals - can we believe model results? (Dan Lunt, University of Bristol)

2012-02-29 13:00: Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna (Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-02-29 16:30: Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts (Dr Rob Bingham, University of Aberdeen)

2012-02-29 17:00: Why Monitoring Matters when designing payment for ecosystem services schemes. (Julia Jones, University of Bangor)

2012-03-01 11:30: Dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional turbulent jets (Julian Landel, BP Institute)

2012-03-01 16:00: Molecular tools for the macroalgae (John Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast)

2012-03-01 16:15: Do's and Don'ts in Chemistry-Climate Modelling (Dr Peter Braesicke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

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

2012-03-02 13:00: Looking at the genes behind Darwin’s abominable mystery (Edwige Moyroud, Molecular Development)

2012-03-02 16:30: Using microseismicity to track magma movement at Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland (Jon Tarasewicz (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-05 13:00: Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope (Karen Heywood (UEA, School of Environmental Sciences))

2012-03-05 17:00: Sedimentary processes beneath Antarctic ice streams (Poul Christoffersen - Scott Polar Research Institute)

2012-03-06 13:00: Drop formation of a power-law fluid on a thin film coating a vertical fibre (Liyan Yu (DAMTP))

2012-03-06 15:30: Paper discussion group on: “Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming” (Dr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-03-06 16:30: Ocean turbulence, fronts, and the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom (Dr. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-07 13:00: Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species (Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona)

2012-03-07 16:30: Revealing the Antarctic continent with recent aerogeophysical exploration (Dr Fausto Ferraccioli, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-03-07 17:00: Geodiversity, geoconservation & geomorphological services:  Challenges beyond 2012. (Tom Spencer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-08 11:30: Flow and reaction of carbon dioxide stored in saline aquifers (Dr Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering)

2012-03-08 16:00: Specification of pre-meiotic cells in maize anthers (Virginia Walbot, Stanford University)

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

2012-03-09 13:00: IND1, a Fe-S protein involved in respiratory complex I biogenesis. From Arabidopsis gametogenesis defects to patients with mitochondrial myopathies (Mateusz Wydro, Plant Biochemistry)

2012-03-09 14:15: Isotope fractionation in nitrous oxide and CFC-12 reflects stratospheric chemistry and transport rates (Dr Jan Kaiser, University of East Anglia)

2012-03-09 16:30: Normal-mode studies of the Earth's inner core (Anna Mäkinen (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-12 13:00: CANCELLED -  Finite volume fountains and dense vortices (Gary Hunt (Imperial, Civil & Environmental Engineering))

2012-03-12 13:00: Towards national emissions verification for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (Dr Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol)

2012-03-12 13:00: Downwelling in Basins Subject to Buoyancy Loss (Claudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution))

2012-03-12 17:00: The Meanderings and Maunderings of an Old Petroleum Geologist in South America and The Middle East (Peter Llewellyn)

2012-03-13 13:00: Polynyas / Internal Wave Attractors: Focussing without sloping boundaries (Peter Ford / Rob Sutton (DAMTP))

2012-03-13 16:30: A window on deep geological time: exceptional fossils studied using new methods (Roy Wogelius, University of Manchester)

2012-03-14 13:00: The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research (Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany)

2012-03-14 16:30: Exploring radar data of ice sheets by means of numerical modelling (Dr Gwendolyn Leysinger-Vieli, University of Durham)

2012-03-14 17:00: REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement? (Arild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB))

2012-03-15 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Axel Zeitler, Chem Eng)

2012-03-15 16:00: Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication (John Doebley,  University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2012-03-16 13:00: Superoxide anion production in diatoms and its potential role in bio-photovoltaic devices (Anuphon Laohavisit, Plant Metabolism)

2012-03-16 17:30: Startle displays: halting predator attack.  (Alexandra Torok)

2012-03-20 15:30: Erebus volcano: from mantle to atmosphere (Clive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-21 13:00: Pleistocene and Holocene in Murchisonforden area, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. (Professor Veli-Pekka Salonen, Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki (and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall))

2012-03-21 13:45: Challenges in modeling future sea level rise from melting glaciers (Dr Valentina Radic, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

2012-03-23 17:30: A window to the past: Does adult ornamental plumage reveal early life environments? (Leila Walker)

2012-03-28 13:00: Darker, wetter and faster: recent and projected trends of mass balance over the Greenland ice sheet and linkages to surface and sub-surface processes (Dr Marco Tedesco, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York)

2012-04-02 14:00: Symposium: “Joining up the atmos-spheres” organised by BAS and CCfCS (Richard Horne, Hua Lu, Howard Roscoe, Tom Bracegirdle and John Pyle)

2012-04-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York))

2012-04-17 15:30: Antarctic climate variability during past Interglacials: new findings from the EPICA Dome C ice core. (Dr. Katy Pol, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-04-17 16:00: Future methane, OH, and their uncertainties. (Dr Christopher D Holmes, University of California, Irvine)

2012-04-19 14:00: CANCELLED: Statistics and characteristics of mid-latitude travelling ionospheric disturbances observed by HF radars (Dr Adrian Grocott (University of Leicester))

2012-04-20 13:00: Energetics under limiting light: a useful tool to study C4 photosynthesis (Chandra Bellasio)

2012-04-20 13:30: Mechanism of action of strigolactone (Catherine Taylor)

2012-04-20 17:30: Ecological Transactions go Bonk. (Yangchen Lin)

2012-04-26 11:30: Subdivision-stabilised immersed b-spline finite elements for fluid-structure Interaction (Dr. Fehmi Cirak, Dept of Engineering)

2012-04-26 16:00: The Pathway to C4 Rice (Helen Woodfield)

2012-04-26 16:30: The role of Annexin 1 in [Ca2+]cyt dynamics (Renato Colaco)

2012-04-26 17:00: Geohazards in On-shore Energy Projects (David Shilston - president designate of the Geological Society)

2012-04-27 13:00: Developing the microdroplet platform for microalgal biotechnology (Roshni Best)

2012-04-27 13:30: Phenology in a temperate forest: relationships between carbohydrate supply and water limitation (Andres Plaza)

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

2012-05-01 16:30: Intrusive LIPs: Petrological Interpretation of Deep Crustal Cumulate Bodies beneath Oceanic Hotspot Provinces (Mark Richards, Univeristy of California, Berkeley)

2012-05-02 16:30: Sub ice volcanism, ice sheets and global change (Prof John Smellie, University of Leicester)

2012-05-03 11:30: (What's the Story) Internal Solitary Waves? (Bruce Sutherland, Dept of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)

2012-05-03 16:00: Within-field diversity and the effectiveness of crop mixtures at reducing pathogen damage (Joe Helps)

2012-05-03 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Paul Steiner)

2012-05-04 13:00: Identification of ADPR cyclase in Arabidopsis (SM Abdul Awal)

2012-05-04 13:30: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in European forests (Tommaso Jucker)

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

2012-05-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota)

2012-05-09 12:00: Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate (Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK)

2012-05-09 16:30: Glaciers on Mars (Professor Bryn Hubbard, Aberystwyth University)

2012-05-10 11:30: The Destabilising Effect of Stratification in Layered Shear Flows (Caulfield ( C (Cambridge))

2012-05-10 14:20: CCfCS Easter Term Young Scientist Afternoon (Yama Dixit, Emilie Capron, Zadie Stock, Jo Johnson, Steve Fuller, Scott Hosking)

2012-05-10 16:00: Artificial evolution of the resistance gene, Rx, to enhance activation sensitivity in a broad recognition background (Jake Harris)

2012-05-10 16:30: The Role Of Annexin1 During growth and abiotic stress (Sian Richards)

2012-05-11 13:00: Modelling the biological control of crop disease (Robin Thompson)

2012-05-11 13:30: Title to be confirmed (Tim Rudge)

2012-05-11 16:30: The Spatial and Temporal Pattern of Dynamic Topography around Australia (Karol Czarnota (University of Cambridge))

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))

2012-05-14 14:15:  Modelling and data assimilation of reactive gases at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. (Dr Johannes Flemming, ECMWF)

2012-05-15 15:30: The Carrington event not observed in most ice core nitrate records (Prof. Eric Wolff FRS, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-05-15 16:30: SCALING LAWS FOR AGGRADATION AND PROGRADATION  OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD (Peter Sadler, University of California at Riverside)

2012-05-16 16:30: Subglacial conditions on Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: Results from ground-based geophysical surveys; and plans for future activities with the iSTAR Programme (Dr Andy Smith, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-05-17 11:30: Ionic Liquids Confined to Thin Films: Structure and Lubricity (Susan Perkin, Dept of Chemistry, University College London)

2012-05-17 16:00: A motif present in multiple C4 genes is necessary for mesophyll specificity (Ben Williams)

2012-05-17 16:30: The application of species distribution models to IUCN Red List assessments: an evaluation (Mindy Syfert)

2012-05-18 13:00: Inferring forest stand structure from LiDAR remote sensing data (Rebecca Spriggs)

2012-05-18 13:00: Volcanoes on borders (Clive Oppenheimer)

2012-05-18 13:30: Identification of circadian mutants with an altered response to nicotinamide (Timothy Hearn)

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))

2012-05-21 14:15: Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds. (Dr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-21 14:15: Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds. (Dr Mario Montopoli, Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge,)

2012-05-22 15:30: Interpreting the influence of air mass origin on the atmospheric composition of long term measurement stations (Dr. Zoe Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Leicester)

2012-05-22 16:30: The eve of biomineralisation (Rachel Wood, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

2012-05-23 11:00: The East Greenland Boundary Current System South of Denmark Strait (Alex Brearley (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2012-05-23 13:00: Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis (Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

2012-05-23 13:00: Understanding climate model biases in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude variability. (Dr Isla Simpson, Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

2012-05-23 16:30: Double bill: "Monitoring Arctic water bodies using active microwave data" / "Airborne glacier geophysics in Greenland" (Anna-Maria Trofaier & Dr Steven Palmer, Scott Polar Research Institute.)

2012-05-24 11:30: Modelling of forced and natural wetting on uniform and non-uniform surfaces (Dr Mark Wilson, School of Mechanical engineering, Uni of Leeds)

2012-05-24 16:00: Use of airborne lidar to model vegetation structure and plant species composition of Mediterranean oak forests (Will Simonson)

2012-05-24 16:30: Defining the role of NAD+ metabolism in circadian clock function in Arabidopsis thaliana (Laura Bell)

2012-05-24 17:00: Rifting of a Continent: the North Tanzanian Divergence Zone, East African Rift System (Sara Mana (Rutgers University))

2012-05-25 13:00: Dichotomous branching in the common liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha (Jeremy Solly)

2012-05-25 13:30: Regulation of gene expression in C4 metabolism (Ivan Reyna-Llorens)

2012-05-25 17:30: Intensification of West African agriculture: socio-economic processes and gender-influenced patterns in bird distribution.  (Hope Usieta)

2012-05-25 17:30: Migrants in winter: how do ecological conditions in Africa affect the individual success of trans-Saharan migratory birds? (Marjorie Sorensen)

2012-05-28 14:15: Modelling isocyanic acid (HNCO): Tropospheric distribution, budget, and identification of regions with potential health impacts (Dr Paul Young, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)

2012-05-29 15:30: Where might we find evidence of a Last Interglacial West Antarctic ice sheet collapse in Antarctic ice core records? (Sarah Bradley, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)

2012-05-30 13:00: Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci (Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK)

2012-05-30 16:30: Microbial activity beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet: impacts beyond the ice margin? (Dr Jemma Wadham, University of Bristol)

2012-05-31 11:30: Numerical simulation of condensed-phase explosives (Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-31 15:30: The influence of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid on expression of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 in Arabidopsis (Lydia Hunter)

2012-05-31 16:00: Identification and characterisation of triacylglycerol biosynthesis genes in Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Jit Ern Chen)

2012-05-31 16:30: The contributions of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 and alternative oxidase in resistance to potato virus X (Zheng Li)

2012-06-01 13:00: The role of gibberellin in bolting in sugar beet (Helen Holmes)

2012-06-01 13:30: The Evolution of MIXTA Gene Function in Angiosperms and Bryophytes (Lin Taylor)

2012-06-06 13:00: The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System (Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona)

2012-06-06 16:30: Double bill: Modelling the evolution of supra-glacial lakes in the Russell glacier region of the Greenland Ice Sheet / IMBIE - Ice sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (Amber Leeson & Dr Kate Briggs, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds)

2012-06-07 11:30: Patterning of Colloidal Particles via Infrared Radiation-Assisted Evaporative Lithography (J.L. Keddie  Department of Physics, University of Surrey)

2012-06-07 16:00: Improving uniformity of potato crops (Simon Smart)

2012-06-07 16:30: Environmental drivers of tropical peat swamp forest vegetation patterns (Beatrice Wedeux)

2012-06-08 13:00: Using a new model to understand C4 gene regulation (Christopher John)

2012-06-08 13:30: Understating the role of small RNAs in gene regulatory networks (Bruno Santos)

2012-06-12 13:00: The Record of Deep Magmatic Processes in the AD 1783 Laki Fires Eruption, Iceland. (David Neave & Margaret Hartley)

2012-06-12 16:30: Robert Falcon Scott: the Tasmanian links and an appreciation. (Professor Pat Quilty, University of Tasmania)

2012-06-13 13:00: From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution (Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.)

2012-06-14 11:30: Granular segregation in driven binary monolayers (Draga Pihler-puzovic, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Uni of Manchester)

2012-06-14 16:00: The extended phenotype of the cucumber mosaic virus genome in insect transmission (Niels Groen)

2012-06-14 16:30: The roles of cucumber mosaic virus proteins in modifying plant-aphid interactions in tobacco (Trisna Tungadi)

2012-06-15 13:00: Pyrenoid formation and impact on photosynthetic supply side energetics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Oliver Caspari)

2012-06-20 11:00: Southern Ocean overturning under past and future climate change (Adele Morrison (Australian National University))

2012-06-20 14:00: Is the increase of Southern Ocean winds, and SAM, caused by the ozone hole rather than by increased greenhouse gases? (Howard Roscoe (BAS))

2012-06-21 16:00: Setting reference levels for REDD+ (Beccy Wilebore)

2012-06-21 16:30: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NADPH Oxidases as potential electron transporters for biophotovoltaic devices. (Xander Anderson)

2012-06-22 13:00: A System Dynamics approach to model carbon assimilation in plants that exhibit Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) (Nicholas Owen)

2012-06-22 13:30: The evolution of floral morphology in the Antirrhineae and its relationship with pollinator shifts (Celilia Martinez-Perez)

2012-06-27 14:00: Gravity wave activity in the lower stratosphere above Rothera and the Falkland Islands (Tracy Moffat-Griffin (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-07-04 11:00: Links between ice loss, stratification and ocean heat content in the Rothera time series (RaTS) (Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-07-25 14:00: Modelling wave-ice interactions (Luke Bennetts (University of Adelaide))

2012-08-08 14:00: Meteorological Research at UNIS, Svalbard (Anna Sjøblom Coulson (The University Centre in Svalbard))

2012-09-04 15:30: Paper discussion group: High-resolution interpolar difference of atmospheric methane around the Last Glacial Maximum (Dr. James Levine, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-09-07 16:00: The volcanic activity of Stromboli volcano: magma dynamics of a steady-state volcano (Dr Chiara Maria Petrone (University of Cambridge))

2012-09-10 14:15: Biomass and Black Carbon particles over Peninsular India: How are they affecting precipitation over the region? (Prof Satyajit Ghosh, VIT University, India and Leeds University, U.K.)

2012-09-11 10:00: Diagnosing potential causes of the HADGEM3 Southern Ocean warm sea surface temperature bias (Dr Pat Hyder, Ocean Modelling Evaluation and Development Met Office)

2012-09-11 14:00: Rapid climate related change at King-George Island: an interdisciplinary approach to coastal systems change (Valeria Bers, Alfred-Wegener0Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

2012-09-24 11:00: The Global Overturning Circulation and Mixing, derived from Inverse Models and Overturning Streamfunctions. (Sjoerd Groeskamp, CSIRO/University of Tasmania)

2012-09-26 11:00: Diving into Ancient Oceans: The Southern Ocean, Climate Change and the Silicon Cycle (Dr Katharine Hendry, Cardiff University)

2012-09-27 11:00: Estimates of the amplitude and time scale of global warming.  (Dr. Geoff Vallis)

2012-10-03 14:00: Antarctic and Arctic temperature trends (Christian Franzke (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-10-04 11:30: Understanding Corrosion through Interface Characterisation (Rob Lindsay, Manchester)

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

2012-10-05 13:00: Photosynthetic entrainment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock (Mike Haydon, Signal Transduction)

2012-10-08 13:00: Geographically-localised coastal-trapped waves (Ted Johnson (UCL))

2012-10-08 17:00: I know what you did last Summer (Part II and Part III students )

2012-10-09 13:00: Thixotropic gravity currents & the ketchup question (Duncan Hewitt (ITG, DAMTP))

2012-10-09 13:00: Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the DIMES experiment (Dr. Katy Sheen, University of Southampton )

2012-10-09 15:30: Why changes in snow fall matter when interpreting temperature from polar ice cores (Dr. Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-10-09 16:30: Geological Histories of Earth and Mars (Vic Baker, University of Arizona)

2012-10-10 17:00: How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future? (Dr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology)

2012-10-11 11:30: Freezing Colloidal Suspensions: Periodic Ice-banding (Anthony Anderson)

2012-10-11 13:00: Genetic dissection of cell death and signalling between endosperm and embryo during seed development (Justin Goodrich,	Edinburgh University)

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

2012-10-12 13:00: Riddle of the Sphinx: Sphingolipid glycosylation - a possible role in plant immunity? (Jenny Mortimer, Dupree Lab (Department of Biochemistry))

2012-10-12 16:30: Fossil imprints of past core dynamics (Karen Lythgoe (University of Cambridge))

2012-10-15 13:00: A biogeochemical framework for  physical oceanographers interested in ocean carbon storage (Philip Goodwin (DES))

2012-10-15 14:00: Phase-synchronization of tropical variability in global climate model simulations of the recent past (Scott Osprey (University of Oxford))

2012-10-15 14:15: 1st Year CPGS talks (Sarah Connors, Antara Banerjee and Ewa Bednarz)

2012-10-15 17:00: Nabro Volcano, Eritrea (Dr. Clive Oppenheimer)

2012-10-16 13:00: Spin down of a stellar interior (Rosie Oglethorpe (BPI, DAMTP) )

2012-10-16 16:30: Magma chamber processes in ferrobasaltic layered intrusions (Oliver Namur)

2012-10-17 13:00: Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the DIMES experiment (Dr. Katy Sheen, University of Southampton )

2012-10-17 16:30: Reflection seismic investigations of the Beaufort Sea margin, Arctic Ocean: Variable history of Quaternary ice-sheet advance (Christine Batchelor, SPRI)

2012-10-17 17:00: Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation? (Dr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds)

2012-10-18 11:30: Finite-Reynolds number effects and interfacial phenomena due to  solid particles (Lorenzo Botto, Imperial College (London))

2012-10-18 13:00: Implementation of analog arithmetic division for control of reserve utilization in plants (Martin Howard, JIC)

2012-10-18 14:00: Climate Challenges (Prof. Rowan Suttion, University of Reading. Prof. Seymour Laxon, University College London. Dr Phillip Goodwin, University of Cambridge. Prof. David Fowler, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.)

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

2012-10-19 13:00: Investigating biodiversity responses to climate change: the benefits of hindsight ( Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Forest Ecology and Conservation)

2012-10-19 16:30: Improving shear velocity maps using surface waves - polarisation and the great circle path (Tak Ho (University of Cambridge))

2012-10-22 13:00: The 2012 summer sea ice retreat in the Arctic and its implications (Peter Wadhams (DAMTP))

2012-10-22 14:15: Nocturnal Chemistry in the Troposphere: Laboratory and Field Studies. (Dr Mingjin Tang, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-22 17:00: Hydrocarbon exploration trends – is the past the key to the future?  (Andy Leonard, BP )

2012-10-23 13:00: Buoyancy-induced turbulent mixing in a narrow vertical channel / Seasonal heat storage in porous media (Daan van Sommeren (BPI, DAMTP) / Peter Dudfield  (BPI) )

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)

2012-10-24 17:00: Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer (Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.)

2012-10-24 17:00: Santorini and CVG field trip to the Etna & the Aeolian  (Brendan McCormick and Lois Salem)

2012-10-25 11:30: SPECIAL SEMINAR BP LECTURER  - Functionalized Antibodies (Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University)

2012-10-25 13:00: Sequencing/genotyping the wheat genome (Keith Edwards, Bristol University)

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

2012-10-26 13:00: The substrate and function of mitochondrial ABC transporters involved in Fe-S metabolism  (Theresia Schaedler, Plant Biochemistry)

2012-10-26 16:30: Assessment of mode coupling effects in surface wave tomography (Arjun Datta (University of Cambridge))

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))

2012-10-29 13:00: Zooplankton grazing control of Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass: A challenge to geoengineering proposals for Fe-fertilisation of the ocean (Corinne Le Quere (UEA) )

2012-10-29 16:30:  Palaeoenvironmental records from the West Antarctic Peninsula drift sediments over the last 75 ka. (Dr Maryline Vautravers, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-29 17:00: Engineering in Sediments  (Prof. Malcolm Bolton, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group)

2012-10-30 13:00: The role of stratospheric water vapour in climate: radiative and dynamical perspectives (Amanda Maycock (Chemistry, DAMTP))

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)

2012-10-30 19:30: Volcanic Caves (Yves Moussallam and Nial Peters)

2012-10-31 13:00: Exchanges between the Weddell Sea and the rest of the Southern Ocean (Loic Jullion, NOCS)

2012-10-31 17:00: How useful is local ecological knowledge for conservation management? Case studies from the EDGE (Dr Samuel Turvey, Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.)

2012-11-01 11:30: Clays in contact with water, ions and CO2: interfacial properties and hydrodynamics on the molecular scale (Benjamin Rotenberg, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)

2012-11-01 13:00: Making new molecules (Anne Osbourn, JIC)

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

2012-11-02 13:00: C4 Rice: Pathways and prospects (Sarah Covshoff, Molecular Physiology)

2012-11-02 16:30: Asia's Broken Foreland: Faulting and earthquakes in Kazakhstan (Grace Campbell (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-05 13:00: The role of atmospheric dynamics in ozone-climate coupling (Ted Shepherd (Reading))

2012-11-05 15:15: The reaction of halogen oxides (BrO and ClO) with CH3O2; laboratory based temperature dependent kinetic and product studies. (Dr Kimberley Leather, University of Manchester)

2012-11-05 17:00: Ice cores, climate and interglacials (Prof. Eric Wolff, BAS)

2012-11-06 13:00: Thermal and tectonic consequences of India underthrusting Tibet (Tim Craig (Bullard, DES) )

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)

2012-11-07 13:00: Shedding light on lunar rhythms (Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria)

2012-11-07 17:00: Smarter ways to monitor wildlife (Prof Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL)

2012-11-07 17:30: Eruption en tu boca! Chile 2012 Volcanic monitoring at Villarrica, Puyehue and Lascar volcanoes (Nial Peters and Yves Moussallam)

2012-11-08 11:30: TBA (Peter Dudfield, Daan van Sommeren, BP Institute)

2012-11-08 13:00: The deep evolutionary origins of stomata and stomatal physiology (David Beerling,	Sheffield University)

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

2012-11-09 13:00: Unravelling the evolutionary forces that shape the B12 requirements of algae (Katherine Helliwell, Plant Metabolism)

2012-11-09 16:30: Dynamic Topography in the Oceanic Realm (Mark Hoggard (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-09 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Yanmin Zhou)

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

2012-11-09 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Pieter Santema)

2012-11-12 13:00: Melting at the marine termini of glaciers and ice sheets: insights from a simple plume model (Adrian Jenkins (BAS))

2012-11-12 14:00: Influences of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field on the Ionosphere (Kathryn McWilliams (University of Saskatchewan, Canada))

2012-11-12 14:15: The upper troposphere/lower stratosphere and its role in chemistry-climate coupling (Dr Michaela Hegglin, University of Reading)

2012-11-12 17:00: The temperature of the top of the mantle (Prof. Dan McKenzie )

2012-11-12 18:00: March of the Penguins (David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey)

2012-11-13 13:00: APS practice talks (Various speakers)

2012-11-13 16:30: Stable vanadium isotope fractionation at high temperatures: a proxy for oxygen fugacity?  (Julie Prytulak, Imperial College)

2012-11-14 13:00: Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish (Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK)

2012-11-14 14:00: LiDAR derived sea-ice observations from the Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas (Victoria Hamilton-Morris (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-11-14 17:00: Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals (Dr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-15 11:30: Shear at soft interfaces (Wuge Briscoe, University of Bristol)

2012-11-15 13:00: The art and design of harmony - molecular genetics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals (Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences)

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

2012-11-16 13:00: The moss sporophyte: A starting point for the evolution of plant architecture  (Yoan Coudert, Evolution of Plant Body Plans)

2012-11-19 14:15: Atmospheric science and policy - the challenge of making them consistent (Prof. Martin Williams, Kings College London)

2012-11-19 17:00:  Earthquake Damage Assessment: how, where and why? (Dr. Roxane Foulser-Piggott, CARLtd )

2012-11-20 11:00: New approaches to understanding marine climate-carbon cycle feedbacks (Dr. Tilla Roy, LSCE/IPSL, Paris)

2012-11-20 16:30: The origin of a phylum: soft-bodied fossils and early mollusc evolution (Martin Smith, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-21 11:00: RAPID-MOC 26N: a Heat budget for the North Atlantic and eddy impacts on the Florida Current (Eleanor Frajka-Williams (University of Southampton))

2012-11-21 13:00: Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak (Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK)

2012-11-21 17:00: The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy. (Dr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International)

2012-11-22 11:30: Using dynamic models to understand continental deformation (Alex Copley (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-22 13:00: Chemical and Physical Signals Interact to Create Pattern in Plant Development (Elliot Meyerowitz, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University)

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

2012-11-23 13:00: Engineering morphology in plants and microbes (Fernan Federici, Synthetic Biology)

2012-11-23 16:00: CANCELLED: Forecast skill and predictability of observed Atlantic sea surface temperatures (Laure Zanna (Oxford))

2012-11-23 16:30: Seismic Velocity Structure and Microseismicity of the Askja Volcano, Iceland (Tim Greenfield (University of Cambridge))

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

2012-11-23 18:00: Nine Billion Mouths to Feed: should we turbocharge crop productivity to feed the world? (Prof. Howard Griffiths, Dept. of Plant Sciences)

2012-11-26 13:00: Bifurcation structure and stability of families of two-dimensional vortex pairs (Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz (DAMTP))

2012-11-26 17:00: Glaciovolcanic sequences and reconstructing past Antarctic ice sheets  (Professor John Smellie (University of Leicester, Dept of Geology))

2012-11-27 13:00: Efficient mixing in stratified flows: Rayleigh-Taylor instability within a stable stratification (Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP) )

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)

2012-11-28 11:00: Inferring Currents from Streamers (Timothy Grant, BAS/Schlumberger Gould Research)

2012-11-28 13:00: The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects (Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany)

2012-11-28 13:00: Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’ ( Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey.)

2012-11-28 16:30: What's going on in Greenland? (Dr Alun Hubbard, Aberystwyth University)

2012-11-28 17:00: 'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age (Prof. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

2012-11-29 13:00: Genetics of speciation in Petunia (Cris Kuhlemeirer, Bern University)

2012-11-29 16:15: CCfCS Poster session (Students/Post-Docs from within CCfCS)

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

2012-11-30 13:00: The role of auxin transport in bud activation (Madeline Seale from the Sainsbury Lab)

2012-11-30 13:30: Purine nucleoside phosphorylases in plants (Farhat Nazir, Developmental Botany)

2012-11-30 16:30: Dealing with Uncertainties: A Bayesian Approach to Source Inversion (David Pugh (University of Cambridge))

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

2012-12-05 13:00: Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria? (Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria)

2012-12-05 14:00: Air-Sea Interaction in the Southern Ocean: New Results from the SOFS Air-Sea Flux Mooring (Simon Josey (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2012-12-12 11:00: Atmospheric flow over South Georgia and the impacts on regional climate (Daniel Bannister (British Antarctic Survey))

2012-12-12 13:00: Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics (Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)

2012-12-12 17:00: Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas (Prof. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia)

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))

2013-01-14 14:15: Aerosols and global biogeochemical cycles - tiny particles links the atmosphere with the ocean (Dr Zongbo Shi (University of Birmingham))

2013-01-16 16:30: Reproducing unexpected LGM ice-stream retreat behaviour in a dynamic numerical model of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica (Dr Stewart Jamieson, Durham University)

2013-01-16 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Stefano Bernasconi,, ETH Zurich)

2013-01-17 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2013-01-18 13:00: Crop improvement and evaluation of water use efficiency by wheat: an integrated approach using stable isotopes (Celestin Ukozehasi)

2013-01-18 13:30: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term organic and inorganic fertilisation in a lowland tropical forest  (Merlin Sheldrake)

2013-01-18 16:30: Icequakes! Microseismicity in Rutford Ice Stream (Emma Smith (University of Cambridge))

2013-01-21 13:00: Exploration of a simple model for ice ages  (Andrew Fowler (OCIAM, Oxford & MACSI, Limerick))

2013-01-21 17:00: Sourcing Antarctic ice rafted debris: potential and pitfalls for recording past ice sheet dynamics (Dr. Michael Flowerdew)

2013-01-22 16:30: Banded Iron Formation and Ancient Life (Professor Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta)

2013-01-23 17:00: Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture (Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-01-24 11:30: Control design for amplifier and oscillator flows (Professor Peter Schmid, LadHyX - CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique)

2013-01-24 13:00: The geometric basis of morphogenesis (Przemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University)

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))

2013-01-25 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)

2013-01-25 13:00: Sporduino: Parts for a Reliable and Field Ready Biosensing Platform (iGEM Team 2012)

2013-01-28 13:00: Turbulence and energetics in Jupiter's atmosphere (Peter Read (Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics))

2013-01-28 17:00: The geological record of ocean Acidification (Prof. Andy Ridgwell, University of Bristol)

2013-01-29 13:00: Building a conceptual model of the oceanic overturning circulation (Callum Shakespeare (DAMTP))

2013-01-29 16:30: Decoding the fossil record of the earliest animals and their embryology (Professor Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2013-01-30 16:30: Glacial landsystems: modern polar and alpine analogues for Quaternary palaeoglaciology (Professor David Evans, Durham University)

2013-01-30 17:00: Conservation and climate change: how radical do we need to be? (Professor Chris Thomas, University of York)

2013-01-31 11:00: Saturation and compensation: Southern Ocean circulation in CMIP5 models (Stephanie Downes, Australian National University)

2013-01-31 11:30: BPI Student Seminar - CANCELLED (BPI Students)

2013-01-31 13:00: Turning over phytate: enzymic and structural perspectives (Charles Brearley, UEA)

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

2013-02-01 13:00: Big Trees for Big Problems (Sam Brockington, Molecular Development)

2013-02-01 16:30: Evolution of Neogene Dynamic Topography in Africa and  Madagascar (Jonathan Paul (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-04 13:00: CANCELLED - Avalanching and Segregation of a granular material – tumble, fall, segregate and sort  (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP))

2013-02-04 17:00: Tracing Visitors To Our Shores Over The Last 5000 Years (Prof. Jane Evans, BGS)

2013-02-05 13:00: Magma chamber processes during crystallization of mafic layered intrusions  (Olivier Namur (DES))

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)

2013-02-06 13:00: Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration (Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland)

2013-02-06 17:00: Conservation of migratory species: the importance of seasonal interactions (Dr Jenny Gill, University of East Anglia (UEA))

2013-02-07 11:30: Multiphase Hele-Shaw Flows: from Beaches to Dredgers  (Onno Bokhove, Astro- & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds)

2013-02-07 13:00: Plant Metabolomics- an update (Alisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm)

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))

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

2013-02-08 13:00: To be or not to be… plastic.     Shoot branching plasticity in Arabidopsis is linked to life-history strategy (Maaike De Jong, Sainsbury Lab)

2013-02-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dave Daversa)

2013-02-08 16:30: In the Belly of the Beeb (Nick Crumpton)

2013-02-08 16:30: The importance of CMB Stoneley mode observations for constraining lowermost mantle structure (Paula Koelemeijer (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-11 13:00: Convective instability of a reacting diffusive layer in a porous medium  (Silvana Cardoso (Engineering))

2013-02-11 14:15: Hygroscopicity and Phase Transition of Several Kinds of Aerosols (Dr Hai-Jie Tong (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-12 13:00: Field investigation of dyke emplacement mechanics: a case study on the Isle of Rum (Katherine Daniels (DAMTP))

2013-02-12 16:30: In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth (Dr. Rob Ellam )

2013-02-12 16:30: In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth (Rob Ellam, SUERC, Min Soc Distinuished Lecturer)

2013-02-13 14:00: Possible impacts of a future Grand Solar Minimum on surface climate (Amanda Maycock (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-13 17:00: Rethinking the scope of REDD+ : Carbon stocks or triple wins? (Dr Heike Schroeder, University of East Anglia (UEA))

2013-02-14 11:30: Taking the Plunge: Stages of a dense river inflow into a lake (Charlie Hogg)

2013-02-14 16:00: Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle (Richard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre)

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

2013-02-15 13:00: How genetic polymorphism shapes meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana (Piotr Ziolkowski, Epigenetics)

2013-02-15 16:30: Caught in the act: hot mantle pulses in the North Atlantic Ocean (Ross Parnell-Turner (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-18 13:00: Basal control on fast glacier flow (Poull Christoffersen (SPRI))

2013-02-18 14:15: Understanding uncertainty in computer simulations with an application in global aerosol modelling (Dr Lindsay Lee (University of Leeds))

2013-02-18 17:00: Terrestrial biodiversity in Antarctica  (Prof. Peter Convey, BAS)

2013-02-19 13:00: Secondary instabilities precursory to stratified shear flow transition to turbulence (Ali Mashayek (Toronto, DAMTP))

2013-02-19 16:30: (U-Th)/He dating of secondary Fe- and Mn-oxides in bedrock (Peter Reiners, University of Arizona)

2013-02-20 13:00: Evolution of gastrulation in flies (Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany)

2013-02-20 14:00: Simulations of single clouds and what a LES-type model can tell us about larger scales (Michael Herzog (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-20 17:00: Expert judgements, Delphi groups, prediction markets: forecasting the future for conservation and national security (Professor Mark Burgman, ACERA, University of Melbourn, Australia)

2013-02-21 11:30: Mineral and Glass Surface Reactivity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Roy Wogelius, Manchester)

2013-02-21 13:00: Putting things in perspective: multiscale integration of stomatal development  (Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University and HHMI)

2013-02-21 15:30: Rates of Ocean Acidification: linked to Oceanic Extinction Patterns? (Dr. Ellen Thomas (Yale))

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))

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

2013-02-22 12:00: The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development (Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan)

2013-02-22 13:00: Mobile silencing RNAs (Attila Molnar, Gene Silencing)

2013-02-22 16:30: Do mites influence social interactions in the burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides? (Ornela De Gasperin Quintero)

2013-02-22 16:30: Shear wave velocity models for the Kyrgyz Tien Shan (Amy Gilligan (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-25 13:00: Modelling the plumbing of ice sheets (Ian Hewitt (Oxford, Mathematical Institute))

2013-02-25 14:15: Brominated Ozone Depleting Substances: Halons and Very Short-Lived Substances (VSLS) (Dr Claire Reeves (University of East Anglia))

2013-02-25 17:00: Early Terrestrial Animals (Dr. Russell Garwood (University of Manchester))

2013-02-26 13:00: The Eyjafjallajökull volcanic plumbing system: insights from microseismicity (Jon Tarasewicz (Bullard))

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)

2013-02-27 13:00: Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians (Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain)

2013-02-27 16:30: Early East Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth Recorded in the Landscape of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains (Dr Kathryn Rose, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-02-27 17:00: Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation? (Dr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED))

2013-02-28 11:30: Wave Crest Statistics - the occurence of freak or rogue waves (Chris Swan, Imperial college London)

2013-02-28 13:00: What can plants tell us about the evolution of sex chromosomes? (Deborah Charlesworth, Edinburgh University)

2013-02-28 16:30: Earth's inner core: Revealing the anisotropy behind complex waveforms  (Nienke Blom (Utrecht))

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)

2013-03-01 13:00: Dispersion, growth and symbiosis of swimming algae and bacteria (Otti Croze, Plant Metabolism)

2013-03-01 16:30: Using body and surface waves to constrain the structure of the mantle beneath Tibet (Ceri Nunn (University of Cambridge))

2013-03-04 13:00: The dynamics of land-atmosphere interaction in West Africa (Doug Parker (Leeds, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science))

2013-03-04 17:00: Geological Mapping of British Antarctic Territory (Dr. Teal Riley. BAS)

2013-03-05 13:00: Segregation effects in granular collapses/Impingement of a plume on a rigid boundary (Josh Caplan/Alan Jamieson (DAMTP))

2013-03-06 13:00: The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects (Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France)

2013-03-06 14:00: Climate models and Earth system models: why the differences are and why they're important (Manoj Joshi (UEA))

2013-03-06 17:00: From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies? (Dr David Coomes, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-03-07 11:30: TBA (TBC)

2013-03-07 13:00: Plastic Fantastic (Sinead Collins, Edinburgh University)

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

2013-03-08 13:00: C4 photosynthesis transcriptomics: From big data to the gene (Sylvain Aubry, Molecular Physiology)

2013-03-08 17:00: Jumping without slipping: spiders need sticky feet for take-off (Hanns Hagen)

2013-03-11 13:00: Controls on grounding-line dynamics (Sam Pegler (DAMTP))

2013-03-11 14:15: Ageing of Atmospheric Aerosols (Dr Christian Pfrang (University of Reading))

2013-03-11 17:00: Antarctic sea-ice and the global climate (Dr. Claire Allen, BAS)

2013-03-12 13:00: Theory and experiments for the Ice Sheet-Shelf System/Peeling of elastic sheets: bending, tension and instability (Martin Wearing (ITG, DAMTP, BAS)/Gunnar Peng (ITG, DAMTP))

2013-03-12 16:30: Searching for the earliest signs of cellular life on Earth (Martin Brasier, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2013-03-12 17:30: 4th Annual BPI Energy Lecture - Global Warming and the Fate of the Land Carbon Sink (Professor Stephen Pacala, Princeton University)

2013-03-13 16:30: '50 Shades of Grey: Communicating Geology' (Prof. Iain Stewart (University of Plymouth))

2013-03-13 16:30: Sea Ice Research at Finnish Meteorological Institute – from Ice Charts to Climate Studies (Dr Eero Rinne, Finnish Meteorological Institute)

2013-03-13 17:00: Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track (Frans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands)

2013-03-14 11:30: The 2010 Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull: Interaction between volcanic plumes and the wind and consequences for modelling airborne ash hazard to aviation (Jerry Phillips, Dept of Earth Sciences, Bristol)

2013-03-14 13:00: Membrane biology in plant-microbe interactions (Silke Robatek, JIC)

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

2013-03-15 13:00: sRNAs: Initiators of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis thaliana (Donna Bond, Gene Silencing)

2013-03-15 14:20: CCfCS Lent Symposium: Time scales in Climate Science. (Prof. David Beerling, Dr. Pierre Dutrieux, Dr. Dan Lunt)

2013-03-15 16:30: Full-waveform inversion of the near surface (Philip Knaute  (University of Cambridge))

2013-03-18 14:15: Stratospheric fractional release, lifetimes, and Ozone Depletion Potentials (Dr Johannes Laube (University of East Anglia))

2013-03-20 14:00: Occam's razor and modelling ecological complexity (Jon Pitchford (York University))

2013-03-21 11:30: Consider the Icicle (Stephen Morris, Dept of Physics, University of Toronto)

2013-03-22 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Marius Somveille)

2013-03-22 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Ramona Mogling)

2013-04-05 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Alexander Hackmann)

2013-04-05 17:00: Title to be confirmed (David Labonte)

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

2013-04-16 10:30: A video-plankton and microstructure profiler for the exploration of in situ connections between zooplankton and turbulence (Tetjana Ross (Dalhousie University))

2013-04-16 14:00: Diurnal ozone variations in the stratosphere revealed in observations from the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) onboard the International Space Station (ISS) ( Takatoshi Sakazaki (Kyoto University))

2013-04-18 11:30: Trembling, Chugging and Choking in Volcanic Eruptions (David Bercovici, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University)

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

2013-04-22 13:00: Submarine melt rate and circulation in an East Greenland fjord  (Claudia Cenedese (WHOI))

2013-04-22 14:00: Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature (Prof Murry Salby (Macquarie University))

2013-04-22 14:00: The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades / Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature (Professors Shaun Lovejoy and Murry Salby)

2013-04-22 15:00: The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades (Professor Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University))

2013-04-24 16:30: Unveiling the glacial and landscape evolution of West Antarctica: subglacial insights from ice-penetrating radar and satellite imagery (Dr Neil Ross, Newcastle University)

2013-04-25 11:30: The response of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Antarctic Circumpolar Current to changes in surface forcing (Callum Shakespeare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2013-04-25 15:30: Reconstruction of past atmospheric aerosol load and composition (organic and inorganic): The case of the European aerosol since 1920 inferred from Alpine ice cores, and prospective for various polar ice cores.  (Michel Legrand, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE), France)

2013-04-25 16:00: High resolution imaging and characterisation of a simple plant system: Marchantia polymorpha (Nuri Purswani)

2013-04-25 16:30: Characterization of function of Calmodulin-like (CML) 23 and CML24 in the regulation of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock (Nur Izzati Mohd Noh)

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

2013-04-26 12:00: Microbial consortia - a way forward for the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology? (Chris Ridley)

2013-04-26 12:30: Phytic acid and plant defence responses (Jacquelyne Poon)

2013-04-29 14:15: Climate and health impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol (Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Leeds))

2013-05-01 11:00: The Weddell Gyre: Freshwater and carbon budgets and exports to the global ocean abyss (Pete Brown (UEA & BAS))

2013-05-02 11:30: An informal talk on some volcanic flow problems (Professor Andy Woods, BP Institute)

2013-05-02 16:00: Phyt or Blight  (Ruth Le Fevre)

2013-05-02 16:30: UK Ash Dieback: Quantifying the Risk of Airborne Spore Incursion (James Alexander Cox)

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

2013-05-03 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Juheon Lee)

2013-05-03 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Krzysztof Kozak)

2013-05-03 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexis Braun)

2013-05-07 16:30: Seismic Tremors and Wagging Magma: Key Precursors of Explosive Volcanism? (Marc Jellinek, University of British Columbia)

2013-05-08 16:30: Using sediment archives from glacial fjords to reconstruct past glacier and ocean variability (Dr Camilla Andresen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)

2013-05-09 11:30: Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption cloud last so long? (Mark Jellinek, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia)

2013-05-09 14:00: Regulation of the carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by CO2 and light  (Madeline Mitchell)

2013-05-09 14:30: Transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs in the unicellular green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardttii (Daisy Hessenberger)

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

2013-05-10 12:00: How do plant viruses affect plant-pollinator interactions?  (Stephanie Unna)

2013-05-10 12:30: Understanding alga-microbe symbiosis (Vaibhav Bhardwaj)

2013-05-13 14:15: Urban street canyons: Coupling dynamics, chemistry and within-canyon chemical processing of emissions/Low-cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Personal Exposure Studies and High Density Network for Air Quality Assessment (Dr Vivien Bright/Dr Olalekan Popoola (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-14 16:30: Magma ocean Influence on early atmosphere composition and mass (Marc Hirschmann, University of Minnesota)

2013-05-15 11:00: Ocean heat uptake, the stratification of the Southern Ocean, and the ACC (Till Kuhlbrodt (University of Reading))

2013-05-15 13:00: Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice (Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

2013-05-16 16:00: Crossover frequency mapping across resistance gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum  (Carsten Reinhard)

2013-05-16 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Richard Stutt)

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

2013-05-17 12:00: Improving pollination in the field bean Vicia faba (Emily Bailes)

2013-05-17 12:30: Investigating temperature signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (David Schoepfer)

2013-05-20 14:15: Molecular composition of biogenic secondary organic aerosols using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry: linking laboratory and field studies (Dr Ivan Kourtchev (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-22 13:00: Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration (Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK)

2013-05-22 16:30: Glacier outburst floods: spatial and temporal evolution (Dr Jonathan Carrivick, Leeds University)

2013-05-23 11:30: Mineral Separation by Froth Flotation: Research Tools and Techniques  (Professor Jan Cilliers FREng, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London)

2013-05-23 13:00: Thermal models of dyke intrusion during development of Continent-Ocean Transition (Katherine Daniels)

2013-05-23 16:00: CLE genes are evolutionarily ancient regulators of stem cell maintenance in land plants (Chris White)

2013-05-23 16:30: Algae, bacteria and B vitamins  (Matt Cooper)

2013-05-24 12:00: Identifying temperature perception mutants of Arabidopsis (Patrick Dickinson)

2013-05-24 12:30: Using transcriptomic analysis to understand C4 in wetland conditions. (Richard Smith)

2013-05-24 16:30: Drainage and Uplift of West Africa and Arabia (Jonathan Wilson (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-29 11:00: The Biogeochemical Cycle of Iron in the Ocean (Alessandro Tagliabue (University of Liverpool))

2013-05-29 13:00: Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK)

2013-05-30 11:30: TBC (Peter Dudfield, BP Institute)

2013-05-31 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Lina Maria Arenas)

2013-05-31 17:00: How to bridge the gaps between conservation science and practice (Jessica Walsh)

2013-06-03 14:15: How can we reduce the uncertainty in estimates of aerosol cloud forcing? (Dr Kirsty Pringle (University of Leeds))

2013-06-05 11:30: Inferring past current contributions to the deep Atlantic using Nd isotope records  (Natalie Roberts, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-05 13:00: Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila (Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)

2013-06-05 16:30: Remote sensing of Greenland tidewater glaciers (Dr Suzanne Bevan, Swansea University)

2013-06-06 14:00: When the Monsoon rocks the Himalaya (Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac from the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech.)

2013-06-06 16:00: Development of leaf anatomy in C3 and C4 Flaveria (Britta Kuempers)

2013-06-06 16:30: Petal Surface Structures & Pollinator Attraction (Alison Reed)

2013-06-07 11:30: Drilling down from stand to leaf level: application of airborne remote sensing for studying biomass, leaf chemistry and the impact of tree diseases in British woodlands  (Minerva Singh)

2013-06-07 12:00: Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR 7 expression by sucrose in Arabidopsis thaliana (Alexander Frank)

2013-06-07 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Quentin Gouil)

2013-06-07 16:45: Dealing with climate hazard: leadership towards adaptation is the key (Professor Bob Carter of the Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne )

2013-06-10 14:15: The assessment of global aerosol-cloud interactions – why is it so hard?  (Dr Philip Stier (University of Oxford))

2013-06-11 11:00: Transient responses of the Southern Ocean to climate change (Andy Hogg (Australian National University))

2013-06-11 16:30: Unlocking the secrets of melt inclusions at Kilauea Volcano (Marie Edmonds)

2013-06-12 11:00: From wind power input to ocean eddy graveyard (Xiaoming Zhai (University of East Anglia))

2013-06-12 14:00: The evolutionary invention of food-webs: a palaeobiological and macroecological approach (Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-12 16:00: Amorphous calcium carbonate stabilization and alternative crystal growth mechanisms - lessons from leaves (Assaf Gal, Weizmann Institute of Science,Israel)

2013-06-12 16:30: The ‘fingerprint’ left by icebergs that plough through sediment: Glacial Lake Agassiz, Manitoba, Canada (Dr Lorna Linch, University of Brighton)

2013-06-13 11:30: Packing of wires in cavities and growing surfaces (Professor Hans Herrmann  ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

2013-06-13 14:00: Climate effects of ocean overturning on heat content anomalies and atmospheric CO2 (Ric Williams; Liverpool University)

2013-06-13 15:30: Investigating a mechanism for epiallele establishment in plants. (Laura Taylor)

2013-06-13 16:00: The role of gibberellins in the control of bolting and flowering in sugar beet  (Helen Holmes)

2013-06-13 16:30: Maize acclimation to changing light quality (Chandra Bellasio)

2013-06-20 15:30: Evolutionary History of the Antarctic Flora (Elise Biersma)

2013-06-20 16:00: Carbon uptake, water and light use in a temperate forest: growing season phenology. (Andres Plaza)

2013-06-20 16:00: Non-linear modelling: breaking through the magnetic materials barrier (David Jiles,  Iowa State University)

2013-06-20 16:30: TPP riboswitches: to Chlamydomonas and beyond (Trinh Nguyen)

2013-06-21 11:30: Sugarcane in the Brazilian “Cerrado”: effects on biodiversity and greenhouse gases emissions (Jessica Fonseca Da Silva)

2013-06-21 12:00: Tree diversity of coffee agroforestry systems across three zones of Potential Natural Vegetation (William Lynman)

2013-06-26 11:00: Southern Ocean eddies and the ocean carbon cycle (David Munday (University of Oxford))

2013-06-27 14:00: Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis (Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden)

2013-06-28 11:30: A Simple System for Morphogenetic Engineering  (Anton Kan)

2013-06-28 12:00: Controlling the distribution of signaling molecules in synthetic patterning (Judith Savitskaya)

2013-06-28 12:30: The CLV/RPK2 pathway is necessary for the transition from two to three-dimensional growth in moss  (Joseph Cammarata)

2013-06-28 13:00: Modelling subglacial hydrology (Ian Hewitt, Universtiy of Oxford)

2013-06-28 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Kwaku Aduse-Poku)

2013-06-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Thanh-Lan Gluckman)

2013-07-02 11:00: Playing with fire: Ice core biomass burning records from four continents (Dr. Natalie Kehrwald, University of Venice, Italy)

2013-07-02 11:00:  Mesoscale eddies at the Antarctic margins:  Linking cross-shelf exchange with Southern Ocean overturning (Andrew Thompson; Caltech)

2013-07-03 14:00: The influence of the Amundsen Sea Low on the climate of West Antarctica and its representation in coupled climate model simulations (Scott Hosking (British Antarctic Survey))

2013-07-10 14:00: An event-based approach to understanding decadal variability in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Lesley Allison (University of Reading))

2013-07-11 13:00: Wave activity, eddy diffusivity, and jet variability (Gang Chen, Cornell University)

2013-07-12 11:00: Mixing by meso-scale eddies in the Southern Ocean: two perspectives. (Emma Boland; BAS)

2013-07-25 11:00: Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement in the Bisicles Ice Sheet Model (Dr Stephen Cornford, University of Bristol)

2013-07-31 14:00: Recent advances in modelling sea ice (Michel Tsamados (University of Reading))

2013-08-01 11:30: Deep ice cores from Dome Fuji, East Antarctica (Dr. Kumiko Goto-Azuma, National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan)

2013-08-14 14:00: Shrinking Ice Sheets, Rising Sea Level, Today and in the Last InterGlacial (Frederik Simons, Princeton)

2013-08-15 15:00: The response of Antarctic marine ice streams to strong ocean forcing - a modelling approach (Dr. Daniel Goldberg (University of Edinburgh))

2013-08-20 15:30: Ultralow-velocity zones at the base of the mantle (Dan Bower (Caltech))

2013-09-03 11:00: Radar Instrumentation for Polar Research: Status and Future  (S. Gogineni, The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, The University of Kansas)

2013-09-03 13:00: Understanding shear instabilities in terms of wave interactions (Dr A Guha)

2013-09-04 13:00: Boundary Layer Dynamics and Deep Ocean Mixing in Mid-Atlantic Ridge Canyons (Dr Rebecca Dell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2013-09-11 11:00: Two tales from the Bushveld: The tapped liquid shift effect - an inconvenient truth; and The pyroxenite marker - evidence for slow mixing in a stratified dish-shaped magma chamber (Grant Cawthorn (University of the Witwatersrand))

2013-09-16 11:00: North Atlantic Oscillation: teleconnections, mechanisms and long range predictability (Adam Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre))

2013-09-25 14:00: A System of Conservative Regridding for Ice / Atmosphere Coupling in a GCM (Dr Robert Fischer (NASA GISS ))

2013-09-25 15:30: Modeling Land-Ice Retreat, Ice-Ocean Interactions and Sea-Level Rise in the Community Earth System Model (William Lipscomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Xylar Asay-Davis,  New York University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,  Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2013-09-25 16:30: CCS Research Down Under (Peter Cook  - University of Melbourne and CO2CRC)

2013-09-26 16:30: Shale gas - Opportunities and Challenges (Peter Cook  - University of Melbourne and CO2CRC)

2013-09-27 16:30: Mixing and Unmixing in Planets (Prof Dave Stevenson (Cal Tech))

2013-09-30 11:30: On the formation of atmospheric jets (Dr A Guha)

2013-10-07 13:00: ENSO modes of the equatorial Pacific Ocean in observations and CMIP5 models (Bryan Weare, University of California, Davis)

2013-10-08 14:00: Changes in the Extratropical and Tropical Impacts on the East Asian Winter Monsoon/Carbon dioxide flux measurement of the magacity of Beijing with eddy covariance method (Wen Chen and Huizhi Liu (Chinese Academy of Science))

2013-10-08 15:00: Opening the black box: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) modelling in Antarctica (Pippa Whitehouse, University of Durham)

2013-10-08 16:30: Challenges in constraining and understanding Strombolian (and Hawaiian) volcanism (Bruce Houghton, University of Hawaii)

2013-10-10 11:30: Turbulence subject to a strong background rotation (Peter Davidson, Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2013-10-10 14:00: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: what have we learned, and where do we go next? (Prof Mat Collins, Prof Gabi Hegerl, Prof Ted Shepherd, Prof David Vaughan)

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

2013-10-11 11:00: Tropical Atlantic Ocean Impacts on Antarctic Peninsula Area Climate (David M. Holland (New York University))

2013-10-14 13:00: Diapycnal transport in the ocean overturning circulation (Graham Hughes (DAMTP/Australian National University))

2013-10-14 14:15: Aerosol observational studies for climate research: from light absorption to the kinetics of cloud droplet formation (Justin Langridge (Met Office))

2013-10-14 17:00: I (want to) know what you did last summer! (Part 2 and Part 3 students)

2013-10-15 13:00: Inferring the subsurface flow of Antarctic ice from satellite observations and other challenges for ice sheet prediction (Robert Arthern (BAS))

2013-10-15 16:30: Why don't tomographic models have error bars? (David Al-Attar, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-16 16:30: Predicting subglacial lake locations and meltwater drainage pathways in Antarctica, Greenland and North America  (Stephen J. Livingstone (University of Sheffield))

2013-10-16 17:00: Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius (Prof. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)

2013-10-17 11:30: Automated parallel adjoints for model differentiation, optimisation and stability analysis (Patrick Farrell, Imperial College London)

2013-10-17 13:00: The genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis (Magnus Nordborg (The Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna))

2013-10-17 13:00: Balance model for equatorial long waves (Ian Chan (University of Toronto))

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

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

2013-10-18 16:30: Ahead of the curve - Development of the Sulaiman fold thrust belt (Kirsty Reynolds (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-21 13:00: Mud wrestling: modelling shear-thinning and thixotropic fluid flow (David Pritchard (Strathclyde))

2013-10-21 14:15: Atmospheric Ozone Formation:  New measurement approaches to sidestep chemical complexity (Bill Bloss (University of Birmingham))

2013-10-21 17:00: Palaeontology and the tree of life (Dr Robert Asher (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-21 18:00: The Mt. Paektu Geoscientific Experiment: Tales from Fieldwork in North Korea (Kayla Iacovino (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-22 13:00: The capillary interaction between objects at liquid interfaces (Himantha Cooray (ITG, DAMTP))

2013-10-22 16:30: Past Abrupt Climate Change and Freshwater Forcing: What do we know? (Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts)

2013-10-23 11:00: Air-Sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation (Jeremy P. Grist (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2013-10-23 13:00: Propagation of an MJO signal into the stratosphere and high latitudes in observations and a model. (Bryan Weare (University of California, Davis))

2013-10-23 17:00: Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment (Dr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL)

2013-10-24 11:30: Nanotechnology for the Oilfield (James Tour, BP Lecturer, Rice University, Houston)

2013-10-24 13:00: Global change and life on Earth: reciprocal effects in a walk from genes to biosphere (Josep Penuelas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona))

2013-10-24 13:00: Fire, Ice and Non-Linear Time Series Analysis: Cycles in Motion of the  Erebus Lava Lake (Nial Peters (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-24 16:00: The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions (Prof. Howard J. Spero (University of California))

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

2013-10-25 13:00: Non-redundant Control of Rice Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis by two Phosphate Transporters (Dr Shu-Yi Yang)

2013-10-25 16:30: Bookshelf faulting and rotations in the north Iceland volcanic rift segments (Rob Green (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-28 13:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (Reading))

2013-10-28 17:00: From our own correspondent: BBC Stories (Professor Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-29 13:00: Arctic sea ice : trends, stability and variability (Woosok Moon (ITG, DAMTP))

2013-10-29 16:30: Effects of source heterogeneity on segmentation and melt production at mid-ocean ridges (Vincent Salters, Florida State)

2013-10-29 17:00: Mapping tips tricks and tales (Part 2 students)

2013-10-30 11:00: Testing eddy compensation and eddy saturation in the Southern Ocean (Dan Jones (British Antarctic Survey))

2013-10-30 13:00: Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton (Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon))

2013-10-30 16:30: Antarctic elevation change from satellite radar altimetry (Malcolm McMillan (University of Leeds))

2013-10-31 11:00: High Resolution Climate Modelling (Marie-Estelle Demory (Reading))

2013-10-31 11:30: Coating and Drying of Thin Films and its impact on morphology and structure formation (Professor Wilhelm Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2013-10-31 16:00: Addressing the wheat yield plateau (Tina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge))

2013-10-31 17:00: Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making:  Frontiers in Research and Policy (Prof. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment)

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)

2013-11-01 13:00: AP2-type transcription factors regulate stem cell fate in the moss Physcomitrella patens (Dr Tsuyoshi Aoyama)

2013-11-01 13:30: Open Microscope (Chris McNicol, David Purdie, James Ritchie, Thomas Roddick and Marco Selvi)

2013-11-01 16:30: Piles and puddles in the deep mantle (Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge))

2013-11-04 13:00: Turbulence modelling for large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer (Rica Enriquez (DAMTP))

2013-11-04 14:15: Remote sensing of air quality: Measurements, modelling and applications (Roland Leigh (University of Leicester))

2013-11-04 17:00: Why the ground matters: why tunnels need geologists (Thomas Robinson (London Bridge Associates))

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

2013-11-05 13:00: A periodic mixing mechanism in stratified turbulent Taylor-Couette flow (Rosie Oglethorpe (DAMTP))

2013-11-05 16:30: Magma intrusive rates and the growth of melt reservoirs and magma chambers (Catherine Annen, University of Bristol)

2013-11-06 17:00: Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts (Dr Rob Ewers, Reader in Ecology, Imperial College London)

2013-11-07 11:30: Experiments on Mixing in Gravity Currents / Characterisation of Flux Sensitivity to Uncertainty in Porous Media (Alex Evans and Diana Sher, BP Institute)

2013-11-07 13:00: Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues (Sebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge))

2013-11-07 14:15: Determining the source regions for surface to stratosphere transport: A retro-transport approach (Phil Haines (UCL))

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

2013-11-08 13:00: How to spot a Daisy (Gregory Mellers)

2013-11-08 13:30: Mesophyll conductance: a route to improve wheat photosynthesis. (Luis Robledo Arratia)

2013-11-08 13:30: Quantifying changes in past atmospheric chemistry from ice core records of the oxygen isotopes of sulfate and nitrate (Dr. Eric Sofen, University of York)

2013-11-08 16:30: Fluid dynamical modelling of transient mantle convective processes (Matthew Commin (University of Cambridge))

2013-11-11 13:00: Cosmogonical musings and pleas (John Wettlaufer (Oxford))

2013-11-11 17:00: Geological mapping: from maps to models (Dr Rachel Dearden and Mr Holger Kessler (British Geological Survey))

2013-11-12 10:00: Laboratory study of nitrate photolysis in Antarctic snow: quantum yield,  domain of photolysis, isotope effects and wavelength dependence (Dr. Carl Meusinger, University of Copenhagen)

2013-11-12 13:00: Subglacial hydrology and the formation of ice streams (Teresa Kyrke-Smith (Oxford, Earth Sciences))

2013-11-12 16:30: Ni partitioning between olivine and silicate melts, and insights into Hawaiian petrogenesis (Andrew Matzen, University of Oxford)

2013-11-13 10:00: Bird Island Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions: 2010 studies and future work (Dr. Christine Braban, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, U.K.)

2013-11-13 11:00: Vigorous ice shelf-ocean interactions: zooming in on the Pine Island case (Pierre Dutrieux (British Antarctic Survey))

2013-11-13 13:00: Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation (Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University))

2013-11-13 17:00: Valuing nature for better environmental decision-making: A collaborative toolkit for real-world conservation (Jenny Birch, Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International)

2013-11-14 11:30: The many faces of emulsion droplets (Jasna Brujic, NYU)

2013-11-14 13:00: Recognition of "self": receptor-ligand interactions and signalling networks that trigger Programmed Cell Death in self-incompatible Papaver pollen (Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham))

2013-11-14 16:30: Ice sheets, glaciers and sea-level rise: a perspective from the 5th Assessment Report by the IPCC (David G. Vaughan (British Antarctic Survey))

2013-11-15 13:00: Molecular analysis of potato tuber dormancy (Luke Browning)

2013-11-15 13:30: Virus-mediated interactions between aphids and beans (Francis Wamonje)

2013-11-15 14:00: Escaping the fossil fuel trap – functional characterisation of microalgal diacylglycerol acyltransferases (Alexander Litvinenko)

2013-11-15 16:00: Spatial patterns in the composition of ocean island volcanics: Implications for whether to trust geochemists. (Oliver Shorttle (University of Cambridge))

2013-11-18 13:00: Shallow flows: 2D or not 2D? (GertJan van Heijst (Eindhoven University of Technology))

2013-11-18 14:15: The biogeochemical impacts of forests: the role of biogenic secondary organic aerosol in the climate system (Catherine Scott (University of Leeds))

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))

2013-11-19 13:00: CANCELLED - APS DFD practice talks (Various speakers)

2013-11-19 16:30: Sea ice in a Cretaceous greenhouse world? (Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-11-20 13:00: Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes (Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology))

2013-11-20 17:00: Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal? (Prof. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC)

2013-11-21 11:30: Interfacial Effects in Microflows: Different Models vs Experiments (James Sprittles, University of Warwick)

2013-11-21 13:00: Molecular breeding of medicinal crops and discoveries along the way (Ian Graham (University of York))

2013-11-21 14:15: Stratospheric dynamics in a geoengineered world (Angus Ferraro (University of Reading))

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

2013-11-22 13:00: The cell wall and morphogenesis at the shoot apical meristem (Dr Ray Wightman (SLCU))

2013-11-22 15:00: Combining field observations and the volcanic plume model ATHAM to examine "dirty thunderstorm" dynamics of ancient and modern eruptions (Dr Alexa Van Eaton (U.S Geological Survey, Vancouver))

2013-11-22 16:00: Lost faults of the Tien Shan (Grace Campbell (University of Cambridge))

2013-11-25 14:15: Various (First year CPGS talks: Michal Filus, Brendan Mahon, Peer Nowack and Francis Wragg)

2013-11-25 17:00: Evolution of dinosaur respiratory systems and what it might mean (Dr Paul Barrett (National History Museum))

2013-11-26 16:30: Why no Phanerozoic Snowball Earth? Changes in biogeochemical cycling across the Precambrian-Cambrian transition (Dr Graham Shields-Zhou (UCL))

2013-11-27 11:00: Understanding global patterns of mesoscale eddy properties and diffusivities (Andreas Klocker (Australian National University))

2013-11-27 13:00: RNA regulation during development and evolution (Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex))

2013-11-27 16:30: Are Karakoram glacier surges linked with climate? (Duncan Quincey (University of Leeds))

2013-11-27 17:00: Commercial Whaling:  Science, Society and International Relations (Dr Simon Brockington, International Whaling Commission)

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))

2013-11-28 11:30: To be advised (Merlin Etzold, BP Institute)

2013-11-28 13:00: Phylogenetic shadowing guided by the cycling transcriptomes of two distantly related Brassicaeae species reveals the atlas of cis-regulatory elements of daytime-specific and daytime-unspecific pathways (Korbinian Schneeberger (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne))

2013-11-29 13:00: The substrate and function of mitochondrial ABC transporters involved in Fe-S metabolism (Dr Theresia Schaedler (Balk Group, JIC))

2013-12-02 13:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (Reading))

2013-12-02 14:15: Characterisation of aerosol by PMF analysis of single particle mass spectra (Chiara Giorio (University of Cambridge))

2013-12-02 17:00: Nanoparticles in Sandstone Groundwaters (Professor John Tellam (University of Birmingham))

2013-12-03 13:00: Flow dynamics of marine ice sheets (Martin Wearing (ITG, DAMTP))

2013-12-03 16:30: Atmospheres and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets  (Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2013-12-04 11:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (University of Reading))

2013-12-04 17:00: The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?) (Dr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography)

2013-12-05 11:30: Detraining and entraining line plumes (Charlotte Gladstone, BP Institute)

2013-12-05 13:00: Understanding and manipulating antibiotic production in actinomycetes (Mervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre, Norwich))

2013-12-06 13:00: The mechanism of action of strigolactone (Catherine Taylor)

2013-12-06 16:30: Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-12-06 16:30: Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-12-11 13:00: The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development (James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville))

2013-12-16 14:15: Water and light mediated multi-phase organic chemistry in the contemporary and on ancient Earth (Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado))

2013-12-18 14:00: The next generation of UK Earth System Models: The UKESM project (Colin Jones (UK Met Office))

2014-01-06 11:00: The Southern Ocean reveals its climate secrets: Paleotemperature insights from marine sediments (Dr. Amelia Shevenell, University of South Florida)

2014-01-10 13:00: Selective logging leaves persistent effects on the canopy structure of a West Africa forest (Rafi Kent (Coomes Group))

2014-01-14 12:30: Ichnology of Jurassic Black Shales  (Liam Herringshaw, Durham University)

2014-01-15 11:00: Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic continental shelf (Alek Petty (University College London))

2014-01-15 16:00: A tale of two paradigms, with remarks on unconscious assumptions (Prof Michael E McIntyre (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-16 11:30: Influence of chemical reactions on buoyancy-driven fingering in porous media (Professor Anne de Wit, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2014-01-16 13:00: Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance (Jerzy Paszkowski (SLCU))

2014-01-16 16:30: Geological mapping: still a basic training for geologists? (John Ramsay (ETH Zurich))

2014-01-17 13:00: A Division in PIN-Mediated Auxin Patterning During Organ Initiation in Grasses (Devin O'Connor (Leyser Group))

2014-01-20 14:15: Land-atmosphere interactions: what models do and don't tell us (Prof Rob MacKenzie (University of Birmingham) - Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research)

2014-01-20 17:00: The origin of higher taxa: reflections on the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological circumstances (Dr Tom Kemp (University of Oxford))

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)

2014-01-22 17:00: Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services to environmental change (Professor Adrian Newton; University of Bournemouth)

2014-01-23 11:30: Listen to the Volcano (Joern Sesterhenn, TU Berlin)

2014-01-23 13:00: How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors (Regina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg))

2014-01-23 17:30: Avoid the Unmanageable, Manage the Unavoidable: Can we infer from today’s changes and climate models what tomorrow’s world might look like?  (Professor Charlie F Kennel)

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

2014-01-24 13:00: The Rice Npc Transporter Mediates Recognition Of Novel Essential Am Symbiotic Signal (Marina Nadal (Paszkowski Group))

2014-01-24 16:30: Investigation of the molecular mechanisms of Minute competition in Drosophila (Iwo Kucinski (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-24 17:00: Diversity and function of stream invertebrates in tropical forest and oil palm ecosystems in Sabah, Malaysia: Effects of habitat conversion and strategies for conservation (Sarah Luke (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-27 13:00: Diagnostics and dynamics: Two approaches for setting eddy diffusivity in ocean models (Scott Bachman (DAMTP))

2014-01-27 17:00: A philosophy for geology: Charles Lyell and the uniformity of nature (Professor Jim Secord (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-28 13:00: Viscous peeling of an elastic sheet (Gunnar Peng (ITG, DAMTP))

2014-01-28 16:30: The Frasnian-Famennian Mass Extinction (John Marshall, University of Southampton)

2014-01-29 13:00: Cracking the code of crocodile skin (Michel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva))

2014-01-29 16:30: Dark Snow in Greenland (Jason Box (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland))

2014-01-29 17:00: Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation (Dr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-30 11:30: Fluid mechanics and biological development (Prof Julyan Cartwright, CSIC Spain)

2014-01-30 13:00: Circadian regulation of chloroplasts (Antony Dodd (University of Bristol))

2014-01-30 14:00: Tropospheric and stratospheric cloud and dynamics research at the Australian Antarctic Division (Simon Alexander, Australia Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia)

2014-01-30 17:30: Avoid the unmanageable, manage the unavoidable: Why and how we will have to adapt? (Professor Charlie F Kennel)

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

2014-01-31 13:00: Synthetic Spatial Patterning Using Two-Channel Quorum-Sensing Signalling (Paul Grant (Haseloff Group))

2014-02-03 13:00: Why the stratosphere might help us predict how warm this spring will be (Peter Hitchcock (DAMTP))

2014-02-03 14:15: The changing methane budget: Arctic to Tropics (Prof Euan Nisbet (Royal Holloway))

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))

2014-02-04 16:30: The pulse of the Southern Ocean (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol)

2014-02-05 17:00: Lessons from the conservation of Europe's Large Blue butterflies (Professor Jeremy Thomas OBE; University of Oxford)

2014-02-06 11:30: Volume of Fluid methods for the study of droplet impact and atomization (Professor Stephane Zaleski)

2014-02-06 13:00: CANCELLED: Striga, the scourge of Africa: Understanding the molecular basis of resistance in cereals to the parasitic witchweeds (Julie Scholes (University of Sheffield))

2014-02-06 13:00: Periodicity in gas emissions from Erebus lava lake (Tehnuka Ilanko, Geography Department)

2014-02-06 13:00: Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis to understand cell wall architecture for biorefining and bioenergy (Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry)

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, )

2014-02-07 13:00: Three ancient hormonal cues coordinate shoot branching in a moss (Yoan Coudert (Harrison Group))

2014-02-07 16:00: Structure and dynamics of Earth's inner core (Karen Lythgoe (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-07 17:00: The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks (Jolle Jolles)

2014-02-10 13:00: Calculating ice flux across ice-sheet grounding lines and ice-shelf calving fronts (Richard Hindmarsh (BAS))

2014-02-10 14:15: Representing Model Uncertainty in the ECMWF Convection Scheme (Dr Hannah Arnold (University of Oxford))

2014-02-10 17:00: The Pleistocene History of Birmingham (Sebastian Gibson)

2014-02-11 13:00: Linear optimal perturbations of stratified shear layers (Alexis Kaminski (DAMTP))

2014-02-11 16:30: Hydrated peridotite as a sink for boron: implications for mantle heterogeneity and arc volcanism (Jason Harvey, University of Leeds)

2014-02-12 11:00: Small-scale thermodynamic and dynamic studies using autonomous drifting ice buoys and satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data (Phil Hwang (The Scottish Association for Marine Science))

2014-02-12 16:30: The glaciation of the Antarctic Peninsula: a journey through time (Neil Glasser (Aberystwyth University))

2014-02-12 17:00: Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India? (Dr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2014-02-13 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Alan Eales, Fanny Yuen and Alan McCreanor, BP Institute)

2014-02-13 13:00: CANCELLED: Planetary predictions from anywhere: Food, carbon, forests, biodiversity, plankton, roads... (Matt Smith (Microsoft Research, Cambridge))

2014-02-13 17:30: Avoid the unmanageable, manage the unavoidable: Sea level rise, coastal cities, and wetlands (Professor Charlie F Kennel)

2014-02-14 13:00: Experimental evolution reveals rapid streamlining of vitamin metabolism in chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Katherine Helliwell (Smith Group))

2014-02-14 16:00: Polarisation anisotropy of the upper mantle (Tak Ho (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-17 11:00: Open-ocean convection becoming less intense in the Greenland and Iceland Seas (G.W.K. Moore, Department of Physics University of Toronto, Canada)

2014-02-17 13:00: CANCELLED - Lava flows (Alison Rust (Bristol))

2014-02-17 14:15: Reactive halogens in the polar boundary layer and volcanic plumes - Implications for O3, CH4 and mercury (Prof Roland von Glasow (UEA))

2014-02-17 17:00: 5 million years of tropical ocean temperature evolution (Dr Charlotte O'Brien (University of Oxford))

2014-02-18 13:00: Energy cascades in the atmosphere and in a simple shallow-water model (Pierre Augier (DAMTP))

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))

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

2014-02-19 13:00: Making similar embryos with divergent genomes (Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier))

2014-02-19 13:00: The stratospheric polar vortex, El Nino and tropospheric weather and climate (Prof. Hans Graf, Dept. of Geography)

2014-02-19 14:00: Enhanced turbulent mixing driven by wind shear alignment in the ocean (Tom Rippeth (Bangor University))

2014-02-19 17:00: The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation (Professor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-20 11:30: Nonlinear Stability of Multilayer Shear Flows (Professor Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College)

2014-02-20 13:00: Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling (Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich))

2014-02-20 16:30: The Siđa Formation of SE Iceland: Emplacement Processes and Depositional Environment (Dr. Ian Skilling)

2014-02-20 17:30: Avoid the unmanageable, manage the unavoidable: California and the Arctic (Professor Charlie F Kennel)

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)

2014-02-21 14:00: Coping with climate change in the next half-century (Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Sustainability Solutions Institute (Previous Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1998-2006) (University of California))

2014-02-21 16:30: Modelling the Drosophila pair-rule gene system (Erik Clark)

2014-02-21 17:00: Cow vs. bird: Balancing food production and biodiversity conservation in the Neotropics (David Williams (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-24 13:00: Experiments with mode 2-type internal solitary waves (Peter Davies (Dundee))

2014-02-24 16:00: Importance and Application of Chemical Activation in Atmospheric Chemistry (Prof Paul Seakins (University of Leeds))

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)

2014-02-25 13:00: Geometric controls on the propagation and leakage of CO2 in geological aquifers (Sam Pegler (ITG, DAMTP)

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)

2014-02-26 13:00: Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves (Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester))

2014-02-26 13:00: Assessing seasonal predictability from stratospheric variability in a seasonal prediction system (Daniela Domeisen, Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg)

2014-02-26 16:30: Are rapid ice losses in Greenland caused by atmosphere or ocean? (Poul Christoffersen (Scott Polar Research Insitute))

2014-02-26 17:00: Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources (Dr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-27 11:30: Molecular Adsorption at Metal and Metal Oxide Surfaces: From Corrosion to Catalysis via Functional Biomaterials (Dr Andrew Thomas, University of Manchester)

2014-02-27 13:00: The Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Fruit Ripening – Science Discovery into Commercial Practice (Graham Seymour (University of Nottingham))

2014-02-27 17:30: Avoid the unmanageable, manage the unavoidable: Adaptive management of climate change (Professor Charlie F Kennel)

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

2014-02-28 13:00: Effects of litter manipulation on fine root dynamics in lowland tropical forest in Panama (Chadtip Rodtassana 1st Year Graduate Students)

2014-02-28 13:30: Improving uniformity of potato crops (Simon Smart)

2014-02-28 16:00: Quantifying global patterns of dynamic topography using oceanic residual depths (Mark Hoggard (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-03 13:00: Shocking models of meltwater flow under ice shelves (Andrew Wells (Oxford))

2014-03-03 14:15: Radical recycling from VOC oxidation in clean-air (Dr Terry Dillon (University of York))

2014-03-03 17:00: Foraminifera as bioindicators of marine environments (Sigal Abramovic (Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva))

2014-03-04 13:00: Modular design of low energy buildings (Rachael Bonnebaigt (DAMTP))

2014-03-04 16:30: The Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Dr. Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh)

2014-03-05 11:00: The Precambrian ocean through an experimental lens: New constraints on authigenesis in ferruginous systems (Nick Tosca   (St Andrews, UK))

2014-03-05 12:00: Separating the multiple processes that define chemical weathering using multiple isotope ratios. (Ed Tipper     (St Andrews, UK))

2014-03-05 13:00: The evolution of branching patterns in plants (Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-05 13:30: Quantifying palaeoaltimetry and surface uplift on long time scales: An example from the Miocene central Alps. (Marion Campani (Frankfurt, Germany/Durham, UK))

2014-03-05 14:30: Experimental constraints on hydrothermal circulation in mid-ocean ridges: Fluid-mineral equilibria vs. phase separation (Nicholas Pester (LBNL, USA))

2014-03-06 11:30: Flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through Drake Passage: Glacial versus Holocene (Professor Nick McCave, Dept of Earth Sciences)

2014-03-06 13:00: Sympatric speciation on islands (Vincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London))

2014-03-06 15:30: CCfCS Poster Session (Students/Post-Docs from within CCfCS)

2014-03-06 18:00: Prof. Tim Palmer - Climate Change in a Chaotic World. How certain can we be? (Prof. Tim Palmer, Oxford)

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

2014-03-07 13:00: Under the rainbow : understanding how plants build microscopic structures to produce iridescence (Edwige Moyroud (Glover Group))

2014-03-07 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Charlotte Schoonman (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-10 13:00: Causes and consequences of viscous anisotropy in deforming, partially molten rocks (Rich Katz (Oxford))

2014-03-10 14:15: Urban boundary layers - investigating urban flows from building to city scale (Janet Barlow (University of Reading))

2014-03-10 16:30: Underground laboratories for geological disposal research (Dr Adrian Bath (Intellesci))

2014-03-11 13:00: Basal lubrication of ice sheets (Katarzyna Kowal (ITG, DAMTP))

2014-03-12 11:00: Toward the prediction of Arctic sea ice under global warming : Stochastic dynamical system approach (Woosok Moon (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-12 13:00: Floral quartets link flower development and evolution (Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena))

2014-03-12 16:30: Patterned ground stories: wars, disasters and ice sheets (Hamish Pritchard (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-03-12 17:00: Planetary Boundaries and Action2020: Innovations in corporate Sustainability (Professor Gail Whiteman; Erasmus University)

2014-03-12 17:00: The Mathematics of Planet Earth (John Baez, University of California, Riverside)

2014-03-13 11:30: Skipping Stones, Ruined Roads and those Dam Oscillations (Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia)

2014-03-13 13:00: Message ends: How alternative polyadenylation of mRNAs affects plant gene expression and development (Gordon Simpson (James Hutton Institute, Dundee))

2014-03-14 13:00: Exploiting synthetic communities for cultivation of microalgae (Elena Kazamia (Smith Group))

2014-03-17 14:00: Applying adjoint methods to the glacial isostatic adjustment inverse problem (Dr David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-17 14:15: VOC measurements on board the Zeppelin NT during the PEGASOS campaigns 2012 (Julia Jaeger (Forschungszentrum Jülich))

2014-03-19 11:00: A close up on two aspects of LSW formation (Renske Gelderloos (University of Oxford))

2014-03-20 16:00: Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen? (Richard Summers (RAGT))

2014-03-21 13:00: Aquatic carbon concentrating mechanisms as a source of genes for improving terrestrial C3 photosynthesis (Moritz Meyer (Griffiths Group))

2014-03-21 17:00: Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species. (Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-21 17:00: Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species. (Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-26 09:30: Routes to dissipation in the atmosphere and in the oceans (Enrico Deusebio)

2014-03-27 16:00: Structure and function of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pyrenoid: delivering CO2 and beyond (Oliver Caspari)

2014-03-27 16:30: The evolution of floral traits in the Antirrhineae (Cecilia Martinez Perez)

2014-03-28 13:00: Mechanisms generating bundle sheath-specificity in C3 and C4 plants	 (Jana Knerova)

2014-03-28 13:30: Understanding the role of hydrophysiology in adaptive diversification in the Bromeliaceae (Jamie Males)

2014-04-02 15:00: Fronts and frontogenesis: a generalised model (Callum Shakespeare (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2014-04-03 13:00: Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application (Sarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier))

2014-04-03 15:00: Space rocks on ice: Hunting for meteorites in Antarctica (Katie Joy (University of Manchester))

2014-04-03 15:00: Parasitism, family conflict & success in a North Atlantic seabird (Hanna Granroth-Wilding, Edinburgh University / BAS)

2014-04-08 14:00: Time management for Postdoc Careers (Dr Geraint Wyn Story and Dr Anne Forde, University of Cambridge)

2014-04-10 13:00: Uncovering the history of past ice sheets from the clues they leave behind (Dr Dominic Hodgson (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-04-16 11:00: Upper water variability in the subpolar North Atlantic (Clare Johnson (The Scottish Association for Marine Science))

2014-04-17 11:30: Chemically Synthesised Carbon Nanomaterials (Dr Mohammad Choucair, Dept of Chemistry, University of Sydney)

2014-04-23 13:00: Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila (Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy))

2014-04-23 16:30: The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn Isbrae's fast flow (Dr Mauro Werder, University of Bristol)

2014-04-24 11:30: Julien Salort - Local investigation of turbulent thermal flows   (Julien Salort, Laboratoire de Physique ENS, Lyon)

2014-04-24 14:00: The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn's fast flow (Dr Mauro Werder (University of Bristol))

2014-04-24 16:00: Individual cell studies of microalgae – evaluating stochasticity within populations (Roshni Best (Smith Lab))

2014-04-24 16:30: Evolutionary convergence of cell specific gene expression in independent lineages of C4 grasses (Christopher John (Hibberd Lab))

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

2014-04-25 13:00: Directing Crossover During Meiosis Using TALENs (Patrick Diaz (Henderson Lab))

2014-04-25 13:30: The role of polar auxin transport in bud activation (Martin Van Rongen (Leyser Lab))

2014-04-25 16:00: Understanding and exploiting the propagation of seismic surface waves in the heterogeneous earth. (Arjun Datta (University of Cambridge))

2014-04-28 14:15: Air quality and climate impacts of the transport sector: planes, trains and automobiles (Marc Stettler (University of Cambridge))

2014-04-30 13:00: Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment (John Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham))

2014-05-01 11:30: Extracting trends and correlations from noisy environmental data (John Wettlaufer, Oxford)

2014-05-01 16:00: Optimal control of epidemics (Martin Vyska (Gilligan lab))

2014-05-01 16:30: Plant surface texture: investigating R2R3 MYB subgroup 9 gene function in Marchantia and Nicotiana (Lin Taylor (Glover lab))

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

2014-05-02 13:00: Systems biology view of mutualistic interactions (Ulrich Johan Kudahl)

2014-05-02 13:30: Mechanism and function of stochastic pulse regulation (Stephanie Unna)

2014-05-02 16:00: Non-double-couple sources: Real mechanisms or modelling artefacts? (David Pugh (University of Cambridge))

2014-05-06 14:15: Defra’s air quality modelling intercomparison project (Dr Michelle Cain (Cambridge))

2014-05-06 15:30: Fast Crystal Clocks, at the Speed of Magma Ascent (Terry Plank, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

2014-05-07 11:00: Conceptual models of ocean heat and carbon uptake (Laure Zanna (University of Oxford))

2014-05-07 13:00: Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails) (Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton))

2014-05-08 11:30: Fluid-solid interactions: from instabilities to energy harvesting (Sebastien Michelin, LadHyx Polytechnique)

2014-05-08 16:00: Inferring forest stand structure from LiDAR remote sensing data (Rebecca Spriggs (Coomes lab))

2014-05-08 16:30: Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: from patterns to processes  (Tommaso Jucker (Coomes lab))

2014-05-08 16:30: The martian Cryosphere: there’s more ice than we thought! (Susan Conway)

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

2014-05-09 13:00: Employing RAM2-mediated root resistance against a leaf pathogen (Stuart Fawke (Schornack Lab))

2014-05-09 13:30: Design of a synthetic transcriptional AND gate in the chloroplast of Marchantia polymorpha (Christian Boehm (Haseloff lab))

2014-05-09 16:00: Microseismicity and Tomography of Askja Central Volcano, Iceland (Tim Greenfield (University of Cambridge))

2014-05-12 14:15: The Thin Blue Line: Observing Earth’s Atmosphere (Sam Illingworth (Manchester Metropolitan University))

2014-05-14 13:00: Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage (Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London))

2014-05-14 17:00: RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land (Dr Andrew Knight; Imperial College London)

2014-05-15 11:30: Turbulent fountains: classification and scaling arguments (Henry Burridge, University of Cambridge)

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

2014-05-16 16:00: Icequakes! Microseismic investigation of basal dynamics in Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica (Emma Smith (University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey))

2014-05-19 14:15: Middle infrared tunable laser spectroscopy for molecular sensing: from space to terrestrial applications (Dr Damien Weidmann (STFC))

2014-05-20 14:00: Mesoscale variability in the Weddell Sea:  gliders, drifters and models (Andrew Thompson (Caltech))

2014-05-21 11:00: Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling (Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey))

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

2014-05-21 13:00: Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements (Hannah Long (University of Oxford))

2014-05-22 11:30: Coarsening and grain boundary dynamics in a two-dimensional colloidal hard sphere system (Roel Dullens, Chemistry, Oxford)

2014-05-28 15:00: Methyl halide emissions from tropical plants in Southeast Asia  (Dr Takuya Saito  (National Institute for Environmental Studies) )

2014-05-29 11:30: TBA (Pietro Cicuta, Physics, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-29 13:00: Adaptation to Antarctic marine environments: impact on ability to respond to change and potential use to society (Lloyd S. Peck (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-06-02 14:15: Ammonia emissions from seabirds (Dr Stuart Riddick (Cambridge))

2014-06-04 13:00:  Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins (Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL))

2014-06-04 15:30: Variability in upwelling in the tropical lower stratosphere: effects on tracers and dynamical forcing (Marta Abalos (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS/IPSL)))

2014-06-05 11:30: Synovial Fluid Lubrication of Artificial Joints (Phillipa Cann, Tribology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London)

2014-06-05 14:00: Methane in the Earth System Symposium (John Burrows, Nic Gedney, Euan Nisbet, Matt Rigby, Philip Sargent )

2014-06-05 16:00: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term fertilisation in a tropical forest (Merlin Sheldrake)

2014-06-05 16:30: Conserved and recurrent Cis elements regulate decarboxylation related genes in C4 photosynthesis (Ivan Reyna-Llorens)

2014-06-06 13:00: Analysis of the C. reinhardtii THI4 riboswitch expression platform  (Devinn Lambert)

2014-06-06 13:30: Detecting asymptomatic infection is necessary for real-time forecasting of major outbreaks of disease (Robin Thompson)

2014-06-09 14:15: The Influence of Anthropogenic Aerosol on Multi-Decadal Variations of Climate (Dr Laura Wilcox (Reading))

2014-06-11 11:00: Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders (Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-06-12 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Internal BPI Speakers)

2014-06-12 16:00: Identification of ADP-ribosyl cyclase in Arabidopsis thaliana (S M Abdul-Awal)

2014-06-13 13:00: Investigating the diversification of RNA silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Claire Agius)

2014-06-13 13:30: Genetic variation of symbiosis-associated phosphate transporter (PHT1) genes in maize   (Clement Quan)

2014-06-13 14:00: CCfCS Modelling Workshop (Model users and developers across Cambridge)

2014-06-16 14:15: Our current understanding of solar irradiance and its effect on stratospheric ozone (Dr William Ball (Imperial))

2014-06-18 11:00: Two puzzles posed by the Zapiola anticyclone (Antoine Venaille (CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, ENS-Lyon))

2014-06-18 13:00: Remote geological mapping in Antarctica - time to hang up the hammer? (Teal Riley (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-06-18 14:15: Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula in a chemistry climate model (Dr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-06-19 11:30: Experimental modelling of the Fluid Dynamics of Magma Chambers / Buoyancy induced Taylor dispersion (Andrew Gilbert, BP Institute / Tiras Lin, BP Institute)

2014-06-19 13:00: Ribbon Turbulence (Antoine Venaille, ENS Lyon)

2014-06-19 16:00: Impact of logging in a Bornean peat swamp forest (Beatrice Wedeux)

2014-06-19 16:30: Forward and reverse genetic identification of mutants linking [Ca2+]cyt to the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock (Timothy Hearn)

2014-06-19 17:00: IPCC Climate Change 2014: Key Findings on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Asia and the Role of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (Prof. Joy Pereira, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

2014-06-20 12:30: Genetic analysis of the effect of circadian clock genes on yield components in wheat (T. aestivum) (Lukas Wittern)

2014-06-20 13:00: myb gene determinants of air chamber formation in Marchantia polymorpha  (Bernardo Pollak)

2014-06-20 13:30: What controls liverwort size and shape? (Jeremy Solly)

2014-06-24 10:15: High latitude temperature evolution across the Last Interglacial (Dr Emilie Capron, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-06-24 12:00: Paleobotanical research down south: Cenozoic fungi, ferns, flowers, fruits, leaves from diatomite/amber Conservation Lagerstatten in southern New Zealand.  (Professor Daphne Lee (Otago University))

2014-06-26 14:00: The Little Ice Age in sea-level records across the North Atlantic ( Dr Leanne Wake (Northumbria University))

2014-06-26 16:00: Characterisation of Arabidopsis and Rice Homologues of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylases (Farhat Nazir)

2014-06-26 16:30: Exploiting the crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) pathway for sustainable bioenergy production in a changing climate (Nicholas Owen)

2014-06-27 13:00: Seeing forests from new heights: Applying recently developed satellite imagery analysis technologies to monitor tropical forest protected areas (Gillian Lui)

2014-06-27 13:30: Do Volatiles Emitted by Virus–Infected Tomato Plants Attract Bumblebees  and Enhance Host Reproductive Fitness? (Sanjie Jiang)

2014-06-27 15:00: The role of pinning-points, marine ice and subglacial channeling in defining the buttressing strength of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica  (Reinhard Drews, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2014-06-27 15:30: Reducing uncertainties in Antarctic ice sheet mass loss projections. (Frank Pattyn, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2014-06-30 14:15: Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds in a chemistry climate model (Andrew Orr (BAS))

2014-07-04 16:00: Has the Probability of Big Earthquakes Recently Increased (Peter Shearer of IGPP, Scripps Institute, UCSD)

2014-07-07 17:00: Fracking the fjords: Earthquakes and glacial erosion, with some additional thoughts about stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Professor Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geoscience, Penn State University, USA)

2014-07-10 13:00: Water pathways in the Southern Ocean from Lagrangian particles (Dr. Erik van Sebille, University of New South Wales)

2014-07-11 17:00: Consistency in leaf use by tooth-billed bowerbirds (Carmen Panayi)

2014-07-16 14:00: Southern Ocean phytoplankton: mapping iron stressed communities from space and strong responses to volcanic ash supply (Dr. Tom Browning, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2014-07-16 16:00: Behaviour of stationary Rossby waves after Stratospheric Sudden warming : A simple model (Maxime Mouchet)

2014-07-18 16:00: Effective Isentropic Diffusivity and the Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange of Ozone (Gang Chen ( Cornell University))

2014-07-22 10:15: Atmospheric bromine: its natural sources and effects on atmospheric chemsitry (Dr. Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-07-24 11:00: The Role of Stratospheric Polar Vortex Breakdown in Southern Hemisphere Climate Trends (Gang Chen, Cornell University, NY, United States)

2014-07-25 13:00: Life in the freezer: how do you mix biology and ice ages? (Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-07-25 16:30: Periodic incremental markings in the enamel of cynodonts and mammaliaforms: the origin of mammalian growth patterns (Rachel O'Meara)

2014-07-25 17:00: Antigenic variation among dengue viruses (Leah Katzelnick)

2014-07-30 11:00: The imprint of Southern Ocean overturning on seasonal water mass variability in Drake Passage and the Southern Ocean (Gwyn Evans, University of Southampton)

2014-08-06 11:00: A trio of Antarctic climate variability and meteorology studies (Adrian McDonald, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

2014-08-06 14:00: Diagnosing diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage using numerical models and results from the DIMES experiment (Neill Mackay, National Oceanography Centre Liverpool)

2014-08-07 13:00: Hot water in a cold ocean – hydrothermal ecosystems in the Southern Ocean (Katrin Linse (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-08-08 16:30: Foraging ecology, distribution and individual specialisation of brown skuas (Ana Carneiro)

2014-08-08 17:00: Conservation of reef sharks in Arabia: between science and fisherman gossip (Dareen Almojil)

2014-08-18 16:00: Recent fluctuations in magma supply to Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi (Michael Poland, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory)

2014-08-20 16:00: Investigating 1D Ocean Phytoplankton Models (Daniel Ng)

2014-08-22 16:30: The Bush-crow, the swallow, and a curious climate bubble (Andrew Bladon)

2014-08-22 17:00: Acoustic classification of New World bats based on phylogenetic and ecological constraints on call design (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez)

2014-08-27 14:00: Rapid sea-level rise in the Antarctic Shelf Sea in response to increased glacial discharge (Craig Rye, University of Southampton)

2014-08-28 11:00: Sensitivity of Dense Shelf Water formation to ice shelf melting -- a modelling study (Eva Cougnon, University of Tasmania)

2014-09-09 14:00: New insights into past methane cycle changes from ice cores (Prof. Hubertus Fischer, Institute of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland.)

2014-09-12 11:30: Ocean mixing and marine radiocarbon cycling at the last glacial maximum (Matthew Colbrook)

2014-09-12 12:00: Deep Time and Modern Brains (Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona))

2014-09-17 11:00: Why do different climate models give different answers? An analysis of 21st century wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, in the CMIP5 climate models (Dr. Thomas Bracegirdle)

2014-09-19 15:00: Discovering Dolomite, how this will affect our understanding of Mg/Ca cycling in the ocean (Brad Opdyke, ANU)

2014-09-23 10:15: Evaluating anthropogenic environmental changes from the north and south coasts of Greenland (Dr. Bianca B. Perren, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-09-23 16:00: A new approach to reconstructing Phanerozoic atmospheric pO2  (Alex Wolfe)

2014-10-01 11:00: Using simple process models to examine Arctic Ocean dynamics under a changing climate (Peter Davis, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2014-10-02 13:00: The Genetic Architecture of Natural Ionomic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (David Salt, University of Aberdeen)

2014-10-07 16:00: The deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: what was it and why? (Madeline Miller, Harvard University)

2014-10-08 14:00: Antarctic Bottom Water in CMIP5 models: characteristics, formation, evolution (Céline Heuzé, University of East Anglia)

2014-10-09 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Peter Dudfield, BP Institute)

2014-10-09 13:00: Plant Sciences Teaching: Inspiration, Innovation and Investigation (Katharine Hubbard, Teaching Associate)

2014-10-09 16:00: A regime diagram for ocean geostrophic turbulence (Andreas Klocker, UTAS)

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

2014-10-13 13:00: Granular segregation in nature (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP))

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))

2014-10-13 17:00: 'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds' (Dr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology)

2014-10-14 13:00: The equilibration time for viscous and porous gravity currents (Thomasina Ball (DAMTP))

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)

2014-10-15 16:30: The Importance to Solar-Terrestrial Physics of Amundsen’s and Scott’s Conjugate Observations of the Earth’s Magnetic Field (Alv Egeland (Department of Physics, University of Oslo))

2014-10-16 11:30: Understanding and Developing Inorganic Lubricant Additives (Professor Paul O'Brien, University of Manchester)

2014-10-16 11:30: Iodine chemistry in the marine troposphere (Dr Alfonso Saiz-Lopez (CSIC))

2014-10-16 13:00: Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis and Tomato Roots (Siobahn Brady, UC Davis)

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

2014-10-20 13:00: The slowly evolving background state of the atmosphere (John Methven (Reading))

2014-10-20 17:00: Active tectonics and geomorphology (Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-21 11:00: GDGTs as a Temperature Proxy in Antarctic Lakes: Reconstructing Holocene Climate in Yanou Lake, King George Island (Louise Taylor, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-10-21 13:00: Spheres, swimmers, petals and patterns (Finn Box (BPI))

2014-10-22 13:00: Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations (Marie Manceau (Collège de France))

2014-10-22 16:00: Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis (Prof Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US))

2014-10-22 16:00: QDG WEDNESDAY SPECIAL - Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis (Prof Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US))

2014-10-22 17:00: How do we know if we're making a difference? Finding solid ground in the shifting sands of conservation evaluation (Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Imperial College Conservation Science)

2014-10-23 11:30: Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic Free Surface Flows (Susanne Claus, UCL)

2014-10-23 13:00: Roles of splicing in plant reproductive development (Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab)

2014-10-23 14:00: CCfCS Welcome Event (See abstract for speaker lineup)

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))

2014-10-24 16:00: Searching for the Iceland Plume: Mantle discontinuities and Pds phases (Jenny Jenkins (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-27 13:00: Applications of the adjoint method to post-glacial sea level change (David Al-Attar   (Bullard, DES))

2014-10-27 14:15: Why UK urban air quality has not been improving as it should (Dr James Tate (University of Leeds))

2014-10-27 17:00: Shell Seminar - Life as a Shell Graduate (Amy Nicholson & Catherine Wasse (Shell))

2014-10-28 13:00: Helicity cascade in atmospheric boundary layers: a way to break symmetries at all scales (Enrico Deusebio (DAMTP))

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)

2014-10-29 11:00: Overturning ideas: Using the mean state of the ocean to understand its role in transient climate change (Jan Zika, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

2014-10-29 16:30: Supraglacial lake drainage and ice flow acceleration in Greenland (Sam Doyle (University of Aberystwyth))

2014-10-29 17:00: Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth (Johan Rockström  Professor in Environmental Sciences  Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

2014-10-30 11:30: Surface texturing for turbulent friction reduction (Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral, Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-30 13:00: Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing (Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre)

2014-10-30 13:00: Antarctic ice flow: what can we learn by combining models and measurements? (Robert Arthern, British Antarctic Survey)

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

2014-10-31 16:00: Evolution of the Parnaíba Basin of Brazil and its surroundings (Verónica Rodriguez Tribaldos (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-03 13:00: Enigmas of Erebus: observations of an active lava lake (Clive Oppenheimer (Geography))

2014-11-03 14:00: IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Discussion Meeting (Professor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Dr David Reiner, Professor David MacKay)

2014-11-03 14:00: CCfCS IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Symposium (Professor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Professor David MacKay)

2014-11-03 17:00: Darwin's Beagle  fossils and their significance for his evolutionary thought (Professor Adrian Lister (Natural History Museum))

2014-11-04 13:00: Bidisperse granular collapses (Joshua Caplan (DAMTP))

2014-11-04 16:00: Chasing waterfalls: constraining the global sulfur isotopic budget in rivers (Andrea Burke, St Andrews)

2014-11-05 14:30: Recent Changes in Antarctic Sea Ice (Prof. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-11-05 17:00: MPAs, mangroves and carpets: cause for #OceanOptimism? (Dr Nick Hill, Zoological Society of London)

2014-11-06 11:30: Injection-driven deformation of a soft granular material (Christopher MacMinn, Engineering, Oxford)

2014-11-06 13:00: Scum of the Earth? (Matt Davey, Smith Lab)

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))

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

2014-11-07 11:00: Understanding and reducing Southern Ocean biases in the HadGEM3 coupled climate model (Dr Patrick Hyder, Met Office)

2014-11-07 16:00: A magmatic probe of dynamic topography beneath western North America (Marthe Kloecking (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-10 13:00: CANCELLED - Diapycnal mixing in the ocean: from large scale meridional overturning circulation to dissipation scale (Ali Mashayek (MIT))

2014-11-10 14:15: Various talks from 1st years (1st year PhD CPGS talks)

2014-11-10 18:00: Darwin’s “beloved barnacles” - an evolutionary success story (Professor Andrew Gale (University of Portsmouth))

2014-11-11 14:00: Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling during Arctic Polar-night Jet Oscillation Events (Peter Hitchcock, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-11 16:00: Simulating radiocarbon in ocean and atmosphere through the deglaciation (Mathis Hain, University of Southampton)

2014-11-12 13:00: Frequency and triggers of huge underwater landslides - and their relationship to climate change and sediment delivery from ice streams (Peter Talling (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2014-11-12 14:00: A microscale view of mixing and overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton)

2014-11-12 17:00: Environmental and Science Learning through Participation in Scientific Research: From Learning to Conservation Action (Professor Heidi Ballard, UC Davis)

2014-11-12 17:00: A spectacular new soft-bodied fossil assemblage from the Burgess Shale at Marble Canyon, Kootenay National Park  (Bob Gaines (Pomona College) )

2014-11-13 11:30: Drying droplets: coffee stains and Mexican hats (David Fairhurst, Nottingham Trent University)

2014-11-13 13:00: Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops (Marc Knight, Durham University)

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

2014-11-14 16:00: Late Holocene uplift of Rhodes, Greece: evidence for a large tsunamigenic earthquake in the Hellenic subduction zone (Andrew Howell (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-14 17:30: The North American deglaciation: linking rapid climate change, ice sheet retreat and sea level rises (Dr Lauren Gregoire (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds))

2014-11-17 13:00: Large poromechanical deformation of a frictional material (Chris MacMinn (Oxford))

2014-11-17 14:15: Towards an understanding of the evolution of sea ice extent around the Antarctic Peninsula using the James Ross Island ice core. (Dr Ailsa Benton (BAS))

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))

2014-11-18 13:00: Turbulent vertical line plumes: entrainment and detrainment (Lotty Gladstone (BPI))

2014-11-18 13:15: Investigating deep sea corals as a new archive of d15N records for studies of N cycle through time (Dr Maria Prokopenko, Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA )

2014-11-18 14:00: Foehn jets and warming distributions over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica (Andrew Elvidge, University of East Anglia)

2014-11-18 16:00: A Dual Rift Model for the Opening of the NE Atlantic (Richard Walker, University of Leicester)

2014-11-19 13:00: Arctic Science at Ny-Alesund Research Station (Nicholas Cox and Kevin Newsham, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-11-19 13:00: How does an alga become a parasite? (Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-19 17:00: Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view (Dr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science)

2014-11-20 11:30: SEE DETAILS BELOW (Alex Evans, Nicola Mingotti, Kate Miller - BPI)

2014-11-20 13:00: Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK (Matt Castle, Gilligan Lab)

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)

2014-11-21 16:00: How  thick is a thin layer? 4D seismic monitoring of CO2 sequestration at the  Sleipner Field (Laurence Cowton (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-24 11:00: Investigating changes to phytoplankton patterns in the Southern Ocean using the evaluative satellite product Zeu, validated by instrumented southern elephant seals. (Lauren Biermann, University of St Andrews)

2014-11-24 14:15: Dynamical and microphysical processes controlling the persistence of low level Arctic mixed-phase clouds (Dr Julien Savre (Geography, University of Cambridge))

2014-11-24 17:00: Dates, Rates, Ages and Stages: New developments in determining metamorphic timescales (Dr Clare Warren (Open University))

2014-11-25 10:00: Assessing the impact of Holocene climate, sea level, and sea ice change on the Ardley Island penguin colony (Dr. Stephen Roberts, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-11-25 14:00: Advances in high-resolution global climate modelling: achievements and perspectives  (Marie Estelle Demory, University of Reading)

2014-11-25 16:00: Detachment-mode seafloor spreading and the tectonics of oceanic core complexes (Antony Morris, University of Plymouth)

2014-11-26 11:00: Seagliders: a useful new tool for observing Antarctic oceanic processes (Louise Biddle, University of East Anglia)

2014-11-26 13:00: Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal (Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-26 16:30: Assessing the vulnerability of the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctic Ice Sheet to future changes (Martin Siegert (Imperial College))

2014-11-26 17:00: Tracking marine turtles for conservation (Professor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter)

2014-11-27 10:30: Digital Matter: Towards Colloidal Machines (Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan)

2014-11-27 13:00: Fossil pollen and algae reveal Antarctica’s climate as the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago (Vanessa Bowman (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-11-27 16:00: Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management (Caroline Drummond MBE.  LEAF Chief Executive)

2014-11-27 17:00: 'When the Monsoon rocks the Himalaya (Jean-Philippe Avouac - BP Foundation McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences)

2014-11-28 16:00: Seismicity caused by melt movement in the Bardabunga-Holuhraun eruption in Iceland (Thorbjorg Agustsdottir (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-28 16:30: The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis (Ana Mosterin (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-28 17:00: Behavioural mechanisms limiting cheating behaviour in the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor (Max Gray)

2014-12-01 13:00: Cliffs and screes (Keith Richards / Mike Bethel  (Geography))

2014-12-01 17:00: Taking the "absolute" temperature in ice cores: another of those dreaded Physics lectures (Professor Hubertus Fischer (University of Bern))

2014-12-02 13:00: Vortex ring induced mixing of a sharp interface (Jason Olsthoorn (DAMTP))

2014-12-02 16:00: Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates (Tom Dunkley Jones, University of Birmingham)

2014-12-03 14:00: Vorticity Balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage (Dr. Yvonne Firing, National Oceaongraphy Centre Southampton)

2014-12-03 17:00: Extending freshwater conservation beyond shorelines by linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (Dr Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2014-12-04 12:00: Belizean Speleothem, North Atlantic Climate, and NAO Forcings (Sebastian Breitenbach (ETH-Zurich) )

2014-12-04 13:00: Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (David Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory)

2014-12-04 13:30: Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies (James Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab)

2014-12-04 14:00: BPI End of Term Seminar (Andy Hogg, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, Pete Smith)

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))

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

2014-12-05 16:30: Simultaneous camouflage and conspicuous signalling in an island lizard (Kate Marshall)

2014-12-05 17:00: Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them? (Denise DD (University of Cambridge))

2014-12-08 14:15: Chemistry of mineral dust aerosols and its roles in direct and indirect radiative effects (Mingjin Tang (Cambridge))

2014-12-10 13:00: Christmas Student Special (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-12-11 09:00: DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY (Various)

2014-12-12 09:00: Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana (Christophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab)

2014-12-12 09:30: Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana (Catherine Griffin, Henderson Lab)

2014-12-12 10:00: Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance (Deusa Abreu, Carr Lab)

2014-12-12 11:00: Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA  silencing to combat them (Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab)

2014-12-12 11:00: Fractionation of stable isotopes and trace elements in individual crystals of CaCO3: An experimental approach.  (Dr. Rinat Gabitov  - Mississippi State University )

2014-12-12 11:30: Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators (Jonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab)

2014-12-12 12:00: Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development (Alex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab)

2014-12-18 13:00: A physiological basis to agronomic development (Celestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab)

2014-12-18 13:30: Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation  (Maddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab)

2015-01-09 16:00: Constraining Crustal Stress and Rheology from Grain Size Piezometry (Steven Kidder (City College of New York))

2015-01-13 16:00: Meridional variations of mountain erosion in response to Plio-Pleistocene cooling (Frédéric Herman, L'Université de Lausanne )

2015-01-15 10:30: Multi-parameter observations from coastal waters to the deepest trenches: challenges studying the carbon system with optode technology (Dr Anders Tengberg, Aanderaa/Xylem (Bergen, Norway) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden))

2015-01-15 11:30: Gradient damage models and brittle fracture: crack nucleation and complex patterns (Corrado Maurini, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI)

2015-01-15 13:00: Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis (Enrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab))

2015-01-15 17:30: The role of the ocean and the atmosphere in the expression of D-O and AIM events in Antarctica: new evidence from the WAIS Divide Ice Core (Prof Eric J. Steig, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington (US))

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

2015-01-16 16:00: Dynamos on small bodies and the ancient Earth (Francis Nimmo (UCSC))

2015-01-19 13:00: Ditch the 2 degC goal (Charlie Kennel and David Victor (Scripps, UCSD))

2015-01-19 14:15: The air we breathe - the role of atmospheric sciences in identifying the health impacts of air (Dr Ben Barrat (KCL))

2015-01-19 17:00: Food for thought: Edible explorations of volcanic processes (Dr Alison Rust (University of Bristol))

2015-01-20 14:00: Modelling polar stratospheric clouds, polar ozone and chemistry-climate interactions in the UM-UKCA model (James Keeble, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-20 16:00: The chalcophile (sulfur-loving) cycle: from MORB to crust (Frances Jenner, Open University)

2015-01-21 13:00: The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells (Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford))

2015-01-21 17:00: Is Evolution (Not) Working for Infected Amphibians? (Dr Trent Garner, Zoological Society of London)

2015-01-22 11:30: Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere (Benoit Pier, LMFA, Ecole Central, France)

2015-01-22 13:00: The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research  (Achim Dobermann, Rothamstead)

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

2015-01-26 13:00: On the effect of fluid injection on seismic and aseismic fault slip (Jean-Philippe Avouac (Bullard, Earth Sciences))

2015-01-26 14:15: Volcanic outgassing (Dr Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2015-01-26 17:00: Earthquakes triggered by seismic waves (Professor Emily Brodsky (University of California Santa Cruz))

2015-01-27 13:00: Magmatic Ni-Cu-Co (± PGE) ore deposits: How the Voisey’s Bay discovery in Labrador influenced scientific thought  (Andy Kerr,  Senior Geologist, Mineral Deposits Section, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador )

2015-01-27 14:00: Deep vertical propagation of mountain waves above Scandinavia and New Zealand (Andreas Dörnbrack,Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre)

2015-01-27 16:00: The composition of the lower mantle and its influence on the redox state of the Earth (Dan Frost, Bayreuth)

2015-01-28 13:00: The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely? (Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge))

2015-01-28 16:30: Controls on the stability of Greenland’s tidewater glaciers: the impact of runoff on fjord circulation and termini melt rates (Tom Cowton (University of Sheffield))

2015-01-28 17:00: Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn?  Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world (Dr Robyn Veal, Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-29 12:00: Hydrodynamic Theory of Coating (Jens Eggers, Bristol)

2015-01-29 13:00: Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar (Will Simonson (Coomes Lab))

2015-01-29 17:30: El Niño and El Padre: a deep equatorial Pacific thermocline during the Pliocene warm period (Dr. Heather Ford (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) )

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

2015-01-30 16:00: Periodicity of the Iceland Plume and a Dynamical Analysis of Plume Activity (Matthew Commin (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-02 13:00: Building ventilation and applications in practice (Shaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering))

2015-02-02 14:15: How well do we know halogen chemistry in the Marine Boundary Layer? (Dr Roberto Sommariva (Leicester))

2015-02-02 17:00: Does the kiss of a LIP ever linger for long? (Professor Conall Mac Niocaill (University of Oxford))

2015-02-03 10:00: PhD Student Seminars (British Antarctic Survey)

2015-02-03 16:00: Environmental effects of sulfur emitted by large-scale flood lava eruptions (Anja Schmidt, University of Leeds)

2015-02-04 11:00: The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future (Sophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University)

2015-02-04 13:00: Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease (Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London))

2015-02-04 17:00: Biodiversity and the feel good factor (Dr Zoe Davies, University of Kent)

2015-02-05 12:00: Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space (Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Uni of Winsconsin)

2015-02-05 13:00: The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice (Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley)

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)

2015-02-06 16:00: Seismological constraints on fault plane curvature and the formation of core complexes (Kirsty Reynolds (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-09 13:00: Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere (Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale, Lyon))

2015-02-09 14:15: Steps towards understanding tropospheric composition variability (Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis (Imperial College))

2015-02-09 17:00: Learning about the early Solar System from cometary dust (Dr Natalie Starkey (Open University))

2015-02-10 16:00: Rift initiation in a continental setting: the western Balkan peridotites (Uli Faul, MIT)

2015-02-11 16:30: The last ten years of glacier observation in the Karakoram (Christoph Mayer (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities))

2015-02-11 17:00: Evaluating the social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions: Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (Professor Katherine Homewood, UCL)

2015-02-12 12:00: BPI Speakers (Stefano Rocco, Tim Beeson-Jones, Tom Eaves - BPI)

2015-02-12 13:00: Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant  that wanted to be an animal (Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab))

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

2015-02-13 16:00: Induced seismicity and stress shadowing from the 2014 Bardabunga-Holuhraun dyke intrusion (Rob Green (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-13 17:30: Development of Climate Science (Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office)

2015-02-16 13:00: Ascending plumes and descending thermals: aspects of convection in the atmosphere (Gabriel Rooney (Met Office))

2015-02-16 15:00: Long-term trends in ozone concentrations in the UK: local, regional and global influences (Dr Mike Jenkin)

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))

2015-02-17 14:00: An overview of MIPAS observations of polar stratospheric clouds (Dr Reinhold Spang, Juelich Research Centre, Germany.)

2015-02-17 14:30: An overview on AIRS observations of stratospheric gravity waves (Dr Lars Hoffmann, Juelich Research Centre, Germany.)

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)

2015-02-18 11:00: Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula (Jennifer A. Graham, Old Dominion University (VA, USA) and University of East Anglia (UK))

2015-02-18 14:00: The hidden meteorites of Antarctica (Geoff Evatt, University of Manchester)

2015-02-18 16:00: Ocean circulation and deep temperature response to orbital forcings: what the model says. (Michel Crucifix UC Louvain)

2015-02-18 17:00: REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: Are The Challenges What We Thought They Were? (Dr Valerie Kapos, UNEP-WCMC)

2015-02-19 12:00: Resource efficiency: what are the limits? (Jonathan Cullen, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2015-02-19 13:00: Can genomics impact forestry? (Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-02-19 14:15: Gas Monitoring at Holhraun (Nahum Clements, Dept of Earth Sciences)

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))

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

2015-02-20 16:00: Holocene surface ruptures in the Lower Rhine Graben, Germany - New  insights from paleoseismology, remote sensing and geophysics (Christoph Gruetzner (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-23 13:00: Towards a new dynamics for Earth's core (Andrew Jackson (ETH Zurich))

2015-02-23 17:00: Copper Giants: Geology, Genesis and New Pathways to Discovery (Dr Jamie Wilkinson (Natural History Museum))

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)

2015-02-25 13:00: The propagation of gigantic volcanic eruption clouds through the atmosphere (Prof. Herbert Huppert)

2015-02-25 16:30: Seismic survey considerations in glaciology (Coen Hodstede (Alfred Wegener Institute))

2015-02-25 17:00: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Science in a human-dominated world (Professor Georgina Mace, UCL)

2015-02-26 12:00: A computational model for macroscale simulations of moving contact lines (Yi Sui, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-02-26 13:00: Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach (Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab))

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

2015-02-27 16:00: Experimental and petrological modelling of magma chamber cooling histories (Andrew Gilbert (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-02 13:00: The role of mesoscale processes in biogeochemical cycling during the last glacial termination (Kate Hendry (Earth Sciences))

2015-03-02 14:15: Inter-hemispheric symmetry or asymmetry in variations of tropical rainbelt during the last glacial cycle? perspectives from a climate model-data comparison (Dr Joy Singarayer (Reading))

2015-03-02 17:00: Novel applications of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analyses: rock, ice and nanoparticles (Dr Carl Stevenson (University of Birmingham))

2015-03-03 12:00: A molecular approach to the bioenergetics of sulfate reduction  (Inês Cardoso Pereira, ITQB/UNL)

2015-03-03 14:00: The effects of different sudden stratospheric warming types on the ocean  (Amee O'Callaghan, University of East Anglia)

2015-03-04 09:00: Planetary accretion, differentiation and the oxidation state of the Earth's mantle.       (Dr Helen M. Williams, Durham University, UK)

2015-03-04 10:00: Excess 182W in the Moon: Constraints on the late veneer and lunar origin. (Dr Thomas Kruijer - University Muenster, Germany)

2015-03-04 11:15: Sulphides - Geochemical messengers from the mantle (Dr Ekaterina Kiseeva - Oxford University, UK)

2015-03-04 12:15: Crystal records from the Deep: A unique archive of magmatic processes from source to surface (Dr Philipp Ruprecht, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)

2015-03-04 13:00: The curious incident of the seal in the pond (Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki))

2015-03-04 14:00: Generation of mantle heterogeneities (Dr. James Day, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California, USA)

2015-03-04 15:00: Veritas in Vanadium? High Temperature Applications of a Nascent Stable Isotope System (Dr Julie Prytulak, Imperial College, London, UK)

2015-03-04 17:00: Trees, ‘tribes' and taboos: The political ecology of conservation and culture in Madagascar (Dr Ivan Scales, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-05 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Felicity Bartholomew and Finn Box, BP Institute)

2015-03-05 14:00: CCfCS Arctic Change meeting (Julienne Stroeve, Ed Hawkins, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Phil Wookey, Duncan Depledge)

2015-03-05 16:00: Managing Innovation: an oxymoron? (David Lawrence, Syngenta)

2015-03-05 17:00: ERC Equipoise Wine & Cheese Evening 2015 (Dr Adam Law & Nicola Pocock (ERC Equipoise))

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))

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)

2015-03-06 16:00: A Continuous Record of North Atlantic Rifting under the Influence of the Iceland Mantle Plume (Ross Parnell-Turner (University of Cambridge))

2015-03-09 13:00: Oil Palms, Alkenes, SCIs and Ozone: New measurement approaches to sidestep atmospheric chemical complexity (Bill Bloss (Birmingham))

2015-03-09 13:30: CCfCS poster session (CCfCS Members from across Cambridge)

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

2015-03-10 13:00: Saksunarvatn melts (Dr. David Neave)

2015-03-10 14:00: Dynamical Response to the QBO in the Northern Winter Stratosphere: Signatures in Wave Forcing and Eddy Fluxes of Potential Vorticity (Ian P. White, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-03-10 16:00: Greenhouse-icehouse shifts and the evolution of latitudinal diversity gradients (Alastair Crame, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-03-11 14:00: Subtropical icebergs, glacial lakes, and Heinrich Events: How did meltwater trigger past abrupt climate change? (Dr. Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2015-03-11 16:00: Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME) (Scott Gilbert)

2015-03-11 17:00: Biodiversity in a World of Human Dominance and Rapid Change – Anthropocene Challenges and Opportunities (Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University)

2015-03-11 18:00: Earth’s past, present, and future climate (Prof Eric Wolff (Earth Sciences), Dr Emily Shuckburgh (BAS), Dr Amanda Maycock (Chemistry))

2015-03-12 12:00: Elastocapillary dynamics: Pattern forming and the role of evaporation (Dominic Vella, University of Oxford)

2015-03-12 13:00: Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis (Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab))

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))

2015-03-16 14:15: Glasses in the sky: What's (not) going on inside atmospheric aerosol particles? (Dr Daniel Lienhard (Chemistry, Cambridge))

2015-03-18 11:00: Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton (Paola Oliveri)

2015-03-19 13:00: An integrated structural biology approach to flower development (Francois Parcy, Grenoble)

2015-03-19 16:30: Marine terminating glaciers within Elmer/Ice: model and applications (Olivier Gagliardini (Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l’environnement))

2015-03-20 11:00: Gas Fractionation in Two-Phase Flow: Theory, Observation, and Experiments (Kiran Sathaye (University Texas, Austin) )

2015-03-23 14:15: Smoke and mirrors: Infrared spectroscopy and radiometry for the study of biomass burning emissions (Tom Smith (KCL))

2015-03-24 14:00: How does atmospheric chemistry affect your climate modelling results? (Peer Johannes Nowack, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-25 14:00: A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change (Prof. David Marshall, University of Oxford)

2015-03-26 13:00: The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock  (Carmen Marti (Webb Lab))

2015-04-08 14:00: Water-column nutrient fluxes along the continental margin of the  Peruvian oxygen minimum zone (Lee Bryant, University of Bath)

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)

2015-04-17 12:00: Isotopes, Microbes, and Enzymes in the Earth System: a sulfur story. (Wil Leavitt - Dartmouth)

2015-04-21 14:30: The Tropical Tropopause Layer (Stephan Borrmann (Mainz), Neil Harris (Cambridge), Alison Ming (Cambridge) and Amanda Maycock (Cambridge))

2015-04-21 16:00: Beyond the age of fishes: assembling the other half of vertebrate diversity (Dr Matt Friedman, University of Oxford)

2015-04-23 12:00: Kinneyia, a fossil hydrodynamic instability  (Lucas Goering, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics, Germany)

2015-04-23 13:00: Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers (Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA)

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

2015-04-27 13:00: Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings (Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley))

2015-04-27 14:15: Modelling individual convective clouds (Leif Denby (Geography, Cambridge))

2015-04-28 11:00: Causes and effects of recent changes in Antarctic sea-ice transport (Alexander Haumann, ETH Zurich)

2015-04-28 16:00: Feedbacks  between early animal evolution and  global  geochemical cycles (Richard Boyle, University of Southern Denmark)

2015-04-29 13:00: Feedback Loops in Nature– The Making of a TED-Ed Lesson (Anje-Margriet Neutel (British Antarctic Survey))

2015-04-30 09:30: Evolution of plant breeding systems: Male form and function in the nightshade family.  (Gwendolyn Davis, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 10:00: Mobilizing terrestrial primary production into aquatic food webs (Chloe Orland, 1st year grad)

2015-04-30 11:00: Understanding morphogenesis  and wall mechanics in brown algae (Marina Linardic, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 11:30: ~ From Carrots to Sticks ~   Conserving threatened avifauna with ecosystem management and market-based instruments (Alexandra Bell, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 12:00: Aromatic interactions in simple and complex liquids (Neal Skipper, UCL)

2015-04-30 12:00: Fifty shapes of maize (Rozi Vofely, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 12:15: Influence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse on Antarctic surface climate and ice core records (Eric Steig, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh. Professor, Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington)

2015-04-30 14:00: Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic phenotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids (Gregory Reeves, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 14:30: Molecular genetics of autistic: the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutant of maize (Darius Riahy, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 09:30: Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases  (Marcel Meyer, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 10:00: A forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis gene(s) that control meiotic recombination   (Divyashree Nageswaran, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 11:00: Identification of effectors from Rhizophagus irregularis and their role in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis establishment.  (Clement Quan, 1st yr grad)

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

2015-05-01 11:30: Engineering riboswitches to enable rational control of transgene expression (Christopher Finch, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 12:00: Paramutation in tomato (Quentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Patrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Juheon Lee, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 15:00: Improving the pollination of the field bean (Vicia faba L.) (Emily Bailes, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 16:00: Vertical Motions at the Edge of a Mantle Convective Upwelling in the North Atlantic Ocean (Charlotte Schoonman (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-05 16:00: Temperature-dependent carbon cycling in the Eocene greenhouse (Professor Paul Pearson, Cardiff University)

2015-05-07 12:00: The impact of internal heat transfer on the performance of air breathing cycles (Rob Miller, Cambridge)

2015-05-07 13:00: Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics (Miriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick)

2015-05-08 09:00: The first CCfCS student symposium (Jenny Turton)

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

2015-05-11 14:15: Modelling aerosol impacts on climate, urban environment and human health  (Dr Christina Mitsakou (Cambridge))

2015-05-12 14:00: Impact of melt ponds on Arctic summer sea ice in the HadGEM3 global coupled climate model  (Dr. David Schroeder, University of Reading)

2015-05-12 16:00: Copper porphyries (TBC) (Steve Sparks, University of Bristol)

2015-05-13 13:00: Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates (Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-13 16:30: Evidence for, and implications of, a grounded ice sheet in the Central North Sea during the Pleistocene (Brice Rea (University of Aberdeen))

2015-05-14 11:00: Novel Methods for Determining the Evolution of Turbulence in the Surface Boundary Layer (Natasha Lucas, University of Bangor)

2015-05-14 12:00: Dynamics and Instability  of  straight  and  helical Vortices (Prof Maurice Rossi, CNRS-Institut D'Alembert University of Paris 6)

2015-05-14 13:00: Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines  (Minerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-14 13:30: Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica (Elise Biersma, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-14 17:30: Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation (Dr. Sambuddha Misra (Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge))

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

2015-05-18 11:00: A study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation development in a large winter cyclone (Greg Thompson (NCAR))

2015-05-19 14:00: The Arctic Boundary Layer: Coupling Clouds & Sea Ice (Prof. Ian M. Brooks, University of Leeds)

2015-05-19 16:00: TBD (Professor David Johnston, Harvard University)

2015-05-20 13:00: Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape (Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência))

2015-05-20 14:15: Are strong volcanic eruptions important for decadal climate predictions? A historical perspective based on MPI-ESM ensemble simulations (Davide Zanchettin (University of Venice))

2015-05-21 10:00: The Last Interglacial period: the key to understanding future ice-sheet stability and sea-level changes under a warm climate (Emma Stone, University of Bristol)

2015-05-21 12:00: Permeability of fault zones and how it changes over time (Professor Emily E. Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2015-05-21 12:00: Atmospheric Tides: Current understanding and issues (William Ward, University of New Brunswick)

2015-05-21 13:00: Where the bee flies: and why it matters (Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter)

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

2015-05-27 11:00: Competition between Atlantic and Antarctic overturning and the glacial-interglacial CO2 problem (Kevin Oliver, NOC Southampton)

2015-05-27 16:30: Ice cores: development of time scales and some applications (Mai Winstrup (University of Wahington))

2015-05-28 12:00: Purely-elastic flow instabilities, elastic turbulence and an engineering application (Professor Robert Poole, Dept of Engineering, University of Liverpool)

2015-05-28 13:00: Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil (Lauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-28 13:00: Using radar to measure and monitor the rate of melting at the base of ice shelves (Keith Nicholls (British Antarctic Survey))

2015-05-28 13:30: A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti (Vaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-28 17:30: Stalagmites as excellent recorders of major volcanic eruptions (Prof Dr. Dominik Fleitmann (University of Reading))

2015-06-01 14:15: Mobile measurements: urban NO2 and coastal iodine (Dr Steve Ball (Leicester))

2015-06-04 12:00: Dynamical systems methods for tracking oil dispersion in ocean flowsand their application during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Igor Mezic, Engineering, UCSB)

2015-06-04 13:00: Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves (Edward Farmer, University of Lausanne)

2015-06-08 11:30: Idioms of sustainability in ancient Anuradhapura (Dr Sat Ghosh)

2015-06-08 14:15: Source apportionment of wide range particle size spectra and black carbon collected at an International Airport (Dr Mauro Masiol (Birmingham))

2015-06-09 16:00: Theory of iron and iron-bearing minerals in the Earth: Electrical conductivity in the mantle and core and implications for the geodynamo (Ronald Cohen, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, and Dept. Earth Sciences, UCL, London, UK)

2015-06-10 14:00: Intense nutrient upwelling and PV mixing in oceanic anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities (Liam Brannigan, University of Oxford)

2015-06-11 13:00: The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible (Surge Biswas, 1st yr grad)

2015-06-11 13:30: Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions (Jessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad)

2015-06-15 14:15: Global modelling of lightning and its impact on tropospheric ozone chemistry (Declan Finney (Edinburgh))

2015-06-16 13:00: A stratospheric link between sea ice variability and European weather (Paolo Ruggieri , University of L'Aquila, Italy)

2015-06-18 13:00: Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals (Alison Baker, University of Leeds)

2015-06-24 11:00: Global tidal dissipation estimates using a simple analytical tool  (Adrien Lefauve, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

2015-06-24 11:00: Modelling the bioenergetics and foraging behaviours of albatrosses (Philipp Boersch-Supan and Leah Johnson, University of South Florida)

2015-06-25 13:00: Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology (Christian Ridley, 3rd yr grad)

2015-06-29 16:00: Using GPS, corals and historical earthquakes to understand the earthquakes in Sumatra (Emma Hill from EOS Singapore)

2015-06-30 16:00: Recent unprecedented state of eastern Mediterranean Sea within the last millennium (Prof. Aldo Shemesh, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

2015-07-01 14:00: Sensitivity of the Antarctic sea ice and trends in ocean models (Joakim Kjellsson, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-07-02 13:00: Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (Nick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter)

2015-07-06 11:30: Tectonics, erosion and the Earth’s topography: linking the deep Earth and surface dynamics across convergent domains through numerical landscape evolution and geodynamic modeling ( Pietro Sternai)

2015-07-06 14:00: Post-Perovskite - Extreme properties at extreme conditions. (David Dobson, UCL)

2015-07-09 13:00: Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses (Jacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad)

2015-07-09 13:30: Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana. (Alexander Frank, 3rd yr grad)

2015-07-09 14:00: Diamond formation at its role in the Earth's deep carbon cycle (Dan Frost, Bayreuth)

2015-07-21 14:15: Measurement strategies, composition and chemistry of secondary organic  aerosols (Thorsten Hoffmann (Mainz))

2015-07-22 14:00: The dynamical influence of ocean eddy fluxes (Dr. James Maddison (School of Maths, Univ. Edinburgh))

2015-07-29 14:00: Early results from the SMILES project - observations and models (Dr. John Taylor, University of Cambridge)

2015-08-05 13:00: The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution? (Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University))

2015-08-05 15:00: Studies towards Assessing the Effects of Aviation on Climate and Air Quality (Dr Arezoo Khodayari, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC))

2015-08-24 14:00: NIPR Atmospheric Science Activities in the Antarctic and Arctic (Takashi Yamanouchi, Project Professor of National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR))

2015-09-02 14:00: Modelling Submesoscale Dynamics: A new parameterization for symmetric instability (Dr. Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge)

2015-09-09 10:00: Probing rheologic properties of crustal and fault zone materials using the ambient wavefield (Gregor Hillers	Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)

2015-09-09 10:00: Director's Choice student special seminar (Tom Williams, Martin Black and Emma Smith)

2015-09-09 11:00: Signature of ponding slabs in the mantle transition zone: the role of akimotoite  (Sanne Cottaar, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-09-09 12:00: New constraints on the elastic and anelastic structure of the Earth's mantle. (Stephanie Durand - Universite de Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

2015-09-09 14:00: Minding the Gap: The Local Tsunami Warning Problem (Diego Melgar, Seismological Laboratory, University of California Berkeley)

2015-09-09 15:00: Seismological constraints on the density structure of Earth's lowermost mantle (Paula Koelemeijer - Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich)

2015-09-10 09:00: Seismic signatures of melt on the move (Jon Tarasewicz)

2015-09-16 14:15: Up in the Air, Down Under – Atmospheric Research in Wollongong, Australia (Clare Murphy, University of Wollongong)

2015-09-21 14:00: Controls over mesopelagic mineralisation  (Richard Sanders, National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) Southampton)

2015-09-23 14:00: Wave-turbulence interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. (Dr. Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania)

2015-09-29 12:00: A first look at the Pluto system from the New Horizons mission (Dr John Spencer (Southwest Research Institute) )

2015-09-30 11:00: Understanding the role of microbes in the formation of dolomite (Dr. Tomaso Bontognali, ETH-Zurich)

2015-09-30 14:00: What governs the propagation speed of SST Anomalies? (Dr. Stephan Jeffress, Univ. Oxford)

2015-10-01 13:00: Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat (Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University)

2015-10-07 14:00: Air-sea interactions and the thermohaline circulation (Dr. Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London)

2015-10-07 18:00: Searches for microorganisms in the earth's atmosphere (Professor Jayant V. Narlikar)

2015-10-08 11:30: How Elastic Flow Instabilities Increase Oil Recovery  (Andrew Howe, BP Institute and Dept of Chem Eng)

2015-10-08 13:00: Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century (Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer)

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)

2015-10-09 16:00: Kinematics of an accretionary wedge: seismicity and deformation in the Western Makran (Camilla Penney (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-12 13:00: Ice-shelf buttressing, the marine-ice sheet instability, and the sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to ocean conditions (Hilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey))

2015-10-12 14:15: Interplay of Diffusivity and Reactivity in Organic Aerosol Ageing (Dr Sarah Steimer, Cambridge University)

2015-10-12 17:00: Reactive Transport in Aqueous Geochemistry: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (Dr Benjamin Tutolo (University of Oxford))

2015-10-13 15:00: Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Welcome Event (Representatives from each CCfCS department/institute )

2015-10-14 17:00: Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions (Steve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University)

2015-10-15 11:00: Investigating Southern Hemisphere stratospheric ozone change and associated impacts on dynamics and climate (Kane Stone, University of Melbourne)

2015-10-15 11:30: Strong Acoustic Streaming in High-Intensity Discharge Lamps (Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire)

2015-10-15 13:00: RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms (Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology)

2015-10-15 17:30: The last 1000 years in East Antarctica: insights from a new temperature proxy. (Anais Orsi, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette (France))

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

2015-10-16 14:00: The role of plate tectonics in controlling paleo climate and ocean circulation (Prof. Dan Lunt, University of Bristol)

2015-10-16 16:00: Dyke Propagation Mechanisms from Seismicity Accompanying the 2014 Bárðarbunga-Holuhraun Intrusion and Fissure Eruption, Iceland (Jenny Woods (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-19 13:00: 3D Self-Sustaining Processes in Shear Flows with and without Surface Waves (Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire))

2015-10-19 14:00: Engaging stakeholders about the science of climate change (Eric Wolff, Ailsa Benton, John Pyle, Neil Harris, Ian Ellison, David Webb, Linda Capper, Athena Dinar)

2015-10-19 17:00: Forensic Geology - Hero or Villain? (Dr Andrew Moncrieff (Hawkins))

2015-10-20 14:15: Radiative heating of the tropical lower stratosphere under climate change (Dr Peter Hitchcock, Cambridge 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)

2015-10-21 14:00: Transport barriers, ocean adjustment and a new perspective on the surface Gulf Stream (Dr. Chris WIlson, NOC, Liverpool)

2015-10-21 17:00: Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions (Anthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and  University of Dundee)

2015-10-22 11:30: Internal BPI Welcome Seminars (BP Institute internal seminar)

2015-10-22 13:00: How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you) (Dr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator)

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

2015-10-23 14:00: The characteristics of föhn events over the Larsen Ice Shelf, and their representation in Polar WRF (Jenny Turton, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-10-23 16:00: Post-seismic and post-glacial deformation of the Earth (Ophelia Crawford (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-26 13:00: Near-inertial waves and turbulence in the winter Gulf Stream (Dan Whitt (DAMTP))

2015-10-26 17:00: General Artificial Intelligence: The Great Failure of Computer Science (& The Impending Success of Geology) (Matouš Ptáček (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-27 14:00: Rothera Time Series and the Dutch Collaboration (Hugh Venables, BAS)

2015-10-27 16:00: Constraining sediment routing system responses to tectonics and climate (Alex Whittaker, Imperial College)

2015-10-27 16:00: Dynamics of Airborne Droplets (Professor Jonathan Reid, Bristol University)

2015-10-28 13:00: Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish (Hélène Hinaux )

2015-10-28 14:00: The Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink (Ben Bronselaer, Univ. Oxford)

2015-10-28 17:00: The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity (Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2015-10-29 11:00: Polar lows: recent research on the dynamics of intense high-latitude cyclones (Prof. Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen)

2015-10-29 11:00: How mammals respond to changing environments, from leopards to devils (Associate Professor Tracy Rogers, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of NSW, Australia)

2015-10-29 11:30: Self-assembly of nanoparticles on membranes (Dr Andela Saric, Cambridge)

2015-10-29 13:00: When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history (Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey)

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

2015-10-30 16:00: Monitoring micro-seismicity in volcanic areas and hydrofracturing reservoirs using Coalescence Microseismic Mapping (CMM) (Ziquan Shen (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-02 13:00: Magma storage, eruption and outgassing during volcanic eruptions - from space (Marie Edmonds (Dept. of Earth Sciences))

2015-11-02 14:15: Introduction of a Portable and Automated On-Line Instrument to Measure Health-Relevant Aerosol-Bound Reactive Oxygen Species (Dr Daniel Lienhard, Francis Wragg)

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))

2015-11-03 14:00: Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: water vapour and clouds in the climate system (Louise Sime, Chris Holloway, Constantino Listowski, Tamsin O'Connell, Jan Zika, Peter Haynes)

2015-11-03 16:00: The interplay between brittle and ductile processes at oceanic transform faults (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2015-11-04 14:00: Variability of eddy-mean flow interactions in atmospheric storm tracks and an application to the ACC. (Dr. Maarten Ambaum, University of Reading)

2015-11-04 17:00: Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: disease threats to Tasmanian Devils, frogs, koalas and woylies (Hamish McCallum, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London )

2015-11-05 11:30:  Exploring multiphase flows in porous media (Jonathan Mitchell, Schlumberger Cambridge Research)

2015-11-05 13:00: Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group)

2015-11-05 17:30: Landscape Retreat and 'Jumping': Late Prehistoric Fenland Environmental Adaption/Response (Christopher Evans (Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge))

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))

2015-11-06 16:00: Cenozoic Evolution of Dynamic Topography in Peninsular India (Fred Richards (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-09 13:00: Tropical Cyclone Motion in the Presence of Surface Discontinuity and Topography (Johnny Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Trinity College Cambridge))

2015-11-09 17:00: The Long-Range Societal Impacts of Large Eruptions (Professor Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-10 16:00: Chilean Volcanoes constrain global models of convergent margin volcanism (Steve Turner, University of Oxford)

2015-11-11 14:00: The South Georgia Gravity Wave Experiment (SG-WEX): investigating the small island problem (Tracy Moffat-Griffin, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-11-11 17:00: Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff? (Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum)

2015-11-12 11:30: Modified Sequential Fully Implicit Scheme for Compositional Flow Simulation (Arthur Moncorge, TOTAL)

2015-11-12 13:00: The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests (David Edwards, University of Sheffield)

2015-11-13 16:00: Seismic Oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico (Alex Dickinson (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-16 13:00: Flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Origins and glacial-interglacial shifts (Nick McCave (Dept. of Earth Sciences))

2015-11-16 14:00: Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21) (Emily Shuckburgh, Prof. John Pyle, Sir David King, Prof. Sir Richard Friend)

2015-11-16 14:15: CCFCS event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-16 17:00: Crustal Melting in the Himalaya, Collision tectonics and the Origin of Granite (Professor Nigel Harris (The Open University))

2015-11-17 14:00: Effect of topography and surface friction discontinuity on tropical cyclone tracks  (Prof. Johny Chan, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong)

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)

2015-11-17 16:00: Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health (Professor Frank Kelly, King's College London)

2015-11-18 13:00: Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut? (Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague))

2015-11-18 17:00: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias:  lessons from plants that don’t stay put (Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne)

2015-11-19 11:30: Green to Gold - From academic curiosity to a Multi $Bn Business Opportunity! (Professor Xiaobin Zhao, Cambond)

2015-11-19 13:00: A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice (Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab)

2015-11-19 17:30: Using the Land-Ocean Transition to understand coastal landscapes (Mark Bateman (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield))

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)

2015-11-20 16:00: A Cenozoic History of Uplift, Erosion and Dynamic Support: Examples from Madagascar (Simon Stephenson (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-23 14:15: Ozone-alkene reactions: The role of trees in atmospheric chemistry    (Dr Michael Newland, University of East Anglia)

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))

2015-11-24 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)

2015-11-25 17:00: Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature (Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

2015-11-26 11:30: High-density Reservoir Networks in Semiarid Northeastern Brazil (Iran Lima-Neto, UFC Brazil and BP Institute visitor)

2015-11-26 14:00: High-latitude climate sensitivity in a greenhouse world: lessons from the Eocene (Alexander P. Wolfe Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta )

2015-11-26 16:00: Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers (Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS)

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

2015-11-27 16:00: Seismic Imaging of Circumpolar Deep Water Exchange across the Antarctic Peninsula Shelf Break (Kathryn Gunn (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-30 13:00: Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf (Alberto Naviera-Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2015-11-30 14:00: Glacier Retreat and the Oceans: A view from Patagonia (Dr. Carlos Moffat)

2015-11-30 14:15: Vortex splitting in the stratosphere by sub planetary-scale cyclogenesis in the troposphere, and some other thoughts about the dynamics of stratospheric sudden warmings (Professor Alan O'Neill, Reading University)

2015-11-30 17:00: The Search For New Planets (Maximilian Guenther (University of Cambridge))

2015-12-01 13:00: Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf (Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton)

2015-12-01 16:00: Disparities in the evolution of multicellularity (Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2015-12-02 14:00: Back to the future? Climate clues from a past warm time interval (Emilie Capron)

2015-12-02 17:00: Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862) (Richard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University)

2015-12-03 11:30: Drops in an electric field: instabilities, bifurcations and singularities (Marco Fontelos, ICMAT, Spain)

2015-12-03 13:00: Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis (Thomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab)

2015-12-03 17:30: Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations (Sebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge))

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

2015-12-04 11:00: Natural iron fertilization of productive Antarctic shelf waters (Prof. Rob Sherrell, Rutgers)

2015-12-07 14:15: CPGS Seminars (Steve Campbell, Cameron Rae, David Wade)

2015-12-10 15:00: Seawater Cd isotopes (Dr. Ruifang Xie - Climate and Geochemistry Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie)

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

2015-12-11 14:00: Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3. (Dr. Pat Hyder, Met Office)

2015-12-11 14:00: Urban Climate Risks Under Global Warming (Prof. Johnny Chan, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong)

2015-12-17 13:00: Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours (Pakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab)

2016-01-07 13:00: Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems (Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute)

2016-01-14 11:30: Convective mass transfer from a droplet into a submerging falling film (Julien Landel ( DAMTP))

2016-01-14 13:00: Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering (Steven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab)

2016-01-15 16:00: Effects of ocean surface gravity waves: on turbulence, climate, and frontogenesis (Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University))

2016-01-18 13:00: Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and initialised climate predictions (Adame Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre))

2016-01-18 14:30: Recent advances in knowledge of the kinetics and mechanism of Criegee Intermediates as tropospheric oxidizing species (Dr R.A. Cox, Cambridge University)

2016-01-18 17:00: Mountains to Deserts: Insights from Garnet (Dr Anna Bird (University of Hull))

2016-01-20 17:00: Biodiversity conservation and the Green Economy: complementary or competing objectives? Can we have both, and what do we need to know? (Kathy Willis Department of Zoology, Oxford University & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

2016-01-21 11:30: Liquids on solids, and gases in liquids on solids, in vacuum (Rob Jones, Uni of Nottingham)

2016-01-21 13:00: Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems (Liam Dolan, University of Oxford)

2016-01-21 14:15: Variability of the polar stratospheric vortex and its impact on surface climate patterns (Aditi Sheshadri, Columbia University)

2016-01-22 16:00: Monitoring South East Asian volcanoes using infrasounds (Co Laurent)

2016-01-25 13:00: The fluid dynamics of a suspension of frazil ice crystals (David Rees Jones (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford))

2016-01-25 14:15: Extracting policy relevant findings from air pollution monitoring networks (Dr Gary Fuller, King's College London)

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))

2016-01-26 16:00: Principles of triple oxygen isotope geochemistry (Daniel Herwartz (University of Cologne))

2016-01-27 13:00: Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii (Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University))

2016-01-27 17:00: Science Policy and Expertise (Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge)

2016-01-28 11:30: Sedimentological Regimes for Subaqueous Turbidity Currents (Thomas Halsey, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company)

2016-01-28 13:00: Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants (Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab)

2016-01-29 16:00: Gas induced seismicity within the Istanbul seismic gap (Louis Geli)

2016-02-01 13:00: Deformation in Porous Media; squashing paper, and carbon dioxide storage (Duncan Hewitt (DAMTP))

2016-02-01 14:15: Laboratory studies of halogen oxide radical reactions and sensor  development for reactive gases  (Dr Valerio Ferracci, Cambridge University)

2016-02-01 17:00: The Ignorance Project (Ekbal Hussain (University of Leeds; Geology for Global Development))

2016-02-02 16:00: Himalaya: from mountains to drilling in the Bengal fan (Christian France-Lanord, Nancy)

2016-02-03 13:00: Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo (Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-03 16:00: The velocity structure and micro-seismicity of the Askja central volcano, Iceland (Dr Tim Greenfield, Bullard Labs)

2016-02-03 17:00: Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss (David Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield)

2016-02-04 11:30: Regulation of topographic order in the developing nervous system through dynamic cell adhesion (Professor Stephen Price, UCL)

2016-02-04 13:00: Big data, local data and global change (Philip Grime, University of Sheffield)

2016-02-05 16:00: Seismic structure of the Icelandic Mantle: Transition zone discontinuities and beyond... (Jennifer Jenkins)

2016-02-08 13:00: Stochastic dynamical systems and seasonal climate dynamics (Woosok Moon (DAMTP))

2016-02-08 14:15: El Niño 2015/16: the kid is back (Eric Guilyardi, University of Reading)

2016-02-08 17:00: Landscape Response to Active Normal Faulting: Rivers, Rates and Dates (Dr Alexander Whittaker (Imperial College, London))

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)

2016-02-10 09:00: Getting inside the heads of early vertebrates (Samantha Giles,    University of Oxford)

2016-02-10 10:00: Unravelling form and function in the fossil record: a multidisciplinary approach (Laura Porro,     University of London, Royal Veterinary College)

2016-02-10 11:00: Polar Upper Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Eddies, Turbulence, Spectra, Modelling (Prof. Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University)

2016-02-10 11:15: Developmental and palaeobiological insights on the early evolution of Panarthropoda (Javier Ortega-Hernandez,    University of Cambridge)

2016-02-10 12:15: Taphonomic insights into the Ediacaran biosphere (Alex Liu,    University of Bristol)

2016-02-10 14:00: Integrating macroecology and macroevolution to study the record of species¹ responses to global change (Erin Saupe,  Yale)

2016-02-10 15:00: Understanding the diversification of tetrapods in deep time: rock record biases, constraints and physical drivers (Richard Butler,     University of Birmingham)

2016-02-10 16:00: Seismic Invisibility (Dr David Al-Attar, Bullard Labs)

2016-02-10 17:00: Bats and Emerging Infectious Diseases: conflicting priorities between conservation and public health? (James Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-11 11:30: Internal Student talks - see abstracts (BPI students)

2016-02-11 13:00: A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems (Tommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab)

2016-02-11 17:30: Orbital wobbles, ice sheets, CO2, and the deep sea: a model-informed perspective on the ocean’s role in Quaternary climate. (Eric Galbraith (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain),)

2016-02-12 16:00: Kinematics of the Hellenic Subduction Zone from Earthquake Seismology and Field Observations (Andy Howell)

2016-02-15 13:00: Dynamical attribution of recent variability in Atlantic overturning (Helen Johnson (Earth Sciences, University of Oxford))

2016-02-15 14:15: A marine biogenic source of atmospherically relevant ice nucleating particles (Dr Theo Wilson, University of Leeds)

2016-02-15 17:00: Climate Change Impacts in Polar Regions: Lessons from Antarctic Moss Bank Archives (Professor Howard Griffiths (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-16 16:00: Partitioning of water fluxes across the  Himalayas (Christoff Andermann, GFZ Potsdam)

2016-02-17 16:00: Fault friction and behaviour (Dr Alex Copley, Bullard Labs)

2016-02-17 17:00: Hot dogs: understanding climate change impacts in a tropical mammal (Rosie Woodroffe, Institute of Zoology, London)

2016-02-18 11:30: Internal student talks (BPI students)

2016-02-18 16:00: Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development (Lars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC)

2016-02-19 16:00: Volumetric measurement of a thin CO2 layer at the Sleipner Field, North Sea (Laurence Cowton)

2016-02-22 13:00: Flexural Mechanics of Subduction (Neil Ribe (CNRS, Universite Paris Sud))

2016-02-22 14:15: The Tangled World of Reactive Oxygen Species: the Search for the Bad Actors in Ambient Particles (Prof Suzanne Paulson, UCLA)

2016-02-22 17:00: Dr Woodward's Cabinet of Dangerous Dreams: Geology in the Age of Enlightenment (Dr Kenneth McNamara (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-23 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)

2016-02-24 13:00: Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Chiara Sinigaglia)

2016-02-24 16:00: Coupling geodynamic models with geological and geophysical data to constrain the rheology of crust and lithosphere (Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2016-02-24 17:00: Why are slow lorises venomous and will this help or hinder their conservation? (Anna Nekaris, Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University)

2016-02-25 11:30: The destabilization of capillary rafts into armored droplets (Suzie Protiere, UPMC)

2016-02-25 13:00: Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria (Mario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab)

2016-02-25 17:30: Ice sheet, atmosphere, and ocean dynamics in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica – past reconstruction and future course. (Michael Weber (Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne))

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

2016-02-26 16:30: Rewilding and the Future of HNV Species – does restoring flood disturbance recreate suitable habitat for HNV species? (Tim Kasoar - Department of Zoology)

2016-02-26 17:00: Ancient genome reveals continuity in East Asia over the last 9,000 years (Veronika Siska - Department of Zoology)

2016-02-29 13:00: An equivalent barotropic view of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Dave Munday (British Antarctic Survey))

2016-02-29 14:15: Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms (Dr Lia Chatzidiakou)

2016-02-29 14:15: Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms (Dr Lia Chatzidiakou)

2016-02-29 16:00: Rheology of olivine: the cold side (Patrick Cordier - University of Lille)

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))

2016-03-01 16:00: Could early land vegetation have bioengineered the planet? (Dianne Edwards, Cardiff University)

2016-03-02 16:00: Experimental study of polycrystal anelasticity for seismological application (Prof Yasuko Takei,  University of Tokyo)

2016-03-02 16:30: Modelling ice-ocean interaction at Greenland’s tidewater glaciers (Donald Slater (University of Edinburgh))

2016-03-02 17:00: Hook, line and extinction: can science save albatrosses from fisheries? (Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey)

2016-03-03 11:30: When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths (Andrew Wells, University of Oxford)

2016-03-03 12:00: Stability in Ediacaran ecosystems. (Dimitryi Grazhdankin (Novosibirsk))

2016-03-03 13:00: Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency (Tracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex)

2016-03-03 13:00: Core formation, composition, and dynamics: new insights from experiments, theoretical calculations, and modeling (James Badro - IPGP, Paris)

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

2016-03-04 16:00: South American landscape through space and time and evolution of the Parnaiba cratonic basin of Brazil (Veronica Rodriguez Tribaldos)

2016-03-07 11:00: The Sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water to Changing Surface Buoyancy Fluxes. (Dr. Kate Snow)

2016-03-07 13:00: How many oceans are there really? Using Lagrangian ocean dynamics to study climate, marine ecosystems and plastic accumulation (Erik van Sebille (Grantham Institute/Physics, Imperial College))

2016-03-07 17:00: Dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park (Professor Joe Cain (University College London))

2016-03-08 14:00: Sea ice climate interactions in the Pliocene Arctic (Fergus Howell (University of Leeds))

2016-03-08 16:00: Tectonic pulsing, climate cycles and contourites: drilling results from IODP Expedition 339 (Dorrik Stow, Heriot-Watt University )

2016-03-09 13:00: The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts (Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University))

2016-03-09 16:00: How much water is subducted into the lower mantle?  Evidence from transition zone anisotropy (Dr Andy Nowacki, University of Leeds)

2016-03-09 17:00: Impact Evaluation of Protected Areas: what do we know about impacts, moderators and mechanisms? (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies, John Hopkins University)

2016-03-10 11:30: Internal BPI Seminars (TBC)

2016-03-10 13:00: Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures (Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab)

2016-03-10 17:30: North Atlantic annually resolved temperatures for the last millennium: the Arctica islandica record. (James Scourse (Bangor University))

2016-03-11 16:00: Episodic Propagation of the 2014 Bárðarbunga-Holuhraun Dike Intrusion and Caldera subsidence during the following sustained eruption (Thorbjorg (Tobba) Agustsdottir)

2016-03-11 16:30: The role of individual differences in defining a species niche (Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology)

2016-03-11 17:00: An assessment of individual learning abilities and their phenotypic traits in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) (Claudia Martina Luna - Department of Zoology)

2016-03-14 14:15: Pushing the Envelope – Advancing Atmospheric Observations using Aerial Robotics (Dr Rick Thomas, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2016-03-15 14:00: Planetary Vital Signs (Charles Kennel (University of California San Diego))

2016-03-15 16:30: High-resolution modelling of polar climates using the regional climate model RACMO2.3 (Brice Noël (Utrecht University))

2016-03-16 14:00: Winter is coming. What happens to sea ice anomalies? (Dr. Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey))

2016-03-17 13:00: A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics (Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine)

2016-03-21 11:30: Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks (Professor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University)

2016-03-23 11:30: Intraplate volcanism in Australia: insights from seismic imaging and geodynamic modelling (Nicholas Rawlinson,  School of Geosciences Geology and Petroleum Geology,  University of Aberdeen )

2016-03-24 11:00: Two carbon capture and storage talks (Carl Steefl and Jenny Druhan)

2016-04-11 13:00: The Local Finite-Amplitude Rossby Wave Theory: Review, Development and Outlook (Clare, Shao-Ying Huang)

2016-04-18 16:00: Melt transport in the mantle: constraints from field observations and ideas for  future work (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

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)

2016-04-20 13:00: TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates. (Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews)

2016-04-21 11:30: Granular segregation in dunes and avalanches (Nathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge))

2016-04-21 13:00: The maize leaf – from development to environmental response (Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center)

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))

2016-04-22 16:00: Magmatism and Dynamic Topography in America and Brazil (Marthe Klöcking)

2016-04-22 16:30: The comparative landscape of duplications in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno  (Ana Pessoa Pinharanda - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-22 17:00: Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird (Lea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-25 14:15: Iodine compounds in polar regions and their relevance to regional aerosol & climate. (Dr Howard K Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey)

2016-04-27 09:00: From micromechanics to macroscopic tectonics (David Wallis	University of Oxford)

2016-04-27 10:00: Extension in Compressional Orogens: The Shakhdara Gneiss Dome (Dr Konstanze Stübner, Universitat Tübignen, Germany)

2016-04-27 11:15: Structural and metamorphic perspectives on episodic tremor and slow slip (Dr Ake Fagereng, University of Cardiff)

2016-04-27 12:15: A network approach to faults and fractures (Casey Nixon    University of Bergen, Norway)

2016-04-27 13:00: Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes (Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2016-04-27 14:00: Granular segregation in dunes and avalanches (Nathalie Vriend, DAMTP)

2016-04-27 15:00: Eclogite in the Trans-Hudson Orogen, Canada: Himalayan-style continental subduction in the Paleoproterozoic (Owen Weller, Geological Survey of Canada)

2016-04-28 11:30: Characterization of Gravelly Soils for Geotechnical Engineering Applications (Professor Jason DeJong, University of California Davis)

2016-04-28 13:00: Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants (Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab)

2016-05-04 16:00: Seismic evidence for mixing processes in Earth's mantle (Prof Sebastian Rost, University of Leeds)

2016-05-05 11:30: Formation, Breakup and Coalescence of Droplets (Dr Rafael Castrejon-Pita, QMUL)

2016-05-05 13:00: Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana (Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India)

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)

2016-05-06 16:00: Rapidly inflating volcanic systems in the Andes (Martyn Unsworth from University of Alberta)

2016-05-09 14:00: Developing a unified framework for modelling (exo)planets (Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter)

2016-05-10 14:00: Heroic reconstructions of polar climate (Philip Brohan (UK Met Office))

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)

2016-05-11 11:00: New thoughts about authigenic carbonate (Dr. Sasha Turchyn, Univ. Cambridge)

2016-05-11 13:00: Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms (Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London))

2016-05-11 16:00: Combining GPS Data with Physics-Based Models to Improve Earthquake and Volcano Forecasting (Prof Paul Segall, Standford University)

2016-05-12 11:30: Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story (Helen Wilson, UCL)

2016-05-12 13:00: Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology (Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology)

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)

2016-05-16 14:15: The annual cycle in tropical lower stratospheric temperatures (Dr Alison Ming, Cambridge University)

2016-05-17 12:00: Working with Natural Hazards: Perspectives from a Catastrophe Modelling Company (Caroline McMullan, AIR Worldwide)

2016-05-18 13:00: Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics (Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard))

2016-05-18 16:00: Mechanisms of Episodic continental growth in the early Earth (Prof Anne Davaille, Universite Paris-Sud)

2016-05-19 11:30: Physics of Surfing (Christophe Clanet, LadHyx, GK Batchelor Lecturer - DAMTP)

2016-05-19 12:00: Precipitation-discharge hysteresis to quantify seasonal water storage in monsoon Asia. - Association for Women Geoscientists  Distinguished Lecturer Series (Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College)

2016-05-19 13:00: In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications (Alex Costa, University of Milan)

2016-05-19 13:00: Using tagged seals to evaluate the MODIS record: can perturbations to the base of the Southern Ocean food web be detected in 12 years of data? (Lauren Biermann, CEFAS)

2016-05-20 10:00: Why BAS science matters for Antarctic Policy: Engaging with Politicians, Managers and other Stakeholders (Phil Trathan, Richard Phillips and Jen Jackson)

2016-05-23 14:15: Is the mid-latitude winter storm frequency predictable? (Dr Gregor Leckebusch, University of Birmingham)

2016-05-25 16:00: The Rigid Oceanic Lithosphere: From Production to Destruction (Dr Caroline Eakin, University of Southhampton)

2016-05-26 11:30: Unravel buried soft interfaces: From lipid bilayers to responsive polymer brushes (Wuge Briscoe ( University of Bristol))

2016-05-26 13:00: Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato (Sebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab)

2016-06-01 16:00: Flow mechanisms in tight shales: Insights from microseismicity (Prof Mike Kendall, University of Bristol)

2016-06-02 11:30: Folding within deep-marine deposits: large contorted rafts and small convolutions (Dr Lotty Gladstone, BP Institute)

2016-06-02 13:00: Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants (Spencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto)

2016-06-02 14:00: Understanding Earth System responses during the Last Glacial Maximum (Dr Peter Hopcroft, University of Bristol)

2016-06-06 14:15: Imaging organic aerosols (Dr Francis Pope, Birmingham University)

2016-06-07 14:00: Symposium: Welcome to the Anthropocene? Metrics of a climate changed (See abstract for programme details)

2016-06-08 13:00: Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes? (Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds))

2016-06-08 14:00: How unsteady winds can fuel phytoplankton blooms at fronts in the upper ocean (Dr. Dan Whitt, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-08 16:00: Multi-sensor geophysical constraints on crustal melt in the central Andes at a so-called zombie volcano: the PLUTONS project  (Prof Matt Pritchard, Cornell University)

2016-06-09 11:30: Title to be confirmed (BPI Internal Speakers)

2016-06-10 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Claire Nichols)

2016-06-14 14:30: BAS work in the Arctic (Henry Burgess)

2016-06-20 14:15: Laboratory Studies of Criegee Intermediate Reactions (Rabi Chhantyal Pun, Bristol University)

2016-06-22 11:00: Momentum budget in the Arctic: Atmosphere - Ice - Ocean (Dr. Michel Tsamados, (UCL))

2016-07-08 16:00: Seismic and Aseismic Moment Budget and Implication for the Seismic Potential of the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault. (Sylvain Michel)

2016-07-20 13:00: The two-timescale response of Antarctic ocean and sea-ice cover to wind changes: a follow-up (Dr. David Ferreira, Univ. Reading)

2016-07-27 13:00: Controls on turbulent mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Dr Alexander Brearley (British Antarctic Survey))

2016-08-08 15:00: The mechanics of internal wave generation by volcanic eruptions (Peter Baines (University of Melbourne))

2016-09-02 11:00: The Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report:  A community-wide effort to quantify tropospheric ozone in a rapidly changing world (Dr Owen Cooper, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA)

2016-09-06 14:00: Atmospheric oxygen: Useful for more than just breathing... (Andrew Manning - University of East Anglia)

2016-09-06 14:00:  Tracing Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Adélie and George V Land: A proxy calibration study. (Taryn Noble (Tasmania))

2016-09-07 12:30: A model for super El Ninos (Dr Saji Hameed, University of Aizu, Japan)

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

2016-09-20 14:00: An Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in-situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (Richard Jones, University of East Anglia)

2016-10-05 13:00: Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach (Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University))

2016-10-06 11:30: Generation of quick flood events by a groundwater flow (Dr Adrien Guerin, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

2016-10-07 11:00: Mixing and phytoplankton dynamics in Antarctica's coastal seas (Filipa Carvalho, Rutgers)

2016-10-07 16:00: Post-seismic Deformation and Fault Mechanics at Bam, Iran (Sam Wimpenny (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-10 13:00: Reduced-order transport models for energy and the environment  (Zhong Zheng (DAMTP))

2016-10-10 17:00: The evolution of the early solar system: What magnetism can tell us (James Bryson, Cambridge)

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)

2016-10-12 13:00: The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development (Matt Benton (University of Cologne))

2016-10-12 16:00: Sink or stall: subduction transition-zone dynamics (Prof Saskis Goes, Imperial College, London)

2016-10-12 16:30: A journey into Erebus volcano, Antarctica (Nial Peters)

2016-10-12 17:00: Estimating conservation status of Grauer’s gorillas (Andrew Plumptre, Albertine Rift Program, Wildlife Conservation Society)

2016-10-13 11:30: Non-Covalent Chemistry (Dr Chris Hunter, Dept of Chemistry)

2016-10-13 13:00: Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis (Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre)

2016-10-13 17:30: Silicon cycling and opal production in the Atlantic: lessons from the last deglaciation (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol)

2016-10-14 13:00: Indicating natural and anthropogenic changes in marine ecosystems: Field studies with seabirds in the North Atlantic (Stefan Garthe, Research and Technology Centre (FTZ), Kiel University, Germany)

2016-10-14 16:00: Tracking Deep Magma Movement Preceding the 2014 Bardarbunga-Holuhraun Eruption (Tom Hudson (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-17 13:00: Adding the time dimension to our large-scale glacier inversions: goals, challenges, and early work (Dan Goldberg (University of  Edinburgh))

2016-10-17 14:15: National air quality monitoring network and model forecast in China: current status, perspectives and challenges (Xiaoyan Wang and Wei Wang, China National Environment Monitoring Centre)

2016-10-17 17:00: The secret life of magma revealed by zoning patterns in volcanic crystals (Prof. Jon Blundy, Bristol )

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)

2016-10-18 14:15: 'Exposure Track' -The Impact of Mobile Device Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution (Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Havard University)

2016-10-18 16:00: Origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend: New Evidence (Richard G. Gordon  - Rice University )

2016-10-19 14:00: When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths (Dr. Andrew Wells, AOPP, Oxford)

2016-10-19 16:00: Magmatism Significantly Alters the Thermal Structure of Subduction Zones (Dr David Rees Jones, Bullard Laboratories)

2016-10-19 17:00: Developing more systematic approaches for measuring, connecting and expanding the global conservation area network (Bob Smith, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent)

2016-10-20 11:30: Topographic enhancement of turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean (Ali Mashayek Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT)

2016-10-20 13:00: Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses (Hester Sheehan, Brockington Group)

2016-10-20 13:30: CCfCS Annual Welcome Meeting (See abstract for programme)

2016-10-21 16:00: Magmatism and Dynamic Topography Of Libya (Patrick Ball (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-24 13:00: Salinity intrusion in Northern San Francisco Bay: Observations and models (Stephen Monismith (Stanford University))

2016-10-24 14:15: Interactions of HOx with aerosols; Nitric acid-HONO-NOx cycling via particulate nitrate photolysis (Daniel Moon and Dr Chunxiang Ye, University of Leeds)

2016-10-24 17:00: Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet (David Rothery, Open University)

2016-10-25 12:00: The composition of Earth and Exo-planets (Amy Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-25 13:00: Uncertainty quantification for complex simulators using emulation (Dr Richard Wilkinson, The University of Sheffield)

2016-10-26 11:00: Wake effects in the ocean - from dolphins to CTDs via western boundary currents (Dave Munday, BAS)

2016-10-26 13:00: 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling (Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh))

2016-10-26 16:00: Reconciling scales in global seismology (Dr Thomas Bodin, Lyon)

2016-10-26 16:30: Linking ice-cliff and rock-slope failures (Antonio Abellan)

2016-10-26 17:00: Surviving the 21st Century (Martin Rees,  Partha Dasgupta,  Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-27 11:30: Redxo-active anilines: From switchable surfactants to tuneable gas capture (Professor Charles Faul, Chemistry, Uni of Bristol)

2016-10-27 13:00: Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners (Martin Parniske, University of Munich)

2016-10-27 17:30: The separation of Britain from mainland Europe in the late Quaternary  (Jenny Collier, Imperial College London)

2016-10-28 16:00: Modelling the growth of laccoliths: Static and dynamic fluid-driven fracturing of adhered elastica (Thomasina Ball (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-31 13:00: Splash and spray from a partially submerged spinning disc (Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP))

2016-10-31 14:15: Direct Detection of Criegee Intermediates and Reaction Products  Using Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy (Dr Dan Stone, University of Leeds)

2016-10-31 17:00: Abiotic chemical cycling on earth and beyond (Dr Oli Shorttle, Cambridge)

2016-11-01 12:00: Impacts of Depositional Environments on δ34S Records: Rethinking Stratigraphic Trends and Geobiological Interpretations (Professor David Fike, Washington University in St Louis)

2016-11-01 14:00: A unified nonlinear stochastic time series analysis for climate science (Dr. Woosok Moon, BAS Cambridge)

2016-11-02 10:00: Mirabilite and salinity dynamics in sea ice brines (Ben Butler, James Hutton Institute)

2016-11-02 13:00: Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula (Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier))

2016-11-02 16:00: The Influence of Mantle Thermal Heterogeneity on Outer Core Convection (Dr Jon Mound, University of Leeds)

2016-11-02 17:00: Causes and mechanisms underlying changes in the migratory behaviour of birds (Aldina Franco, School of Environmental Sciences, University East Anglia)

2016-11-03 11:30: Some fluid-structure interaction problems in the viscous limit (Dr Zhong Zheng, Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University)

2016-11-03 13:00: Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Doris Gangl, Smith group)

2016-11-04 16:00: Cenozoic Uplift of Europe from Linear Inverse Modelling of River Profiles (Fergus McNab (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-07 13:00: The precession resonance mechanism in nonlinear wave systems (Dan Lucas (DAMTP))

2016-11-07 14:15: Comprehensive laboratory studies of hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms (Dr Max McGillen, Bristol University)

2016-11-07 17:00: Rocks and Stones: Geology in the Built Environment (Ruth Siddall, UCL)

2016-11-08 12:00: Looking at Last Interglacial Sea Level records through a solid Earth lens (Jacky Austermann, Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-08 13:00: Greenland Ice Sheet motion, ice-ocean interactions, and other ambitions to understand the cryosphere (Twila Moon (University of Bristol))

2016-11-09 14:00: Detection of climate and environmental change in the big data era (Dr. Claudie Beaulieu, Univ. Southampton)

2016-11-09 16:00: A new model for chemical weathering of continental interiors and its implications for Earth's climate evolution (Prof Jean Braun, ISTerre)

2016-11-09 17:00: Information gaps in conservation science: from data collection to analysis and practices (Tatsuya Amano, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-10 11:30:  FEniCS-Shells: solving thin structural theories using a high-level finite element language (Dr Jack S. Hale, Research Unit in Engineering Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Luxembourg.)

2016-11-10 13:00: Phytoplankton membrane transport:  The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells (Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association )

2016-11-10 17:30: Archaeological insights into the 8.2 ka event (Lucy Farr, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-11 16:00: Linear Inverse Modeling and Scaling Analysis of  Drainage Inventories: Examples from Asia (Conor O'Malley (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-11 16:30: Speciation in Heliconius butterflies: Pheromones and Female Choice (Kathy Darragh - Department of Zoology)

2016-11-14 13:00: How Boltzmann statistics govern a river's shape (Olivier Devauchelle (IPGP))

2016-11-14 13:00: The importance of compaction in the formation of adcumulates in the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland (Zoja Vukmanovic (University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences))

2016-11-14 13:00: Crystal settling and convection: perspectives from the Totternish Sill Complex & Komatiite Lava flow (Gautier Nicoli (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-14 14:15: CPGS seminars (Jake Smith, Conor Bolas, Amy King)

2016-11-14 17:00: Populating a post-extinction world: the resurgence of vertebrate diversity in the early Carboniferous (Prof. Jenny Clack, Zoology)

2016-11-15 12:00: Uranium isotope ratios as redox sensors : Toward a predictive understanding (Anirban Basu, Royal Holloway University of London)

2016-11-15 14:00: Sensitivity of simulated summer monsoonal precipitation in Langtang Valley, Himalaya to cloud microphysics schemes in WRF (Dr Andrew Orr, British Antarctic Survey)

2016-11-16 13:00: Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians (Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology))

2016-11-16 16:00: Slabs, plumes and their interaction: new insights from global anisotropy tomography (Dr Ana Ferreira, UCL)

2016-11-16 17:00: Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines (Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO))

2016-11-16 17:00: Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines (Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO))

2016-11-17 11:30: Biofunctionalised Nanotools for New Materials Design (Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Dept of Chemical Engineering)

2016-11-17 13:00: Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms (Javier Igea, Tanentzap Group)

2016-11-17 14:00: Climate science research in Cambridge (See abstract for programme)

2016-11-18 14:00: Abrupt climate changes and sea level rise during the last deglaciation (21,000 to 7,000 years ago) (Dr Lauren Gregoire, The University of Leeds)

2016-11-18 16:00: Velocity Variations from Ambient Noise Interferometry at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (Clare Donaldson (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-21 14:15: Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon during the past 6000 years (Daniel Befort, University of Birmingham)

2016-11-21 17:00: #ArchivesRock - treasures from the Sedgwick Museum Archive (Sandra Freshney, Sedgwick Museum)

2016-11-22 12:00: A geochemical journey in time: on the track of uranium and nickel (Balz Kamber, Trinity College Dublin)

2016-11-22 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Julie Jones (University of Sheffield))

2016-11-22 14:00: Understanding recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate (Dr Julie Jones, University Sheffield)

2016-11-23 11:00: The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change (Paul Holland, BAS)

2016-11-23 16:00: The influence of hydrospheric processes on intraplate seismicity (Dr Tim Craig, University of Leeds)

2016-11-23 16:30: Ice shelf-ocean interactions: self-organisation and instability (Daniel Goldberg (University of Edinburgh))

2016-11-23 17:00: Unravelling the ecology of insect invasions : from individuals to communities in Britain and beyond (Helen Roy, NERC, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology )

2016-11-24 11:30: Flow and Arrest of Very Dense Suspensions (Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP))

2016-11-24 13:00: Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity (Giacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson)

2016-11-24 17:30: From Cambridge to Cuzco and back again: 4000 years of environmental history from the heart of the Inca Empire (Mick Frogley and Alex Chepstow-Lusty, University of Sussex)

2016-11-25 16:00: Deformation and Microseismicity of the Groningen Gas Reservoir (Jonathan Smith (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-25 16:30: Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi (Victoria Franks - Department of Zoology)

2016-11-28 13:00: Rethinking volcanism from a trans-crustal perspective (Kathy Cashman (University of Bristol))

2016-11-28 14:15: Impacts of tropical UTLS ozone feedback on surface climate change projections (Dr Peer Nowack, Cambridge University)

2016-11-28 17:00:  Hot Rocks Under Our Feet; Seismic Imaging of Igneous Geology in Sedimentary Basins (Prof. Christopher Jackson, Imperial )

2016-11-29 12:00: Oxygen distribution in Earth's core (Tetsuya Komabayashi, University of Edinburgh)

2016-11-29 14:00: Scaling and Representative Measurements for Snowpack Sampling (Prof Dr Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University )

2016-11-30 17:00: European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them? (Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2016-11-30 17:00: European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them? (Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2016-12-01 11:30: Waves and wave-driven flows on coral reefs (Stephen Monismith, Stanford)

2016-12-01 13:00: Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits (Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group)

2016-12-01 15:00: The long road to Paris - how the climate change agreement was made (David Warrilow OBE)

2016-12-01 15:00: The long road to Paris - how the climate change agreement was made (David Warrilow)

2016-12-02 16:00: Melt Production in the Mantle due to Deglaciation in Iceland (Isarapong Eksinchol (University of Cambridge))

2016-12-06 14:00: Modelling Climate and Water Isotope Signatures of El Niño in the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period (Dr Julia Tindall, University of Leeds)

2016-12-07 11:00: Submesoscale instabilities at ocean fronts (Christian Buckingham (ex-Univ. Soton, soon to be BAS))

2016-12-07 13:00: How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks (Walter Robinson, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University)

2016-12-08 13:00: Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors (Angela Falciatore, CNRS Paris)

2016-12-09 16:30: Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate (Edith Julieta (Julie) Sarmiento-Ponce - Department of Zoology)

2016-12-09 17:00: Can phenotypic plasticity allow specialist parasites to colonise new hosts? (Gabriel Jamie - Department of Zoology)

2017-01-12 13:00: Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato (Zhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group)

2017-01-12 14:00: The properties of absorbing aerosol in the atmospheric and its role in the tropics and in the Arctic (Prof Hugh Coe, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester)

2017-01-17 12:00: TBA (Freysteinn Sigmundsson (Nordic Volcanological Centre, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland))

2017-01-17 12:00: The Bardarbunga volcanic system, Iceland, and its 2014-2015 dyking event, major eruption, and slow caldera collapse (Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland)

2017-01-18 16:00: TBA (Freysteinn Sigmundsson (Nordic Volcanological Centre, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland))

2017-01-18 16:00: Volcano geodesy and plate boundary deformation in Iceland (Prof Freysteinn Sigmundsson,  Nordic Volcanological Centre)

2017-01-19 11:30: Multi-directional simple shear response of soils (Giovanna Biscontin (University of Cambridge))

2017-01-19 13:00: The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security (Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter)

2017-01-23 17:30: What keeps the Earth habitable? (Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL Birkbeck)

2017-01-24 12:00: Understanding the carbon isotope record during early Paleogene greenhouse conditions (Dr. Gerald Dickens, Rice University, Houston USA)

2017-01-25 13:00: Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning (Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford))

2017-01-25 13:00: The 1257 Samalas eruption (Celine Vidal (University of Cambridge))

2017-01-25 17:00: UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities (Professor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee  Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies)

2017-01-26 11:30: Characterising heterogeneity in multiphase flow and reactive transport processes in application to CO2 storage (Dr Sam Krevor, Imperial College London)

2017-01-26 13:00: The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing. (Nina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group)

2017-01-26 14:00: CCfCS poster session (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-01-26 17:30: Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes (Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2017-01-27 16:00: Investigating the Earth's viscosity structure using measurements of post-glacial deformation (Ophelia Crawford (University of Cambridge))

2017-01-30 13:00: On the generation of waves by turbulent wind (Frédéric Moisy (FAST))

2017-01-30 14:15: Air Pollution and Human Health (APHH) in a Chinese Megacity (Beijing): campaign overview (Dr Lekan Popoola)

2017-01-30 17:30: Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet (David Rothery, Open University)

2017-02-01 16:00: Patterns of Dynamic Topography on Earth (Dr Mark Hoggard, Bullard Labs)

2017-02-01 17:00: When does environmental science get used in policy and practice?  (David Rose, Department of Geography University of Cambridge)

2017-02-02 11:30: Arrested bubble 'rise' in a narrow tube (Mrs Catherine Kamal, Bristol)

2017-02-02 13:00: Climate Change and Nature Conservation (Brian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust)

2017-02-03 16:00: Megathrust and accretionary wedge properties and behaviour in the Makrna subduction zone (Camilla Penney (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-06 13:00: Debris flow analogue models: how far can we push them? (Lis Bowman (University of Sheffield))

2017-02-06 14:15: Inferring causality in the atmosphere - constraining aerosol-cloud interactions from observations (Edward Gryspeerdt, Imperial College, London)

2017-02-06 17:30: Magmatic flare ups along continental margin arcs: evidence from the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia (Teal Riley, BAS)

2017-02-07 12:00: Isotopic reactive transport approaches to unraveling (bio)geochemical processes in groundwater systems (Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

2017-02-07 14:00: Turbulent transport and mixing of oceanic sea salt aerosol over the Indian sub-continent: Cloud microphysical and geo-engineering implications (Prof Dr. S. Ghosh, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India)

2017-02-07 17:00: 20,000 Rocks Under The Sea: Journey to the Pito Deep (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-02-08 13:00: How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution (Neal Anthwal (King's College London))

2017-02-08 13:00: Masterclass: Calculating P-T-t paths in basalts (John Maclennan (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-08 16:00: The rheology of the partially molten mantle (Dr John Rudge, Bullard Labs)

2017-02-08 17:00: Lessons from plants that don’t stay put:  Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias (Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne)

2017-02-09 11:30: Improving Oil Recovery Using Controlled Salinity Waterflooding (Dr Matthew Jackson, Imperial College)

2017-02-09 13:00: Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible? (Pete Carey, Tanner Group)

2017-02-09 16:00: Lizards, skulls and reptile communities (Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum))

2017-02-09 17:30: Modelling the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: How sensitive are past climates? (Paul Valdes, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol)

2017-02-10 16:00: Two- and Three-Dimensional Seismic Imaging of Thermohaline Circulation: West Antarctic Peninsula and Brazilian-Uruguayan Margin (Kathryn Gunn (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-13 13:00: Impacts and fragmentation in liquid-liquid systems: Planet formation in the lab (Maylis Landeau (DAMTP))

2017-02-13 14:15: Interaction between gaseous halogen oxides and other radical families (Dr David Rowley, University College, London)

2017-02-13 17:30: Humans as the new geology (Mike Ellis, BGS)

2017-02-14 12:00: Assessing volatile heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle and transport of volatiles from mantle to surface (Saemundur Halldorsson, University of Iceland)

2017-02-14 17:00: Tropical Forests and Climate Change: Biological and Anthropological Perspectives (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-02-15 11:00: Ice ice baby, under pressure: Ice-ocean interactions in and around ice shelves (Jim Jordan (British Antarctic Survey, Imperial College London))

2017-02-15 16:00: Seismic velocity structure of volcanic rift zones in Iceland (Dr Rob Green, Bullard Labs)

2017-02-15 17:00: Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation (Debbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT))

2017-02-16 11:30: Electrohydrodynamic control of multi-fluid systems at small scales (Dr Radu Cimpeanu, Imperial College London)

2017-02-16 13:00: Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning (Alexander Jones, SLCU)

2017-02-17 16:00: The Importance of Asthenospheric Temperature Anomalies in Maintaining Observed Dynamic Topography (Fred Richards (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-20 13:00: Understanding drivers of Arctic sea ice loss through analysis of observations and models (Julienne Stroeve (UCL))

2017-02-20 14:15: Global modelling of tropospheric halogens and their impacts on air quality and climate (Dr Tomás Sherwen, University of York)

2017-02-20 17:30: PhD Showcase (Lawrence Cowton, Victoria Honour, Luke Grinham)

2017-02-21 12:00: Stickiness: a key ingredient in process to product relations of sedimentary systems (Daniel Parsons, University of Hull)

2017-02-21 14:00: The effects of ozone depletion, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and increased aerosols on precipitation in High-Mountain Asia (Zoran E.H. Kaufmann, EPFL, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Switzerland)

2017-02-22 13:00: The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton (Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-22 13:00: Masterclass: Non-traditional stable isotopes (Helen Williams (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-22 14:00: Warm periods of the past (See abstract for programme)

2017-02-22 16:00: Advances in the Understanding of Seismicity induced by Natural Gas Production (Dr Dirk Smit, Shell)

2017-02-22 17:00: Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems  (David Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge)

2017-02-23 11:30: Instabilities of internal gravity wave beams: insignts from experimental and analytical approaches (Directeur Thierry Dauxois, ENS Lyon)

2017-02-23 13:00: The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems (Erik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group)

2017-02-23 17:30: MIS 7, the "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record (Francis Wenban-Smith, Archaeology, University of Southampton)

2017-02-24 16:00: Three-Dimensional Seismic Imaging of Water Masses  within the Faroe-Shetland Channel (Alex Dickinson (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-27 13:00: Inferences of mantle viscosity based on ice age datasets (Jacky Austermann (Bullard) )

2017-02-27 14:15: New Developments in Climate Observations (Prof Stephen Briggs, European Space Agency)

2017-02-27 17:30: Volcano hunting in Papua New Guinea (Lois Salem, Cambridge)

2017-02-28 12:00: Atoms on the move: deformation-induced trace element redistribution in zircon (Sandra Piazolo, University of Leeds)

2017-02-28 16:00: SPECIAL TEA TIME TALK: Temblor, an app for all things seismic (Ross Stein (Scientist Emeritus, USGS))

2017-03-01 09:00: The Composition of Rocky Planetary Bodies: Earth and Exo-planetary (Amy	Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK )

2017-03-01 10:00: Geophysical influences on surface habitability - from Earth to rocky exoplanets (Lena	Noack, Department of Reference Systems and Geodynamics, Brussels, Belgium)

2017-03-01 12:05: Abiotic chemical cycling on Earth and beyond (Ollie	Shorttle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK)

2017-03-01 14:00: Characterising exoplanet interiors (Caroline Dorn, National Centre for Space Research & Planetary Sciences University of Bern, Switzerland)

2017-03-01 15:00: A hitchhiker’s guide to planet evolution: how to unravel the coevolution of planet interiors, their fluid envelopes, and life (Vlada Stamenkovic, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, USA)

2017-03-01 16:30: Submarine canyons in polar and temperate margins: shaping mechanisms and long-term evolution (Dr. David Amblas, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-01 17:00: Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade (Amy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford)

2017-03-02 11:30: Multifunctional Micro and Nanoencapsulation technology with remote controlled delivery and release of various cargos (Professor Gleb Sukhorukov, Queen Mary University of London)

2017-03-02 13:00: Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective (MM Flowers and Beverley Glover)

2017-03-02 17:00: RESCHEDULED: ERC Equipoise careers presentation (ERC Equipoise )

2017-03-03 14:00: The Formation of Southern Ocean Gyres (Ryan Patmore, BAS)

2017-03-03 16:00: Surface Response to Regional Dynamic Uplift: Examples from Madagascar (Simon Stephenson (University of Cambridge))

2017-03-06 13:00: Mixing efficiency in run-down gravity currents (Paul Linden (DAMTP))

2017-03-06 14:15: Modeling the Physical Multi-Phase Interactions of HNO3 Between Snow and Air on the Antarctic Plateau (Dome C) and coast (Halley) (Hoi Ga Chan, British Antarctic Survey)

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)

2017-03-07 12:00: The metamorphic rock record: insights from eclogites (Owen Weller, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-08 13:00: Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila (Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich))

2017-03-08 13:00: The 2011 Nabro eruption (Amy Donovan (UCL))

2017-03-08 16:00: Toward looking at the Earth's interior through unbiased tomographic glasses (Dr Christophe Zaroli,  Univeriste de Strastbourg )

2017-03-08 17:00: Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century (Jonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission)

2017-03-09 11:00: Sources and sinks of bioactive trace metals across the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Amber Annett, Rutgers University)

2017-03-09 11:30: Energy release rate in hydraulic fracture: Can we neglect an impact of the hydraulically induced shear stress? (Professor Gennady Mishuris, Aberystwyth)

2017-03-09 13:00: Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing (Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group)

2017-03-09 17:30: Causes of ice-age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, insights from a new boron isotope CO2 record (Thomas Chalk, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

2017-03-13 13:00: The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change (Paul Holland (BAS))

2017-03-13 14:15: A comprehensive model analysis of the UK atmospheric composition and air-surface exchange of pollutants (Dr Massimo Vieno, CEH, Edinburgh)

2017-03-13 17:30: Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater (Auriol Rae, Imperial)

2017-03-14 12:00: Granulite facies metamorphism and melting: the message from the metabasites (Richard White, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2017-03-15 13:00: Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes (Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews))

2017-03-15 16:00: Patterns of seismic anisotropy and mantle flow around convergent margins: predictions from 3D geodynamic modelling and implications for the interpretation of seismic tomographies (Dr Manuelle Faccenda, Padova)

2017-03-15 16:30: Controls on the rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes (Dr. Jerome A. Neufeld, Department of Earth Sciences & DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-15 17:00: Ecological and evolutionary responses of species to climate change (Jane Hill, Department of Biology University of York)

2017-03-16 11:30: Internal BPI Student Seminars (Ed Hinton, Neerjana Bhamidipati and Thomasina Ball)

2017-03-16 13:00: Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs (Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre)

2017-03-17 10:30: Sedgwick Club Conference 2017 (Speakers from Cambridge and beyond...)

2017-03-17 11:30: Cosmic Dust: The fastest little rocks on Earth (Matt Genge, Imperial)

2017-03-17 13:30: It's O(1) compaction length to Cambridge: successes and challenges for magma dynamics since McKenzie (1984) (Rich Katz, Oxford)

2017-03-17 14:00: A lot of hot air: gas in volcanic eruptions (Marie Edmonds, Cambridge)

2017-03-17 14:45: How to weigh a dinosaur (Susie Maidment, Cambridge)

2017-03-17 15:15: Indirect signatures of life in the alluvial stratigraphic record (Neil Davies, Cambridge)

2017-03-17 16:15: Planetary geology and the long-term scientific benefits of space resources (Ian Crawford, UCL Birkbeck)

2017-03-20 14:15: Using and Developing the Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) (Dr Scott Archer-Nicholls, Cambridge University)

2017-03-21 14:00: Arctic climate change – mid latitude circulation and extreme weather linkages (Prof Dr E. Hanna)

2017-03-22 13:00: Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures  (Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth))

2017-03-23 13:00: Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids (Katrin Geisler, Smith Group)

2017-03-30 13:00: Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs (Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside)

2017-03-31 16:00: TBD  - Cool observations of the Icelandic mantle plume (Jennifer Jenkins)

2017-04-04 14:00: The effects of directional wind shear on orographic gravity-wave breaking (Maria V. Guarino, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology)

2017-04-04 14:00: Variability of water isotopes in Antarctic snow and ice-core records (Thomas Laepple, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

2017-04-06 13:00: The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies (Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley))

2017-04-12 14:00: Making your work ODA-able: refocussing science for official development assistance  (Lucy Bricheno, NOC, Liverpool)

2017-04-19 11:00: Different uses for spatial overlap scores: testing gannet sexual segregation & predicting kittiwake foraging areas (Beth Clark, University of Exeter/RSPB)

2017-04-20 12:00: Indian Monsoon: Trends, Rhythms and Thresholds since Eocene (Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2017-04-20 13:00: Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation (Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group)

2017-04-21 16:30: The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration (Katarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology)

2017-04-21 17:00: Communication and Coordination: how individuals shape groups (Riva Riley - Department of Zoology)

2017-04-26 13:00:  Plume sampling with UAVs on Guatemalan volcanoes (Emma Liu (University of Cambridge))

2017-04-26 16:00: The signature of the Icelandic mantle plume from crust to mid-mantle ( Jennifer Jenkins, Bullard Labs)

2017-04-27 11:30: Vibrating cables & flapping flags: classical fluid-solid instabilities or energy sources ? (Professor Sebastien Michelin, LadHyx)

2017-04-27 13:00: Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health (Dan Klessig, Cornell University)

2017-05-02 12:00: A guide to the science of Equality & Diversity (Fionnuala Murphy and Rogier Kievit)

2017-05-02 13:00: The Southern Ocean in climate models (Erik Behrens National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)

2017-05-02 16:00: Sea-level changes and extreme waves between past and future worlds (Alessio Rovere, MARUM - University of Bremen; ZMT - Leibniz center for tropical marine research)

2017-05-03 13:00: Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum (Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool))

2017-05-03 16:00: Quantifying the details of earliest rift development and how the rift basin fills: Integrating existing marine and terrestrial data and upcoming ocean drilling at the Corinth Rift, Greece (Professor Lisa McNeill,  South Hampton)

2017-05-04 11:30: Modelling entrainment and surface processes in atmospheric flows over rural and urban boundary layers. (Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London)

2017-05-04 13:00: Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network (Ross Mounce, Brockington group)

2017-05-04 14:00: Altering volcanic rocks at the Earth’s surface: A progress report (Lou Derry, Cornell University, USA)

2017-05-04 16:00: Extra Thursday Seminar: Multi-observable thermochemical tomography ( Dr. Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University)

2017-05-04 17:30: How ice sheets collapse: a lesson from the Laurentide Ice Sheet (Chris Stokes, Durham University)

2017-05-05 16:00: Partial megathrust ruptures and high frequency radiation, the Gorkha earthquake example (Sylvain Michel (University of Cambridge))

2017-05-05 16:30: How do predators use social information about defended prey? (Liisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-05 17:00: Ageing Rates in Meerkats (Jack Thorley - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-08 11:00: Krill feeding in fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula (and a few penguins & seals) (Alison Cleary, Norwegian Polar Institute)

2017-05-08 14:15: Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds (Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge))

2017-05-09 12:00: Microbial growth on isoprene-an abundant climate active trace gas (Professor Colin Murrell University of East Anglia)

2017-05-09 12:30: From genes to functions: Microbial life in Movile Cave ecosystem (Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast)

2017-05-10 11:00: Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (Yvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton)

2017-05-10 13:00: Masterclass: The health impacts of volcanic gases (Peter Baxter (University of Cambridge))

2017-05-10 13:00: Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation (Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi, Australian Antarctic Division)

2017-05-10 16:00: The story of nothing (Professor Malcolm Sambridge, ANU)

2017-05-11 11:30: Measuring Ocean Mixing (Greg Ivey, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia)

2017-05-11 13:00: CambPlants Industrial Talks (Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences)

2017-05-11 14:00: Snow cover variability in Western Himalayas and its implications on socio-economic status and livelihood of local communities (Dr Shresth Tayal, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi)

2017-05-15 14:15: Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer (Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific)

2017-05-16 12:00: Why the Boring Billion is the most interesting period in Earth History (Ray Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford)

2017-05-17 10:30: Climate Science, Atmospheres and Life: From the Earth and Beyond (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-17 14:00: The Southern Ocean carbon cycle: Insights from a recently installed atmospheric O2 and CO2 measurement system at the Halley Research Station, Antarctica (Thomas Barningham , UEA, School of Environmental Sciences)

2017-05-17 16:00: The persistence of large-scale compositional heterogeneity in the Earth’s mantle (Dr Maxim Ballmer ETH Zurich)

2017-05-17 17:00: Bumps and Ramps in the Glacial CO2 Record (Professor Wally Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)

2017-05-18 11:30: 'Mixing in Gravity Currents' and 'Gravity Driven Flow in a Horizontal Annulus' (Diana Sher and Marcus Horsley - BP Institute)

2017-05-18 13:00: Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems (Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group)

2017-05-18 16:00: The timing of cirque glaciation in western North America revisited: No Neoglacial in the U.S. Cordillera? (Shaun Marcott, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2017-05-19 16:30: How does exposure to prenatal cortisol affect foraging success in meerkats? (Tejasvini Chalikonda - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-19 17:00: Insects at the extreme: midges, beetles, DNA and physiology in the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions. (Felipe Simões - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-22 14:00: ECCO version 4: an ocean data analysis and parameter estimation framework (Gael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2017-05-22 14:15: Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system (Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University)

2017-05-23 12:00: Rivers and climate change: three short stories of their partnership (Andrew Wickert, University of Minnesota)

2017-05-23 14:00: SO-AntEco: Contributing information and scientific advice to the CCAMLR South Orkney Islands MPA review  ( Madeleine Brasier, University of Liverpool and Natural History Museum, London )

2017-05-24 11:00: Seasonal changes in Circumpolar Deep Water in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, using seal-borne tags (Helen Mallet, University of East Anglia)

2017-05-24 13:00: Masterclass: Crystal growth kinetics (Marian Holness (University of Cambridge))

2017-05-24 16:00: Causes and consequences of upper-mantle seismic anisotropy: The link between olivine microstructure and the nature of plate tectonics (Dr Lars Hansen)

2017-05-25 11:30: Drop splashing at smooth dry surfaces  (Professor Jose Gordillo, University of Seville)

2017-05-31 13:00: Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal  skeleton (Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder))

2017-05-31 16:00: No Bullard seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-06-01 11:30: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2017-06-01 13:00: A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group)

2017-06-02 16:30: Red vs. Yellow: Genetics of carotenoid coloration in weaverbirds (Hanlu Twyman - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-02 17:00: Competitive coexistence between phoretic mites: between ecology and biomechanics? (Syuan-Jyun Sun - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-07 11:00: Examining mechanisms for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic (Dr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey))

2017-06-07 16:00: No Bullard seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-06-08 11:30: Dynamics of thin liquid sheets: Theory and Experiments (Mahesh Tirumkudulu (IIT Bombay, INDIA))

2017-06-12 12:00: Sourcing hydrogen and volatiles in the inner solar system: Insights from basalts  (Adam Sarafian, MIT/WHOI)

2017-06-12 14:15: What has the Antarctic ozone hole to do with biological evolution? (Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-14 13:00: Cultures of Forecasting on Mt. Merapi (Adam Bobbette (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-14 13:00: Time and space in insect segmentation (Erik Clark (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-14 16:00: Coastal tectonics in the eastern Mediterranean (Andy Howell - Bullard Laboratories )

2017-06-15 11:00: Salamander regeneration: regulation and evolution (Professor Andras Simon, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)

2017-06-15 11:30: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2017-06-19 11:00: The 2016 K-axis Voyage: A Salpa thompsoni goldmine (Paige Kelly, Australian Antarctic Division)

2017-06-20 13:00: Using fisheries samples to investigate seasonal and regional variation in Antarctic krill lipids  (Nicole Hellessey, University of Tasmania)

2017-06-20 13:30: Antarctic krill: Life is all about balance in a high CO2 world (Jessica Ericson, University of Tasmania)

2017-06-21 14:00: The euphausiid exception in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)  (Dr. Jaime Farber-Lorda (Centro de Investigación Cientifica, Ensenada, Mexico) )

2017-06-26 11:00: Southern Ocean coccolithophore biogeography – controlling factors and implications for global biogeochemical cycles (Cara Nissen, ETH Zurich )

2017-06-26 13:00: Ecology and diversity of Southern Ocean pelagic amphipods (Charlotte Havermans, University of Bremen)

2017-06-28 13:00: A year in the life of the minutiae in a changing Arctic Ocean (Bryan Wilson, University of Bergen)

2017-07-03 11:00: Exploring complexity in seabird foraging behaviour (Xavier Meyer, BAS )

2017-07-03 14:00: The bottom-intensification of mixing causes large, almost cancelling, abyssal upwelling and downwelling (Trevor McDougall, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales)

2017-07-05 11:00: From the outcrop to the mass spectrometer: tracing the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth  (Dr. Matthew Warke from St Andrews)

2017-07-06 10:00: Soundscape ecology: what sound can tell us about ecological functioning (Rachel Buxton, Colorado State University)

2017-07-17 14:00: Quantification of Kelvin wave-induced subsurface warming along the West Antarctic Peninsula (David Webb, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), UNSW, Australia)

2017-07-19 11:00: Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier (Alessandro Silvano, University of Tasmania)

2017-07-26 13:00: Evolution of limb and fin regeneration (Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará))

2017-08-30 15:00: Transport, deposition and migration of magmatic sulfide liquid (Dr Steve Barnes from  CSIRO, Australia)

2017-09-19 12:00: History of the Solar Nebula from Meteorite Paleomagnetism (Prof. Ben Weiss)

2017-09-19 16:00: Bayesian Trans-dimensional Geophysical Inversion (Rhys Hawkins (ANU))

2017-09-20 16:00: The nature and age of the eastern Mediterranean crust and their geodynamic consequences (Dr Roi Granot, Ben Gurion University)

2017-09-25 13:00: Passive and active tracer flows: Regional-scale mixing and laboratory-scale instabilities (Jared Penney, LEGOS, Toulouse)

2017-09-26 11:00: Measuring pH variability using an experimental sensor on an underwater glider (Michael Hemming, University of East Anglia/LOCEAN, UPMC, Paris)

2017-09-26 12:00: The Great Migration:  3.8 billion years of carbon circulation through Earth (Matthieu Galvez, ETH-Zurich)

2017-09-28 12:00: Identifying Rossby wave packets using local finite amplitude wave activity (Paolo Ghinassi, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Universität Mainz)

2017-09-28 14:00: Thermodynamic balance at ice-ocean interface in theory, models and maybe real life (Alena Malyarenko, NIWA, New Zealand)

2017-10-02 14:00: The response of ice sheets to climate variability (Kate Snow, University of Edinburgh)

2017-10-04 16:00: The last stage of Earth's formation: Increasing the pressure (Simon Lock, Harvard Univsersity)

2017-10-05 11:30: Taking control of flowing dense suspensions (Dr Chris Ness (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-05 13:00: CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants (Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University)

2017-10-09 13:00: The evolution of ice rheology in glacier shear margins: Crystallographic fabric and thermoviscous feedbacks (Brent Minchew (BAS))

2017-10-09 14:15: CPGS Seminars (Andrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University)

2017-10-09 17:30: Isotopes in volcanic emissions: links to Earth’s ancient past and not-so-distant future (Emily Mason (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-10 12:00: Biologically-induced weathering and soil development in the earliest land-plant ecosystems (Dr Ria Mitchell, Natural History Museum, London)

2017-10-11 13:00: Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array (Michael Bok (University of Bristol))

2017-10-11 16:00: Probing lateral variations in Earth’s mantle viscosity across timescales (Dr Jacqueline Austermann, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-12 11:30: Effects of Submesoscale Turbulence on Reactive Tracers in the Upper Ocean (Dr Kat Smith (DAMTP))

2017-10-12 13:00: The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins (Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab)

2017-10-16 13:00: Wind work on ocean eddies and the decadal-mean impact of relative wind stress on the ocean (Xiaoming Zhai (UEA))

2017-10-16 17:30: G5a: the geology, origin and celebrity of Shap Granite. (Dr Nigel Woodcock (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-17 12:00: Iron and zinc stable isotope constraints on slab dehydration and devolatilisation processes (Dr Helen Williams, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-17 12:00: Technical challenges in the upstream oil industry (Dr Fereidoun Abbassian, BP Wells, Production and Facilities)

2017-10-18 16:00: A tale of three orogens: seismological insights into lithospheric processes in Eastern Canada (Dr Amy Gilligan, University of Aberdeen)

2017-10-18 16:30: What lies beneath: a radio-glaciological study of Greenland. (Mr Michael Cooper)

2017-10-19 11:30: Density stratification in gravity currents; topographic interactions, shear layer stability, and impact on the global sediment budget (Professor Ben Kneller, University of Aberdeen)

2017-10-19 13:00: Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences (CINTRIN)

2017-10-19 17:30: Volcanic eruptions, climate and humans: How lessons from the past can help us to prepare for the future  (Michael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)

2017-10-20 16:00: Radial anisotropy in the upper mantle from surface wave observations (Dr Tak Ho)

2017-10-23 13:00: Aquaplanet and stationary wave monsoons (Ruth Geen (University of Exeter))

2017-10-23 14:15: Detailed Modelling of Organic Chemistry in the Atmosphere – Recent Advances (and Limitations) (Dr Peter Brauer, University of York)

2017-10-23 17:30: Redrawing the Dinosaur family tree (Matt Baron (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-24 12:00: The origin and early diversification of land plants (Prof. Charles Wellman, University of Sheffield)

2017-10-25 13:00: Variability of the Antarctic slope current system in the northwestern Weddell Sea (Marina Azaneu, University of East Anglia)

2017-10-25 13:30: CCfCS Welcome Event 2017 (several speakers -- see abstract)

2017-10-25 16:00: Volcano seismology: listening to the heartbeat of volcanoes (Prof. Jurgen Neuberg, University of Leeds)

2017-10-26 11:30: Halogen bonding and Crystal Engineering (Chris Truscott, BPI)

2017-10-26 13:00: Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective (Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab)

2017-10-27 16:00: Cross-cutting strike-slip seismicity in an Icelandic rift zone (Tom Winder, Bullard Labs)

2017-10-30 13:00:  The linear stability of general zonal flows for any Rossby and Richardson numbers  (Mike Bell (Met Office, Exeter))

2017-10-30 17:30: Living with Earthquakes: bridging the physical and social sciences (Dr Emily So (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-31 11:00: Oxygen-isotope records of the Early Holocene climate of Europe (Jonathan Holmes, University College London)

2017-10-31 12:00: Controls on microbial communities in subseafloor environments investigated by ocean drilling (Prof. Mark Lever, ETH Zürich)

2017-10-31 14:00: A regime-based perspective on variability of the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude jet (Nicholas Byrne, University of Reading)

2017-11-01 11:00: Anthropogenic carbon estimates in the oceanic carbon cycle (Tobia Tudino, University of Exeter)

2017-11-01 16:00: Drowning in data? How can we exploit massive geodetic data? (Prof. Tim Wright, University of Leeds)

2017-11-02 11:30: Friction behavior of Organic Friction Modifiers: an experimental and numerical approach (Professor Clotilde Minfray, Ecole Centrale de Lyon)

2017-11-02 13:00: Managing the global land resource (Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen)

2017-11-02 17:30: MIS 7, The "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record (Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton)

2017-11-06 13:00: Long-range propagation of ocean swell (Bill Young (UCSD))

2017-11-06 14:15: Using past decadal temperature changes to understand present and future climate (Dr Andrew Schurer, University of Edinburgh)

2017-11-06 17:30: Department PhD Showcase (tbc)

2017-11-07 12:00: Influence of Himalayan river dynamics on the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation in NW India (Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2017-11-08 11:00: Links between Southern Ocean dynamics and Antarctic ice melt (Laura Herraiz Borreguero, University of Southampton)

2017-11-08 13:00: Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders (Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-08 16:00: Quo vadis full-waveform inversion (Dr Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich)

2017-11-09 11:30: Numerical study of interfacial flows for environmental and industrial applications (Dr Zhihua Xie, University of Cardiff)

2017-11-09 13:00: Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants (Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab)

2017-11-13 11:00: Glaciers, icebergs and silicon: Preliminary findings from ICY-LAB research expeditions to SW Greenland (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol)

2017-11-13 13:00: Modelling grain growth in polycrystals (Felix Ng (University of Sheffield))

2017-11-13 17:30: The perils of planetary geology: why no one should ever complain about mapping in Britain and Ireland (Jack Wright (Open University))

2017-11-14 12:00: Directly dating faults: in-situ U-Pb calcite dating (Dr Catherine Mottram, University of Portsmouth)

2017-11-15 16:00: Gas and trace metal emissions at basaltic volcanoes: New advances using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (Dr Emma Liu, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-15 16:30: Remote sensing of melt and fracture on Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica (Dr Suzanne Bevan)

2017-11-16 11:30: Rupture-resistant filter cakes for wellbore strengthening - Nikzad Falahati and Simulator of underground water flow and transport processes - Jan Hybs (Jan Hybs and Nikzad Falahati, BP Institute)

2017-11-16 13:00: Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection (Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich)

2017-11-16 17:30: Climatic controls on peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium (Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter)

2017-11-20 14:15: Dual air quality benefit of SO2 emission controls by decreasing sulfate and biogenic secondary organic aerosol (Dr Eloïse Marais, University of Birmingham)

2017-11-20 17:30: National Geographic Explorers (Dr Claire McNulty (National Geographic Society))

2017-11-21 12:00: Mg-silicate gels, limestones and the opening of the South Atlantic: the bizarre giant reservoirs of offshore Brazil (Prof. Paul Wright, Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff)

2017-11-21 13:30: Tagging along: where do Marion Island’s Grey-headed albatrosses go? (Kim Stevens, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town)

2017-11-22 13:00: Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion (Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen))

2017-11-22 16:00: Constraints on the timescales of magma-intrusion and faulting during continental breakup in Afar.  (Dr Derek Keir, University of Southampton )

2017-11-23 11:00: Challenges in Understanding Decadal Trends and Variability of Oceanic Dissolved Oxygen: Perspectives from MPI-ESM's Large Ensemble Simulations (Yohei Takano, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

2017-11-23 11:30: Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity  (Nenad Miljkovic, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing (UIUC))

2017-11-23 13:00: Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice (Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab)

2017-11-23 13:00: MicroCT from zoology to pathology (Brian Metscher (University of Vienna))

2017-11-27 13:00: Aeolian dune development and migration dynamics: field insights from a terrestrial laser scanner (Jo Nield (University of Southampton))

2017-11-27 17:30: Predation In The Cambrian (Stephen Pates (University of Oxford))

2017-11-28 12:00: Deep time continental weathering and climate change in the Palaeozoic (Dr Jennifer Morris, University of Cardiff)

2017-11-29 11:00: Surface roughness: a key to understanding Arctic sea ice from micro to macro scales (Jack Landy, University of Bristol)

2017-11-29 13:00: Probing human brain evolution in a dish (Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-29 16:00: Constraints on melt distribution from seismology (Dr James Hammond, Birbeck, Univserity of London)

2017-11-29 16:30: Geophysical observations on Larsen C Ice Shelf: characterising stability after Iceberg A68 (Dr Adam Booth)

2017-11-30 11:30: Bubbly jets and particle-laden fountains in confined and unconfined spaces (Martin Lippert, BP Institute)

2017-11-30 13:00: Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency (Stephen Long, University of Illinois)

2017-11-30 17:30: North Atlantic variability and its link to European climate and history over the last 3000 years (Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University)

2017-12-01 16:00: Magma plumbing of the 2014 Bárðarbunga dyke; What we can learn from microseismicity (Jenny Woods, Bullard Labs)

2017-12-04 15:00: A signal to noise paradox in climate prediction (Professor Adam Scaife, Meteorological Office)

2017-12-05 14:00: Long Range Predictability of the winter atmosphere in the North Atlantic Sector. (Professor Adam Scaife, Met Office)

2017-12-06 11:00: Changes in the Export of Weddell Sea Deep Water (Povl Abrahamsen (British Antarctic Survey))

2017-12-12 12:00: When you squish magma, its structure changes, and this affects trace element partitioning (Dr Eleanor Mare, University of St Andrews)

2017-12-14 13:00: Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+ (Michael Hippler, University of Munster)

2018-01-08 11:30: Gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media (Professor Sandro Longo, University of Padua)

2018-01-08 11:30: TBC (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-01-09 11:00: Decadal oceanic variability drives ice sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-01-11 13:00: CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes (Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-01-16 12:00: Modern versus ancient controls on sedimentary systems; the present is not always the key to the past  (Prof. Poppe de Boer, Utrecht University)

2018-01-17 13:00: Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis (Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory))

2018-01-17 16:00: Genetic partitioning of stress and its space-time variability (Prof. Riccardo Caputo, University of Ferrara)

2018-01-18 11:30: The Best of TIMES?  Turbulence, Instability, Mixing and Exact States in Stratified Shear Flows (Professor Colm C Caulfield, BP Institute)

2018-01-18 13:00: Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle (Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab)

2018-01-19 16:00: Neogene Uplift and Magmatism of Anatolia: Insights from Drainage Analysis and Basaltic Geochemistry (Fergus McNab (University of Cambridge))

2018-01-22 13:00: Mixing and transport of warm waters on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Alex Brearley, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-01-22 14:15: Ambient air quality and human health in India (Luke Conibear, University of Leeds)

2018-01-22 17:30: Disaster Risk Reduction: Seismic hazard analysis in Nepal (Dr Victoria Stevens (RMS))

2018-01-23 12:00: The Moon as an Archive of Collisional Processes in the inner Solar System: New Views from Apollo Samples and Lunar Meteorites (Dr Katherine Joy, University of Manchester)

2018-01-23 14:00: Can polar bears change Arctic clouds? (Jo Browse, University of Exeter)

2018-01-24 13:00: Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system  of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain  centers (Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology))

2018-01-24 16:00: The Outer Core: from a seismologist point of view (Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge)

2018-01-25 11:30: Gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media (Professor Sandro Longo, University of Parma)

2018-01-25 13:00: CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants (Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University)

2018-01-25 17:30: Reconstructing the extent, timing and palaeoclimatic significance of Quaternary glaciations in the Mediterranean region (Phil Hughes, University of Manchester)

2018-01-26 16:00: Extension and Dynamics in the High Andes (Sam Wimpenny (University of Cambridge))

2018-01-29 13:00: Dynamical Response to the QBO and the Solar Forcing in the Northern Winter Stratosphere: Towards a Deeper Mechanistic Understanding (Hua Lu, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-01-29 17:30: Development and Hydrogeology in Nepal: Spring Revival Experiments in the Mid Hills  (Matt Lees (University of Cambridge))

2018-01-30 12:00: Understanding cranial biomechanics and skull evolution in fossil vertebrates (Prof. Emily Rayfield, University of Bristol)

2018-01-31 13:00: The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates (Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews))

2018-01-31 16:00: The Geological Record of the Earthquake Cycle in the Lower Crust (Dr Luca Menegon, Plymouth University)

2018-01-31 16:30: Surface meltwater on the polar ice sheets under a changing climate (Amber Leeson, University of Lancaster)

2018-02-01 11:30: The sensitivity of West Antarctica to the submarine melting feedback (Robert Arthern ( British Antarctic Survey))

2018-02-01 13:00: From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues (Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab)

2018-02-01 14:00: Exploring gravity wave characteristics over the Southern Andes, Antarctic Peninsula, and South Georgia Island (Corwin Wright, University of Bath)

2018-02-01 17:00: On the role of the Southern Ocean in modulating (past) climate variability (Samuel Jaccard, University of Bern)

2018-02-02 11:00: Arctic and Antarctic aerosol size distributions (Manuel Dall'Osto (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona))

2018-02-02 16:00: Effects of Glaciation, Deglaciation and Magma Transport on Volcanic Eruptions and Geochemistry in Iceland (Isarapong Eksinchol (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-05 13:00: Multi-scale observations of ocean circulation in the Atlantic (Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton)

2018-02-05 14:15: Fundamental Limits to Volcanic Cooling and its Implications for Past Climate on Earth (David Wade, Cambridge University)

2018-02-05 17:30: Killing Machines: Studying Predation in the Fossil Record and Beyond (Alice Pullen (British Antarctic Survey))

2018-02-06 12:00: A phosphorus control on Earth's oxygenation history (Prof. Simon Poulton, University of Leeds)

2018-02-06 14:00: Understanding model diversity in CMIP5 projections of westerly winds over the Southern Ocean  (Tom Bracegirdle, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-02-07 13:00: Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration (Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin))

2018-02-07 16:00: Imaging seismic velocities (and density?) beneath the Eastern Mediterranean using waveform tomography (Dr Nienke Blom, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-08 11:30: Developing and Selecting Tribological Coatings (Professor Allan Matthews, School of Materials, the University of Manchester, Director BP International Centre for Advanced Materials)

2018-02-08 13:00: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants   Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus (Jane Parker, MPI Cologne)

2018-02-08 17:30: Reconstructing deep ocean circulation pathway and strength using sediment dispersion (Alex Piotrowski (Dept of Earth Science))

2018-02-09 11:00: The role of Birkeland currents in the Dungey cycle (John Coxon, University of Southampton)

2018-02-12 13:00: Surface meltwater ponding and drainage causes ice-shelf flexure (Alison Banwell (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-12 17:30: Illuminating the origins of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems  (Dr Emily Mitchell (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2018-02-13 12:00: Applications of correlated optical and electron spectroscopy to nanomaterials (Dr Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-14 16:00: Structure and evolution of continental lithosphere: new insights from seismic imaging (Prof. Sergei Lebedev, Dublin Instititute for Advanced Studies)

2018-02-14 16:30: Modelling seasonal acceleration of land terminating sectors of the Greenland Ice Sheet margin (Conrad Koziol, University of Edinburgh)

2018-02-15 11:30: The Engineering of Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Gravimetric Sensors (Dr Andrew Flewitt (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-15 13:00: Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)
 Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA (Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab)

2018-02-16 16:00: Modelling the evolution of an orogenic wedge: Applications to the Makran (Thomasina Ball (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-19 13:00: Chemical convection and stratification at the top of the Earth's outer core (Matthieu Bouffard, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

2018-02-19 14:15: Emissions and Chemistry of air pollution in London and Beijing: a tale of two cities. (Professor James Lee, University of York)

2018-02-19 17:30: Chronicling Ethiopia’s explosive volcanic past using lake sediments (Dr Catherine Martin-Jones ( Department of Geography, University of Cambridge))

2018-02-20 09:15: Paleoenvironments and Evolutionary Dynamics in the Context of Human Evolution. (Faysal Bibi, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany)

2018-02-20 10:15: Is modern biodiversity exceptional for the Phanerozoic? (Roger Close, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK )

2018-02-20 11:15: The Dinosaur Resurrection: How the end-Cretaceous Mass Extinction Gave Rise to Modern Birds. (Daniel Field, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, UK)

2018-02-20 12:15: Ocean chemistry and the rise of metazoans. (Romain Guilbaud, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK )

2018-02-20 14:00: Quantifying physiological rates in ancient algae. (Harry-Luke McClelland, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, US )

2018-02-20 15:00: Understanding the evolution of early terrestrial ecosystems: Bridging geological and biological boundaries. (Ria Mitchell, Materials Research Centre, Swansea University, UK)

2018-02-21 13:00: Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental  GRN (Berta Verd (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-21 16:00: No Bullard seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-02-22 11:30: Mechanical properties of cells or cell components on the micro- and nanometer scale (Othmar Marti, Institute of Experimental Physics, Ulm University)

2018-02-22 13:00: CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics (Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford)

2018-02-22 17:30: Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles    (Andrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

2018-02-23 16:00: Generation and Scaling of the African Landscape (Conor O'Malley)

2018-02-26 11:00: Understanding Our Protoplanetary Disk by Chemical Analysis of Components in Meteorites (Dr Luke Daly - Glasgow)

2018-02-26 13:00: Geophysical flows on Earth and Mars (Jim McElwaine (Durham University))

2018-02-26 14:15: Methane and the Paris Agreement (Professor Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway and NERC Project MOYA)

2018-02-26 17:30: The formation of the solar system (Prof Sara Russell (Natural History Museum))

2018-02-27 12:00: CANCELLED (weather): Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in evaporites (Dr Carl Stevenson, University of Birmingham)

2018-02-28 16:00: Cancelled due to weather conditions (Prof. Ken McCaffrey, Durham University)

2018-02-28 16:30: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Concentrated, “pulsed” axial glacier flow: structural glaciological evidence from Kvíárjökull in SE Iceland (Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh)

2018-03-01 11:30: Filling box flows in porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute)

2018-03-01 13:00: CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis (Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab)

2018-03-02 16:00: Icelandic Icequakes and Where to Find Them (Tom Hudson (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-05 13:00: Adding turbulent convection to geostrophic circulation: insights into ocean heat transport (Catherine Vreugdenhil)

2018-03-05 17:30: Conservation at the Natural History Museum London (Lorraine Cornish (Natural History Museum))

2018-03-06 11:00: The High Latitude Dust Project (Professor Jo Bullard, Loughborough University)

2018-03-06 12:00: Geochemical and sedimentological constraints on pre-GOE ocean chemistry (Dr Nick Tosca, University of Oxford)

2018-03-06 14:00: Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation (Francesco Muschitiello, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-07 13:00: Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution (Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University))

2018-03-07 16:00: Microplates, magmatism and movement, reconciling geological and geophysical observations to provide a new model of the Jurassic breakup of Gondwana (Dr Tom Jordan, British Antartic Survey)

2018-03-08 11:30: Downstream dispersion of bedload tracers (Eric Lajeunesse, IPGP)

2018-03-08 13:00: Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis (Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich)

2018-03-08 16:15: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia (Walter Immerzeel, University of Utrecht)

2018-03-08 17:30: Recent developments and debates in East Asian monsoon palaeoclimatology (Barbara Maher, Lancaster University)

2018-03-09 16:00: Volcanism and Dynamic Evolution of North Africa and Eastern Australia (Patrick Ball (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-12 13:00: Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century (Heather Graven, Imperial)

2018-03-12 17:30: Sedimentology of Paralic Reservoirs: applications to a super-giant oil field in South Iraq (Emma Jude (BP))

2018-03-13 12:00: Acoustic imaging of catastrophic flood terrains in the English Channel: How Britain became an island (Prof. Jenny Collier, Imperial College London)

2018-03-13 14:00: Data Visualisation  (Prof. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading)

2018-03-14 16:00: Pre-melting in the Earth's inner core (Dr Martha Pamato, UCL)

2018-03-15 11:30: Transport and Settling of Sediments in River Plumes (Bruce Sutherland, Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta)

2018-03-16 16:00: Geomechanical properties of the Groningen gas reservoir, North-East Netherlands (Jonathan Smith (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-21 11:00: Turbulence Beneath the Larsen C Ice Shelf (Peter Davis, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-03-21 12:00: Impact-driven tectonism during the Hadean (Craig O'Neill,, Director of the Macquarie Planetary Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.)

2018-03-21 14:00: Megafolding of englacial layers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Neil Ross, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK)

2018-04-04 12:00: The Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: A “Big-Data” Approach (Bob Hazen, Carnegie Institution, Washington)

2018-04-10 11:30: On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film  (Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2018-04-18 11:00: The ice-covered Ross Gyre: variability and drivers (Tiago Dotto, National Oceanography Centre)

2018-04-18 11:00: (Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape ( Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies)

2018-04-23 11:00: A New Mode of Decadal Variability in the Pacific Ventilated Thermocline and its Influence on Global Warming (Professor Dan Schrag, Harvard University )

2018-04-23 11:00: A New Mode of Decadal Variability in the Pacific Ventilated Thermocline and its Influence on Global Warming (Daniel P. Schrag, Harvard University)

2018-04-24 14:30: Information Extraction from Airborne Radio-Echo Sounding: Basal Properties and Crystal Orientation Fabric of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Tom Jordan, University of Bristol and Stanford University)

2018-04-25 13:00: Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita (Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona))

2018-04-26 11:00: Paleo-perspectives on the changing Arctic Ocean (Leonid Polyak from the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center)

2018-04-26 11:30: Plasma Spray and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings (Professor Bill Clyne, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Uni of Cambridge)

2018-04-26 13:00: Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs? (Ian Graham, University of York)

2018-04-26 17:30: Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits (Denis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI)

2018-04-27 11:00: Rapid laundering of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current  (Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton))

2018-04-27 16:00: Volcano monitoring using cross-correlation of continuous seismic data (Clare Donaldson (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-01 14:00: Polar low formation: ambient environments and the role of moisture (Annick Terpstra, University of East Anglia)

2018-05-02 13:00: Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox (Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-02 16:00: Crustal structure of the northeastern Arabian plate from active and passive seismic (Dr Simone Pilia, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-03 11:30: On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film  (Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge)

2018-05-03 13:00: Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis (Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab)

2018-05-08 11:00: High-latitude Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by seasonal sea-ice feedbacks during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (Chris Fogwill, Keele University)

2018-05-08 12:00: Jurassic Black Shales and the Exceptional Carrots of Yorkshire (Dr Liam Herringshaw, University of Hull)

2018-05-09 16:00: Mapping and modelling the variation in strain accumulation along the North Anatolian Fault (Dr Ekbal Hussain, University of Leeds)

2018-05-10 11:30: Non-equilibrium turbulence scalings and self-similarity in turbulent planar jets (Giaccchino Cafiero, BP Institute)

2018-05-10 13:00: Explosive seed dispersal (Angela Hay, Max Planck)

2018-05-14 14:15: The search for signs of ozone recovery (Dr James Keeble, Cambridge University)

2018-05-15 12:00: Structural style and evolution of an understudied salt-related extensional basin: the Sverdrup Basin (NE Canadian Arctic) (Dr Berta Lopez-Mir, CASP)

2018-05-16 11:00: Oceanography to fish population genetics: multidisciplinary studies with numerical models (Emma Young, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-05-16 12:00: Early Earth’s atmosphere: Biogeochemistry and climate (Prof. David Catling, University of Washington, Seattle)

2018-05-16 13:00: Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan? (Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo))

2018-05-16 16:00: Global mantle structure from multiple-frequency body-wave tomography (Dr Kasra Hosseini, University of Oxford)

2018-05-17 11:30: Bob Groves - I'm Glovin' It and Alex Routh - How do LEA proteins operate? (Alexander F. Routh, BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor)

2018-05-17 13:00: Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot (Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab)

2018-05-21 11:00: Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it. (Rebecca Woodgate, University of Washington)

2018-05-21 14:15: Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale (Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2018-05-22 12:00: Active faults, ancient earthquakes, and past climates in eastern Iran and Turkmenistan (Dr Richard Walker, University of Oxford)

2018-05-22 13:00: How does very deep convection hydrate the stratosphere? Results from a Giga-LES of Hector the Convector (Dr Thibaut Dauhut, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse)

2018-05-22 16:30: Enhanced δ13C and δ18O differences between the South Atlantic and South Pacific since the last glaciation gives us clues on how the ocean exhaled: The deep gateway hypothesis'  (Elizabeth Sikes, Rutgers University )

2018-05-23 11:00: Pathways of boundary mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current revealed by a tracer release experiment. (Marie-Jose Messias, University of Exeter)

2018-05-23 16:00: Active faulting and tectonics of the Tien Shan (Prof. Richard Walker, University of Oxford)

2018-05-23 17:00: Madness in their Method? problematic practices in Palaeobiogeography illustrated by the study of dinosaurs. (Paul Upchurch, Dept. Earth Sciences, UCL )

2018-05-24 11:30: Ed Hinton -Injection of a fluid into a confined aquifer with a vertical gradient of permeability. Alex Gutai - Formation and eruption of silicic magmas by crustal melting. (Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Alex Gutai, BP Institute)

2018-05-24 13:00: Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics (Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre)

2018-05-25 16:00: X-discontinuity and mantle transition zone structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot using P-to-s conversions (Matthew Kemp)

2018-05-29 12:00: Insights into the volcanic forcing of climate from high-resolution sulfur isotopes in ice cores (Dr Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews)

2018-05-30 13:00: Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours? (Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague))

2018-05-30 16:00: Seismology in the understanding of Ocean Storms (Prof. Anya Reading, University of Tasmania)

2018-05-31 11:30: Kinetic barriers in surfactant adsorption and desorption (Dr Chris Breward, University of Oxford)

2018-05-31 13:00: A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice (Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab)

2018-06-04 16:00: Designing a strategy for merging atmospheric chemistry models and measurements: Going after what matters (Prof. Michael Prather,  Earth system Science Dept, UC Irvine)

2018-06-07 11:30: Self-sculpting of a dissolvable body due to gravitational convection (Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge))

2018-06-07 13:00: Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks (Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust)

2018-06-11 11:15: A Lagrangian analysis of the seasonal and interannual variability in Greenland precipitation sources (Johannes de Leeuw, Utrecht University)

2018-06-11 14:00: Processes controlling the flux of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic Shelves. (Andy Hogg, Australian National University)

2018-06-12 10:00: Climate of 79N glacier (Greenland) (Jenny Turton, Friedrich-Alexander Universität)

2018-06-12 14:00:  High Impact Climate Events - Symposium (Multiple speakers)

2018-06-13 11:00: Dynamics of heat transfer and exchanges across the Antarctic Slope Front (Andrew Stewart, UCLA)

2018-06-13 14:00: Understanding uncertainty via statistical analysis of a global aerosol model (Lindsay Lee, University of Leeds)

2018-06-14 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-06-15 11:30: Suppression of marine ice sheet instability (Dr Sam Pegler, Applied Maths, University of Leeds)

2018-06-18 14:00: Polar Oceans PhD Student talks (David Bett and Rachael Sanders, BAS)

2018-06-19 12:00: Kimberlites from micro- to mega-scopic: Tales of melt evolution and mantle dynamics (Andrea Giuliani (Macquarie Univeristy, Sydney))

2018-06-20 11:00: Evidence for non-radiative dissipation of stratospheric Kelvin waves (Peter Hitchcock, Ecole Polytechnique)

2018-06-20 14:00: The effect of ice shelf dynamics on marine ice sheet stability ( Marianne Haseloff,  University of Oxford)

2018-06-25 16:00: Reaching for the Holy Grail of Modern Global Seismology: New insights into the centre of the Earth from the detection of J waves (Prof. Hrvoje Tkalčić)

2018-06-27 11:00: Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage (Alice Marzocchi, NOC)

2018-06-28 11:30: Extreme Environments and Dynamic Morphology: Anticipating and harnessing evolving structure-property relationships ( Jessica Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2018-07-04 11:00: Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines (Ben Yeager, Imperial College London)

2018-07-05 14:00: Interconnectivity between volume transports through Arctic straits (Agatha de Boer, Stockholm University)

2018-08-08 11:00: Catalyst design for energy and environmental applications (Dr Muhammad Zaheer)

2018-09-10 13:10: The Harland collection (Simon Kelly - CASP)

2018-09-17 13:00: What Can the Internal Variability of Climate Models Tell Us About Their Sensitivity? (Dr Nicholas Lutsko, Earth and Planetary Sciences, MIT.)

2018-09-17 14:00: Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies (Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago)

2018-09-19 11:00: Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland (Neil Fraser, SAMS)

2018-09-22 09:15: Sedgwick’s legacy (Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge)

2018-09-22 10:00: The co-evolution of life and environments (Professor Nick Butterfield, University of Cambridge)

2018-09-22 11:15: Partly cloudy with a chance of eruption - the future of forecasting volcanic events, large and small (Dr Mike Poland, United States Geological Survey)

2018-09-22 12:00: Earthquake warnings - a practical approach to an impossible problem  (Dr Lucy Jones, California Institute of Technology)

2018-09-22 14:00: Defining the Anthropocene (Professor Mark Maslin, University College London)

2018-09-22 14:45: Climate change now and in the future (Dame Julia Slingo, Cabot Institute, University of Bristol)

2018-09-22 16:00: If Sedgwick explored Mars - a field geologist's perspective on the search for extraterrestrial life (Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London)

2018-09-22 16:45: The search for extraterrestrial life (Dr. Seth Shostak, SETI Institute)

2018-09-25 13:00: Quartz deformation microstructures and crystallographic preferred orientations - new insights on old paradigms (Dr Ruediger Kilian from Basel University)

2018-09-28 11:00: Rates and Mechanisms of turbulent mixing in the west Antarctic. (Ryan Scott, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-10-03 10:30: Polar sea ice variability derived from ice cores: The Bromine approach (Andrea Spolaor, University of Venice)

2018-10-03 11:00: Seismic Imaging of Eddy‐Dominated Warm‐Water Transport Across the Bellingshausen Sea (Kathy Gunn, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-03 13:00: Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry (Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London)

2018-10-03 16:00: Crustal structure of the passive margins of the South China Sea and inferred rifting processes from MCS/OBS imaging  (ChuanChuan Lü (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-04 11:30: See details (Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute)

2018-10-08 13:00: Waves and turbulence in sustained stratified shear flows (Adrien Lefauve, DAMTP)

2018-10-08 17:30: My summer was better than yours...  (Part II and Part II students)

2018-10-09 12:00: Geochemical Constraints for Prebiotic Chemistry (Dr Paul Rimmer, Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-10 10:00: Insights into global carbon cycling and weathering from a 35 Ma record of Sr isotopes in seawater (Adina Paytan, UC Santa Cruz)

2018-10-10 12:00: An unusual patient: quantifying 3D deformation around analogue magma intrusions by using X-ray Computed Tomography (Sam Poppe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

2018-10-10 16:00: From detonators to nuclear tests – scaling-law determination of explosion source signatures (Prof. Anton Ziolkowski, University of Edinburgh)

2018-10-11 11:30: Symmetry Breaking For Biomimetic Locomotion (Professor Jian Deng, Zhejiang University)

2018-10-11 13:00: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes (Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-10-15 13:00: Waves, turbulence and large-scale flows in mixed convective-stably-stratified fluids (Louis-Alexandre Couston, British Antarctic Survey)

2018-10-15 14:15: An expanding picture of Criegee intermediate tropospheric chemistry (Dr Joseph Beames, Cardiff University)

2018-10-15 17:30: Forming planetary cores without magma oceans: an alternative view from in-situ tomographic imaging at extreme conditions (Dr Geoff Bromiley - University of Edinburgh)

2018-10-16 12:00: Rapid changes or gradual transitions? Holocene climate and its impact on societies. (Dr Heinz Wanner, University of Bern)

2018-10-17 12:00: Volcanic applications for understanding the evolution of human behavior in East Africa (Nick Blegen, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-17 14:00: Simulating Southern Ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf interactions: model intercomparison and future projections (Kaitlin Naughten (British Antarctic Survey))

2018-10-17 16:00: Structure and dynamics of the lowermost mantle (Dr Andrew Walker, University of Leeds)

2018-10-18 11:30: Unstructured Mesh Generation and Its Applications (Dr Hang Si, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin)

2018-10-18 13:00: Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis (Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group)

2018-10-18 17:30: Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology (Prof. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography))

2018-10-19 16:00: Adjoint tomography: towards joint inversion  for topography and velocity (Frank Syvret)

2018-10-22 13:00: Internal wave-induced mean flow (Felix Beckebanze, Mathematical Institute, Utrecht University)

2018-10-22 17:30: PhD showcase (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2018-10-24 12:00: Globally Significant CO2 Emissions From Katla, a Subglacial Volcano in Iceland (Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Leeds)

2018-10-24 13:00: Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus (Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University)

2018-10-24 16:00: Serpentinite deformation, dehydration and embrittlemen (Dr Nicolas Brantut, UCL)

2018-10-25 11:30: Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Mixtures at  the Air/Water Interface: The Dominance of Non-equilibrium Effects  (Dr Richard A Campbell, University of Manchester)

2018-10-25 13:00: How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms (Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge)

2018-10-26 16:00: Tomography of the Post Subduction Setting in North Borneo and the Icelandic Rift System (Omry Volk)

2018-10-29 13:00: Precessing flows: from geophysics to bioreactors (Patrice Meunier, IRPHÉ, CNRS, Marseille)

2018-10-29 17:30: Assessment of lithospheric controls on Mesozoic volcanism in Mongolia (Thomas Sheldrick - University of Leicester )

2018-10-30 12:00: The story of Mt Everest: metamorphism, deformation, and the 1933 summit attempt (Dr Dave Waters, University of Oxford)

2018-10-31 11:00: Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate (David Ferreira, University of Reading)

2018-10-31 13:00: Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity (Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-31 16:00: From continental rifting to conjugate margins: insights from analogue and numerical models (Anouk Beniest, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

2018-11-01 11:30: A high-order and conservative particle-mesh algorithm for advection-dominated flows (Jakob Maljaars and Robert Jan Labeur, Delft University of Technology)

2018-11-01 13:30: Climate Change and Technology (Myles Allen, Erwin Reisner, Corinne Le Quéré, Jerome Neufeld )

2018-11-01 17:30: A comprehensive climate history of the last 800,000 years and its application to ecological modelling (Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology))

2018-11-02 16:00: Seismic Diffraction near the Core-Mantle Boundary (Zhi Li)

2018-11-05 13:00: Dynamics of volcanic outgassing and plume transport revealed by proximal Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) measurements (Emma Liu, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-05 14:15: Synchrotron Adventures with Criegee Intermediates: Studies of Tropospheric Chemistry in the Lab (Rebecca Caravan, Sandia National Labs)

2018-11-05 17:30: The causes and consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (Professor Rachel Flecker - University of Bristol)

2018-11-06 12:00: The rare earth elements: critical raw materials for the 21st century (Dr. Kathryn Goodenough, BGS)

2018-11-07 12:00: tbc // Sulfur isotopes as tracers for stratospheric volcanic sulfur loading (Nick Barber, Johnny Staunton-Sykes; University of Cambridge)

2018-11-07 16:00: Seismic tomographic evidence for two collisional styles along the Grenville orogen of North America (Dr Alistair Boyce, Cambridge)

2018-11-08 11:30: The Benefits of Bayesian Machine Learning (Stanley Lazic, Cantab)

2018-11-08 13:00: Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function (Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent)

2018-11-09 11:00: Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding (Ivan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton)

2018-11-09 16:00: CO2 dissolution driven by flow in heterogeneous media (Kieran Gilmore)

2018-11-12 11:00: The geologic history of seawater d18O (Professor Itay Halevy - Weizmann Institute in Israel)

2018-11-12 13:00: On the dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in experiments and the real world (Aleksandra Lewandowska, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki)

2018-11-12 14:15: Satellite Observations, Earth System Models and Public Engagement Synergies: from Oil and Natural Gas Operations, Enhanced Weathering to Ozone Gardens (Maria Val Martin, University of Sheffield)

2018-11-12 17:30: Patterns of tetrapod diversification on land (and possible explanations) (Dr Roger Benson - University of Oxford)

2018-11-13 12:00: Devil is in the detail: micro-scale record of deposition, deformation and ice dynamics during ‘Snowball Earth’ (Dr Marie Busfield, Aberystwyth University)

2018-11-14 11:00: Re-thinking controls on the East Australian Current's eddy shedding and mean poleward extent (Christopher Bull)

2018-11-14 12:00: Phosphorous pathways in Deep Time / Atmospheric Fingerprints of Volcanism (Craig Walton, Pip Liggins; University of Cambridge)

2018-11-14 13:00: Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris)

2018-11-14 16:00: Mantle Mixing/Unmixing vs. Long-term plate motion history: A new constraint from joint analysis of forward and backward scattering waves.  (Dr Alex Song, UCL)

2018-11-15 11:30: Nanocarbon and Metal Aerogels as Multifunctional, Porous Support Materials in Adsorption and Catalysis (Dr Robert Menzel, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds)

2018-11-16 16:00: Seismic anisotropy in the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland (Conor Bacon)

2018-11-19 17:30: Taking the planet to the IMAX: Diving into the volcano and other stories (Dr Katherine Dobson - Durham University)

2018-11-20 12:00: Planetary investigations beyond the Solar system. (Dr Amaury Triaud, University of Birmingham)

2018-11-21 12:00: Measuring gas emissions at the 2018 Leilani Estates eruption, Kilauea (Penny Wieser, Emily Mason; University of Cambridge)

2018-11-21 16:00: Optimising seismometer installations (Will Reis and Libby Passey, Guralp System Limited)

2018-11-22 11:30: Carbon capture and storage: it has a cost, but does it have any value? (Professor Niall Mac Dowell, Imperial College London)

2018-11-22 13:00: How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales (Samuel Lopez, Brockington group)

2018-11-22 17:30: Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model (Prof. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA))

2018-11-23 16:00: Probing planetary interiors with long period free oscillations (Matthew Maitra)

2018-11-26 13:00: Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Laura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)

2018-11-26 14:15: Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry: ground and airborne measurements (Dr Thomas Bannan University of Manchester)

2018-11-26 17:30: Microfossil and model constraints on the global climate during the Cambrian ‘explosion’ (Tom Hearing - University of Leicester)

2018-11-27 12:00: The oceanic cycling of trace metal micronutrients (Dr Susan Little, Imperial College)

2018-11-27 14:00: Panel discussion on IPCC 1.5 deg C special report (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-11-28 11:00: Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics (Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Kerr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande )

2018-11-28 12:00: Lithium, rhyolites, and the green revolution (Ben Ellis, ETH Zurich)

2018-11-28 16:00: No seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-11-29 11:30: Multiphase Aspects of Ice Sheet Dynamics (Professor Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)

2018-11-29 13:00: CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening (Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University )

2018-11-30 11:00: Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas (Rebecca Frew, University of Reading)

2018-12-03 14:15: Direct measurements of urban pollutant emissions (Eiko Nemitz, CEH)

2018-12-04 13:30: The ExoMars mission: exploring the martian atmosphere and the search for life (James Holmes, The Open University)

2018-12-04 14:30: Constraining the representation of the atmospheric hydrological cycle in General Circulation Models using water isotopes and what would be needed to directly compare ice core water isotope records with model simulations (Hans Christian, University of Bergen)

2018-12-05 12:00: Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise. (Thomas J. Aubry, University of British Columbia)

2018-12-05 13:00: Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex (Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester)

2018-12-10 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University)

2018-12-11 11:00: Dynamics of a chemically pulsing mantle plume (Dr Rex Taylor, University of Southampton)

2018-12-11 12:00: Hypervelocity impact on Earth:   Cratering mechanics, shock processes and environmental consequences (Professor John G. Spray, University of New Brunswick)

2018-12-11 16:00: Seismic Full Waveform Inversion for Fundamental Scientific and Industrial Problems (Prof Satish Singh from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2018-12-12 14:00: The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol)

2019-01-09 11:00: The present: CryoSat-2 (and other altimeters) for enhanced ocean observation in the polar oceans.  The future: SKIM (Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring satellite mission), a candidate satellite mission exploring global ocean currents and waves. (Michel Tsamados (UCL))

2019-01-16 11:00: Validating the turbidite approach to paleoseismology using observations from the Mw7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand (Jamie Howarth (Wellington, New Zealand))

2019-01-16 13:00: Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis (Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon)

2019-01-16 14:00: Analysis of snow and aerosols deposition variability over High Mountain Asia and other major high mountain ranges (Hoi Ga “Veronica” Chan, Princeton University)

2019-01-17 11:30: Adjoint-based data assimilation for compressible and reactive flows (Professor Joern Sesterhenn, Technische Universitat Berlin)

2019-01-17 13:00: REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination (Andy Tock, Henderson Lab)

2019-01-21 13:00: Coupled ice-ocean interactions for the Amundsen Sea glaciers, Antarctica (Jan De Rydt - Northumbria University)

2019-01-21 18:00: #PlumeTeam - tracing a massive Hawaiian eruption from source to exposed communities (Emily Mason - University of Cambridge)

2019-01-22 11:00: Modelling coupled ice-ocean interactions in the Amundsen Sea (Jan De Rydt (Northumbria University))

2019-01-22 12:00: Dinosaur Resurrection: The rise of modern birds from the ashes of an asteroid (Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-23 16:00: A dynamic plate base at the slow spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge from the PI-LAB experiment (Kate Rychert (Southampton, UK))

2019-01-23 16:00: TBC (Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge))

2019-01-24 11:30: Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On (Marcella Bonchio University of Padova and ITM-CNR)

2019-01-24 13:00: From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants (Dan Gibbs, Birmingham)

2019-01-28 13:00: Gas emissions from volcanoes and active tectonic regions: Implications for the deep carbon cycle  (Prof. Tobias Fischer, University of New Mexico. Chair of Deep Earth CArbon Degassing (DECADE), Deep Carbon Observatory )

2019-01-28 13:00: The influence of small-scale turbulence on mixed layer fronts (Matthew Crowe, DAMTP)

2019-01-28 18:00: Cornish Lithium and life as an exploration geologist (Lucy Crane - Cornish Lithium)

2019-01-29 12:00: Causes of episodic volcanism (Prof. Steve Sparks, University of Bristol)

2019-01-30 11:00: Ocean modelling from the Ross to the Tasman Sea (Erik Behrens (NIWA))

2019-01-30 13:00: Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila (Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki)

2019-01-30 16:00: India-Asia collision, tectonics of the Himalaya and implications for building the Tibetan Plateau (Mike Searle (Oxford, UK))

2019-01-31 11:30: Diffusion problems for Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in permeable porous media (Edmund Fordham, Energetics Research)

2019-01-31 13:00: Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM (Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab)

2019-02-01 16:00: The Mechanical Structure of Tibet (Dan McKenzie (Bullard Labs))

2019-02-04 13:00: Turbulence in Forced Stratified Exchange Flows (Kat Smith, DAMTP)

2019-02-04 14:15: Talk is postponed as of 01.02.2019 (Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University)

2019-02-04 18:00: Mental Wellbeing During Fieldwork - A Potential Barrier to Broader Diversity in Geosciences and Related Disciplines (Dr Cédric John - Imperial College London)

2019-02-05 12:00: Equilibrium, disequilibrium, and basaltic Plinian eruptions (Dr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2019-02-07 11:30: Interacting plumes in a rotating environment: The special case of a single plume and The dynamical system of mixing layers (Chris Howland (University of Cambridge), Jeremy Parker (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-07 13:00: Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development  (Dominique Bergmann, Stanford)

2019-02-08 16:00: The behaviour and evolution of mountain ranges (Alex Copley (Bullard Labs))

2019-02-11 13:00: The formation of large impact craters (Gareth Collins, Imperial College London)

2019-02-11 18:00: Rapid physical weathering in the Arctic and impacts on modern atmosphere CO2 (Dr Emily Stevenson - University of Cambridge)

2019-02-12 12:00: East Asian palaeodrainage evolution and Himalayan-Tibet tectonics (Dr Yani Najman, Lancaster University)

2019-02-12 14:00: Exploring How Eruption Source Parameters Affect Volcanic Radiative Forcing (Lauren Marshall, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry)

2019-02-13 13:00: Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations (Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-13 16:00: Geological Carbon Storage: Geological challenges (Mike Bickle (Cambridge, UK))

2019-02-14 11:30: The viscosities of partially molten materials undergoing diffusion creep (John Rudge (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-14 13:00: Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation (Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab)

2019-02-15 16:00: Earthquakes and volcanoes in Iceland  (Tom Winder (Bullard Labs))

2019-02-18 11:00: On the interaction of turbulence, waves and mean flows in geophysical fluids (Louis Couston (BAS))

2019-02-18 14:15:  Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic (Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-18 18:00: Mars InSight: Geophysical investigations on another planet (Dr Robert Myhill - University of Bristol)

2019-02-19 12:00: Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental geochemistry (Dr Eleanor Jennings, Birkbeck University of London)

2019-02-19 14:00: Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol:  past, present and future (Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-20 13:00: Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains -  approaching the next level of detail (Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg)

2019-02-20 16:00: Flow, failure and friction during volcanic eruptions (Jackie Kendrick (Liverpool, UK))

2019-02-21 11:30: The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves (Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-21 13:00: Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD (Mike Blatt, Glasgow)

2019-02-21 13:00: Indium in SW England (Jens Christian Andersen - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter)

2019-02-22 16:00: Swarm seismicity on a network of conjugate strike slip faults in the Icelandic rift zone (Tom Winder (Bullard Labs))

2019-02-25 13:00: From a steady plume to periodic puffs during confined carbon dioxide dissolution (Francois Nadal, Loughborough University)

2019-02-25 18:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Camilla Penney - University of Cambridge)

2019-02-26 12:00: Natural nanomagnets (magnetosomes) offer inspirational solutions to green production of magnetic nanoparticles  (Dr Sarah Staniland, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield)

2019-02-27 13:00: Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution  and development (Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

2019-02-27 16:00: Subglacial floods on volcanoes in Iceland and their geothermal cause (Eva Eibl (GFZ Potsdam, DE))

2019-02-28 11:30: Special Seminars (See below)

2019-02-28 14:30: Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic (Dr Jiankai Zhang (Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at  Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-28 16:00: Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience (Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons)

2019-03-01 16:00: Channelized melt extraction from the mantle: the reactive formation of dunite channels (David Rees Jones (Bullard Labs))

2019-03-04 10:00:  Isotopic constraints on the origin of glacial-interglacial CO2 (Dr Thomas  Bauska    University of Northumbria,)

2019-03-04 11:00: Microgeodynamics: How forces between dislocations control plate-scale deformation (Dr David Wallis    Utrecht University)

2019-03-04 11:50: Vaporising Earth: an experimental approach (Dr Paolo Sossi    ETH Zürich    )

2019-03-04 13:00: Sources of hydrographic variability in Sermilik Fjord, a major glacier fjord in southeast Greenland (Irena Vankova, BAS)

2019-03-04 14:00: New adventures in marine silicon isotope studies (Dr Kate Hendry    University of Bristol  )

2019-03-04 14:15: Air Pollution in Delhi, India (Ying Chen, Lancaster)

2019-03-04 14:50: Experimental volcanology: Understanding volcano dynamics and unrest signals using laboratory testing (Dr Jackie Kendrick    University of Liverpool )

2019-03-04 18:00: Polar Operations – the support behind the science (Simon Garrod - British Antarctic Survey)

2019-03-05 12:00: The trouble with tubules: pseudofossils and the palaeontology of the deep subsurface (Dr Sean McMahon, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-06 10:00: Constraining the Timescales and Distances of Solid Migration in the Early Solar System (Dr James Bryson    University of Cambridge    )

2019-03-06 11:00: Modelling ore properties for efficient mining - Indium deportment in a massive sulphide ore (Dr Max Frenzel    Helmholtz Institute Freiberg, Germany    )

2019-03-06 11:50: Ambient Noise Imaging of the Klyuchevskoy Volcanic Group, Kamchatka. (Dr Robert Green    GFZ Potsdam, Germany    )

2019-03-06 13:00: The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions,  and developmental directions (Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-06 13:30: Densities and structure of silicate melts to core mantle boundary conditions (Dr Sylvain Petitgirard    ETH Zürich    )

2019-03-06 14:15: Interactions Between Iron and Sulfur in Magmas and Their Effects in Different Tectonic Settings (Dr Duane Smythe    University of Oxford  )

2019-03-06 15:05: Linking high latitude and tropical climate change in the Last Glacial period (Dr Rachael  Rhodes    University of Northumbria  )

2019-03-06 16:00: Unlocking the secrets of slow slip using next-generation seismic experiments and IODP drilling at the north Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand (Rebecca Bell (Imperial, London, UK))

2019-03-07 11:30: Turbulence, Periodic Orbits and Koopman analysis (Rich Kerswell, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-07 13:00: The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity (Alexandre Antonelli, Kew)

2019-03-08 16:00: Cambridge, Cold War, and Oceanic Crust (Bob White (Bullard Labs))

2019-03-11 09:00: Merging radar with models: Getting new geophysical insights into the subsurface system of ice sheets (Dr Wing Yin Chu    Stanford, USA    )

2019-03-11 13:00: The role of lateral rheology contrasts in the evolution of mountain ranges (Camilla Penny, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-11 13:00: Reading Biominerals to Understand Past and Future Climates (Dr Oscar Branson    Australian National University  )

2019-03-11 13:50: Fluids in the Earth (Dr Dionysios Foustoukos    Geophyical Labs, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA  )

2019-03-11 14:40: Icy ocean world interiors (Dr Douglas Hemingway    Carnegie Institution for Science    )

2019-03-11 15:30: The meteorite dichotomy and its implications for the growth history of Jupiter (Dr Thomas Kruijer    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA   )

2019-03-11 16:20: Elucidating redox conditions in ancient environments using iron mineralogy (Dr Sarah  Slotznick    Berkely, USA    )

2019-03-11 18:00: Granite and Ice Cream: ‘Meltamorphism' and Crystal Growth at (Relatively) Low Temperatures (Allen F. Glazner - University of North Carolina)

2019-03-12 12:00: A Twenty-first Century View of Plutons (Prof. Allen Glazner, MSA Distinguished Lecturer, University of North Carolina)

2019-03-12 13:00: Methane (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-03-13 11:00: The Impact of Forest Fires on Air Quality in South-East Asia and Malaysia (Prof Mohd Talib Latif)

2019-03-13 16:00: Continental topographic scaling and evolution: Some implications for mantle convection (Gareth Roberts (Imperial))

2019-03-13 16:00: Integrating Photogrammetry and Computer Vision into the study of Glacier Change (Dr Penny How, University of York)

2019-03-14 11:30: Modelling the Dynamics and Hazards from Volcanic Mudflows and Flash Floods (Dr Jeremy Phillips, University of Bristol)

2019-03-14 13:00: Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites (Matt Davey, Smith Lab)

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 16:00: Geological recipes: the platonic pancake, the cream crater and other insights from the kitchen (Jerome A. Neufeld (Bullard Labs))

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)

2019-03-20 10:30: Two talks on Ice-Ocean interaction in East Antarctica (Takeshi Tamura (National Institute of Polar Research) and  Daisuke Hirano (Institute of Low Temperature Science))

2019-04-08 11:00: Getting Under Europa’s Skin (Dr. Britney Schmidt  (Georgia Tech))

2019-04-10 13:00: Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field (Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan)

2019-04-15 10:00: Investigating storm and tsunami recurrence in the historical and geological record: Where are we now and where do we go? (Prof Adam Switzer (EOS, NTU, Singapore) )

2019-04-25 11:30: CFD from academia to industry (Dimitrios Pavlidis, Foster + Partners)

2019-04-25 16:00: Illuminating the start of complex life: Statistical analyses of Ediacaran communities (Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge))

2019-04-26 16:00:  Array analysis of SS precursors suggest compositional heterogeneity near the base of the mantle transition zone beneath Hawaii (Dr Chunquan Yu, Southern University of Science and Technology)

2019-04-30 12:00: I wasn't born cubic, said Ca-rich almandine garnet (Prof. Bernardo Cesare, University of Padova, Italy)

2019-05-01 12:00: Masterclass: An introduction to distal tephrochronology and cryptotephra methods (Professor Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-01 16:00: The Groningen gas field monitored by noise interferometry of deep borehole data (Hanneke Paulssen (Utrecht University, NL))

2019-05-02 11:30: Controlling carbon nanomaterials in dispersion with surfactants: stability and adsorption at interfaces (Tom McCoy, BP Institute)

2019-05-02 13:00: CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction (Julian Schroeder, UCSD)

2019-05-03 16:00: Inference from Inadequate and  Inaccurate Data (on a sphere) (David Al-Attar, Bullard Labs)

2019-05-07 12:00: Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol:  past, present and future (Dr Anja Schmidt, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-08 12:10: Tracking chalcophile elements from source to vent at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (Penny Wieser, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-08 13:00: TBC (Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford)

2019-05-08 16:00: Teleseismic monitoring: undetected earthquakes, long period volcanic tremors and more... (Piero Poli (Grenoble))

2019-05-09 11:30: Searching for periodic orbits in turbulence with convolutional neural networks (Dr Jacob Page (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-09 13:00: Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function (Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich)

2019-05-10 11:00: Modelling and Assessing the Impacts of Intercropping, as a Sustainable Farming Practice, on Food Security, Air Quality, and Public Health (Ka Ming Fung, Graduate Division of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

2019-05-10 16:00: Imaging the structure beneath South India and Western Tibet: a quantitative assessment of past and present geology (Ritima Das (Bullard Labs))

2019-05-13 14:15: Global models for atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment (Hamish Gordon, University of Leeds)

2019-05-14 12:00: The thermal evolution of the continents (Prof. Claude Jaupart, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP))

2019-05-15 13:00: From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods (Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London)

2019-05-15 16:00: Constraining Lithospheric Structure Across the United States (Vedran Lekic (Maryland, US))

2019-05-16 11:30: Self-Assembly in Deep Eutectic Solvents (Professor Karen Edler, University of Bath)

2019-05-16 13:00: Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change (Florian Zellweger, Coomes group)

2019-05-20 11:00: The Influence of Large-Scale Ridge Topography on Barotropic Flows in the Southern Ocean (Ryan Patmore (BAS))

2019-05-21 11:30: Special Seminar: Rheology of complex suspensions (Olivier Pouliquen, Aix-Marseille Université)

2019-05-21 12:00: Linking ages to stages and dates to rates (Dr Clare Warren, Open University)

2019-05-22 16:00: A quantitative relationship between interseismic strain and long-term uplift in northern Chile (Romain Jolivet (Paris))

2019-05-23 11:30: How to Snowboard on Mars? (Professor Jim McElwaine, Durham University)

2019-05-27 13:00: To Nature and beyond (Lewis Collins, Editor-in-Chief, One Earth (formerly at Nature Communications))

2019-05-28 12:00: Geochemistry and geochronology of minerals and interfaces: A nanoscale perspective (Prof. Steven Reddy, Curtin University)

2019-05-29 11:00: Southern Ocean Circulation and Frontal Dynamics from Cryosat-2 Along-track Radar Altimetry (Erik Mackie (BAS))

2019-05-29 13:00: Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development (Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center)

2019-05-29 16:00: Optical seismology (Giuseppe Marra (National physical Laboratory))

2019-05-30 11:30: Some applications of the numerical method SPH  to geophysical problems (Professor Joe Monaghan, Monash University)

2019-05-30 13:00: Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum. (Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group)

2019-05-30 13:00: CCfCS Bring-a-plot event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-06-03 14:15: Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise. (Thomas Aubry, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-05 11:00: Arctic Ocean freshwater variability: a decadal memory of atmospheric circulation (Sam Cornish (University of Oxford))

2019-06-06 11:30: Title to be confirmed (TBC)

2019-06-12 11:00: Optimal perturbation recipes: how to change Southern Ocean heat content (Dan Jones (BAS))

2019-06-13 13:00: The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae) (Boris Delahaie, Glover group)

2019-06-18 12:00: Importance of Innovation in Engineering (Capt Mark Grenfell-Shaw)

2019-09-06 11:00: Effect of ocean variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 20th and 21st centuries (Donald Slater (Scripps, UC San Diego))

2019-09-10 16:00: The Role of New Particle Formation in the Remote Atmosphere: Improving Our Understanding Through Pole-to-pole in-situ Measurements From the Nasa Atmospheric Tomography Mission (Christina Williamson, University of Colorado)

2019-09-16 14:30: The Orosirian Period: exiting the GOE (Great Oxidation Event) and setting the stage for the mid-Proterozoic (Malcolm Hodgskiss - Stanford University)

2019-09-23 11:00: Dynamic processes in a supercooled ISW plume: tales from the Victoria Land Coast Current (Natalie Robinson (NIWA, New Zealand))

2019-09-27 11:00: Variability of stochastically forced zonal jets (Laura Cope (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-03 11:30: Granular flow visualization using nuclear imaging (Professor Indresan Govender, University of KwaZulu-Natal)

2019-10-04 11:00: On the quantification of parametric uncertainty in Antarctic ice sheet model projections, including the role of bedrock topography. (Andreas Wernecke (The Open University))

2019-10-06 14:30: Welcome event! (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-08 12:00: Terrestrial hydrothermal environments as windows to prebiotic worlds (Claire Cousins (University of St Andrews))

2019-10-09 13:00: Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution (Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London)

2019-10-10 11:30: Ptychotomographic imaging of nano-materials at I13-1 Diamond Light Source (Dr Charan Kuppili, Dept of Earh Sciences, Uni of Cambridge)

2019-10-14 13:00: Simply simulating objects and phase change in fluid flow (Eric Hester, University of Sydney)

2019-10-14 18:00: Hydrogeology: why is it important? (Victoria Price (Alumna))

2019-10-15 12:00: The end-Permian mass extinction from a high southern palaeolatitude perspective (Prof. Chris Fielding, University of Nebraska)

2019-10-16 12:00: New PhD students introductions - Cambridge Volcanology (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-16 14:00: Symposium on Polar Tropical Teleconnections (Lesley Gray (University of Oxford), Matt Collins (University of Exeter), Liz Thomas (British Antarctic Survey), Andrew Turner (University of Reading))

2019-10-16 16:00: Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches and applications to address grand challenges  (Nathalie Vriend - BPI and Univeristy of Cambridge)

2019-10-17 11:30: Nicola Mingotti - BP Institute, Martin Lippert - BP Institute, Neeraja Bhamidipati - BP Institute  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-17 13:00: 21st Century Crop Science Wo(man) (Alison Bentley, NIAB)

2019-10-18 16:00: Saffman-Taylor Viscous Fingering and the Icelandic Plume (Hannah Galbraith-Olive)

2019-10-21 13:00: Processes affecting climate model projections of stratospheric water vapour (Jake Smith, DAMTP)

2019-10-21 18:00: Magmatism and volcanism on Io: Understanding the interiors of lava-worlds (Dan Spencer (University of Oxford))

2019-10-22 12:00: Modelling atmospheric CO2 and O2 evolution over Earth history (Benjamin Mills (University of Leeds))

2019-10-23 16:00: illuminating active fault zones through correlation of optical satellite imagery (James Hollingsworth - University of Grenoble)

2019-10-24 11:30: Karol Bacik - Sand Dunes and Their Interactions Kasia Warburton - Glacial Squeegee: Tidal Effects on Subglacial Hydrology (Karol Bacik, DAMTP and Kasia Warburton, DAMTP)

2019-10-24 13:00: Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains (Hester Sheehan, Brockington group)

2019-10-24 17:30: Does climate change really cause collapse? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects (Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge)

2019-10-25 16:00: Probing X-discontinuity structure in mantle plumes using P-to-S converted receiver functions (Steve Pugh)

2019-10-28 13:00: Decoding the thermochemical and magnetic evolution of asteroids using thermal modelling (James Bryson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-10-28 14:00: Ice cores and aerosols: Past atmospheric chemistry from new generation, continuous ice core analyses (Dr. Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute)

2019-10-28 18:00: I know what you did last summer... (Part II Students)

2019-10-29 12:00: The Rise of the Silk Roads c. 5,000 years ago: how Earth and Materials Sciences reveal the making of the first global economic network (Miljana Radivojevic (UCL))

2019-10-29 13:00: Investigation of fine-scale englacial structure using phase-sensitive and polarimetric radar sounding (Tom Jordan, University of Bristol )

2019-10-30 12:00: How volcanism controls the interiors of lava-worlds (Dan Spencer, University of Oxford)

2019-10-30 13:00: How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development (Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics)

2019-10-30 16:00: Fibre-Optic Strain Sensing: A Game Changer for (Urban) Seismic Surveying (Charlotte Krawczyk - GFZ Potsdam and Technical University Berlin.)

2019-10-31 11:30: Unsteady Turbulent Plumes and Volcanoes (Dr Matthew Scase, Nottingham University)

2019-10-31 13:00: Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants  (George Coupland, Max Plank Institute)

2019-10-31 17:30: Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice (Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall)

2019-11-01 16:00: Multiple Ancient Buried Landscapes in the Faroe-Shetland Basin and their significance (Ben Conway-Jones)

2019-11-04 13:00: Motion of vortices with buoyancy (Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD)

2019-11-04 18:00: Quantifying fault slip over multiple earthquake cycles: the past is the key to the present (Dr Laura Gregory (University of Leeds))

2019-11-05 12:00: A deep-time perspective on macroecology (Erin Saupe (University of Oxford))

2019-11-06 13:00: The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance (Julian Dowdeswell, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2019-11-06 16:00: Lithospheric structure, anisotropy and seismicity of the active North Anatolian Fault, Turkey (Dave Cornwell - University of Aberdeen)

2019-11-07 11:30: Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheets (Dr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Institute (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-07 13:00: Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells (Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group)

2019-11-07 13:10: Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores (Isobel Rowell)

2019-11-08 16:00: Using seismic wave propagation modelling to identify the main controls on ground shaking in foreland basin settings (Aisling O'Kane)

2019-11-11 13:00: Viscoplastic Droplets (Maziyar Jalaal, DAMTP)

2019-11-11 14:00: A Preliminary Simulation of Convections and Airflows Using An Unstructured Adaptive Mesh Finite-Element Model Fluidity-Atmosphere (Dr. Jinxi Li, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-11 18:00: Intra-slab seismicity: an under-appreciated source of seismic hazard (Dr Timothy Craig (University of Leeds))

2019-11-12 11:00: Random movement of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean (Xiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia)

2019-11-12 12:00: New methods for old bones – Reconstructing fossil evolution and palaeobiology using new technologies (Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Birmingham))

2019-11-13 12:00: Unravelling the Echo Canyon deposit: Explosive-effusive transitional volcanism, Ascension Island, South Atlantic - Insights from the field and the lab (Bridie Davies, University of East Anglia)

2019-11-13 16:00: Adventures in anisotropy at the base of the mantle: New constraints on deep mantle dynamics (Maureen Long - University of Yale)

2019-11-14 11:30: Decoding the thermochemical and magnetic evolution of asteroids using thermal modelling (Dr James Bryson, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-14 13:00: Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis (James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University)

2019-11-14 17:30: The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences (Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast)

2019-11-15 16:00: Geobiology and palaeontology in the 21st century: new approaches using Big data, high-throughput digitisation, and machine learning (Allison Hsiang - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

2019-11-15 16:00: The growth of the great escarpments: a global perspective ( Megan Holdt)

2019-11-18 13:00: What sets the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions? (Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey)

2019-11-18 18:00: Oil and water don't mix: a view inside the scientific response to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Professor David Valentine (UCSB))

2019-11-19 12:00: Rethinking Marine Hydrocarbon Biogeochemistry with a Biological Source (David Valentine (UCSB))

2019-11-20 13:00: TBC (Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology)

2019-11-20 13:00: The magmatic and eruptive evolution of the 1883 explosive, caldera-forming eruption of Krakatau, Indonesia (Amber Madden-Nadeau, University of Oxford)

2019-11-20 16:00: Experimental Exploration of Earth’s Mantle (Hauke Marquardt - University of Oxford)

2019-11-21 11:30: The interplay of stress and chemical processes in rocks: why it matters, what is explained, and some unsolved problems (Professor John Wheeler, University of Liverpool)

2019-11-21 13:00: Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening (Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute)

2019-11-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-21 17:30: Beyond mean climate change: Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.  (Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute)

2019-11-22 16:00: Towards 3D seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath Southeast Asia from adjoint waveform tomography (Deborah Wehner)

2019-11-25 14:00: Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change (Dr. Nicolas Bellouin, University of Reading)

2019-11-25 18:00: Exploring the Hydrothermal Evolution of Ocean Crust using Scientific Ocean Drilling (Dr Rosalind Coggon (University of Southampton))

2019-11-26 11:00: Modeling ocean eddies in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (Mack, Stefanie L., British Antarctic Survey)

2019-11-26 12:00: Icy alteration on Mars: Glacial alteration of volcanic terrains (Alicia Rutledge (University of Oxford))

2019-11-27 12:00: Unusual techniques for an unusual volcano: monitoring at Ol Doinyo Lengai (Kate Laxton, University College London)

2019-11-27 16:00: Towards a new global earthquake catalogue - Full waveform constraints on earthquake mechanisms and their uncertainty (Tom Garth - University of Oxford and ISC)

2019-11-28 11:30: WEEE separation and PVC window frames separation (Phil Mutsaerts, All Controls)

2019-11-28 13:00: Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease (Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre)

2019-11-28 13:00: Panel discussion on IPCC special reports (Panel)

2019-11-28 17:30: Evading problems of IRD in palaeocurrent estimation: Glacial to Recent changes in flows around Greenland (Nick McCave, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-29 16:00: Mantle convective significance of South American dynamic topography (Leonardo Siqueira)

2019-12-02 12:00: Tracking sulfur and its chalcophile allies at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: A story of sulfide saturation, sulfide resorption and magmatic degassing (Cambridge University)

2019-12-02 12:30: Daly Lecture Preview (Marie Edmonds)

2019-12-02 13:00: Zonal jet variability: insights from a framework of idealised models (Laura Cope, DAMTP)

2019-12-02 18:00: The adventures of the Curiosity rover in Gale crater: exploring Mars geology by robot (Professor Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College, London))

2019-12-03 11:00:  A budget for turbulent mixing and water mass transformation in a partially enclosed deep basin (Carl Spingys, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre)

2019-12-03 12:00: Interfacial Network Geometry (Katharina Marquart (Imperial College London))

2019-12-03 14:00: Student Town hall meeting joint with Cambridge Zero. (Emily Shuckburgh and Alison Ming)

2019-12-04 13:00: TBC (Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University)

2019-12-05 11:30: Amine-Functionalised Metal-Organic Frameworks as Next Generation Adsorbents for CO2 Capture (Dr Alex Forse, Dept of Chemisty, University of Cambridge)

2019-12-05 13:00: Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts (Philip Carella, SLCU)

2019-12-05 16:00: Subglacial landscapes: Tunnel valleys in the central and northern North Sea (Dr. Margaret Stewart, Senior Scientist - Marine and Petroleum Geology, British Geological Survey.)

2019-12-06 16:00: Seismic structure and Tectonic Evolution of Borneo and Sulawes (Harry Linang)

2019-12-09 16:30: A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration (Martin Siegert, Imperial College)

2019-12-16 14:15: PM2.5/NOx modelling for health exposure research (Nathan Pavlovic)

2020-01-09 17:30: Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives (Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund))

2020-01-14 12:00: The Sedimentary Cycle on Early Mars (Scott McLennan (Stonybrook))

2020-01-16 11:30: Nanotechonolgy, Biology, and Sustainability: Intersections with Gold Nanocrystals (Prof. Catherine Jones Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

2020-01-16 13:00: The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic (Katie Field, University of Leeds)

2020-01-20 13:00: Turbulence driven by tides in planetary cores: wave turbulence vs. geostrophic turbulence (Thomas Le Reun, DAMTP)

2020-01-20 14:00: CCfCS Climate Crisis Game (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-20 14:15: Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models (Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds)

2020-01-20 18:00: The Fifth Element: Boron recycling in the Iceland mantle plume (Dr Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2020-01-21 12:00: Functional consequence of extinctions: from the Miocene to the Anthropocene (Catalina Pimiento-Hernandez (Swansea University))

2020-01-22 16:00: Through the Ocean to the Mantle: Under the Seas with a Fleet of Floating Seismic Robots (Frederik Simons - University Princeton)

2020-01-23 11:30: Edward Hinton - Capillary trapping of CO2 in aquifers with vertically varying permeability and Chris Howland - Mixing in forced stratified turbulence (Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Chris Howland, DAMTP)

2020-01-23 13:00: An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development (Tina Schreier, Hibberd group)

2020-01-23 17:30: Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period (Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne))

2020-01-27 13:00: The ocean boundary layer beneath a melting Antarctic ice shelf: stratification, tides and turbulence (Cat Vregdenhil, DAMTP)

2020-01-27 18:00: Birds made of stone (Dr Daniel Field)

2020-01-28 12:00: Unnatural Selection: evolution at the hand of man (Katrina Van Grouw (Tring))

2020-01-29 13:00: Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function (Justin Crocker, EMBL)

2020-01-29 16:00: Large cold noses and boomerang earthquakes: exploring new tectonic frontiers using seafloor seismometers in the Atlantic (Dr. Stephen Hicks - Imperial College London)

2020-01-30 13:00: Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth (Richard Smith, John Innes Centre)

2020-01-30 17:00: SPECIAL SEMINAR - PLEASE SEE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE (Prof Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist,  Meteorological Office )

2020-02-03 13:00: Quantifying irreversible mixing in stratified turbulence and breaking internal waves (Chris Howland, DAMTP)

2020-02-03 14:00: Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates (Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol)

2020-02-03 18:00: Geology, resources and sovereignty: the ongoing effort to map Arctic Canada (Professor Marc St-Onge, Geological Survey of Canada and University of Oxford)

2020-02-04 12:00: Mineralogical Controls on Earth's Climate (Caroline Peacock (Leeds))

2020-02-05 16:00: Mapping Seismic Tomography into Earth Structure: Implications for Dynamic Topography, Lithospheric Stability and Sea-Level Reconstructions (Fred Richards - Imperial College London)

2020-02-06 11:30: Fin Allen - A recipe for Cation-bridging and David Broussault - Metal doped silica beads, a promising system for environmental and biological application? (Fin Allen, BPI and David Brossault, BPI)

2020-02-06 13:00: Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich)

2020-02-06 16:00: Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s (Dr. Tobias Bolch, University of St. Andrews)

2020-02-06 17:30: Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions (Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles (University of Cambridge/BAS))

2020-02-07 16:00: Crustal Flow and Formation in Iceland from Seismic Anisotropy (Omry Volk)

2020-02-10 11:00: Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions (Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office)

2020-02-10 13:00: Impacts of surface-derived meltwater on ice motion in Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula (Andrew Sole, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield)

2020-02-10 18:00: Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): early animals under the microscope (Dr Tom Harvey, University of Leicester)

2020-02-11 12:00: Mount St. Helens: a 40-yr perspective on the 18 May 1980 eruption and its impact on volcano science (Katharine Cashman (University of Bristol))

2020-02-12 16:00: The legacy of MEDUSA: Tracking fluids and earthquakes deep beneath western Greece (Stephane Rondenay)

2020-02-13 11:30: Rocking the boat: The physics of kayaks, canoes and rowing (Graham Benham, BP Institute)

2020-02-13 13:00: Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat (Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich)

2020-02-14 16:00: The effect of equilibrium stress on the elastic tensor (Matthew Maitra)

2020-02-17 18:00: GfGD-Sedgwick Talk (Sanna Markkanen (CISL) and Allie Mitchell (Wardell Armstrong))

2020-02-18 12:00: Interplay of core and recycled crust signals in mantle plumes: the coupled geodynamics of He and W (Matt Jackson (UCSB))

2020-02-19 13:00: Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America (Lauren Davies, University of Alberta)

2020-02-19 16:00: Rheology of the deep subduction interface and its role in influencing short term seismic style and long-term subduction dynamics.  (Whitney Behr - ETH Zurich)

2020-02-20 11:30: Towards the control of transition to turbulence (Cedric Baume, Uni of Leeds)

2020-02-20 13:00: Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change (Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota)

2020-02-21 11:30: Displacement history of the Alpine Fault and origin of New Zealand’s Southern Alps (Simon Lamb (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand))

2020-02-21 16:00: Kilometer-scale structure inside the Hawaiian ULVZ (Zhi Li)

2020-02-24 13:00: How mixed is the ocean mixed layer? (Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-24 18:00: Rivers in the Rock Record: From Utah to Wales (Dr Catherine Russell, University of Leicester)

2020-02-25 12:00: Biomineralisation and boron proxies: the possible, the impossible and the likely (Oscar Branson (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-26 16:00: Lab geophysics: using experiments to constrain the seismic velocities of mantle minerals (Andrew Thompson - University College London)

2020-02-27 11:30: Functional nanomaterials for energy harvesting and sensing (Sohini Kar-Narayan, Materials Science, Uni of Cambridge)

2020-02-27 12:30: Where does stuff go? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-02-27 13:00: Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana. (Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group)

2020-02-27 13:00: The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary (Christine Batchelor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway)

2020-02-28 16:00: Conditioning waveform tomography with Sobolev gradients (Frank Syvret)

2020-03-02 13:00: Separating the forced atmospheric circulation response to Arctic sea-ice loss from internal variability (Christine McKenna, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds)

2020-03-02 14:00: To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation (Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading)

2020-03-02 18:00: Highs and lows of the South Atlantic (Dr Lucia Perez Diaz, University of Oxford)

2020-03-03 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Rachael Rhodes (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-04 13:00: The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED] (Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research)

2020-03-04 16:00: Characterizing global small-scale heterogeneity in the mantle – Interrogating the high-frequency, scattered seismic wavefield (Sebastian Rost - University of Leeds)

2020-03-05 11:30: Introduction to Imaging Fluid Flows with Application to Viscous Fingering (Dr Patrick Bunton, William Jewell College)

2020-03-05 16:00: Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Overview of the RESPONDER project (Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-05 17:30: Integrating northern and southern hemisphere stalagmites: what they can tell us about tropical climate dynamics and civilization collapse at the 4.2 kyr event (Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin))

2020-03-06 16:00: Using microseismicity to illuminate crustal structure in Iceland and northern Borneo (Conor Bacon)

2020-03-09 18:00: Conservation Palaeobiology:  utilising the fossil record to address the current biodiversity crisis (Dr. Alex Liu (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2020-03-10 12:00: The formation and early evolution of the Solar System: An oxygen isotope perspective (Richard Greenwood (OU))

2020-03-11 16:00: Slip rate variability: Quantifying the past to understand the present (Laura Gregory - University of Leeds)

2020-03-12 11:30: Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets (Ian Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-12 13:00: Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley (Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group)

2020-03-12 14:00: Dynamics of a barotropic current at an ice shelf front (Nadine Steiger, University of Bergen)

2020-03-13 14:00: Erebus (Professor Clive Oppenheimer, University of Cambridge)

2020-03-13 14:40: How does the Earth recover from extreme climate perturbations? (Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL)

2020-03-13 16:00: Dynamic Topography of Borborema Province and Surrounding Regions of Brazil (Patricia Santana)

2020-03-13 16:25: The evolution of sea floor ecology in the Cenozoic of Antarctica (Dr Rowan Whittle - British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge)

2020-03-13 17:20: Lost Meteorites of Antarctica (Dr Jane MacArthur, Manchester)

2020-03-18 16:00: CANCELLED (Paula Koelemeijer)

2020-04-22 13:00: The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis (Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)

2020-04-23 11:30: Open questions in turbulent stratified mixing: Do we even know what we do not know? (C. P.  Caulfield, BPI and DAMTP)

2020-04-27 14:00: Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes (Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office)

2020-04-30 11:30: Making rubber gloves (Alexander F. Routh  CEB and BP Institute ( BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor))

2020-04-30 13:00: Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice (An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group)

2020-05-07 11:30: How new deep-sea observations change turbidity current models (Matthieu Cartigny, Uni of Durham)

2020-05-07 13:00: Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals (Greg Reeves, Hibberd group)

2020-05-12 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Jenny Druhan (The University of Illinois))

2020-05-13 12:00:  InSAR Monitoring of Tectonic Deformation and Climatic Forcing in North-Eastern Tibet [Rescheduled to online] (Dr. Simon Daout, University of Oxford)

2020-05-13 16:00: The influence of Arctic Fog on Glaciers (Dr. Hester Jiskoot, Associate Professor of Physical Geography & Glaciology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)

2020-05-14 11:30: Experimental insights into the gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute)

2020-05-14 13:00: Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis (Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group)

2020-05-14 13:00: Experimental insights on volcanic ash as a reactive agent in the environment (Dr Elena Maters (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry))

2020-05-20 12:00: Mantle convection, plumes and dynamic topography - case studies from the North Atlantic and West Antarctica [Rescheduled to online] (Dr. Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam)

2020-05-21 09:00: Initiation of a composite volcano: The complex beginnings of the long-lived Dunedin Volcano, New Zealand (Rachael Baxter, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge)

2020-05-21 11:30: DEM, dams and dikes (Catherine O'Sullivan, Imperial College)

2020-05-21 16:00: Insights from mapping Greenland’s supraglacial lakes at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales (Dr. James Lea, University of Liverpool)

2020-05-26 12:00: Title to be confirmed (David Wallis (U. Cambridge))

2020-05-27 12:00: Insights into the mineralogy of the lower mantle using comparisons between global seismic tomography and geodynamic models [Rescheduled to online] (Dr. Paula Koelemeijer, Royal Holloway)

2020-05-28 11:30: Modelling Dispersal of Aerosols in Buildings (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge))

2020-05-28 13:00: Assessing hazards in distributed volcanic fields (Lis Gallant (University of Cambridge))

2020-06-03 12:00: Episodic deformation and long-term shear zone activity [Rescheduled to online]  (Dr. Claudia Trepmann )

2020-06-03 16:00: Ice streams: fantastic beasts and how to model them (Elisa Mantelli, Princeton University)

2020-06-04 13:00: Volcanic activity along the  enigmatic South Sandwich arc (Dr Emma Liu, University College London)

2020-06-04 13:00: Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis (Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group)

2020-06-09 11:00: The Weddell Polynya: when will it come back? (Casimir de Lavergne, LOCEAN, Sorbonne University)

2020-06-11 13:00: Exploring controls on the distribution of sulfur-loving elements in Icelandic magmas (Callum Reekie, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge)

2020-06-17 12:00: Fantastic Fibre-Optics! Applications of distributed acoustic sensing in glaciology [Rescheduled to online] (Dr. Adam Booth, University of Leeds)

2020-06-18 11:30: Surface Science Aspects of Coronavirus (Stuart Clarke, BPI and Dept of Chemistry)

2020-06-18 13:00: Snapshot of a magmatic system immediately prior to an explosive eruption: Tenerife 289 ka (Emma Horn, University of Southampton)

2020-06-29 14:00: Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results (Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo)

2020-07-02 15:00: ROSETTA-Ice: a new framework for understanding the Ross Ice Shelf (Kirsty Tinto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

2020-07-08 10:00: Influences of Melt Water from Sea Ice/Ice Shelf in Polar Oceans (Kofan Lu, JAMSTEC)

2020-07-15 16:00: Ikaaġvik Sikukun: Bridging the Scientific and Indigenous Communities to Study Sea Ice Change in Arctic Alaska (Christopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)

2020-07-23 11:00: Ice melt driven by the ocean - Two process studies on the physics of ice-ocean interactions based on observations from NE Greenland and the central Arctic Ocean (Dr Janin Schaffer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)

2020-07-28 12:00: Uncomfortable Histories: working to decolonise the Sedgwick Museum (Liz Hide, Sedgwick Museum)

2020-08-11 12:00: The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent (Jazmin Scarlett)

2020-08-25 12:00: Fieldwork in context: challenges and opportunities (Sam Giles, University of Birmingham)

2020-09-09 15:00: Arctic Freshwater Storage and Export in CMIP6 Models (Hannah Zanowski, University of Colorador Boulder)

2020-09-17 15:00: Mapping and characterizing enigmatic habitats in the last great wilderness on Earth (Prof Andrew Davies (University of Rhode Island))

2020-09-23 16:00: Observing Iceberg Melt in a Greenland Fjord (Margaret Lindeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2020-09-24 15:00: Decolonising the curriculum: lessons from sociology (Ali Meghji, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-01 15:00: 3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms (Prof Zachary Ross (CalTech))

2020-10-05 11:00: The utility of simple climate models (Dr. Chris Smith, University of Leeds)

2020-10-07 12:00: Intraplate faults and Australian earthquakes (Tamarah King, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford)

2020-10-07 14:00: Melting and mixing at the submarine termini of tidewater glaciers (Rebecca Jackson, Rutgers University)

2020-10-07 16:00: Hunting active faults in rapid erosional environments (Gayatri Marliyani, Universitas Gadjah Mada)

2020-10-08 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Introduction to BPI Faculty)

2020-10-08 13:00: Integrating social and institutional vulnerabilities into volcanic risk scenarios: A case study at Nevado Cayambe, Ecuador (Dr Julie Morin, Department of Geography)

2020-10-12 13:00: Gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-12 18:00: Journey to the Centre of the earthquake: how does damage affect earthquake source properties? (Louisa Brotherson - University of Liverpool)

2020-10-14 16:00: Five things about the cold forearc mantle wedge (Kelin Wang, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada)

2020-10-15 11:30: The effects of planetary-scale volcanism on Io's interior structure and evolution (Dan Spencer ( University of Oxford))

2020-10-15 13:00: A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis (Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group)

2020-10-15 15:00: Ice sheets and sea level in a changing climate (E2E: Prof Natalya Gomez (McGill Univ) & Prof Jerry Mitrovica (Harvard))

2020-10-16 14:00: Welcome event (Alison Ming (University of Cambridge))

2020-10-18 15:00: The Chicxulub Impact Structure: The formation of large impact structures and the consequences (Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-19 13:00: The ocean’s transient conveyor belt (Shantong Sun, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech)

2020-10-19 18:00: Quaternary Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction (Professor Philip Gibbard - Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-21 12:00: Axial Seamount as a unique laboratory to study how stress changes affect earthquake occurrence (Yen Joe Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

2020-10-21 14:00: Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice (Mitch Bushuk, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)

2020-10-22 11:30: The link between the global carbon cycle and the interplay between calcium and sulfur in marine pore fluid (Hal Bradbury, Dept of Earth Sciences, Uni of Cambridge)

2020-10-22 13:00: Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology (Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota)

2020-10-22 13:00: Modeling volcano-tectonic interactions in a youthful continental rift: the East African Rift System (Joshua Jones (Virginia Tech))

2020-10-23 14:00: Is the Halley temperature record homogeneous? (Prof. John King, British Antarctic Survey)

2020-10-26 13:00: From top to bottom: using surface velocity variations to look below glaciers (Kasia Warburton, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-26 18:00: Towards an inclusive and global Earth science: unravelling the legacies of empire (Dr Liz Hide - Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-28 16:00: Investigating Earth's deep mantle buoyancy and frequency dependent behavior using Earth tides (Harriet Lau, UC Berkeley)

2020-10-29 11:30: TBC (Kieran Gilmore, BPI and Sandy Armstrong, BPI)

2020-10-29 13:00:  Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles (Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group)

2020-10-29 15:00: tbd (Dr. Laura Wallace of UT Austin and GNS Science, New Zealand)

2020-11-02 11:00: Estimating and attributing greenhouse gas fluxes using radiocarbon  (Dr. Heather Graven, Imperial College London)

2020-11-02 13:00: Dune-dune interactions: experiments and modelling (Karol Bacik, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-04 15:00: The impact of lee waves on the Southern Ocean circulation and its response to winds (Luwei Yang, University of California, Los Angeles)

2020-11-04 16:00: Can we predict earthquakes? Evidence for numerical and analogue experiments. (Jeannot Trampert, Utrecht University)

2020-11-05 11:30: See Below (Patrick Mortimer, BPI and Eric Newland, BPI)

2020-11-05 13:00: Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum (Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group)

2020-11-05 13:00: A Caribbean Vacay: Sun, Sand, Sea and Volcanoes?! An introduction into volcanic outreach in the Eastern Caribbean (Alia Juman, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine)

2020-11-05 16:00: Unique Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. (Karletta Chief (University of Arizona))

2020-11-09 13:00: Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather (Kristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

2020-11-09 18:00: Exploration Geology, and Looking for Lithium in the UK (Lucy Crane - Cornish Lithium)

2020-11-11 16:00: Post-Seismic Deformation Following Deep Earthquakes (Sunny Park, Caltech)

2020-11-12 11:30: Particle suspension from Rouse to Turbidty Currents, and back again (Dr Robert Durrell, University of Hull)

2020-11-12 13:00: Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job! (Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud )

2020-11-12 14:00: Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic (Professor John Turner, British Antarctic Survey)

2020-11-12 14:00: Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic (John Turner)

2020-11-12 15:00: Strong Acid (Prof. Macalady (Penn State) and Prof M Torres (Rice))

2020-11-16 11:00: Aerosol Research at ECMWF (Dr. Angela Benedetti, ECMWF)

2020-11-16 13:00: Double-Diffusive Convection in the Arctic Ocean (Nicole Shibley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University)

2020-11-16 18:00: Titan's Atmosphere in the Cassini Era and Beyond (Dr Melody Sylvestre - University of Bristol)

2020-11-18 16:00: Evidence for synchronization in the global earthquake catalog  (Rebecca Bendick, University of Montana)

2020-11-18 16:00: SubZero: Floe-Resolving Sea Ice Model (Georgy Manucharyan, University of Washington)

2020-11-19 11:30: Flood inundation prediction (Professor Paul Bates, Uni of Bristol)

2020-11-19 13:00: Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development (Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis)

2020-11-19 13:00: Exploring volcanoes in Central Iceland as Analogs for Planetary Environments (Jacob Richardson, NASA/GSFC)

2020-11-23 18:00: Direct Dating of Hydrothermal Cu-Au Systems Using Calcite U-Pb Dating (Dr Catherine Mottram - University of Portsmouth)

2020-11-24 13:30: Impact of Covid19 on Climate (James Weber, Sanna Markkanen, Paul Young)

2020-11-25 13:00: Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion? (Professor Dame Sandra Dawson)

2020-11-25 16:00: How sharp is the Bottom Boundary of the Oceanic Plate? And why it matters (Tolulope Olugboji, University of Rochester)

2020-11-26 11:30: Internal wave recipes? Identifying the optimal mix of multi-scale shear and convection in wave-breaking events. (Colm Caulfield, BPI and DAMTP)

2020-11-26 13:00: Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres (Matthew Naish, Henderson Group)

2020-11-26 15:00: Atmospheres of Earth and Icy planets (Dr Craig Poku (Leeds) & Naomi Rowe-Gurney (Leicester))

2020-11-30 11:00: Trends and emissions of ammonia and its influence on air quality in the UK deduced with satellite and surface observations and the GEOS-Chem model (Dr. Eloise Marais, University College London)

2020-11-30 13:00: Limitations of the Miles-Howard criterion (Jeremy Parker, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-30 18:00: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs (Dr Susannah Maidment - Natural History Museum)

2020-12-02 10:00: Fine-scale ocean processes in the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves (Madi Rosevear, University of Tasmania)

2020-12-03 11:30: Mini Symposium: On Laboratory Observations of Turbidites: Traction and Yielding. (Nigel Woodcock, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, and Andy Woods)

2020-12-03 15:00: Science and Justice in the Anthropocene (Professor Jill Schneiderman (Vassar College))

2020-12-03 16:00: Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably. (Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB.)

2020-12-10 15:00: Shaking it loose and burning it up: The carbon budget of erosion from earthquakes to floodplains (Joshua West (USC) & Gen LI (Caltech))

2021-01-13 14:00: An AUV underneath the ‘Doomsday glacier’: Revealing pathways and modification of warm water flowing beneath Thwaites ice shelf, West Antarctica (Anna Wåhlin, University of Gothenburg)

2021-01-14 14:15: BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Professor Emily Allyn Weiss - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Photo-Sciences Research Center (PSRC) Northwestern University )

2021-01-14 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Sally Benson (Stanford))

2021-01-18 11:00: Natural halogens and tropospheric ozone  (Dr. Fernando Iglesias-Suarez, DLR)

2021-01-18 14:30: First a war then a dance: How sensory organs take shape (Anna Erzberger (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany))

2021-01-20 16:00: Mantle seismic imaging from top to bottom: subduction dynamics, transition zone topography and core-mantle boundary anisotropy (Florian Millet (University of Cambridge))

2021-01-21 13:00: Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions (Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University)

2021-01-21 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Jennifer Druhan, University of Illinois)

2021-01-25 13:00: Contributions to a mechanistic understanding of climate change (Stephan Fueglistaler, Princeton University)

2021-01-25 14:30: Cell shape, cell division and the development of early embyos (Nicolas Minc)

2021-01-25 17:00: Geodynamic of rifted margins: pre-rift inheritance and post-rift movements (Dr Mohamed Gouiza - University of Leeds)

2021-01-27 14:00: Interannual variability in Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water formation regions ( Rachael Sanders (British Antarctic Survey))

2021-01-27 16:00: A trans-disciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation (Fabio Crameri (University of Oslo))

2021-01-28 11:30: Mixing in bubble trains and bubble plumes (Andy Woods, BPI)

2021-01-28 13:00: From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses (Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group)

2021-01-28 15:00: Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World (Prof Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Arizona) & Dr Rona Oran (MIT))

2021-02-01 13:00: Nondiffusive turbulent mixing in surface oceanic boundary layers (Dr. Tomas Chor, University of Maryland)

2021-02-01 14:30: From cell dynamics to robust tissue folding (Magali Suzanne)

2021-02-01 17:00:  Improving EDI in academic and field settings (Anya Lawrence, University of Birmingham; Ben Fernando, University of Oxford)

2021-02-03 16:00: Relationships between slow slip, megathrust locking, seismicity, and structure at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand  (Laura Wallace (GNS New Zealand/University of Texas))

2021-02-04 11:30: Impact of wind on dynamics of turbulent buoyant plumes (Guillaume Carazzo, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2021-02-04 13:00: A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest (Vivian Irish, Yale University)

2021-02-04 15:00: Paleocene–Eocene climate and carbon cycle: tales from the 'boring background' (Kate Littler, University of Exeter)

2021-02-05 16:00: Bayesian imaging of the Hawaiian ULVZ from Sdiff postcursors (Carl Martin)

2021-02-08 13:00: On the interaction between submesoscales and turbulence: from theory to application (Abigail Bodner, Brown University)

2021-02-08 14:30: Generating order out of (pseudo)chaos during vertebrate retinal lamination (Caren Norden)

2021-02-08 17:00: Responsible sourcing of metals – geologists help get it right from the start! (Professor Frances Wall - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter)

2021-02-10 14:00: Ocean’s response to the stochastic atmospheric forcing (Shenjie Zhou (British Antarctic Survey))

2021-02-10 16:00: Landscape evolution on Mars: characterizing the ancient hydroclimate using paleolake morphologies (Gaia Stucky de Quay (University of Texas))

2021-02-11 11:30: The Effect of Coordination Chemistry in Aerosols and Fogs on Air Quality (Dr Chiara Giorio, Dept of Chemistry)

2021-02-11 13:00: Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences (Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning)

2021-02-11 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Barbara Sherwood Lollar (U Toronto))

2021-02-12 16:00: Scaling exoplanet topography (Claire Guimond)

2021-02-15 11:00: The importance of ice-nucleating particles in tropical deep convective clouds (Rachel Hawker - University of Leeds)

2021-02-15 13:00: The fluid mechanics of CO2 sequestration in heterogeneous porous media: a journey across scales (Graham Benham, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-15 14:30: The importance of being edgy: directional growth control in Arabidopsis lateral roots (Charlotte Kirchhelle)

2021-02-15 17:00: Predictive and invertible models of sediment geochemistry from catchment to continental scales (Alex Lipp, Imperial College London )

2021-02-17 16:00: Bullard Lightning Talks (Tak Ho, Aisling O'Kane, Al Boyce, Adam Butler, Kieran Gilmore, Nick Rawlinson)

2021-02-18 11:30: Stratification in Drying Films: Diffusion and Diffusiophoresis and  Particle sedimentation from current blown plumes and Nanoporous silica as a pre-concentrator for enhanced VOC detection (Claire Rees-Zimmerman, BPI and Cara James, BPI)

2021-02-18 13:00: Looking Through the Sunda Arc: An Overview of Java’s Magmatism (Dr Esti Handini, Universitas Gadjah Mada)

2021-02-18 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Steve Shirey, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science)

2021-02-18 15:00: Soil fungi for us (Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia)

2021-02-19 16:00: How did the Archean crust evolve? Insights from the structure and petrology of the Lewisian of Scotland (Sophie Miocevich)

2021-02-22 13:00: The long term development of Triadic Resonance Instability for finite width internal wave beams (Katherine Grayson)

2021-02-22 14:30: Two signals converge on a nerve cell’s path: The interplay between chemical and mechanical signals in the developing brain (Eva Pillai)

2021-02-22 17:00: Title TBC (Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford)

2021-02-23 16:00: State and fate of Antarctica's gatekeepers: ice shelf instability from a remote sensing and modelling perspective (Stef Lhemitte (TU Deflt))

2021-02-24 14:00: A synthesis of Antarctic ice-ocean boundary observations from the underwater vehicle Icefin (Peter Washam (Georgia Institute of Technology))

2021-02-24 16:00: Once Broken, Hard to Mend: Structural Inheritance and the Quakes that Shake Our World (Folarin Kolawole (BP/University of Oklahoma))

2021-02-25 11:30: Solutal Convection in Porous Media (Prof Marc Hesse, University of Texas)

2021-02-25 15:00: Volatiles in Earth’s mantle: primordial or subducted? Insights from new generation nitrogen and sulfur isotope systematics (Dr Jabrane Labidi (IPGP) and Dr James Dottin III)

2021-02-25 15:00: Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum (John Ferguson, Kromdijk group)

2021-02-26 16:00: Dynamics of an incipient mountain range: active tectonics and lithosphere rheology of New Guinea (Lizzie Knight)

2021-03-01 11:00: Right ozone, wrong reasons (Mat Evans - University of York)

2021-03-01 13:00: Un-mixing the Ocean: Double-Diffusion, Ice Shelves and Arctic Eddies (Leo Middleton, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-01 14:30: Against the grain; Modeling seed growth control as an mechano-sensitive incoherent feedforward loop. (Olivier Ali)

2021-03-01 17:00: The Energy Transition in industry and its impact on earth science careers (Sir Mark Moody-Stuart)

2021-03-01 17:00: Title TBC (Dr Sean McMahon, University of Edinburgh)

2021-03-03 16:00: Faults in a poroelastic solid: Towards understanding the complex coupling of slip and pore-pressure changes (Elias Heimission (Caltech/ETH Zurich))

2021-03-04 11:30: Peatland hydrology and carbon cycling (Professor Joseph Holden, University of Leeds)

2021-03-04 13:00: Refined eruptive history of Mount Pelée volcano and implications for tephra fallout hazard in Martinique (Dr Audrey Michaud-Dubuy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2021-03-04 15:00: Structural and magnetic transitions in minerals and functional materials: the pervasive roles of strain and elasticity (Prof. Michael Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2021-03-04 15:00: Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis (Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley)

2021-03-05 16:00: Using P2KP Diffracted Phases and High Frequency Synthetic Seismograms to Interrogate Core Mantle Boundary Structure (Stuart Russell)

2021-03-08 13:00: Stress coupling between Greenland supraglacial lakes during rapid drainage (Laura Stevens, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2021-03-08 14:30: The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes (Buzz Baum)

2021-03-08 17:00: The birth, death and reincarnation of Snowball Earth (Professor Ian Fairchild)

2021-03-10 16:00: When climate loads the Earth: rheology from geodesy (Kristel Chanard (IPGP))

2021-03-11 11:30: How will climate change affect volcanic plume rise and aerosol cycle? (Thomas Aubry (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-11 15:00: How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation? (Chen Zhu ( Indiana University))

2021-03-11 16:00: Postponed - Protecting the Environment (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-03-12 13:00: The Future Green Economy: Panel Discussion (Prof. Gargi Bhattacharya (Professor of Sociology at the University of East London), Kate Metcalf (Co-director of the Women’s Environment Network) and Dr. Natalie Jones (Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk))

2021-03-12 16:00: Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Phanerozoic Dynamic Topography (Chia-Yu Tien)

2021-03-15 11:00: KiD-A: How Different Are Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions from a Variety of Microphysics Schemes? (Adrian Hill - Met Office)

2021-03-15 13:00: What ground deformation can tell us about sub-surface systems (Adam Butler, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-15 17:00: Pseudofossils and the Search for Life on Mars (Dr Sean McMahon - University of Edinburgh)

2021-03-16 14:00: CCfCS event on Climate, economics and policy (Hector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics))

2021-03-18 11:30: Have Glue, Will Travel! (Ewen Kellar, TWI)

2021-03-18 13:00: Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens (Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside)

2021-03-18 13:00:  2018 Eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano – Use of Social Media and the U.S. Department of Interior Strategic Sciences Group (Aleeza Wilkins and Alice Pennaz (USGS))

2021-03-18 15:00: How are water isotopes influencing our understanding of Antarctic climate variability over the past 2000 years? (Anaïs Orsi)

2021-03-24 09:00: Spatial and temporal variability of the Antarctic Slope Current in an eddying ocean-sea ice model ( Wilma Huneke (Australian National University))

2021-03-25 15:00: Global climate change mitigation under the COVID-19 new normal (Prof Dabo Guan & Dr Can Cui)

2021-03-26 10:00: GNSS for monitoring the earth system: earthquake and volcano deformation, ionospheric tsunami, tropospheric water vapour, sea-level rise, and so much more! (Professor Emma Hill - Earth Observatory of Singapore)

2021-03-26 10:35: Volcanic crystals as archives of pre-eruptive processes (Dr Teresa Ubide - University of Queensland)

2021-03-26 11:30: Testing of an amalgamated sill hypothesis for the origin of magic-ultramafic layered intrusions (Dr Rais Lapytov - University of the Witwatersrand)

2021-03-26 12:05: Continental reconstructions using palaeomagnetism, Title TBC (Professor Ricardo Trindade - University of Sao Paulo )

2021-03-26 14:00: When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history (Professor Dame Jane Francis - British Antarctic Survey)

2021-03-26 14:35: Surfing Cambrian shorelines: Early land-going animals and slime (Dr James Hagadorn - Denver Museum of Nature and Science)

2021-03-29 11:00: Automated Strategic Mission Planning for a Future Marine Autonomous Vehicle Fleet (Maria Fox)

2021-04-01 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. David Bercovici)

2021-04-07 14:00: Contemporary Southern Ocean CO2 flux variability in the UKESM1 and ocean-only simulations. ( Andrea Rochner (University of Exeter))

2021-04-08 15:00: The small and mighty: the role of microbes and minerals in melting the Greenland Ice Sheet (Prof Liane Benning (GFZ))

2021-04-13 11:00: Early Careers Event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-04-21 14:00: Digital Sea Ice Physics - A novel approach for computing and parametrising sea ice properties for geophysical applications ( Sønke Maus (Norwegian University of Science and Technology))

2021-04-22 15:00: Reconstructing a deep time Earth system: The penultimate ice house (Prof Isabel Motañez (UC Davis) and Sophia Macarewich (U Michigan))

2021-04-26 14:30: ‘Fine-tuning cell mechanics at the onset of collective cell motion’ (Elias H Barriga, Group Leader at Mechanisms of Morphogenesis Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal)

2021-04-28 16:00: Core formation on Earth and Mars (Rebecca Fisher (Harvard University))

2021-04-29 13:00: CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar (Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group)

2021-04-30 16:00: Global Residual Depth Anomalies, the Plate Model, and Observable Dynamic Topography (Megan Holdt)

2021-05-04 14:30: Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration     (Yuling Jiao, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2021-05-05 14:00: From Models to Observations: A Case Study for the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ( Hartmut Hellmer (Alfred Wegener Institute))

2021-05-05 16:00: Habitability in the Solar System (Véronique Dehant (Royal Observatory Belgium/UCLouvain))

2021-05-06 11:30: Some problems in low Reynolds number environmental flows (Ed Hinton, The University of Melbourne, Australia)

2021-05-06 13:00: Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications  (Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol)

2021-05-07 16:00: Radial Miscible Fingering within the Icelandic Mantle Plume (Hannah Galbraith-Olive)

2021-05-10 14:30: Wisdom of the crowd – Mechanisms that coordinate individual cell movements for epithelial migration  (Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago)

2021-05-12 16:00: Supershear Earthquakes: Theory, Experiments and Natural Observations  (Harsha Bhat (ENS))

2021-05-13 13:00: CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar (Chris Lambing, Henderson group)

2021-05-13 15:00: On Tornado Dynamics (Professor Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta, Canada)

2021-05-14 16:00: Constraining upper mantle chemical heterogeneity using P and S-wave > receiver functions (Stephen Pugh)

2021-05-17 14:30: Size sensing in biological systems- new insights from planarians (Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen,Germany.)

2021-05-17 15:00: The Green Transition in Natural Resources (Panel discussion: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fuana International) and Andy Whitmore (London Mining Network))

2021-05-19 14:00: Constraining water mass transformation and overflow dynamics on the Arctic shelves ( Elizabeth Yankovsky (New York University))

2021-05-19 16:00: Precision Seismology: From Source to Plate Boundary Scales (Felix Waldhauser (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory))

2021-05-20 11:30: Granular Flows (Amalia Thomas, Uni of Cambridge)

2021-05-20 16:00: CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-05-21 16:00: Seismic Structure of Borneo and Sulawesi (Harry Linang )

2021-05-24 14:30: Morphogenesis of the mouse and human embryo beyond implantation (Matteo Molè)

2021-05-26 16:00: The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano: Unprecedented insight into the onset and evolution of a caldera collapse (Kyle Anderson (USGS))

2021-05-27 11:30: Ocean Plastics (Erick van-Sebille, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2021-05-27 13:00: Crystallisation temperatures as a proxy for mantle temperature; and the 2021 eruption in Reykjanes (Simon Matthews - University of Iceland)

2021-05-28 16:00: Mantle Convective Significance of Argentine Basin (Leonardo Siqueira)

2021-06-01 14:30: Stretching out the embryo - Anterior expansion and posterior addition to the notochord mechanically coordinate embryo axis elongation  (Susie McLaren, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-01 14:30: Regulation of Phyllotaxis by Auxin Transport Proteins (Henrik Ahl, Sainsbury's laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-02 14:00: Turbulent convection in Antarctic Subglacial Lakes  ( Louis-Alexandre Couston (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon))

2021-06-02 16:00: Tectonics of the Salton Trough and Northern Gulf of California (Joann Stock (Caltech))

2021-06-03 11:30: How I became stuck in Layered Materials: From Origins of Life, to Drugs to Renewable Energy (Dawn Geatches, STFC UKRI)

2021-06-04 14:30: de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes (Emília Santos (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-04 14:55: Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme (Dr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-04 16:00: 3-D multi-scale adjoint waveform tomography of the lithosphere and underlying mantle beneath Southeast Asia (Deborah Wehner )

2021-06-07 14:30: "Investigating the role of Syndecan, a conserved heparan sulphate proteoglycan, in the maintenance and proliferation of progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila midgut" (Buffy Eldridge, PDN, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-07 14:30: "Single-cell morphometrics reveals ancestral principles of notochord development" (Toby Andrews, Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2021-06-09 16:00: Strain localization during temperature-sensitive creep in the Alpine Fault Zone (Virginia Toy (Univ. of Mainz))

2021-06-11 16:00: Multiple buried landscapes and Paleogene climatic aberrations triggered by transient vertical uplift associated with mantle plume dynamics (Ben Conway-Jones )

2021-06-14 14:30: Building organs – emergence of form and fate through local force imbalance (Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2021-06-16 14:00: Rapid and slow responses of the climate system to ocean diapycnal turbulent mixing (Ali Mashayekhi (Imperial College London))

2021-06-16 16:00: Seismic evidence for partial melt below tectonic plates (Eric Debayle (ENS-Lyon))

2021-06-17 13:00: Storms, surf, & swells: Bedrock breakdown and the geodynamic demise of volcanic ocean islands (Kim Huppert - GFZ Postdam)

2021-06-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed ( Aisling O'Kane)

2021-06-30 14:00: Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: What is the role of anthropogenic forcing? (British Antarctic Survey)

2021-07-14 14:00: Turbulent melting of a glacier front using high resolution simulations (Mainak Mondal (New York University Abu Dhabi))

2021-09-28 14:00: The IPCC AR6 Climate Science Report: a panel discussion hosted by CCfCS & Cambridge Zero (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-10-06 16:00: Geoscience in Context: A clean energy future isn't set in stone (Thomas Franssen and Mandy de Wilde )

2021-10-07 11:30: Marangoni flows and instabilities during drying (William Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2021-10-07 15:00: The history of the global carbon cycle as recorded by the chemical composition of shallow-water marine carbonate sediments (John Higgins, Princeton University)

2021-10-08 16:00: Dynamic Topography of Borborema Province: Regional Uplift and Denudation Patterns. (Patricia Santana)

2021-10-11 14:30: Cell shape determination: Mechanical competition vs. endogenous genetic programme (Maria Leptin)

2021-10-11 18:00: Where Do We Come From? In Search of Human Origins (Dr Amelie Beaudet, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-13 15:00: Bullard Research Symposium (Bullard Faculty)

2021-10-14 11:30: Characterizing turbulent heat transport in the ocean using machine learning (Miles Couchman (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-14 13:00: Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress  (Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri)

2021-10-14 15:00: The influence of seawater infiltration on oceanic transform fault slip behavior (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2021-10-18 14:30: Morphogenesis and cell ordering in bacterial biofilms  (Jing Yan)

2021-10-18 18:00: The Feeding Ecology of Mesozoic Mammals: A Biomechanical Approach (Dr Melisa Morales-Garcia, University of Bristol)

2021-10-19 13:00: Welcome event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-10-20 09:00: The impact of sea-ice drift and ocean circulation on dispersal of toothfish eggs and juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea (Erik Behrens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)

2021-10-20 16:00: Its A Hot Beach Summer (Vashan Wright (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute/Scripps))

2021-10-21 11:30: Particle Plumes in Cross Winds - Going to Extremes (Andy Woods, BPI and Stuart Clarke, BPI)

2021-10-21 13:00: Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines  (Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre)

2021-10-22 15:00: Marine sedimentary carbon cycling (Harold Bradbury, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-25 13:00: A full-tensor approach for parameterising oceanic eddy tracer transport (Michael Haigh, Imperial College London)

2021-10-25 14:30: Matteusz: "Insights into the mechanism and evolution of glial ensheathment"     Renske: "Evolution of selfish multicellularity: changes in gene regulation at the origin of multicellularity" (Renske Vroomans; Matteusz Trylinski)

2021-10-25 18:00: Geophysics in Antarctica (Dr Alex Brisbourne, British Antarctic Survey)

2021-10-27 16:00: "The hunt for red noise: scale, power and colour in the Earth Sciences”  and “Can faults get weaker? Evidence from the Mochiyama earthquake swarm" (Nicky White and Sam Wimpenny)

2021-10-28 11:30: Alex Routh - Conformation of Organic Friction Modifiers under shear and Jerome Neufeld - Storing CO2 in geological complexities (Alex Routh, BPI and Jerome Neufeld, BPI)

2021-10-28 13:00: Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants (Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-10-28 15:00: Just how weird is the solar system?  (Tim Elliott, University of Bristol)

2021-10-29 16:00: The magmatic plumbing system of the Askja central volcano, Iceland, as imaged by Travel-time Tomography (Jefei Han)

2021-11-01 13:00: Modelling stratified turbulence in the ocean interior (Sam Lewin, DAMTP)

2021-11-01 18:00: The Energy Transition and the Decarbonisation of Heat (Professor Andy Woods)

2021-11-03 15:30: High-frequency fluctuations in Antarctic Bottom Water transport driven by Southern Ocean winds (Andrew Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles)

2021-11-03 16:00: Creeping gabbro: Mafic rock deformation from nature and experiments (Amicia Lee (University of Tromso))

2021-11-04 11:30: Modelling Challenges in Nuclear Fusion (Remi Delaporte-Mathurin, CEA France)

2021-11-04 13:00: Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers (Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-11-04 15:00: Productivity and dissolved oxygen controls on the Southern Ocean deep-sea benthos during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (Joseph Stewart, University of Bristol)

2021-11-05 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Joe Fone)

2021-11-08 13:00: Fingers and Fractures: Instabilities in Viscoplastic Fluid Films (Thomasina Ball, U. Warwick)

2021-11-08 14:00: A proxy-constrained history of 20th century atmospheric circulation in the Amundsen Sea and implications for glacier retreat (Gemma O'Connor, University of Washington)

2021-11-08 14:30: Jamie: "A biomechanical switch regulates the transition towards homeostasis in oesophageal epithelium"     Ben: "Integrating pattern formation and cell movements in our understanding of morphogenesis" (Ben Steventon, Jamie McGinn)

2021-11-08 18:00: Tracking the Earth's Mantle Through Space and Time (Dr Tiffany Barry, University of Leicester)

2021-11-10 16:00: Closing the gap - fluid transport properties of rocks deforming in the ductile regime (Florian Fusseis (University of Edinburgh))

2021-11-11 11:30: Six Features of Sand Dunes (Nathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-11 13:00: Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions (Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory)

2021-11-11 15:00: Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Natasha Dowey, Sheffield Hallam University)

2021-11-12 16:00: Time-lapse Volumetric Seismic Imaging of a Major Oceanic Front ( Xiaoqing Chen)

2021-11-15 13:00: Unmixing the Ocean: Double Diffusion and Turbulence in Polar Oceans (Leo Middleton, DAMTP)

2021-11-15 14:30: To stay or leave? Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and progenitor’s segregation within the bird embryonic tail (Bertrand Benazeraf)

2021-11-15 18:00: Winchcombe: The First UK Meteorite in 30 Years (Dr Natasha Stephen, Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre)

2021-11-17 14:00: Snow on sea ice: poorly observed, poorly modelled, poorly understood (Robbie Mallet, University College London)

2021-11-17 16:00: What can evolving seismic anisotropy tell us about the 2018 Kilauea eruption? (Jessica Johnson (University of East Anglia))

2021-11-18 11:30: Clare Rees-Zimmerman - Diffusiophoresis of latex in silica and Mohammed Al-Sharabi  - Investigating the liquid transport kinetics of ceramic powder compacts using terahertz pulsed imaging (Clare Rees-Zimmerman and Mohammed Al-Sharabi, BPI)

2021-11-18 13:00: Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth (Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-11-18 15:00: Fast faults and fluids in the earthquake cycle (Tom Mitchell, University College London)

2021-11-19 16:00: The Dynamic Topography of Australia (Philippa Slay)

2021-11-22 14:30: Symplasmic auxin movement and the evolution of plant architecture (Yoan Coudert)

2021-11-22 18:00: Mud Forensics - Assessing Geological Risks (Professor Andy Cundy, University of Southampton)

2021-11-24 16:00: The interior of Mars revealed by seismology – 1000 sols of InSight (Brigitte Knaypmayer-Endrun (University of Cologne))

2021-11-25 11:30: The role of convective vortices in accumulating buoyant material in the ocean (Jenny Dingwall, Cambridge)

2021-11-25 13:00: Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism (Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute)

2021-11-25 15:00: Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution (Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-25 15:00: Using ecology to unlock the secrets of early animal evolution (Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-29 13:00: Submesoscale in the Texas-Louisiana shelf and its implications on the biogeochemistry (Jinliang Liu, DAMTP)

2021-11-29 14:30: POSTPONED*Drivers of Morphological complexity: a Cnidarian Perspective  (Aissam Ikmi)

2021-11-29 18:00: How Do Rocks React to Outbursts from the Sun? (Dr Juliane Huebert, British Geological Survey)

2021-12-01 10:00: Assessment of oscillation feature in sub-shelf melting from idealized coupled ice sheet ocean models (Chen Zhao, University of Tasmania)

2021-12-01 16:00: Towards the origins of lower-mantle heterogeneities: from seismic models to mineral physics (***CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES***) (Wenzhong Wang (Carnegie Institute))

2021-12-02 11:30: Carbon storage in heterogeneous porous reservoirs (Graham Benham (University of Cambridge))

2021-12-02 13:00: Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids (Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-12-02 13:00: Waves and flows on a coral reef beach and in the adjoining lagoon (Stephen Monismith, Stanford University)

2021-12-06 14:30: Developmental Control of Avian Skin Patterning (Marie Manceau)

2021-12-08 14:00: The role of Short-lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs) in the climate system (Dr. Vaishali Naik from the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton)

2022-01-19 16:00: Towards the origins of lower-mantle heterogeneities: from seismic models to mineral physics (Wenzhong Wang, UCL)

2022-01-20 12:30: Large-Scale Carbon Materials that Sequester CO2: A Pipeline for Sustainable Materials or Pipedream? (Dr Adam Boies (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-20 15:00: Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry (Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-01-24 14:30: Characterization of a Mechanical Hotspot for Cell Plate Guidance Near an Adjacent Three-Way Junction  (Marie-Cécile Caillaud, CR CNRS)

2022-01-24 18:00: How the US government addresses international geological hazards and risk (Gari Mayberry, USGS)

2022-01-25 14:00: Climate and Composition Implications of a hydrogen economy (Nicola Warwick (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-26 14:00: Quantifying and reducing uncertainty in projections of sea level rise from ice sheets (Isabel Nias, University of Liverpool)

2022-01-27 11:30: Hydraulic reconstruction of the 1818 Giétro Glacial Lake outburst flood (Tomas Trewhela, University Adolfo Ibanez)

2022-01-27 13:00: Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice  (Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-01-27 15:00: Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales (James Rae, University of St. Andrews)

2022-01-31 13:00: Harnessing Computing for Societal Challenges – the Importance of Multiphase Flows (Damir Juric, Churchill College & CNRS LISN Paris)

2022-01-31 14:30: Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryonic development  (Sundar Naganathan (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) )

2022-01-31 14:30: CADHERIN mediated AMIS localisation - Using mouse embryonic stem cells 3D culture as a model  (Xuan Liang (PDN, Cambridge University) )

2022-01-31 18:00: (Not) Under the Sea: how animal life first moved onto land (Dr Anthony Shillito, University of Oxford)

2022-02-02 16:00: Imaging metallic deposits using ambient seismic noise (Yihe Xu, Bullard Laboratories)

2022-02-03 11:30: Boundary layers and Biominerals (Oscar Branson (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-03 13:00: Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar)

2022-02-03 15:00: A view across rifting events: Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Eastern Africa and Madagascar (Patrick O'Connor, University of Ohio)

2022-02-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Claire Guimond)

2022-02-07 14:30: Adhesion-regulated junction slippage controls cell intercalation dynamics in an Apposed-Cortex Adhesion Model  (Alexander Nestor-Bergmann (PDN, University of Cambridge))

2022-02-07 14:30: Breaking the barrier: CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids model pathogen and drug entry to the brain   (Laura Pellegrini (LMB, Cambridge))

2022-02-07 18:00: Can a Record of Ocean Chemistry be Preserved in the Oceanic Crust? (Dr Sasha Turchyn, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-08 15:30: Air, Ice, and Water: Combining Models and Observations to Understand Antarctic Ice Sheet-Climate Interactions (Jan Lenaerts, University of Colorado, Boulder)

2022-02-09 12:00: Inherited lithospheric structures control arc-continent collisional heterogeneity: insights from seismic imaging (Meghan S. Miller, The Australian National University)

2022-02-10 11:30: Dissecting turbulent plumes in cross flow using DNS data (Marteen van Reeuwijk, Imperial College )

2022-02-10 13:00: Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis  (Dr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences  )

2022-02-10 15:00: The origin of stress- and fluid-driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective (Dr Philip Benson, University of Portsmouth)

2022-02-11 16:00: Further adventures in ULVZland: a global quest for hidden signals and taming unwieldy non-linear inversions (Carl Martin)

2022-02-14 13:00: Connecting Atmospheric & Oceanic Boundary Layer Turbulence to Global Warming:  Regional Mixed Layer Depth as an Emergent Constraint (Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University)

2022-02-14 14:30: Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix: from elasticity to viscoelasticity  (Alberto Elosegui-Artola (Francis Crick Institute & King’s College London, London, UK)   )

2022-02-14 18:00: Impact Cratering: From Microstructure to Mass Extinction (Dr Auriol Rae, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-16 16:00: [CANCELED] Earthquake ground-motion assessment and rupture behaviours of induced seismicity from deep geothermal production (Joanna Holmgren, University of Bristol)

2022-02-17 11:45: The role of ammonia in a future carbon-free energy landscape (Laura Torrente-Merciano, Chem Eng, Cambridge)

2022-02-17 13:00: Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-02-17 15:00: Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-02-18 16:00: Seismic Visibility of Melt at the Core-Mantle Boundary from PKKP Diffracted Waves (Stuart Russell)

2022-02-21 14:30: Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shape  (Adrienne Roeder )

2022-02-21 18:00: How to Choose a Career in Tackling Climate Change (Yujia Du)

2022-02-22 11:30: David Madden - DFT Studies on the Reactivity of Iron Surfaces: Searching for Novel Routes to Passivation and Anke Krautsieder - Preparation and testing of novel materials for steel surface maintenance procedures (David Madden, BPI and Anke Krautsieder, BPI)

2022-02-23 16:00: Using high-resolution daily ICEYE SAR interferometry to map magma conduits formation in the shallow crust (Vincent Drouin, Icelandic Meteorological Office)

2022-02-24 13:00: Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies (Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London)

2022-02-24 15:00: Priming patterns of volcanic eruptions revealed by deep-time diffusion chronometry (Martin Mangler, Durham University)

2022-02-28 13:00: Data-driven identification of turbulent mixing in stratified flows (Miles Couchman, DAMTP)

2022-02-28 14:30: The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the Holozoa  (Paul K. Strother (Boston College) )

2022-02-28 18:00: Seismology on Mars: how the InSight mission is revealing the internal structure of the red planet (Dr Anna Horleston, University of Bristol)

2022-03-02 14:00: How important is sea ice divergence? (Harry Heorton, UCL)

2022-03-02 16:00: Unusual volcanic tsunamis caused by trapdoor faulting at submarine calderas (Osamu Sandambata, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience)

2022-03-03 11:30: Sustainable and effective antimicrobial surface coating based on natural cellulose  (Jason Zheng, University of Birmingham)

2022-03-03 13:00: Who Cares About Hornworts? (Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds)

2022-03-04 16:00: The Midlands Microcraton Mystery  (Sophie Miocevich)

2022-03-07 13:00: Interannual variability in the tropical lower stratosphere (Alison Ming, DAMTP)

2022-03-07 14:30: Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wing (Natalie Dye (POL Dresden) )

2022-03-07 18:00: What controls sediment bypass in submarine channels?: Insights from turbidity current modelling applied to the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (Adriana Crisostomo-Figueroa, University of Leeds)

2022-03-09 16:00: Coupling the thermodynamics and geodynamics of mantle melting: Applications to reactive channelisation beneath mid-ocean ridges (Lucy Tweed, LDEO)

2022-03-10 13:00: Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth (Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University)

2022-03-11 16:00: Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Phanerozoic Dynamic Topography (Chia-Yu Tien)

2022-03-14 13:00: The impact of realistic topographic representation on the parameterisation of lee wave energy flux (Lois Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London)

2022-03-14 18:00: Building a model from scratch: Gravity, the earth’s figure, and the problems of measurement in geoscience, 1680-1924 (Miguel Ohnesorge, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-16 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions (Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB)

2022-03-16 14:00: Variability and drivers of the subpolar Southern Ocean circulation from satellite altimetry (Matthis Auger, Sorbonne Université)

2022-03-16 16:00: Sublimation-driven convection in Sputnik Planitia on Pluto (Adrien Morison, University of Exeter)

2022-03-17 11:30: Maths for Wetropolis flood demonstrator and a graphical cost-effectiveness tool for flood-mitigation schemes (Prof Onno Bokhove, Leeds Institute of Fluid Dynamics)

2022-03-17 15:00: Mid-Cenozoic faunal dynamics in the Western Branch of the EARS: A view from the Rukwa Rift Basin (Nancy Stevens)

2022-03-23 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money (Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB  )

2022-03-23 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies (Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC)

2022-03-23 11:00: Machine learning workshop (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-23 14:00: Disentangling polar biogeochemistry using multidisciplinary approaches  (Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-04-06 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity (Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre)

2022-04-06 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement (Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB)

2022-04-06 15:00: Boundary layer turbulence below ice shelves in the shear-dominated regime (Carolyn Begeman (Los Alamos National Laboratory))

2022-04-07 13:30: Early Careers Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-04-21 11:00: Interaction between Planetary Wave and Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere (Professor Hye-Yeong Chun, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University)

2022-04-21 14:00: Recent irreversible retreat of Pine Island Glacier caused by changes in ocean forcing (Bradley Reed, Bangor University)

2022-04-25 14:00: Marine biogeochemistry along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula  (Thiago Monteiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/University of Edinburgh)

2022-04-25 14:30: Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time     (Matteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice))

2022-04-27 10:30: Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification (Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB)

2022-04-27 10:30: Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice (Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre)

2022-04-27 13:00: Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms (Prof Paola Oliveri)

2022-04-27 16:00: Dislocation theory applied to steady and transient creep (Thomas Breithaupt - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2022-04-28 11:30: NO TALK (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-02 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-04 11:30: The Generic Mapping Tools and Community-Maintained Open Source Software (Paul Wessel - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)

2022-05-04 13:00: Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics (Dr Jordi Solana)

2022-05-04 14:00: Evaluating the skill of seasonal forecasts of sea ice in the Southern Ocean: insights from the SIPN South project 2017-2022 (François Massonnet, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain))

2022-05-04 16:00: Absolute Pacific Plate Motions and the Evolution of the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain (Paul Wessel - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)

2022-05-05 10:00: Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 1 (Prof Qiang Fu)

2022-05-05 11:30: Shallow water models of the interaction of gravity currents with obstacles (Ed Skevington, University of Hull)

2022-05-05 13:00: Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus (Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas)

2022-05-06 13:00: Fieldwork event (Multiple speakers)

2022-05-09 13:00: Response of terrestrial aridity to global warming (Qiang Fu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington)

2022-05-09 14:30: Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plants    (Daniel Kierzkowski Montreal University )

2022-05-10 10:00: Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 2 (Prof Qiang Fu)

2022-05-10 12:00: The evolution of the geobiological nitrogen cycle (Eva Stüeken, University of St Andrews)

2022-05-11 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview (Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader)

2022-05-11 13:00: On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems (Prof Gaspar Jékely)

2022-05-11 14:00: Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters to wind amplitude and meltwater (Adele Morrison, Australian National University )

2022-05-11 16:00: Investigating the Afro-Arabian rift system with passive seismology (Laura Parisi - KAUST)

2022-05-12 10:00: Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 3 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-12 11:30:  Interactions between barchan dunes (Willian Righi Assis, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). School of Mechanical Engineering)

2022-05-12 13:00: Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops (Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol )

2022-05-16 14:00: The role of chemistry and oxidants on the forcing from vegetation emissions and the next steps for understanding the atmospheric composition changes and forcing from widespread tree planting (Dr James Weber (The University of Sheffield))

2022-05-16 14:30: Multicellular coordination in context (Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands )

2022-05-17 10:00: Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 4 (Prof Qiang Fu)

2022-05-17 12:00: [Geoscience in Context]  Skills for sustainable geoscience: evidencing transition in Energy and Higher Education (Jen Roberts, University of Strathclyde)

2022-05-18 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat (Eric Ober)

2022-05-18 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State (Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre)

2022-05-18 13:00: One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers  (Dr Edwige Moyroud)

2022-05-18 16:00: Earthquake ground-motion assessment and rupture behaviours of induced seismicity from deep geothermal production (Joanna Holmgren, University of Bristol)

2022-05-19 10:00: Graduate lecture series on atmospheric radiation Lecture 5 (Prof Qiang Fu)

2022-05-19 11:30: Optofluidic hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-19 13:00: Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States  (Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester)

2022-05-20 16:00: Understanding the controls on earthquakes in mountain ranges (Lizzie Knight)

2022-05-23 13:00: AI for Polar Route and Mission Planning (Maria Fox, Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-05-23 14:30: Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis   (  Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg))

2022-05-24 12:00:  Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-05-25 13:00: Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans (Dr Dorit Hockman)

2022-05-25 17:30: Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records (Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-26 11:30: Urban Flooding Mitigation (Dr Dick Fenner (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-26 13:00: Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions (Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS)

2022-05-30 14:30: Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?    (Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) )

2022-05-30 14:30: Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblast     (Antonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) )

2022-05-31 12:00: Investigating the role of ozone-depleting substances in driving observed and projected Arctic climate change (Mark England, University of California Santa Cruz)

2022-05-31 12:00: Investigating the role of ozone-depleting substances in driving observed and projected Arctic climate change (Mark England, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2022-06-01 16:00: Upper mantle thermochemical heterogeneity from coupled geophysical–petrological inversion of terrestrial and satellite data (Javier Fullea - Complutense University of Madrid)

2022-06-06 13:00: Multiscale vortex structure in the regime of incipient hurricanes (Rupert Klein, Mathematik and Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin )

2022-06-06 14:30: CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusion   (Jody Rosenblatt, Randall’s Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London.)

2022-06-07 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-08 14:00: The role of ocean heat transport from the Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean on sea ice variability (David Schroeder, University of Reading)

2022-06-08 17:30: Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts (Martin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

2022-06-09 11:30: See Below (Paddy Mortimer, BPI and Holly Smith, BPI)

2022-06-09 13:00: Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis (Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-06-13 14:00: A new approach to Coupled Data Assimilation and Earth System Reanalysis – climate science for the decades ahead": (Prof. Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg)

2022-06-13 14:30: 4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories  (Giovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) )

2022-06-13 14:30: Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes     (Aleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) )

2022-06-14 12:00: The eccentricities of calcite production by coccolithophores (Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford)

2022-06-15 16:00: From the subduction megathrust to the mantle wedge and slab - what does the Chilean margin have to teach us? (Frederik Tilmann - GFZ Potsdam / FU Berlin)

2022-06-15 17:30: Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe (Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj)

2022-06-16 11:30: The Geobattery Concept – a sustainable future for shallow geothermal resources? (Dr Gus Fraser Harris, University of Edinburgh)

2022-06-16 13:00: Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways (Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University)

2022-06-17 12:00: Chemistry-Climate interactions: Using hierarchies of numerical models (Dr Alison Ming DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-20 14:00: Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum (Qiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University))

2022-06-22 11:00: Oceanic and atmospheric controls on decadal melt variability in the Amundsen Sea (Joren Janzing, Utrecht University/BAS)

2022-06-23 12:00: Reconstructing Aerosol Cycling in the Earth’s Deep Past: The Case of Dust (Dr Nicholas Heavens (Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado) )

2022-06-30 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sian Kou-Giesbrecht (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis))

2022-07-06 12:00: The global biological microplastic particle sink (Dr Karin Kvale (GNS Science, New Zealand))

2022-07-06 15:00: Deep-reaching global ocean overturning circulation generated by surface buoyancy forcing (Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania)

2022-07-07 12:00: Glacial-Interglacial backgrounds determine millennial-scale climate activity (Prof Xu Zhang (State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences))

2022-07-12 12:00: Freshwater forcing and abrupt climate change: insights from high-resolution models (Dr Alan Condron (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution))

2022-07-12 14:00: The impact of climate variability on ice sheet dynamics in an East Antarctic basin (Felicity McCormack, Monash University)

2022-07-13 12:00: Climatic implications of deep ocean turbulence (Dr Ali Mashayek (Imperial College, London))

2022-07-15 16:00: Crustal strain of the Northeast Tibetan Plateau -- implications for tectonics and seismic hazard (Qi Ou - Leeds)

2022-07-18 12:00: The Earth’s inner core: a review and way forward (Prof. Hrvoje Tkalčić from the Australian National University)

2022-08-05 13:00: Stratospheric Vacillations: Insights from a Minimal Model (Peter Hitchcock (Cornell University))

2022-09-07 10:00: Cryptic fragmentation, cryptic capture: syn-eruptive sintering and the assembly of lava during silicic eruptions (Dr Jamie Farqharson)

2022-09-07 11:00: Data-driven Slow Earthquake Dynamics (Dr Adriano Gualandi)

2022-09-07 12:00: Magnetotellurics on the Earth and Moon: A Fusion of Geophysics, Space Physics and Planetary Science (Dr Fiona Simpson)

2022-09-07 13:00: Towards an improved understanding and representation of atmospheric gravity waves in climate models (Aditi Sheshadri (Stanford University))

2022-09-07 14:00: Learning aerosol and cloud microphysics from observations and high resolution modeling (Dr Kara Lamb)

2022-09-07 15:00: Formation and geophysics of metal-rich planetary bodies (Dr Saverio Cambioni)

2022-09-15 14:00: Topography-mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Continental Shelf Slope, East Antarctica (Chengyan Liu, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory )

2022-09-15 14:00: Redox processes in subduction systems (Katy Evans, Curtin University)

2022-09-27 12:00: Mass transport through Europa’s ice shell and the habitability of Europa’s internal ocean (Professor Marc Hesse, University of Texas)

2022-10-05 10:00: Using coupled climate models to understand recent and projected Southern Ocean changes (Ariaan Purich, Monash University)

2022-10-05 16:00: Global Observations of Deep Tectonic Tremor (Zhigang Peng - Georgia Institute of Technology)

2022-10-06 11:30: Introduction to the Institute and some thoughts on energy transition (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-10-07 10:00: Ocean water masses reveal the geographic pattern of water cycle change (Jan Zika, UNSW Sydney)

2022-10-10 10:00: Reduced overturning and abyssal ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin (Kathy Gunn, CSIRO)

2022-10-10 13:00: Spatio-temporal characteristics of mixed-layer turbulence in an energetic oceanic zone (Pauline Tedesco, Imperial College)

2022-10-10 18:00: Rocky planet atmospheres in the solar system and beyond (Dr Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-12 13:00: How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida) (Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen))

2022-10-12 16:00: Seismic tomography from ocean bottom seismometers  (Maria Tsekhmistrenko - University College London)

2022-10-13 11:30: Engineering with Droplets (Pallav Kant (Department of Earth Science))

2022-10-13 12:15: Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford )

2022-10-14 16:15: Progress towards understanding the glacier debris cover anomaly in High Mountain Asia (Dr Evan Miles, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)

2022-10-17 11:00: Climate variability and change in the subpolar Southern Ocean (and its impact on biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems) (Graeme MacGilchrist, Princeton University & NOAA-GFDL)

2022-10-17 13:00: Mechanisms of formation of a Mesospheric Inversion Layer and Subsequent Elevated Stratopause Associated with the 2019 Stratospheric Sudden Warming (Haruka Okui, University of Tokyo)

2022-10-17 14:30: Multi-organ FGF crosstalk orchestrates the construction of the water conserving cryptonephridial complex in a beetle  (Robin Beaven, University of Edinburgh)

2022-10-17 14:30: How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retina  (   Mauricio Rocha Martins (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal) )

2022-10-17 18:00: The Origin of the Ornithischian Bauplan (Professor David Norman, University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences)

2022-10-18 12:00: Cold Blood in Hot Times: Using the vertebrate fossil record to understand biotic responses to climate change (Prof. Jason Head, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-19 17:30: How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial (Amy McGuire, University of Leeds)

2022-10-20 11:30: Shaping of solids under natural convection (Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-20 12:15: Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development (Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-10-24 13:00: Optimizing scalar transport using branching flows (Anuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz)

2022-10-24 14:30: Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of life  (Jody Rosenblatt, King's College London)

2022-10-26 13:00: Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie? (Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna))

2022-10-26 16:00: Tracking fluids through Earth’s crust: Insights from volcanic seismicity and impacts for society (Thomas Hudson - Oxford)

2022-10-27 11:30: Upper limit of wind farm power generation and wind extractability (Dr Takafumi Nishino, Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)

2022-10-27 12:15: A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century (Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA)

2022-10-31 13:00: Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting (Matthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)

2022-10-31 14:30: Submerged by 4-way junctions: how the early embryo of the brown alga Saccharina e-copes     (Bénédicte Charrier    )

2022-11-01 12:00: Quantifying complexity in challenging data: fault slip rates on millennial timescales (Laura Gregory, University of Leeds)

2022-11-01 14:00: HF radar remote sensing of the marginal ice zone and other interesting places (Stuart Anderson, University of Adelaide)

2022-11-02 14:00: Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats (Channing Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of Washington)

2022-11-02 16:00: Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundary (Zhikai Wang - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

2022-11-02 17:30: Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide (Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen)

2022-11-03 11:30: Infection dispersal in buildings  (Dan Toy (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-03 11:30: Dan Toy - Infection dispersal in buildings (Dan Toy (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-03 12:15: Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris (Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre)

2022-11-07 13:00: The influence of submesoscale instabilities on the equilibration of ocean fronts (Aaron Wienkers, DAMTP)

2022-11-07 14:30: Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous System  (Dagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology)  )

2022-11-07 15:00: Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice (Lettie Roach, Columbia University)

2022-11-08 12:00: Raising the Colorado Plateau – tales from xenoliths and petrological modeling (Richard Palin, University of Oxford)

2022-11-09 13:00: The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact (Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford))

2022-11-09 14:00: Reconstructing Southern Hemisphere hydroclimate over the Common Era from paleoclimate records and climate models using data assimilation (Quentin Dalaiden, UCLouvain)

2022-11-09 15:00:  Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice (Lettie Roach, Columbia University)

2022-11-09 16:00: Structure and uplift history of the Transantarctic Mountains: a test for convective instability in the upper mantle (Tim Stern - Victoria University of Wellington)

2022-11-10 11:30: NO SEMINAR (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-11-10 12:15: Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids (Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-11-11 16:00: Unveiling the lithospheric cradle of the Antarctic ice sheet and dynamic topography effects (Aisling Dunn)

2022-11-14 13:00: Experimental insights on the coupling between oceanic internal tides and lee waves (Yvan Dossmann, Université de Lorraine, Nancy)

2022-11-14 14:30: Single-cell phenomics reveals behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpinning migratory activity during mouse anterior patterning   (Shankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford  )

2022-11-15 12:00: Understanding the Lithosphere (Sergei Lebedev, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-16 13:00: The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals (Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2022-11-16 16:00: Upper mantle thermochemical heterogeneity from coupled geophysical–petrological inversion of terrestrial and satellite data (Javier Fullea - Complutense University of Madrid)

2022-11-16 17:30: When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data (Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-11-17 11:30: New approaches to coupling the thermodynamics and geodynamics of mantle melting (Lucy Tweed (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-17 12:15: The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae) (Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-11-18 16:00: Tracking melt movement through the Icelandic crust using microearthquakes (Esme Southern)

2022-11-21 14:00: Assessment of Major Air Pollutants in the Tropical Urban Environment of Kuala Lumpur (Prof. Mohd Talib Latif (University Kebangsaan Malaysia))

2022-11-21 14:30: Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals  (Lucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University)

2022-11-21 14:30: Branching morphogenesis of the lung: tales of the sculptor and the sculpture    (Katharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) )

2022-11-22 12:00:  Battery Metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero (Nick Gardiner, University of St. Andrews)

2022-11-23 13:00: Origin and early evolution of vertebrates (Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol))

2022-11-23 16:00: What’s in an impact record? Using impact records to study the composition, age, and structure of planetary crusts (Ya Huei Huang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2022-11-24 11:30: The dynamics of deep-submarine explosive eruptions (Eric Newland (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-24 12:15: The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function (Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel)

2022-11-24 13:00: A Peculiar Haze, a Sulphuric Smell, and Bloodred Sunsets: The Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Eruption on Europe  (Dr Katrin Kleemann, German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History)

2022-11-28 13:00: Physical oceanography of a sub-Antarctic island fjord from observations and modelling (Joanna Zanker, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-11-28 14:30: Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changes  (Ewa Paluch, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. )

2022-11-29 12:00: Biogenic magnetite tracing of ocean oxygenation across Cenozoic warming events (Liao Chang, Peking University)

2022-11-30 13:00: From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution (Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna))

2022-11-30 16:00: Magnetotelluric studies on volcanic islands: an example from the Azores islands (Duygu Kiyan - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

2022-11-30 17:30: Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it (Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography)

2022-12-01 11:30: Amphiphilic surfactants as model additives for engine friction reduction and Michael Sargent - Battery Thermal Management Fluids and Systems (Beatrice Boggio Robutti and Michael Sargent, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows)

2022-12-01 12:15: Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light (Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands)

2022-12-02 16:00: Investigating 660km Discontinuity Topography at the Regional Scale using P’P’ Precursors (George Pindar)

2022-12-05 14:30: The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its modelled effect on the oceans (Prof. Manoj Joshi)

2022-12-07 15:00: Invisible Ship Tracks: What can we learn about the aerosol effect on clouds and climate from previously unseen ship-polluted clouds?  (Peter Manshausen (University of Oxford))

2023-01-12 11:30: Reprogramming and Printing DNA Nanostructures (Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University)

2023-01-16 14:00: Parameterising melt at the base of Antarctic ice shelves with a feedforward neural network (Clara Burgard, University of Grenoble Alpes)

2023-01-18 16:00: Microgravity for volcano monitoring and research (Elske de Zeeuw-van Dalfsen  - KNMI)

2023-01-19 11:30: Leidenfrost temperature(s) (Pierre Chantelot, Universite of Twente)

2023-01-23 13:00: Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations (Stephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia)

2023-01-23 14:30: Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrow  (Pavel Tomancak (MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany & CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic))

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)

2023-01-24 12:00: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs (Susannah Maidment, Natural History Museum)

2023-01-25 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Kyogo Kawaguchi )

2023-01-25 15:00: Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow (Jia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute))

2023-01-25 15:00: Why Do Earthquakes Cause Damage? (Victor Tsai - Brown University)

2023-01-26 11:30: Modelling electrode heterogeneity in lithium-ion batteries (Dr Toby Kirk, Imperial College London)

2023-01-26 12:15: Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha  (Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-01-30 13:00: Modelling the response of ice to subglacial flooding (Sophie Tobin, DAMTP)

2023-01-30 14:00: Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol (Prof. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2023-01-30 14:30: Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regeneration (Kalika Prasad (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India))

2023-01-30 18:00: Ancient volcanic activity on the Moon: input from the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission (Prof. Lionel Wilson, Lancaster University)

2023-01-31 12:00:  Geochemical Insights into Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability  (Carrie Lear, Cardiff University)

2023-02-01 13:00: Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants (Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford))

2023-02-01 16:00: Mapping mantle flow with seismic anisotropy: a seismo-geodynamics approach (Ana Ferreira -- UCL)

2023-02-02 11:30: Development and application of environmental flow software (Jenny Stocker, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants)

2023-02-02 12:15: Soil microbiomes and one Health (Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2023-02-06 13:00: Macroalgae Cultivation for Ocean CDR: An Idealized Numerical Study (Si Chen, DAMTP)

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)

2023-02-07 12:00: A Palaeontological view of the modern climate and biodiversity crisis (Danila Schmidt, University of Bristol)

2023-02-08 15:00: Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming (Ada Gjermundsen (Norweigian Met. Office))

2023-02-08 16:00: Reviving dead tectonic plates for insights on Earth’s surface bulges and wobbly spin (Jonny Wu, University of Houston)

2023-02-09 11:30: NO TALK THIS WEEK (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-02-09 12:15: Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling (Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK)

2023-02-10 16:00: Imaging the Seismic Velocity Structure beneath Askja Caldera, Iceland with Traveltime Tomography  (Jifei Han)

2023-02-13 13:00: Probabilistic causal network modelling of Southern Hemisphere eddy-driven jet long-range predictability in spring-to-summer  (Elena Saggioro, University of Reading)

2023-02-13 14:30: Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labour  (Eva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary))

2023-02-13 14:30: Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis  (Maria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland))

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)

2023-02-14 12:00: Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling (Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton)

2023-02-15 13:00: The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian (Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh))

2023-02-15 16:00: Destruction and regrowth of cratonic lithospheric mantle by emplacement of large igneous provinces (Simon Stephenson, University of Oxford)

2023-02-15 17:30: Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia (Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen)

2023-02-16 11:30: Inverse problems in fluid dynamics for enhanced velocimetry (Alexandros Kontogiannis (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-16 12:15: Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties (Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-02-17 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Joseph Fone)

2023-02-20 13:00: Viscoplastic model of mountain building (Elvinas Ribinskas, DAMTP)

2023-02-20 14:30: Building and Breaking the Neural Tube  (Clare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) )

2023-02-20 14:30: Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus (Paul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

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

2023-02-22 10:00: Subglacial freshwater drainage increases modelled basal melt of the Totten ice shelf (David Gwyther (UNSW))

2023-02-22 16:00: Global 3D model of mantle attenuation using seismic normal modes and surface waves (Sujania Talavera-Soza  - UC San Diego)

2023-02-22 17:30: North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations) (Chris Day, University of Oxford)

2023-02-23 11:30: Virtual Barriers for Horizontal Buoyancy-driven Flows (Daria Frank ( DAMTP))

2023-02-23 12:15: CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development (Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA)

2023-02-24 16:00: Neogene Mantle Dynamics of Western Mediterranean Region Constrained by Basalt Geochemistry and Residual Depth Anomalies (Chia-Yu Tien)

2023-02-27 14:30: On the specification of leaf dorsiventrality  (Agata Burian (University of Silesia in Katowice) )

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

2023-02-28 12:00: A pinch of salt: Halogen cycling through the solid Earth  (Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2023-03-01 13:00: The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds (Dr Marie Manceau (College De France))

2023-03-01 16:00: Constraining the chemistry of the lower mantle from global tomography (Laura Cobden - Utrecht University)

2023-03-02 11:30: Climatic Reach of small-scale Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-02 12:15: Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa. (Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-03-03 16:00: Group talks from AI4ER students (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-03-06 13:00: AMOC – scratch the ‘surface’ and get to the ‘bottom’ (Shenjie Zhou, British Antarctic Survey)

2023-03-06 14:30: Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanics  (Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) )

2023-03-06 14:30: Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epithelium (Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge)

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

2023-03-07 12:00: The eruptive tempo and long-term behaviour of open vent volcanoes  (Emma Liu, University College London)

2023-03-08 13:00: To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish (Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer))

2023-03-08 16:00: Using numerical models of whole-mantle convection to unravel mantle-lithosphere interactions.  (Maelis Arnould, University of Lyon)

2023-03-08 17:30: Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions (Lauren Davies, Department of Geography)

2023-03-09 11:30: Deep ocean steady-state transport and decadal variability inferred from 1980-2021 anthropogenic transient tracer observations (Laura Cimoli (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-09 12:15: Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security   (Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

2023-03-13 13:00: Computing (generalised) Lagrangian mean without tracking particles (Hossein Kafiabad, Durham University)

2023-03-13 14:30: Connecting spaces and scales in embryos (Jesse Veenvliet )

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

2023-03-14 12:00: Taphonomy and The Tree: are Fossil Taxa Misleadingly "Primitive"? (Robert Asher, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-15 16:00: On or Off? Interpreting episodic tremor during the Fagradalsfjall eruption  2021 (Eva P. S. Eibl - University of Potsdam)

2023-03-15 17:30: The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies (Mark Sier, CENIEH)

2023-03-16 12:15: Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application  (Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-03-17 16:00: Implications of Time-Lapse Volumetric Acoustic Imaging of a Major Oceanic Front (Xiaoqing Chen)

2023-03-22 14:00: Quantifying the relative importance of external forcing in determining SE Pacific Subantarctic mode water properties using density-following adjoint experiments. (Ciara Pimm, University of Liverpool)

2023-03-22 14:30: Chemical modelling of (exo)planetary atmospheres: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it mild but old (Dr Éric Hébrard, University of Exeter)

2023-03-29 11:30: Shallow water modelling of rainfall-runoff processes (Dr D Liang (University of Cambridge))

2023-04-05 15:00: The HUB and Bathymetric Control Of Warm Water Inflow To Antarctic Ice Shelf Grounding Lines (Garrett Finucane, UCLA)

2023-04-19 11:00: Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater (Prof Matt England (UNSW))

2023-04-21 14:00: Sensitivity of the Antarctic margin's ocean circulation to surface winds (Julia Neme, University of New South Wales)

2023-04-24 14:30: Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting (Tyler Huycke (UCSF))

2023-04-24 14:30: Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epithelia  ( Diana Khoromskaia (Crick Institute, London))

2023-04-26 13:00: The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation (Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen))

2023-04-27 11:30: Shallow water modelling of rainfall-runoff processes (Dr D Liang (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-02 12:00: Ice, mud, and models: how paleo data assimilation is helping illuminate our geologic past (Matthew Osman, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-03 11:00: Climatic Reach of small-scale Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-03 16:00: Probing Into the Crust Through eastern Scotland: Seismological constraints on the Highland Boundary Fault (Amy Gilligan -- University of Aberdeen)

2023-05-03 17:30: Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia (Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire)

2023-05-04 11:30: Mimicking cell-surface machinery with bespoke DNA nanostructures (Roger Rubio Sanchez (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-04 12:15: The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery (Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK)

2023-05-05 16:00: How sharp is the core-mantle boundary? (Stuart Russell)

2023-05-09 12:00:  Preservation of H2O heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle (Simon Matthews (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-09 14:00: Towards emulated Lagrangian particle dispersion model footprints for satellite observations (Dr Elena Fillola Mayoral, University of Bristol)

2023-05-10 13:00: Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development (Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London))

2023-05-10 16:00: Lowermost-mantle density and thermochemical structure from from recent normal-mode measurements (Rûna van Tent -- Utrecht University)

2023-05-11 11:30: Time-Lapse Volumetric Seismic Imaging of Water Masses at a Major Oceanic Confluence in the South Atlantic Ocean (Xiaoqing Chen (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-11 12:15: Circadian regulation of sunflower development (Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA)

2023-05-11 15:00: Lagrangian pathways for sub-Antarctic Mode Water (SAMW) formation and carbon uptake (Bieito Fernandez Castro (University of Southampton))

2023-05-12 16:00: Transition Zone Topography Using Scattered P’P’ Precursors (George Pindar)

2023-05-15 14:30: You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula. (Stefania Tavano, ISTA Vienna, Austria )

2023-05-15 14:30: STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY,    GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESS  (Leo Serra    The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom )

2023-05-16 12:00: Nick Shackleton and the Big White Box in the Car Park (David Hodell, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-17 13:00: A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development (Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London))

2023-05-17 16:00: Magma overpressure and its importance for eruption triggering and explosivity (Mike Cassidy -- University of Birmingham)

2023-05-17 17:30: Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence (Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology)

2023-05-18 12:00: Can Enzymes Help Address the Climate Crisis? (Sam Cobb ( Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reisner Lab))

2023-05-18 12:15: Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective (Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany)

2023-05-19 16:00: Reverse-faulting earthquakes and the tectonics of slow-spreading ridge axes (James Jackson)

2023-05-22 14:30: Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.  (Yuchen Long )

2023-05-23 12:00: A chronostratigraphic framework for the Ediacaran Period and the chronostratigraphic potential of sedimentary carbonates using U-Pb carbonate LA-ICP-MS (Marjorie Cantine, Goethe University Frankfurt)

2023-05-23 14:00: Modelling marine aerosol, airborne microplastics and rocket launches (Associate Professor Laura Revell, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury)

2023-05-24 15:00: Filling in the Map: The space-time geography of Arctic Ocean mixing and why it matters  (Stephanie Waterman (University of British Columbia))

2023-05-24 16:00: Recent progress in imaging the subsurface structure of Mars by Zhurong rover radar (Ling Chen -- Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2023-05-25 11:30: Energy and Environmental Flows in Sanitation (Professor Michael Templeton, Imperial College London)

2023-05-25 12:15: Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade (Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster)

2023-05-26 16:00: The thermal and anisotropic structure of the top 300 km of the mantle  (Dan McKenzie)

2023-05-30 12:00: A new look at the past provides perspectives for biodiversity management (Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-31 12:00: The interplay of deep Earth and surface processes shaping Southeast Asia and the Australian continents (Sabin Zahirovic -- University of Sydney)

2023-05-31 13:00: Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties (Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona))

2023-05-31 15:00: An idealized Weddell Gyre and its extreme sensitivity to resolution (Andrew Styles (University of Oxford))

2023-06-01 11:30: Buckling of a fast drying drop of particle suspension (Mahesh Tirumkudulu, IIT Bombay)

2023-06-01 12:15: Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants (Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK)

2023-06-01 15:00: SPECIAL SEMINAR - Drying, Diffusion and Interdiffusion in Multicomponent and Multilayer Films (Professor Wilhelm Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

2023-06-02 16:00:  An extensible framework for Probabilistic Search (Thomas Bewley, UC San Diego)

2023-06-05 14:30: Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.  (Daria Siekhaus, ISTA, Vienna Austria)

2023-06-06 12:00: Seawater calcium concentration may be a key driver of long-term pCO2 (David Evans, University of Southampton)

2023-06-06 14:00: Snowpack nitrate photolysis drives the summertime atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) budget in coastal Antarctica (Millie Bond, British Antarctic Survey)

2023-06-07 13:00: Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time (Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University))

2023-06-07 16:00: Seeing into the heart of a planet: InSights from the Martian Core (Jessica Irving -- University of Bristol)

2023-06-08 11:30: A new class of maneuverable robots for  Inspection and Mapping of complex networks of gas and water pipes (Tom Bewley, UCSD)

2023-06-08 12:15: TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis (Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-06-09 11:30: Earthquakes, pseudotachylytes, and the mechanical evolution of the continents (Alex Copley)

2023-06-12 14:30: Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingression  (Sevan Hopyan )

2023-06-13 12:00: Novel applications of non-traditional stable isotopes to studying near-equilibrium geochemical kinetics with applications to carbon removal and storage (Chen Zhu, Indiana University, Bloomington)

2023-06-14 13:00: Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level (Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University))

2023-06-14 17:30: Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate (Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography)

2023-06-15 11:30: Internal IEEF Single slide seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-06-16 16:00: Quantifying and mitigating biases within global mean sea level and ice sheet mass estimates (David Al-Attar)

2023-06-19 14:30: Connecting spaces and scales in embryos  (Jesse Veenvliet)

2023-06-23 16:00: The Role of Mesoscale Eddy Stirring and Microscale Turbulence in Sustaining Phytoplankton in the World's Subtropical Gyres (Kate Oglethorpe)

2023-07-03 15:00: A new Asymmetric Mode of internal variability for the Global Ocean (Nathan Bindoff (University of Tasmania))

2023-07-06 11:30: Molecular layers, thin films and coatings - Applications of coatings (Stuart Clarke, IEEF)

2023-07-11 14:30: Does water escape from subducted slabs at the core-mantle boundary? (Kei Hirose, University of Tokyo)

2023-07-12 11:30: An integrated earthquake catalogue for Aotearoa New Zealand and some uses in seismic hazard modeling (Chris Rollins, GNS Science)

2023-09-21 11:00: The role of surface forcing in driving pathways and time scales of ocean ventilation: a subpolar perspective (Alice Marzocchi, George Nurser, Louis Clement, Elaine McDonagh)

2023-09-21 11:30: Climatic drivers of steric height in the Southern Ocean (Jennifer Cocks, Alessandro Silvano, Alice Marzocchi, Alberto Naveira Garabato)

2023-09-27 13:00: Investigating the impact of glacial retreat upon iron and macronutrient cycling along the West Antarctic Peninsula (Rhiannon Jones, University of Southampton)

2023-10-04 16:00: Structure and evolution of the upper mantle of the Australian Plate from waveform tomography with massive datasets (Janneke de Laat  -- University of Cambridge)

2023-10-04 17:30: Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives (Kevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen)

2023-10-05 11:30: Stuck in the mud? Channelling and clogging in plastic fluids (Duncan Hewitt ( DAMTP))

2023-10-09 13:00: Self-assembly in stratified fluids and extreme depth fluctuations in high-altitude Himalayan lakes (Richard Mclaughlin, University of North Carolina)

2023-10-09 14:30: Role of mechano-gated ion channels in epithelial tissue morphogenesis (Prof. Jorg Grosshans, Philipps University Marburg, Germany)

2023-10-10 11:30: Ozone Secrets: Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Martian Atmosphere (Megan Brown, The Open University and University of Cambridge)

2023-10-10 12:00: Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth (and Mars?) (Benjamin Tutolo, University of Calgary)

2023-10-11 15:00: Exploring drivers of change in the Ross Sea with a regional ocean model (Alethea Mountford (Northumbria University))

2023-10-11 16:00: Architecture & Composition of the Australian Lithosphere – Perspectives from Mantle Xenoliths & Receiver Functions (Zachary Sudholz -- University of Cambridge)

2023-10-12 11:30: The Interaction between Gravity Currents and Breaking Internal Waves (Professor Jeffrey Koseff, Stanford)

2023-10-12 12:15: Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM (Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA)

2023-10-16 13:00: Layering Processes in Double Diffusive Convection (Paul Pruzina, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-16 14:30: Dr. Natasha Shylo-Morphological changes and two Nodal paralogs drive left-right asymmetry in the squamate veiled chameleon; Dr. Nicole Edwards-Discovering the developmental basis of trachea-esophageal birth defects: evidence for endosomeopathies. (Dr. Natasha Shylo, Stowers Institute for Medical Research & Dr. Nicole Edwards, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)

2023-10-17 12:00: After the Moon (Stephen J. Mojzsis, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CsFK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2023-10-18 16:00: Long term thermochemical evolution of Earth's mantle (Maxim Ballmer -- University College London)

2023-10-18 17:30: The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective (Aidan Starr, Department of Geography)

2023-10-19 11:30: Sophie Meyjes - Impact of global variability in zooplankton grazing rates on carbon export flux - Joshua Lanham - Regimes of seasonal CDW intrusion onto the circumpolar Antarctic shelf in a high-resolution model  (Sophie Meyjes (University of Cambridge) and Joshua Lanham (University of Cambridge))

2023-10-19 12:15: Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling (Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-10-20 16:00: Vibrations on the spherical “Earth”: towards density constraints through non-perturbative normal mode calculations  (Alex Myhill )

2023-10-23 13:00: Robots, Satellites, Planes, Ships and Models -  The next generation of ocean submesoscale studies (Eric D'Asaro)

2023-10-23 14:30: Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescales (Dr. Gautam Dey, EMBL)

2023-10-23 18:00: Ecosystem Relocation on Snowball Earth: polar-alpine ancestry of the modern surface biosphere (Paul Hoffman - University of Victoria (BC) and Harvard University)

2023-10-24 12:00: Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-24 16:00: Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models (Mark Zelinka;  PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

2023-10-25 15:00: Observed warming and increased basal melting at Fimbulisen Ice Shelf, East Antarctica (Julius Lauber, NPolar)

2023-10-25 16:00: A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: the PI-LAB experiment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and a global perspective (Catherine Rychert -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2023-10-26 11:30: Understanding surfactant behaviour to reduce friction in motor vehicles and Why don't we bleed to death?  Morphology, gelation and drying in droplets of human blood: tracking advective evolution (Beatrice Anna Maria Boggio Robutti, University of Cambridge and Sheila Bhatt, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-26 12:15: A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall (Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds)

2023-10-27 16:00: The North Atlantic V-Shaped Ridges: New Insights from IODP Expedition 395 (Callum Pearman)

2023-10-30 13:00: Reactive melt transport in the mantle (Lucy Tweed (University of Cambridge))

2023-10-30 14:30: Coordinated alternative splicing in development, featuring Transformer2b and ciliary tissues.-Dr. Charlotte Softley. (Dr. Holliday Lovegrove, Univ of Manchester & Dr. Charlotte Softley, University Clinic Freiburg)

2023-10-30 18:00: Experiences and sustainability in mining (Katy Relph - Centamin)

2023-10-31 12:00: Teaching a new trick to old data: reassessing the Neogene history of C4 grasses in the Great Plains of North America (David Fox, University of Minnesota)

2023-11-01 16:00: Seismological evidence for secular mantle cooling beneath cratons (Federico Munch -- ETH Zürich)

2023-11-02 10:30: Interface heterogeneity and metal plating in lithium metal and anode-free batteries (Svetlana Menkin  (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-02 12:15: RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis (Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-11-06 13:00: Boundary Upwelling of Antarctic Bottom Water by Topographic Turbulence (Lois Baker, University of Edinburgh)

2023-11-07 12:00: Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds (Amy Balanoff, John Hopkins University)

2023-11-07 14:30: Drosophila axis extension is robust to an orthogonal pull by invaginating mesoderm-Dr. Claire Lye; Decoding cell fates in the shoot apical meristem through single-nuclei transcriptomics-Dr. Sebastian Moreno. (Dr. Sebastian Moreno, Sainsbury Laboratory and Dr. Claire Lye, PDN)

2023-11-08 16:00: Natural variability of faults and earthquakes over a range of temporal scales, and the implications for seismic hazard (Zoe Mildon -- University of Plymouth)

2023-11-09 11:30: TBC (TBC)

2023-11-09 12:15: Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’ (Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences.)

2023-11-09 14:00: Scale-awareness in an energetically constrained eddy parameterisation (Julian Mak (HKUST))

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)

2023-11-10 16:00: The process and consequences of impacts: insights from observations, experiments, and models (Auriol Rae (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-13 14:30: Turning biological morphology into numbers  (Dr. Virginie Uhlmann, EMBL)

2023-11-13 18:00: Exploring Martian Geology for Signs for the Potential for Life (Benjamin Tutolo - University of Calgary)

2023-11-14 12:00: Metals, Magnetism and Meteorites: A brief guide to magnetic field generation on small planetary bodies (Dr Claire Nichols, University of Oxford)

2023-11-15 16:00: Planetary seismology: from InSight Mission to Mars to Upcoming Lunar Missions  (Doyeon Kim -- Imperial College London)

2023-11-15 17:30: The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes (Gina Moseley, University of Innsbruck)

2023-11-16 11:30: Surfactants: from self-assembly to application  (Dr Thomas McCoy, IEEF)

2023-11-16 12:15: Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools (Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2023-11-17 16:00: The Case of the Missing Diamonds (Felix Davison )

2023-11-20 13:00: ENSO teleconnections to the Southern Hemisphere and impacts on weather systems (Zoe Gillett, University of New South Wales/DAMTP)

2023-11-20 14:30: How Cell and Tissue Geometry Influences Morphogenesis (Dr. Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie )

2023-11-20 18:00: Shedding the light on shear zone development, evolution and rheology: Case studies and remaining questions (Sandra Piazolo - University of Leeds)

2023-11-21 11:30:  Evaluation of 14CO as a Tracer of OH in a Global Model    (Liam Blyth – Imperial College London)

2023-11-21 12:00: How to form a rare-earth rich carbonatite, and why that might be a good thing (Sam Broom-Fendley, University of Exeter)

2023-11-22 15:00: Plume dynamics below Greenland’s largest floating ice tongue (Markus Reinert (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research/AWI))

2023-11-22 16:00: Radical uncertainty in subsurface science: How do we make decisions? (Andrew Curtis -- University of Edinburgh)

2023-11-23 11:30: Insights from laboratory experiments with boundary mixing (Scott Li)

2023-11-23 12:15: The timing and nature of early land plant evolution (Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2023-11-24 16:00: Reaction-infiltration Instability in Partially Molten Mantle (Min Huang)

2023-11-27 14:30: Multicellular and extracellular matrix dynamics underlying skin morphogenesis. (Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan)

2023-11-27 18:00: African roots of the dinosaur family tree (Paul Barrett - Natural History Museum)

2023-11-28 12:00: The Holocene history of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, West Antarctica, revealed through subaerial and subglacial archives (Keir Nichols, Imperial College London)

2023-11-29 16:00: The 2021 Mw 8.1 Kermadec Earthquake Sequence: Deep Megathrust Slip Nucleation and M8 Rupture along the Slab-Mantle Contact (Lingling Ye -- Southern University of Science and Technology)

2023-11-29 17:30: Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea (Abi Stone, University of Manchester)

2023-11-30 12:15: Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium (Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-12-06 11:00: Investigation of the role of glacial meltwater in Antarctica (Seung-Tae Yoon (Kyungpook National University))

2023-12-11 14:00: Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view (Jon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult)

2024-01-10 14:45: Using synthetic observations to inform sampling strategies of ocean physics, biogeochemistry, and biology (Cara Nissen, University of Colorado Boulder)

2024-01-17 16:00: Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles subduction zone (Jenny Collier -- Imperial College London)

2024-01-18 11:30: Understanding multihazard in a warming world: landslides and cryospheric hazards in the 21st Century (Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries, Uni of Cambridge)

2024-01-22 13:00: A machine learning approach for identifying the sensitivity of chlorophyll-a to nutrient concentration in the global ocean (Joo-Eun Yoon, DAMTP)

2024-01-22 14:30: From microscopy images to mechanical models of tissues and back (Hervé Turlier, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, College de France)

2024-01-22 18:00: Earth Systems Palaeobiology: using climate models to better understand the habitats of marine animals through geologic time (Richard Stockey - University of Southampton)

2024-01-23 12:00: A paleoclimate perspective on the (in)stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences)

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

2024-01-24 14:00: Decadal variability of ice-shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea driven by sea-ice freshwater fluxes (Michael Haigh, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-01-25 11:30: The statistics of extreme waves in the coastal zone (Ioannis Karmpadakis, Imperial College London)

2024-01-25 12:15: Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation  (Luke Mackinder, University of York)

2024-01-29 13:00: Negative effective viscosity in strongly stratified turbulence (Qi Zhou, University of Calgary)

2024-01-29 14:30: *CANCELLED*: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions  (EE (Eva) Deinum, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research)

2024-01-29 18:00: Microbial Metabolic Innovation: A Constraint On The Early Animal Fossil Record? (Phil Vixseboxse - University of Cambridge)

2024-01-30 11:00: What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age? (Peter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.)

2024-01-30 12:00: At the Edge of Reactivity: Exploring the Dynamics of Fluid-Mineral Interactions (Oliver Plumper, Utrecht University)

2024-01-31 16:00: Natural hazards in a warming world: exploring the big questions (Max Van Wyk de Vries, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-01 11:30: Transport and Settling of Buoyant Microplastics in Turbidity Currents (Professor Bruce Sutherland, Uni of Alberta)

2024-02-01 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-05 13:00: From internal waves to turbulence in a stably stratified fluid (Costanza Rodda, Imperial College)

2024-02-05 14:30: Echinoderm embryos to model epithelial morphogenesis: from cell biology to evo-devo (Vanessa Barone, Hopkins Marine Station, Biology Department, Stanford University)

2024-02-05 18:00: Exploring the seafloor: the rock record of hydrothermal fluid circulation (Jessica Warren - University of Delaware)

2024-02-06 12:00: Antarctic summer sea-ice variability reconstructed from novel biological archives (Erin McClymont, Durham University)

2024-02-06 13:00: Fracture of warm ice (Professor Jukka Tuhkuri, Aalto University)

2024-02-07 16:00: Repeated rupture of persistent fault zone asperities: structure and variability of large earthquakes at the Kermadec subduction zone (Karen Lythgoe, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-07 17:30: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial (Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team)

2024-02-08 11:30: Catalysing Net Zero and Energy Transition Strategies through Thermodynamic Principles (Edris Joonaki, TÜV SÜD UK National Engineering Laboratory)

2024-02-08 12:15: FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology (Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy)

2024-02-09 13:00: The Evolving Relative Role of Stratospheric Ozone and Greenhouse Gasses in Modifying the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink from 1950-2100 (Tereza Jarníková, University of East Anglia)

2024-02-09 16:00: Seismicity distribution and fault plane solutions from the 2021 Fagradalsfjall dyke intrusion, Reykjanes Peninsula (Esme Glastonbury-Southern)

2024-02-12 13:00: The Influence of Lateral Spreading upon Solitary Wave Formation by Internal Tides (Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta)

2024-02-12 14:30: Temporal patterning during development and tumorigenesis (Cedric Maurange, IBDM, Marseille,France)

2024-02-12 18:00: Understanding the circumstances surrounding Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions in Australia (Matthew Adeleye - Department of Geography)

2024-02-13 11:00: Chemical transport modelling to support the UNECE Air Convention (  David Simpson -   EMEP MSC-W, Norwegian Meteorological Institute)

2024-02-13 12:00: Data-driven slow earthquake dynamics (Adriano Gualandi, Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-02-14 16:00: Cancelled: postponed to May 1st, 2024 (Maximilian Werner, University of Bristol)

2024-02-15 11:30: Modelling the Response of Ice to Subglacial Flooding (Sophie Tobin, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-15 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-19 13:00: The evolution of source regions beneath active mud volcanoes: a poroelastic phase change problem (Luke Kearney, University of Oxford)

2024-02-19 14:30: Insights into the mechanism of hind limb initiation in Xenopus laevis  (John Young, Department of Biology, Simmons University)

2024-02-19 21:00: Disasters by design (Ekbal Hussain - British Geological Survey)

2024-02-20 12:00: Rapid temperature fluctuations in the early Iceland plume revealed by olivine-spinel and melt thermometry (Elliot Carter, Trinity College Dublin)

2024-02-21 16:00: Cyprus: Seismicity, Subduction and Serpentinite (Tom Merry, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-21 17:30: Microplastics from geologists' perspective (Saija Saarni, University of Turku)

2024-02-22 11:30: High-performance Computing to Support Wind Energy Research (Sylvain Laizet, Imperial College London)

2024-02-22 12:15: Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes  (Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-26 13:00: Data-Driven and Equation-Informed Optimal Control of Lagrangian pairs in turbulent flows (Chiara Calascibetta)

2024-02-26 14:30: CRISPy Chickens-screening fate transitions from caudal epiblast to neural tube-Ashley Libby; Coupling mitochondrial energy metabolism to branching morphogenesis in the developing avian lung-Bezia Lemma. (Ashley Libby, Briscoe lab,The Francis Crick Institute; and Bezia Lemma, Nelson lab, Princeton University)

2024-02-26 18:10: Geoarchaeological evidence for climate change in Ancient Egypt (Judith Bunbury - Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-02-27 11:00: Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia (  Andy Chan  - Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University)

2024-02-27 11:00: Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia (Prof Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University)

2024-02-27 12:00: The TTG window and the formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust. (Richard White, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews)

2024-02-28 16:00: The Tristan da Cunha mantle plume, new insights from geophysical, petrological and geochemical studies along the Walvis Ridge hotspot track and at Tristan da Cunha Island (Wolfram Geissler, Alfred Wegener Institute)

2024-02-29 11:00: Coupled ice/ocean interactions during the future retreat of West Antarctic ice streams in the Amundsen Sea sector (David Bett, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-02-29 11:30: Two topics in subsurface CO2 storage – Field scale flow modelling, and evaluating the feasibility of scaling up deployment to climate relevant scales (Sam Krevor, Imperial College London)

2024-02-29 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Rhett Harrison, CIFOR)

2024-02-29 16:00: The flow pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet reconstructed from high-resolution mapping of subglacial bedforms. (Frances Butcher, University of Sheffield )

2024-03-01 16:00: High Performance Computing (HPC): what is it? how can I use it? (Chris Richardson)

2024-03-04 13:00: A Simple Model Coupling Moisture and Large-Scale Dynamics in the Tropical Troposphere (Matt Davison, DAMTP)

2024-03-04 14:30: Holly Lovegrove:  Mitosis in Motion: Cell division during collective cell migration; Leo Otsuki: Puzzling out tissue regeneration. (Holly Lovegrove, University of Manchester and Leo Otsuki, Elly Tanaka lab, IMP, Vienna )

2024-03-04 18:00: Differences in Fluvial Geomorphology between Earth and Mars (Lisanne Braat - European Space Agency)

2024-03-05 12:00: Paallavvik Island and the search for Earth's primitive water (Lydia Hallis, University of Glasgow)

2024-03-06 14:00: Drivers and reversibility of abrupt ocean cold-to-warm and warm-to-cold transitions in the Amundsen Sea (Justine Caillet, IGE Géosciences Environnement)

2024-03-06 16:00: Inuit pastoralism in South Greenland: Navigating the spectrum from wild to domestic herds in an era of rapid Arctic change (Professor Bruce C. Forbes, Research Professor at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland )

2024-03-06 16:00: Origin of carbonatites using the triple-isotope approach (Elsa Amsellem, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-06 17:30: 50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities (Alistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-03-07 11:30: Novel processing and 3D correlative imaging of electrodes for batteries (Dr Chun Ann Huang, Imperial College London)

2024-03-07 12:15: Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling  (Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2024-03-08 16:00: Extent and Implications of Dynamic Support Beneath Antartica and its Fringing Oceanic Basins (Aisling Dunn)

2024-03-11 13:00: Disentangling the Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Circulation Responses to Increased CO2: Considering Interactive Ozone Impacts, (Non)Linearity, Regionality, and Vertical Structure (Molly Menzel, NASA GIS)

2024-03-11 14:30: Mechanisms underlying colour pattern variation within and between species of cichlid fishes (Emilia Santos, Department of Zoology)

2024-03-11 18:00: Tracing horizons of habitability on Venus (Sean Jordan - Institute of Astronomy)

2024-03-12 11:00: Toward understanding iodine and sulfur secondary aerosol formation in marine atmosphere (Xu-Cheng He -  University of Helsinki/University of Cambridge)

2024-03-12 12:00: Microbial responses to warming and their impact on carbon stocks (Cara Magnabosco)

2024-03-13 16:00: Evaluating Dynamic Topography Predictions using the Stratigraphic Record (Victoria Fernandes, GFZ Potsdam)

2024-03-14 11:30: New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds (Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London))

2024-03-14 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2024-03-14 16:00: Adventures in Antarctica: Travelogue ad Fieldwork from Thwaites Glacier (Mark Hehlen, SPRI)

2024-03-20 14:00: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Southern Ocean Ventilation (Andrew Styles, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-04-03 14:00: What are the challenges simulating historical ocean deoxygenation? (Yohei Takano, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-04-14 14:00: Carbon subduction and mid-ocean ridge emissions modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates (Ben Mather, University of Sydney)

2024-04-23 11:00: Sedgwick Club Conference 2024 (N/A)

2024-04-23 11:30: Destruction and regrowth of lithospheric mantle beneath large igneous provinces (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Simon Stephenson - University of Oxford)

2024-04-23 12:10: Preservation of very old climate records in ice cores from Allan Hills, Antarctica (Edward Brook, Oregon State University )

2024-04-23 14:00: Towards developing an Indian Ocean Dipole Watch System for Southeast Asia (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Dr Shipra Jain - University College London)

2024-04-23 14:45: Journey to the centre of the earthquake (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Professor Daniel Faulkner - University of Liverpool)

2024-04-23 15:45: A journey in (geo)science communication (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Professor Chris Jackson - Jacobs)

2024-04-23 16:30: What has Earth's magnetic field ever done for us? The role of the geodynamo in creating a habitable planet (Sedgwick Club Conference) (Dr Claire Nichols - University of Oxford)

2024-04-24 14:00: Carbon isotope modelling implications for changes in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle during the last deglaciation (Hidetaka Kobayashi, University of Toyama)

2024-04-24 14:00: Carbon subduction and mid-ocean ridge emissions modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates (Ben Mather, University of Sydney)

2024-04-24 17:30: Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years (Georgina Falster, Australian National University)

2024-04-25 11:30: Specific Ion Effects in Colloidal Surface Forces  (Drew Parsons, Assoc. Prof., University of Cagliari)

2024-04-29 12:30: Large-scale flow structures in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Dynamical origin, formation, and role in material transport (Philipp Vieweg)

2024-04-29 14:30: Playing with Patterns via VisualPDE  (Andrew Krause, Durham University)

2024-04-30 12:00: Fresh perspectives on the origins of major animal groups: insights from the late Ediacaran of Namibia (Alex Lui, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-01 14:00: New Insights from the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) (Max Werner -- University of Bristol)

2024-05-01 15:00: Ocean, ice, and the spherical cow (Juliana Marson, University of Manitoba)

2024-05-02 11:30: A molecular-level description of the oxygen evolution reaction using in situ spectroscopy (Rosa Arrigo, Uni of Salford)

2024-05-02 12:15: Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture (Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre)

2024-05-07 11:30: The role of methane for chemistry-climate interactions: rapid radiative adjustments and climate feedbacks    (Laura Stecher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Engl: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics))

2024-05-08 14:00: Searching for habitability on Venus and exoplanets (Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-08 17:00: How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and to better inform disaster risk management? (Blaise Mafuko Myandwi (University of Goma, DRC) and Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge))

2024-05-09 11:30: Engineering solutions for heart valve disease using computational modelling and simulation (Shelly Singh-Gryzbon, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-13 13:00: Building global resilience to volcanic eruptions (Lara Mani (University of Cambridge))

2024-05-13 14:30: Mechanisms and mechanics of morphogenesis (Katja Röper, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-15 14:00: The Turkana Rift Arrays Investigating Lithospheric Structure (TRAILS) Experiment (Ian Bastow, Imperial College London)

2024-05-15 17:30: Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories (Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast)

2024-05-16 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA)

2024-05-20 14:30: You are not encoded - a biological theory of form (Alan Rodrigues, Rockefeller University)

2024-05-21 12:00: Mapping the core-mantle boundary (Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-21 15:00: Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places (Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, The George Washington University)

2024-05-22 13:00: Modelling ocean connectivity and future change at the Antarctic margins (Hannah Dawson, University of Tasmania)

2024-05-22 14:00: Whole Earth oscillations: Thé key to imaging Earth’s deep interior (Arwen Deuss - Utrecht University)

2024-05-23 11:30: Some aspects of contact line dynamics with applications to flow in porous materials (Stephane Zaleski, Institut Jean Le Rond ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne Université)

2024-05-28 12:00: Towards a 500 Million-Year History of Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 (Hana Jurikova, University of St Andrews)

2024-05-28 14:30: Multiscale mechanical linkage elongates tissues in development (Shinuo Weng, Johns Hopkins University)

2024-05-29 14:00: Seismic monitoring at different scales: insights and challenges from Ireland, Montserrat, and Tara Mines (Patrick Smith -- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

2024-06-03 14:30: Wolfram Pönisch-Deciphering the role of noise in cell shape changes during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; Constance Le Gloanec-Protect and provide: the dual role of the cauline leaf. (Constance Le Gloanec and Wolfram Pönisch)

2024-06-04 11:30: Aerosols and clouds in the UKCA across time and space ( Daniel Grosvenor, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds,)

2024-06-04 12:00: The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron (oxyhydr)oxides (Jordon Hemingway, ETH Zurich)

2024-06-05 14:00: Geodynamic constraints on early Earth crust formation and tectonics (Brad Foley -- Penn State University)

2024-06-05 17:30: (CANCELLED) Extreme glacial implies discontinuity of early human occupation of Europe (Vasiliki Margari, University College London)

2024-06-06 11:30: Ocean boundary layer turbulence (Bethan Wynn’s-Cattanach, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2024-06-07 13:00: Changing fast and slow: Hydrographic variability along the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf during the recent sea ice extremes (Carlos Moffat, University of Delaware)

2024-06-10 14:30: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions (Eva Deinum)

2024-06-12 12:00: Math + Explainable AI for weather and climate, with a focus on extremes (Gianmarco Mengaldo -- NUS, Singapore)

2024-06-12 17:30: Palaeoecological Insights into the Causes and Consequences of Mid-Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in Asia and Australia (Simon Haberle, Australian National University)

2024-06-17 14:00: Earth evolution as a thermal system: From rock mechanics to Earth science (Chun'an Tang - Dalian University of Technology)

2024-06-27 13:00: The effect of landfast sea ice buttressing on the glaciers of the Larsen B Embayment (Trystan Surawy-Stepney, University of Leeds)

2024-07-02 15:00: Making waves on the "mathematical canal" (Dr David Pritchard, University of Strathclyde)

2024-07-04 11:30: Starting vortices generated at the sharp edges of an arbitrary body (Edward Hinton, Uni of Melbourne Australia)

2024-07-10 14:00:  A framework for physically consistent storylines of UK future sea-level rise (Matt Palmer (Met Office & University of Bristol))

2024-07-17 14:00: Geometric feedback on the Antarctic ice shelf melting by 2200 (Jing Jin, University of Liverpool)

2024-09-17 14:00: A journey through a sub-Antarctic island fjord from glacier retreat to fisheries management (Jo Zanker (Northumbria University))

2024-09-20 15:30: Predictability of midlatitude weather: Butterflies, error growth and AI models (Professor George Craig (LMU, Munich))

2024-09-27 14:00: Nonlinear Preconditioning for Implicit Solution of Discretized PDEs (David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

2024-10-02 15:30: Tropical and Antarctic sea ice impacts of observed Southern Ocean warming and cooling trends since 1949 (Xiyue (Sally) Zhang (University of Nevada))

2024-10-08 12:00:  Ensembling climate models with Gaussian processes to better characterise future extremes (  Kenza Tazi (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey))

2024-10-09 14:00: Earthquakes, Stress Drops and the Strength of Faults (Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

2024-10-10 11:30: Some flow problems in large scale energy storage (Professor Andy Woods, IEEF)

2024-10-14 13:00: Exploring changes in exposure to glaciovolcanic hazard (Max Van Wyk De Vries (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-14 13:00: Convective instability, upwelling and mixing efficiency measurements in an abyssal canyon (Prof. Matthew Alford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2024-10-14 18:00: Forams! Time, evolution, climate (Professor Paul Pearson - UCL)

2024-10-15 12:00: The Red Queen, Mars, living and dying fast and young: macroevolution in graptoloids (James Crampton, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-10-15 14:30: Non-apical mitoses contribute to cell delamination during mouse gastrulation (Isabelle Migeotte IRIBHM - Jacques E. Dumont Institut Interdisciplinaire en biologie humaine et moléculaire - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE )

2024-10-16 14:00: Heat and freshwater transport in the vicinity of the Antarctic shelf (Graeme MacGilchrist (University of St. Andrews))

2024-10-16 14:00: Investigating seismic anisotropy in the Central Mediterranean (Foivos Karakostas, UCL)

2024-10-17 11:30: What can Arctic staircases tell us about ocean mixing? (Nicole Shibley (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-21 13:00: Whodunit? Is climate change responsible for ice loss from Antarctica? (Dr Alex Bradley, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-10-21 14:30: Developmental Constraint Underlying the Evolution of Morphological Diversity (Madelaine Bartlett, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge )

2024-10-21 18:00: Phanerozoic seawater chemistry: Using Monte Carlo to to quantify calcium, magnesium and sulfate concentrations (Dr Ross Whiteford - Royal Holloway)

2024-10-22 11:00: The Fascinating World of Lightning Research  ( Dr Daniel Mitchard, Senior Lecturer Lightning Laboratory, Cardiff University)

2024-10-22 12:00: Exploring Central Africa's Lithium Pegmatites: Geology, Resource Potential, and Geopolitical context (Anouk Borst, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)

2024-10-23 14:00: Aggradation, incision and lateral migration of alluvial rivers (Fergus McNab, GFZ Potsdam)

2024-10-23 17:30: Why was the Arctic sea ice free 127 000 years ago? (Dr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey))

2024-10-24 11:30: The Formation of Metal Salts in Carboxylated Nitrile Latex (Alexander F. Routh ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology))

2024-10-24 16:00: Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science (Dr Devon Dunmire, KU Leven, Belgium)

2024-10-24 16:00: Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science  (Dr. Devon Dunmire - KU Leuven, Belgium)

2024-10-28 13:00: The formation of co-genetic silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated igneous rocks: pressure, fractional crystallisation and crustal assimilation (Carrie Soderman (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-28 13:00: Tackling climate change - going beyond emissions reduction (Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge)

2024-10-28 14:30: Duy-Chi Trinh-How do flowers close themselves: the story from Arabidopsis; Liyuan Sui-Cell tilting: A novel mechanism driving three-dimensional epithelial morphogenesis  (Duy-Chi Trinh-ENS de Lyon, France; University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam & Liyuan Sui-Postdoc from Christian Dahmann’s Lab School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden)

2024-10-29 11:00: Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol cooling in the Southern Ocean (Dr Charel Wohl University of East Anglia)

2024-10-29 12:00: Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean (Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-10-30 14:00: Water can move mountains: hydrologically induced deformation in the Apennines (Italy) and Sierra Nevada (California) observed from GNSS data (Francesca Silverii, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, Italy))

2024-10-31 11:30: Cheap and effective catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production (Rafia Nimal (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-01 16:00: A Bayesian approach to the inverse sea level problem (Dan Heathcote)

2024-11-04 13:00: Quantifying model uncertainty in the dynamical and radiative adjustments to stratospheric heating (Dr Colleen Golja, Imperial)

2024-11-04 14:30: Noah Mitchell - Mapping the Mechanics and Dynamics of Gut Morphogenesis; Stefan Harmansa - Shaping Growing Tissues by Basement Membrane Mechanics  (Noah Mitchell - University of Chicago & Stefan Harmansa-Living Systems Institute - University of Exeter United Kingdom)

2024-11-04 18:00: Linking Geology and Art in the field - insights from mountains and fold-thrust structures (Phoebe Sleath - University of Aberdeen)

2024-11-05 12:00: A geochemical test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. (Francis Macdonald, UC Berkeley)

2024-11-05 15:00:  Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry after the 2019–2020 Australian Wildfires (Dr.  Kane Stone,  Research Scientist, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2024-11-06 14:00: Magma cracking through the lithosphere (Adina Pusok, University of Oxford)

2024-11-06 17:30: Do look back – what can the palaeo record tell us about Antarctica’s Doomsday glacier(s)? (Dr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey))

2024-11-07 11:30: CO2 dissolution during geological carbon storage: the Cinderella trapping mechanism (Mike Bickle, Uni of Cambridge)

2024-11-08 13:00: London EvoDevo meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-11-08 14:00: Fiber-optic sensing and its application to structural monitoring (Professor Hideaki Murayama, University of Tokyo)

2024-11-08 14:30: Full-scale Measurement of Japanese icebreaker Shirase in Antarctic Sea Ice – Relationship between Ship Structural Response and Ice Conditions (Junji Sawamura, Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)

2024-11-08 15:30: Experimental work on the wave-ice interaction in a laboratory tank (Professor Takuji Waseda, University of Tokyo)

2024-11-08 16:00: Towards a global map of ultra-low velocity zones using S diffracted waves (James Atkins)

2024-11-08 16:00: Sea Ice Floe Characteristics in the Beaufort Sea & Introduction of Japan’s new research icebreaker, ARV Mirai II (Dr. Takashi Kikuchi, Director of Institute of Arctic Climate and Environment research, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (IACE/RIGC/JAMSTEC))

2024-11-11 13:00: Tracking the behaviour of sulfur in oxidised magmas using sulfur isotopes (Zoltán Taracsák (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-11 13:00: From iron cores to estuaries: the interaction of environmental flows with their transported particles (Dr Quentin Kriaa, University of Twente)

2024-11-11 14:30: Bioengineering neural organoid morphogenesis (Adrian Ranga)

2024-11-11 18:00: A Short History of Plate Tectonics (Dr Robert Seidel - Sedgwick Museum)

2024-11-12 12:00: The post-Variscan evolution of Ireland – a case study in constraining shallow crustal exhumation and deformation (David Chew, Trinity College Dublin)

2024-11-13 14:00: Insights into the geodetic signature of continental hydrology (Kristel Chanard -- IPGP, Paris)

2024-11-13 15:00: The variability of the Southern Ocean’s circulation and carbon cycle: New insights from autonomous observations (Alison Gray, University of Washington)

2024-11-14 11:30: CCS & permeability: thinking about uncertainty through a perturbation analysis and Bubble growth in alkaline electrolysis (Emily Flicos, IEEF and James Morris, IEEF)

2024-11-14 16:00: Confined strain response to Greenland lake drainages sets inland hydro-fracture bound (Dr Laura Stevens, University of Oxford)

2024-11-15 16:00: Multi-scale seismic imaging of the Icelandic lithosphere: A focus on Askja (Thomas O'Hara)

2024-11-18 13:00: Deep-ocean transport and decadal variability inferred from anthropogenic transient tracer observations (Dr Laura Cimoli (DAMTP))

2024-11-18 14:30: Chemo-mechanical signal in embryo development (Roberto Mayor)

2024-11-18 18:00: Living with Volcanoes (Professor David Pyle - University of Oxford)

2024-11-19 11:00: Writing Computational Models that are FAIR and VRAI (Dr Dominic Orchard;  Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, and University of Kent)

2024-11-19 12:00: Exceptional preservation in tropical settings: A glimpse into the fossil record of northern South America (Javier Luque, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-20 14:00: Seismic interferometry of vehicle and train traffic: Case studies from the USA and South Africa (Diego Quiros, University of Cape Town)

2024-11-20 17:30: Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum (Dr. Jack Wharton (University College London))

2024-11-21 11:30: Technological pathways for thermomechanical energy conversion and storage: Progress, challenges and outlook (Professor Christos Markides, Imperial College London)

2024-11-21 16:00: Linking individual ecological dynamics to the Greening of the Arctic: remote sensing as hero, villain, and redeemer (Dr Jeff Kerby, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2024-11-22 16:00: Mantle dynamics and its implications for surface dynamic topography (Issac Jacobs)

2024-11-25 13:00: Tracing pathways of change in North Atlantic climate: Have we crossed a tipping point? (Dr Marilena Oltmanns (NOC))

2024-11-25 14:30: Modelling Self-Organisation  (Jeremy Green-King’s College London, London, United Kingdom)

2024-11-25 18:00: The Hunt for Invisible Miners: Bioprospecting for Sustainable Mineral Management in Arsenic Rich Environments. (Neda Tomlinson - Natural History Muesum)

2024-11-26 09:00: Winter Symposium  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-11-26 12:00: A Systems Approach to Sustainability Transformation: science-based and stakeholders co-designed solution pathways (Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business )

2024-11-27 13:00: Good COP, bad COP: first reflections on COP29 (Hugh Hunt (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-27 14:00: The dominance of biology in driving North Atlantic oxygen trends (Rachel Sanders, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-11-27 14:00: Preliminary results of the 2023 geochemical exploration of volcanic volatiles at Deception Island (Antarctica): new inferences on the mantle heterogeneity (Antonio Caracausi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Palermo, Italy)

2024-11-28 11:00: Symposium on Energy and Environmental Flows (Jeremy Phillips (Bristol), Steve Sparks (Bristol), IEEF and Dept Earth Sci Faculty)

2024-11-28 13:00: Moving mesh methods in Firedrake (Joe Wallwork - ICCS & RCS, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-28 16:00: Meltwater feedbacks on ice-sheet dynamics (Professor Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford)

2024-11-29 16:00: Investigating the ongoing seismic activity beneath Askja Volcano, Iceland (Isabel Siggers)

2024-12-02 13:00: Meeting the Challenge of Net Zero after COP29 (Prof. David Reiner (Judge Business School))

2024-12-02 18:00: Searching the Core-Mantle Boundary for the roots of plumes (James Atkins (University of Cambridge))

2024-12-03 11:00: Come rain or snow: extreme precipitation in Antarctica (Dr Ella Gilbert, British Antarctic Survey (PolarRES project))

2024-12-03 12:00: Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse?  (David Thornalley, University College London)

2024-12-04 13:00: Energetic signatures of tropical rainband biases & shifts in CMIP6 (Ruth Geen, U of Birmingham)

2024-12-04 14:00: MANTLE PLUMES AND GLOBAL MANTLE DYNAMICS: INSIGHTS FROM FULL WAVEFORM TOMOGRAPHY (Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley)

2024-12-04 14:00: Revisiting the Foundations of Ice shelf Basal Melt Parameterisations for Stably Stratified Ice-Ocean Boundary Layers (Jayasankar Thrivikraman Pillai, Northumbria University)

2024-12-04 17:30: Polar bear's range dynamics in the Holocene (Prof. Heikki Seppa (University of Helsinki))

2024-12-05 11:30: Novel approaches to Hydrogen, CO2 Conversion and Ammonia to reduce carbon emissions (Professor John Irvine, St Andrews University)

2024-12-05 16:00: Large herbivore ecology in Greenland - the short(est) path (ever) to bring research evidence into policy (Dr Mathilde Le Moullec, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources)

2024-12-06 14:00: Data-driven ocean modelling   (Rachel Furner, British Antarctic Survey / ECMWF)

2024-12-11 10:30: Southern Ocean Centennial Oscillations and Response to Climate Forcing (Jonathan Rosser; BAS / LSE)

2025-01-07 11:00: The compounding impacts of Sea-Ice Deficits: A Global Perspective (Petra Heil, Australian Antarctic Division / University of Tasmania)

2025-01-15 14:00: Modelled centennial ocean warming in the Amundsen Sea driven by thermodynamic atmospheric changes, not winds (Katherine Turner (British Antarctic Survey))

2025-01-21 11:00: The State of Wildfires (Doulgas Kelley UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)

2025-01-22 14:00: Energy partitioning and shear resistance evolution during earthquake sequences in experiments with simulated quartz gouge (Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool)

2025-01-23 11:30: No Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-01-27 13:00: Climate policy: why is it needed and how to make it work (Sanna Markkanen (CISL))

2025-01-27 14:30: Morphogenetic control of cellular differentiation during gastrulation  (Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)

2025-01-27 18:00: The magic of log ratios: A different look at geochemistry (Dr Max Frenzel - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

2025-01-28 12:00: Fluid Physics of Ice-Covered Oceans (Nicole Shibley, University of Cambridge)

2025-01-29 14:00: Modelling sea ice dynamics using brittle dynamics: impact in pack ice and marginal ice zones (Guillaume Boutin (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center))

2025-01-29 14:00: What’s shaking Mars? An overview of NASA’s InSight Mission (Anna Horleston, University of Bristol)

2025-01-30 11:30: Multiphase Transport Phenomena and Energy Process Intensification (Yulong Ding, University of Birmingham)

2025-02-03 13:00: The atmospheric response to Arctic amplification: Insights from idealised models (Will Seviour (Exeter))

2025-02-03 14:30: Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition (Andrea Pauli, IMP (Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria)

2025-02-03 18:00: Measuring landscape change in the polar regions with thermochronometry (Dr Matthew Fox - UCL)

2025-02-04 11:00: Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics ( Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH))

2025-02-04 12:00: The interplay of large-scale tectonics, metamorphism, and earthquake cycles (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-05 14:00: Dispersed volcanism in East Africa-Arabia: evidence for a single, active plume head (Chiara Civiero, University of Trieste)

2025-02-06 11:30: Cracking in Drying Films (Alex Routh, IEEF and Chem Eng)

2025-02-10 13:00: The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows (Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-10 14:30: Akantsha Jain-Unveiling the choreography of human brain development;Yamini Ravichandran-Topology changes of the regenerating Hydra define actin nematic defects as mechanical organizers of morphogenesis (Akantsha Jain,Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland; Yamini Ravichandran,University of Geneva, Switzerland)

2025-02-10 18:00: Growing a Carboniferous Forest: Planning, Developing and Executing a Unique Palaeontological Excavation & Visitor Attraction (Dr Tim Astrop - Brymbo Fossil Forest)

2025-02-11 12:00: Environmental controls on mineral-associated permafrost organic carbon fate (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham)

2025-02-12 13:00: Short-term, high-resolution sea ice forecasting with diffusion model ensembles (Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey)

2025-02-12 14:00: H, He, and seismic evidence for a bilithologic plume-fed asthenosphere (Jason Phipps Morgan, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona)

2025-02-12 17:30: Climate-ice sheet interactions in the long-term past and their importance for the long-term future (Marie-Luise Kapsch (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology))

2025-02-13 11:30: Effects triggered by singular solutions in the collapse of non-spherical bubbles (Daniel Fuster, Institut D'Alembert)

2025-02-13 13:00: Managing complexity of Weather and Climate Code with diversity of skills and workflows (Iva Kavcic - UK Met Office)

2025-02-13 16:00: The Greenland Inland Ice Sheet and its watery margins: sediments and freshwater fluxes (Prof. Nanna Karlsson, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)

2025-02-14 16:00: Reconciling seismic and thermo-chemical models of cratonic lithosphere (Felix Davison)

2025-02-17 13:00: Stratification and mixing regimes in the global coastal ocean: classifications and trends from models and observations (Jo Hopkins (NOC))

2025-02-17 14:30: Juan Alonso-Serra -Hydraulic patterns in plant development; Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes. (Juan Alonso-Serra,University of Helsinki; Ana Patricia Ramos, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal )

2025-02-17 18:00: How to run a library: 20 years of employment  (Sarah Humbert (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-18 11:00: Searching for Life in Stranger Seas (William Bains)

2025-02-18 12:00: Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes, and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Maximillian Van Wyk De Vries, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-19 14:00: Catastrophic failure: sound and vision (Ian Main, University of Edinburgh)

2025-02-19 17:30: Reconstructing levels of volcanism in the late Pleistocene (Jack Longman (Northumbria University))

2025-02-19 18:00: I know what you did last summer Pt3 version (Part 3 students)

2025-02-20 11:30: Bubble growth in alkaline electrolysis (James Morris, IEEF)

2025-02-24 13:00: Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (Helen Roberts (Met Office))

2025-02-24 14:00: What small earthquakes can teach us about large earthquakes at caldera ring faults (Tom Winder, University of Iceland)

2025-02-24 14:30: Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae  (Paula Elomaa,University of Helsinki )

2025-02-25 12:00: Evolution and effects of ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic  (Alison Cribb, University of Southampton)

2025-02-26 14:00: What small earthquakes can teach us about large earthquakes at caldera ring faults (Tom Winder ( University of Iceland))

2025-02-26 15:30: The Impacts of Freshwater Transport on the Weddell Gyre Carbon Budget (Benjamin Taylor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

2025-02-27 11:30: Green Carbon for the Chemical Industry: Decoupling Polymers from Fossil Resources (Professor Matthew Davidson, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change)

2025-02-27 16:00: Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers in the Present and Future Climates (Dr. Michelle Maclennan, British Antarctic Survey)

2025-03-03 13:00: Intensified shelf break exchange through submarine canyons: upwelling, internal tides, and turbidity currents (Rob Hall (UEA))

2025-03-03 13:00: Volcanoes, Rhinoceros and Cabbage (Professor Matthew Watson (University of Bristol))

2025-03-03 14:30: Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development  (Timothy Saunders)

2025-03-03 18:00: Context from marine geological records for present West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics and implications for future change (Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, British Antarctic Survey)

2025-03-04 11:00: High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques (Kasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)

2025-03-04 12:00: Isotopic composition of samples returned from the Ryugu and Bennu asteroids  - insights into the initial composition of the solar protoplanetary disk (Martin Bizarro, University of Copenhagen)

2025-03-05 14:00: 3D tomographic constraints on upper-plate elastic structure and inter-plate geometry offshore the Ecuadorian-Colombian margin (Manel Prada -- Institute of Marine Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))

2025-03-05 17:30: Breaking the Ice: Abrupt climate change and deglaciation (Ruza Ivanovic (University of Leeds))

2025-03-06 11:30: Reactions in Porous Rocks (Sam Clarke, IEEF)

2025-03-06 17:00: West Antarctic Ice Sheet readvance in the Holocene (Dr. Jonathan Kingslake, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School)

2025-03-07 16:00: Channels or waves: controls on melt migration through the upper mantle (Min Huang)

2025-03-10 13:00: Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers (Becky Dell (Geography))

2025-03-10 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Fengzhu Xiong)

2025-03-10 18:00: Critical Transitions: Responsible Resource Management in a Complex World (Dr Eva Marquis - University of Exeter)

2025-03-11 12:00: From Sediment to Spodumene (Claire Bucholz, Caltech)

2025-03-12 14:00: Unravelling magma-water interaction in an oceanic core complex with full-waveform imaging and numerical modelling (Michele Paulatto, Imperial College London)

2025-03-12 14:00: Spatio-temporal Melt and Basal Channel Evolution on Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf from CryoSat-2 (Katie Lowery, British Antarctic Survey)

2025-03-13 11:30: CO2 savings from widespread deployment of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (Matthew Jackson, Imperial College London)

2025-03-14 16:00: Normal mode coupling in an aspherical planet (Alex Myhill)

2025-03-17 13:00: Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution (Jesse Taylor-West (Bristol))

2025-03-17 18:00: Influence of metamorphism and partial melting on creating LCT-enriched granitic melts (Dr Barbara Kunz - The Open University)

2025-03-18 11:00:  Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft? ( Alistair Duffey  PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences)

2025-03-18 12:00: Direct observations of sub-ice environments immediately after large calving event off George VI Ice Shelf, West Antarctica (Dr Sasha Montelli)

2025-03-19 14:00: Tipping points of the Ross and Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelves: how worried should we be? (Kaitlin Naughten, British Antarctic Survey)

2025-03-19 14:00: Fault orientation in earthquake seismic precursors: Insights from the laboratory (Carolina Giorgetti, ENS Paris)

2025-03-19 16:00: From active surfaces to evo-devo-mechanobiology (Guillaume Salbreux, University of Geneva, Switzerland )

2025-03-19 17:30: Rise and fall of Bronze Age Mediterranean societies: a new geoarchaeological and chronostratigraphic sequence of Nuragic Sardinia (Gian Battista Marras (British School at Rome))

2025-03-20 11:30: Novel Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production (James Fidler, IEEF and Chemistry)

2025-03-20 16:00: Just Ice For All: Global Ice-Thickness Inversions and Committed Ice Loss to 2050 (Dr. Samuel Cook, Friedrich-Alexander-University)

2025-03-21 16:00: Seismic Anisotropy and Subsurface Stress in the Shallow Crust of Iceland' (James McCann)

2025-03-26 15:30: A Bayesian Neural Network approach to study dissolved oxygen in Southern Ocean water masses (Gian Giacomo Navarra, Princeton University)

2025-04-04 13:00: Deep convection and ocean overturning  (Bishakh Gayen, University of Melbourne)

2025-04-09 15:00: Exploring the Spatial and Temporal Variability in Water Column Properties in Tidewater Glacier-Ocean Systems in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Claire Parrott, University of British Columbia)

2025-04-23 14:00: Ocean dynamics in the Ross Ice Shelf cavity from in situ observations (Yingpu Xiahou, University of Auckland)

2025-05-01 11:30: Interaction of Mechanical Ventilation and Natural Convection (Dan Toy, IEEF)

2025-05-02 16:00: The tectonic, thermal, and temporal controls on the production of critical metal deposits (Alex Copley)

2025-05-07 14:00: Reconstructing wintertime seawater pCO2 on the data-barren shelf of the western Weddell Sea based on summertime bottom water measurements (Elise Droste (University of East Anglia))

2025-05-07 14:00: Searching for Long-period signals in Apollo Seismic Data (Juan Li, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2025-05-07 17:30: Detecting reversible retreat and readvance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene (Joanne Johnson, British Antarctic Survey)

2025-05-08 16:00: Crusing the South Shetland by Sail: In Search of Archaeology and Anything Green (Jeff Kerby)

2025-05-09 16:00: Long-Term Dynamics of the Iceland Mantle Plume (Callum Pearman)

2025-05-12 13:00: CCfCS Polar Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-05-12 13:00: The curious incident of the cristobalite in the Mount St Helens dome (Professor Claire Horwell (Durham University))

2025-05-12 14:30: Collective cell behaviors in mammalian intestinal morphogenesis  (Kaelyn Sumigray, Department of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine)

2025-05-13 11:00: Interpreting multimodel ensembles (Prof Richard Chandler, UCL)

2025-05-13 12:00: Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush (Marian Holness, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-14 14:00: Explainability can foster trust in artificial intelligence in geoscience and disaster risk management  (Saman Ghaffarian, UCL)

2025-05-15 11:30: Vertical mixing and associated biogeochemical fluxes via radium isotopes (Tristan McKenzie, Uni of Gothenberg)

2025-05-15 16:00: Snow on the Edge: Marginal Snowpacks and Other Mediterranean Treasures (Konstantis Alexopolulos)

2025-05-16 16:00: Dynamic imprint and seismic signature of mineral phase transitions in the Earth's deep mantle (Isabel Papanagnou)

2025-05-19 14:30: For both titles please look in the abstract session below. (Katie Goodwin-MRC LMB; Miguel Ángel Ortiz Salazar-MRC LMB)

2025-05-20 12:00: Silica enrichment (and depletion) in the cratonic lithosphere (Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin)

2025-05-21 14:00: Optical geodesy in the near-field of earthquake ruptures (James Hollingsworth, ISTerre, Grenoble, France)

2025-05-21 17:30: Mid-Holocene climate and environmental changes revealed by subfossil wood from eastern England (Tatiana Bebchuk, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-22 11:30: Nano in Precision Medicine: Applications in Early Cancer Detection and Drug Delivery (Prof Ljiljana Fruk ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology))

2025-05-22 16:00: Chasing Cracks on an Antarctic Ice Shelf (Emma Pearce)

2025-05-23 16:00: Average physical structure of cratonic lithosphere, from thermodynamic inversion of global surface-wave data (Sergei Lebedev ( University of Cambridge))

2025-05-27 11:00: When fire plumes glow in the dark: Tracing organic aerosol chemical regime dominance clues via light-absorbing species (Dr. Eleni Dovrou, Technical University of Crete)

2025-05-27 12:00: The world’s least loved sedimentary structures: Sole marks as guides to flow dynamics, substrates, and the misidentification of life (Jeff Peakall, University of Leeds)

2025-05-27 14:30: Scaling life: How Single Cells Orchestrate Tissue-Level Coordination  (Prisca Liberali, FMI)

2025-05-28 13:00: Modelling the dispersion of volcanic ash in the atmosphere (Dr Benjamin Devenish (Met Office))

2025-05-28 14:00: Seismic Constraints on the Temperature and Composition of Earth's Interior: Some Open Questions (Fabio Cammarano, Roma 3 University)

2025-05-29 11:30: James Sear - Plumes in Turbulence  Ross Shepherd — Efficiency of  CO2 storage in aquifers  (James Sear and Ross Shepherd, IEEF)

2025-06-02 14:30: Maik Bischoff-Plexin/Semaphorin Antagonism Orchestrates Collective Cell Migration and Organ Sculpting by Regulating Epithelial-Mesenchymal Balance; Harry McNamara-Decoding and controlling self-organization in stem cell models of embryonic development (Maik Christian Bischoff, UNC, Mark Peifer lab; Harry McNamara, Yale University)

2025-06-03 12:00: How crustal exhumation rates determine the fate of porphyry copper deposits (Frances Cooper, University College London)

2025-06-04 13:00: The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) Biogeochemistry Project: Understanding the changing Southern Ocean carbon cycle (Elizabeth H. Shadwick, CSIRO Environment)

2025-06-04 17:30: Temporal Dynamics of Island Biodiversity (Sandra Nogué Bosch, Autonomous University of Barcelona)

2025-06-05 11:30: Unveiling complex transport processes in a large deep lake: From coastal upwelling to higher-mode internal waves (Rafael Reiss (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-05 14:00: How large can an earthquake grow?  Effect of geometrical and energetical barriers (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-06-06 16:00: Grain-scale models of transient diffusion creep  (John Rudge)

2025-06-09 14:30: Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes; Kumud Saini-Temperature Regulation of Cell Cycle and Growth Dynamics in Arabidopsis (Kumud Saini, Robinson Lab, Sainsbury Laboratory & Ana Patricia Ramos, IGC, Portugal )

2025-06-10 11:00: Global modelling of ice-nucleating particles and their impact on cirrus clouds and the climate system (Dr. Christof Beer)

2025-06-10 12:00: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form (Frances Dunn, Oxford University Museum of Natural History & University of Oxford)

2025-06-11 14:00:  Exploring the Impact of Changing Overturning Circulation on Carbon Storage due to the Biological Carbon Pump: An Idealised Modelling Approach (Elisavet Baltas, University of Cambridge)

2025-06-11 14:00: The Dynamic Process of Subduction Initiation in Young Ocean Basins: A Case Study of the North Sulawesi Subduction Zone (Miao Dong, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2025-06-12 11:30: Mixing and chemical transfers in particle clouds – implications following planetary impacts (Quentin Kriaa, Uni of Cambridge)

2025-06-12 12:00: How to study the tropical atmospheric dynamics with a shallow-water model?: Gill and Lindzen-Nigam formulations (Jun Ichi-Yano, Météo-France)

2025-06-13 16:00: The splendours of Isfahan, Iran, enabled by Late Quaternary earthquake faulting and drainage reversal (James Jackson)

2025-06-16 14:30: Mechano-hydraulic control of mammalian folliculogenesis (Chai Jou (Joe) Chen (MBI Singapore) (co-hosted with TLM) )

2025-06-18 14:00: Resolving the Boundary Layer Paradox: Seismic Clues to the Origin of Lithosphere Discontinuities (Tolulope Olugboji, University of Rochester)

2025-06-18 16:00: Decadal changes in Southern Ocean Water Masses inferred from observations (Laura Cimoli, University of Cambridge)

2025-06-18 17:30: Rock magnetic estimation of past precipitation from topsoil calibration - recent studies in Europe and India (Christian Zeeden, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics)

2025-06-24 14:00: The statistical challenges in tackling persistent climate model uncertainty through model-observation comparisons. (Dr Jill S Johnson; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK)

2025-06-26 13:00: Statistical physics for climate sciences: applications to wave turbulence, extreme heat waves, and extremes of renewable energy production (Freddy Bouchet, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique)

2025-07-02 14:00: Rethinking Antarctic Polynya Productivity: The Impact of Ice-Adjacency Effects on NPP Estimates along Icy Coasts (Hilde Oliver, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2025-07-03 11:30: Applying simple mathematical models in the mining and energy industries (Jason Furtney, Itasca International)

2025-09-19 11:00: The role of the Southern Ocean in the Climate System: risk, dangers and solutions. - Nathan Bindoff (Nathan Bindoff - University of Tasmania)

2025-09-24 15:30: Persistent warming and reduced freshening of the abyssal Southern Ocean. - Kathy Gunn (Kathryn Gunn (University of Southampton))

2025-09-30 12:00: Carbon Capture and Mineralization (Siggi Gislason, University of Iceland)

2025-10-02 11:30: Fracture Network Connectivity and Its Evolution (Weiwei Zhu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2025-10-07 11:00: Chemistry–climate feedback of atmospheric methane in a methane-emission-flux-driven chemistry–climate model (Dr Laura Stecher, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-08 14:00: Modeling dissolved Pb concentrations in the Western Arctic Ocean: the continued legacy of anthropogenic pollution (Birgit Rogalla (British Antarctic Survey))

2025-10-08 14:00: Steps Towards Forecasting Cascading Mountain Hazards (Lorenzo Nava (University of Cambridge))

2025-10-09 11:30: The signature hidden in the deformation of a free surface (Mathieu Sellier (University of Canterbury, New Zealand))

2025-10-13 13:00: Predicting wind extremes in a warming climate: from general circulation to storm-resolving models via improved turbulence representation (Emanuele Silvio Gentile, University of Reading)

2025-10-13 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Anne Grapin-Botton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)

2025-10-13 18:00: The Bushveld Intrusion: Geology, Petrology and Mineral Deposit formation (Professor Wolfgang Maier, Cardiff University)

2025-10-14 12:00: Late Miocene Uplift of the Lesser Himalaya Recorded by Clumped Isotope Compositions of Detrital Carbonate (Dr Uri Ryb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2025-10-15 14:00: Calibration of a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model of West Antarctica - Brad reed and Jan De Rydt (Jan De Rydt (University of Northumbria), Brad Reed (University of Northumbria))

2025-10-15 14:00: Atomic Quantum Sensors for Seismology (Jeremiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-16 11:30: A multilayer model for multiscale flows of thin (and not-so-thin) films (Stephane Popinet, Sorbonne University)

2025-10-17 16:00: Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic significance of the Icelandic Plume (Nicky White ( Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2025-10-20 13:00: Multihazard in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Max Van Wyk de Vries, Department of Earth Sciences / Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-20 14:30: Building and extending the body axis: the role of tissue Interfaces (Pierre-François Lenne, IBDM and Turing Center for Living Systems, Aix Marseille Univ. & CNRS, Marseille, France )

2025-10-21 11:00: Emerging importance of chemistry-climate coupling on weather to climate timescales (Prof Michaela I. Hegglin, Director at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany))

2025-10-21 12:00: Cambridge Zero: maximising Cambridge’s contribution towards a zero-carbon world through research, education, policy & innovation (Dr Eric Mackie, Head of Research Engagement, Cambridge Zero)

2025-10-21 15:00: The inflows of modified Warm Deep Water towards the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf: What, Where, When? - Valentina Volkova (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-10-22 15:30: Regulating the Weddell Sea polynya in a coupled model through ocean model parameter tuning - Tarkan Bilge (Tarkan Bilge - British Antarctic Survey)

2025-10-22 16:00: When rocks push back:  Angry dislocations and their influence on seismology and geodynamics (Lars Hansen (University of Minnesota) )

2025-10-22 17:30: Volcanic forcing of climate: Insights from sulfur isotopes and tephra in ice cores (Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews)

2025-10-23 11:30: Modeling and simulation of salt caverns: from lab to field scale (Herminio Tasinafo Honorio, Delft University of Technology)

2025-10-24 16:00: Searching for Expressions of Mantle Plume Behaviour in North Atlantic Contourites (Dylan Palmer)

2025-10-27 13:00:  Climate Repair, Now or Never? (Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-27 14:30: Min Ya-The Moment Symmetry Breaks: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of CYCLOIDEA Expression During Early Floral Development; Baptiste Tesson-Complementary Mechanical Identities from Iterative BMP Signaling Ensure Robust Morphogenesis. (Min Ya; Baptiste Tesson)

2025-10-28 12:00: Antarctic glacier geophysics - uncovering ice sheet evolution (Professor Martin Siegert, University of Exeter)

2025-10-28 17:00: SPECIAL PUBLIC SEMINAR - Challenges of Energy Transition (Dr Jon Salkeld)

2025-10-29 14:00: Wind-driven coastal polynya variability drives decadal ice-shelf melt variability in the Amundsen Sea - Michael Haigh (Michael Haigh)

2025-10-29 14:00: Hot to cold: applications of low-temperature thermochronology across latitudes and tectonic settings (Ethan Conrad (UCL))

2025-10-30 11:30: Particle-driven convection (Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-03 13:00: Horizontal and vertical transport in a large, deep lake: Coastal upwelling and higher- mode standing internal waves in Lake Geneva (Rafael Reiss, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-03 14:30: Modelling collective cell movement in early development (Philip Maini, University of Oxford)

2025-11-03 18:00: Monitoring Coastal Cliff erosion using Distributed Sensing (Dr Jess Johnson, UEA)

2025-11-04 11:00: A Highly Efficient Machine Learning-Based Ozone Parameterization for Climate Sensitivity Simulations (Yiling Ma, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)

2025-11-04 12:00: Mixing and melting: turbulence in the ice shelf/ocean boundary layer (Professor John Taylor, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-05 14:00: Seismicity across the Earth-moon system  (Alice Turner ( University of Cambridge))

2025-11-06 11:30: Beyond Industrial Carbonisation (Professor Joe Howe, University of Lincoln)

2025-11-06 14:00: The Effects of Subglacial Discharge on Ice-Shelf Melt Patterns and Ice-Sheet Response - Franka Jesse (Franka Jesse - Utrecht University)

2025-11-06 16:00: The martian cryosphere: (some of) what we know, (some of) what we don't know, and (some of) how we might get (some) more answers… (Prof Neil Arnold - SPRI)

2025-11-07 16:00: Large-scale drivers and spatial variability of extreme sea level on the European Shelf (Lisanne Blok)

2025-11-10 12:00: Formation and importance of copper-gold-iron deposits in back-arc environments (Professor Adam Simon, University of Michigan)

2025-11-10 13:00: Sources, pathways and drivers of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water formation (Bieito Fernandez Castro, University of Southampton )

2025-11-10 14:30: Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis  (Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie)

2025-11-11 12:00: Bridging the gap between isotope geochemistry and plant sciences (Dr Rebekah Moore, Imperial College London)

2025-11-12 14:00: Seismology for complex systems:  Earthquakes, megafauna interactions, and soil health (Tarje Nissen-Meyer (University of Exeter))

2025-11-13 11:30: Coupling rheology and segregation in granular flows (Nico Gray, University of Manchester)

2025-11-14 16:00: Passive Seismic Imaging of Plate Margins (Yingbo Li)

2025-11-17 13:00: Dynamics of fire and ice: wildfire weather and ice-sediment interactions (Kasturi Shah, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-17 14:30: Luca Guglielmi-Modelling Neuronal Morphogenesis Across Species: a Purkinje Cell’s Journey to Utmost Complexity; Susannah McLaren-Spatially organised cell behaviours in morphogenesis and symbiosis (Luca Guglielmi; Susie McLaren )

2025-11-18 11:00: An alkaline world: a new assessment of the global chemical climate for PM2.5 formation and nitrogen and sulphur deposition (Dr Yao Ge, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-18 12:00: Decoding carbonate (bio)mineralisation using high-throughput mineralogy (Professor Julie Cosmidis, University of Oxford)

2025-11-19 14:00: Using seismology to study the changing ice sheets ( Alex Brisbourne (British Antarctic Survey) )

2025-11-19 15:30: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Bethan Wynne-Cattanach (Bethan Wynne-Cattanach (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-19 17:30: Marine carbon cycle dynamics in the southern high latitudes during the Mid-Pleistocene transition: new insights from the central South Pacific Ocean (Julia Gottschalk, Kiel University)

2025-11-20 11:30: Decoupling Strategies in Electrochemical Water Splitting (Mark Symes, University of Glasgow)

2025-11-20 16:00: Improving the synchronization of climate records using probabilistic methods and cosmogenic radionuclides (Dr Francesco Muschitiello - Geography)

2025-11-21 16:00: Detailed analysis of Seismicity and Seismic structure beneath Northern Borneo (Wuttinan Tonprasert)

2025-11-24 14:30: Meng Zhu-Maternal oxygen levels regulate the timing of limb development in amniote species; Alex Plum-Morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues (Meng Zhu; Alex Plum)

2025-11-24 17:00: Decoding Deep Time with author Laura Poppick (Laura Poppick)

2025-11-25 12:00: Insights into the drivers of Ediacaran-Cambrian phosphogenesis from phosphorites of the Khuvsgul Group, Mongolia (Dr Eliel Antilla, ETH Zurich)

2025-11-26 14:00: Satellite monitoring of volcanic unrest and eruption (Susanna Ebmeier (University of Leeds))

2025-11-26 17:30: Meltwater, meteorites, and volcanoes: the elusive cause of the Younger Dryas Event (James Baldini, Durham University)

2025-11-27 11:30: Developing high performance materials for hydrogen production (Professor Stephen Skinner, Imperial College London)

2025-11-28 16:00: Building a general-purpose finite-element solver to study convection in porous media (George Poole)

2025-12-01 13:00: Special event: Good COP, Bad COP: post-COP30 reflections (Prof Piers Forster, University of Leeds)

2025-12-01 14:30: Patterns and form:Lessons from plants. (Neha Bathia)

2025-12-02 11:00: Interactive Coupling of Hydrogen and Methane (Dr Megan Brown, University of Cambridge)

2025-12-02 12:00: Core–mantle isotopic fractionation in large terrestrial planets (Dr Edith Kubik, University College Dublin)

2025-12-03 14:00: Heterogeneity and seasonal cycle of eddy-sea ice interactions (Josue Martinez) (Josue Moreno Martinez (British Antarctic Survey))

2025-12-03 14:00: Earthquake scaling laws and the nucleation process (Stefan Nielsen (Durham University))

2025-12-03 17:30: Unprecedented changes on the physiology of Antarctic organisms over the last centuries (Simone Moretti, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry)

2025-12-05 16:00: Long-term evolution, stability, and thickness of cratonic lithosphere ( Zachary Sudholz)

2025-12-17 14:00: Modulation of the North Atlantic Carbon Sink in a Warming World (Yohei Takano)) (Yohei Takano - British Antarctic Survey)

2026-01-21 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Laura Taylor (Laura Taylor (British Antarctic Survey and University of Cambridge))

2026-01-21 14:00: Passive seismic monitoring of a geothermal project in the UK using nodal seismometers (Tom Kettlety (University of Oxford))

2026-01-22 11:30: Modelling Cr contamination and remediation in an Indian mining region; Sukinda Valley (Angus Fotherby, Cambridge)

2026-01-26 13:00: Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change (Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge)

2026-01-26 14:30: Margot Smit: Arrested Development: temporal regulation of cell identity during plant embryogenesis; Susan Wopat: The zebrafish gastrula is shaped by stationary and germ layer–specific tissue flows (Margot Smit, Susan Wopat)

2026-01-27 12:00: Birth, Life and Death of the early animals of the Ediacaran  (Dr Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge))

2026-01-28 14:00: Geodetic Insights into the Earthquake Cycle on the East Anatolian Fault (Seda Özarpacı (Yıldız Technical University/ İstanbul Türkiye))

2026-01-29 11:30: ENTRAINMENT ACROSS TURBULENT/TURBULENT INTERFACES: POINTS OF DISTINCTION FROM TURBULENT/NON-TURBULENT INTERFACES (Oliver Buxton, Imperial College London)

2026-02-02 13:00: Quantifying the human component of the Earth System (Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

2026-02-02 14:30: Molecular and cellular scale symmetry breaking in planar polarity (or why the hairs all point the same way on the wing of a fly) (David Strutt, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK)

2026-02-03 12:00: Does the Isua supracrustal belt preserve the oldest sedimentary rocks on Earth? (Dr Kristoffer Szilas (Natural History Museum Denmark))

2026-02-04 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Giangiacomo Navarra (Giangiacomo Navarra - Princeton)

2026-02-04 14:00: A Journey From The Center Of The Earth (Charles Carrigan (Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall))

2026-02-04 17:30: Earth’s energy imbalance and ocean heat content on orbital to millennial timescales reconstructed from noble-gas ratios in ice cores (Markus Grimmer, University of Bern)

2026-02-05 11:30: FEVER: Forecasting Eruptions at Volcanoes after Extended Repose (Dr Eric Newland, UCL)

2026-02-09 13:00: Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models (Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-09 13:00: Modelling explosive volcanic eruptions from proximal hazards to global climate disruption (Prof. Thomas Aubry, University of Oxford )

2026-02-09 14:30: Postponed: How Mechanics Made Archaea Multicellular (Postponed: Alex Bisson, Department of Biology, Indiana University )

2026-02-10 11:00: A synthesised global database of dimethylsulfide concentration in the marine atmosphere (George Manville, University of Exeter)

2026-02-10 12:00: Assessing the role of the Gephyrocapsa complex during the Mid-Brunhes interval (Dr Alba Gonzalez-Lanchas (University of Oxford/University of Salamanca))

2026-02-11 14:00: What triggering can teach us on faults, fluids and slow slip (Romain Jolivet (École Normale Supérieure))

2026-02-12 11:30: A Stefan-Graetz problem in the kitchen: cleaning by convective dissolution (Ian Wilson (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-12 16:00: Ice structure, brine infiltration, and firn saturation from field observations on three Antarctic ice shelves (Dr. Katie Miles (Lancaster University))

2026-02-13 16:00: Applications of Bayesian inference to modern sea level (Dan Heathcote)

2026-02-16 13:00: How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham)

2026-02-16 14:30: Spontaneous shape transformations of active surfaces (Alexander Mietke, University of Oxford)

2026-02-17 11:00: The search for life beyond the solar system  (Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-17 12:00: Iron rain and iron snow in planetary interiors: insights from fluids experiments (Dr Quentin Kriaa (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-18 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-02-18 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-02-18 14:00: From icequakes to earthquakes: Using seismology across the scales to understand Antarctica’s glacial and subglacial environment (Aisling Dunn (BAS) )

2026-02-18 17:30: Holocene sea-ice dynamics north of Greenland – from the Arctic’s Last Ice Area to the North Water Polynya (Henrieka Detlef, Aarhus University)

2026-02-19 16:00: Arctic Subsurface Ocean Change under the Climate Crisis: Long-Term CPIES Observations in the Chukchi Sea (Dr. Jae-Hun Park (Inha University))

2026-02-23 13:00: Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands (Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University )

2026-02-23 13:00: Constraining Carbon in Earth’s Mantle (Dr. Joshua Shea, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-23 14:30: Marc Trani Bustos: Building the mammalian embryo body: tissue surface mechanics constrains proliferation-driven forces to guide axial elongation; Denis Krndija-“Cracking” the Gut Epithelium: How Goblet Cells Mechanically Disrupt the Gut Barrier. (Marc Trani Bustos, Denis Krndija)

2026-02-24 11:00: Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter? (Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-24 12:00: The journey of volcanic crystals: the time lords of eruptive history (Dr Chiara Maria Petrone (Natural History Museum London))

2026-02-24 12:00: Melting of unconstrained particles (Edoardo Bellincioni, University of Twente)

2026-02-25 14:00: Exploring upper mantle flow with seismic anisotropy and mantle circulation models (James Wookey (University of Bristol) )

2026-02-26 11:30: Engineering the Vortex: Structural Innovations for Advanced Wind and Tidal Turbines (Yabin Liu, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-27 16:00: Earthquake focal mechanisms reveal a complex response to re-inflation at Askja caldera, Iceland (Isabel Siggers)

2026-03-02 13:00: Establishment of Modern Atlantic Circulation linked to Weakening Iceland Scotland Overflow Water (David Thornally, UCL)

2026-03-02 14:30: Feline Lindhount: Linking human neurodevelopmental timing and evolution, James Fitzsimmons: Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth (Feline Lindhount, James Fitzsimmons)

2026-03-03 12:00: Sulphur stories from the land, sulfur stories from the sea (Dr Guillaume Paris, University of Lorraine)

2026-03-04 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Helen Shea (Helen Shea - Monash University)

2026-03-04 14:00: From Mantle Convection to Seismic Observations – and Back?: The Impact of Tomographic Resolution and Mineralogical Uncertainty on Reconstructed Mantle Evolution (Bernhard Schuberth (LMU Munich) )

2026-03-04 17:30: Antarctic Ice-Sheet Geometry Set the Interglacial CO₂ Ceiling in the Late Pleistocene (Xu Zhang, British Antarctic Survey)

2026-03-05 11:30: Explosions and power generation at Lake Kivu, Rwanda (Andy Woods, IEEF)

2026-03-05 16:00: Lakes on the ice - modelling Antarctica's surface hydrology (Dr. Sammie Buzzard (Northumbria University))

2026-03-05 17:30: Democracy and climate in troubled times (Rebecca Willis, Professor in Energy & Climate Governance, Lancaster University)

2026-03-06 16:00: Links between the lowermost mantle and the surface tested with a global map of ultra-low velocity zones (James Aktins)

2026-03-09 13:00: Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records (Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-09 14:30: Deciphering the principles of epithelial tissue organization (Delphine Delacour)

2026-03-10 11:00:  State of Global Wildfires (Dr Chantelle Burton)

2026-03-10 12:00: Making Sense of a Geological Dog's Dinner - Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Motzfeldt REE-Nb-Ta deposit, South Greenland (Professor Adrian Finch, University of St Andrews)

2026-03-11 14:00: Seismotectonics of the Sumatra-Andaman region: insights from block modelling, high-resolution seismicity and seismic imaging (Karen Lythgoe (University of Edinburgh))

2026-03-12 11:30: See Below (Hainhan Li, IEEF and Ruiyang Wang, IEEF)

2026-03-12 15:00: Against the rising tide: polar climate change and comms in the misinformation era (Dr. Ella Gilbert)

2026-03-13 16:00: Sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Turbulent Diapycnal Mixing (Kate Oglethorpe)

2026-03-16 13:00: Exploring Mechanistic Interactions that Shape the Biological Carbon Pump: Do We Know Enough to Predict Its Future? (Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL)

2026-03-17 12:00: Large-eddy simulations of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath basal terraces (Dr Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-18 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Andrew Styles (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-03-18 14:00: Magmatism and Faulting in Continental Rifts (Juliet Biggs (University of Bristol) )

2026-03-18 17:30: IntCal26 and Radiocarbon Dating: An essential dating method and key tracer for studying the Earth system (Timothy Heaton, University of Leeds)

2026-03-19 11:30: Controls on Capillary Trapping of CO2  in an Anticline (Ross Shepherd (University of Cambridge))

2026-03-19 16:00: Ongoing Regime Shifts in Arctic and Subarctic Peatlands: A Palaeoecological Perspective (Sanna Piilo - University of Helsinki)

2026-03-19 17:30: From multilateralism to people power – can citizens rebuild global governance? (Rich Wilson, CEO, Iswe Foundation; and co-founder, Global Citizens’ Assembly)

2026-03-20 16:00: Topographically Generated Internal Waves in the Arctic Ocean Northward of the Critical Latitude (Tianshu Liu)

2026-04-01 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Yavor Kostov (Yavor Kostov)

2026-04-01 14:00: Toward Foundation Models for Seismology and Geophysics (Maarten de Hoop (Rice University))

2026-04-15 13:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Christina Schmidt (BAS):  Antarctic Bottom Water formation and its dynamics in a changing climate (Christina Schmidt)

2026-04-29 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-06 14:00: The uplift and erosion history of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains and their role in the formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (Guy Paxman (Durham))

2026-05-13 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-27 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)