Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall


2006-10-11 16:30: The deep roots of volcanoes: models of magma-mantle interaction (Richard Katz  (DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2006-10-18 16:30: Global MORB Chemistry and Ridge Axial Depth - A New Interpretation (Yaoling Niu (University of Durham))

2006-10-25 16:30: Surface wave tomography: insights into the structure of the upper mantle beneath Australia (Stewart Fishwick (University of Cambridge))

2006-11-01 16:30: Phase and Correlation in `Random' Seismic Fields: Imaging with background noise and coda (Michel Campillo (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble))

2006-11-08 16:30: Geological constraints on Himalaya - Tibet collision processes (Mike Searle (Oxford University))

2006-11-22 16:30: Passive seismic monitoring, seismic anisotropy, and the state-of-stress
in a reservoir (Mike Kendall (Bristol University))

2006-11-29 13:00: Statistically determining errors of velocity models (Richard Hobbs (Durham University))

2007-01-24 16:30: Some observational 
constraints on ridge-hotspot interactions (Marcia Maia (University of Brest))

2007-01-31 16:30: Modelling lithospheric deformation through time and space (Nicky White (University of Cambridge))

2007-02-07 16:30: Vertical and lateral changes in composition beneath a craton as revealed by seismic surface waves (Helle Pedersen (LGIT, Grenoble))

2007-02-28 16:30: Mapping the lithosphere with surface waves (Keith Priestley (Bullard Labs))

2007-03-07 16:30: Some observations of highly extended continental lithosphere (Tim Minshull (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton))

2007-03-14 16:30: Seismic IMAGES of hydraulic fracture (Leo Eisner (Schlumberger Cambridge Research))

2007-04-25 16:30: Architecture and construction of the Slave craton derived from joint interpretation of multiple seismic techniques and geochemistry (David Snyder (Geological Survey of Canada))

2007-05-02 16:30: Seismic scattering in the lower mantle: Evidence for small-scale chemical heterogeneity (Peter Shearer (Scripps Institute of Oceanography))

2007-05-09 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Tara Deen (British Antarctic Survey))

2007-05-16 16:30: A new approach to solving 3D geodynamical problems: applications to folding, subduction and other large-scale flows (Jean Braun (University of Rennes))

2007-05-23 16:30: What field sedimentology in the Caucasus can tell you about the Arabia-Eurasia collision (Steve Vincent (CASP))

2008-10-15 16:30: "Topography: a window into the Earth's Mantle" (Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (University College, London))

2008-10-22 16:30: "Thermal and fertility pulses in the Iceland Plume" (Godfrey Fitton (University of Edinburgh))

2008-10-29 16:30: Active tectonics (full title TBA) (Steve Roecker (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York))

2008-11-05 16:30: Global seismology (full title TBA) (Sebastian Rost (University of Leeds))

2008-11-12 16:30:  "The active tectonics of aseismic regions.  Examples from Mongolia and Iran." (Richard Walker (University of Oxford))

2008-11-20 13:00: Determining the timescales of magmatic processes from measurement of short-lived U- and Th-decay series isotopes in volcanic gases and lavas. (Ken Sims (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution))

2008-11-26 16:30: Seismic oceanography (full title TBA) (Steve Jones (Trinity College, Dublin))

2008-12-03 14:00: "Reconstructing the Pleistocene glacial history of the central North Sea using 3D seismic data" (Lidia Longeran (Imperial College, London))

2009-01-14 16:30: Sustainable energy plans that add up (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory))

2009-01-21 16:30: Hot blobs, swells and sea level (Bryan Lovell (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-04 16:30: The North Sea: there is life in the old dog yet (Andy Leonard (BP))

2009-02-11 16:30: Volatiles in arc magmas and their role in triggering and sustaining volcanic eruptions (Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-18 16:30: Issues in the study of early life (full title TBA) (Nick Butterfield (University of Cambridge))

2009-03-04 16:30: Global Radial Anisotropy in the Earth's Upper Mantle and Transition Zone (Ana Ferreira (University of East Anglia))

2009-03-11 16:30: Evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia collision (Mark Allen (University of Durham))

2009-04-29 16:30: What will the next Sumatran earthquake be like? (John McCloskey (University of Ulster))

2009-04-30 11:15: Global seismic tomography (NOTE: 11:15 AM) (Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan))

2009-05-06 16:30: From Minerals to Mantles: The Planetary Mosaic (Lars Stixrude (University College London))

2009-05-13 16:30: A geochemical model of the formation of the Earth's core. (John Rudge (University of Cambridge))

2009-05-20 16:30: Quantitative monitoring of underground CO2 storage. (Andy Chadwick (British Geological Survey))

2009-10-14 16:30: Unfinished business regarding the Milankovitch theory of the Ice Ages (David Hodell (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-21 16:30: Grumbling Glaciers: Microearthquakes and subglacial dynamics in Antarctica (Andy Smith (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge))

2009-10-28 16:30: Great Sumatran earthquakes and tsunamis from recent marine studies (Satish Singh (IPGP, Paris))

2009-11-04 16:30: Actively deforming magma systems in the East African Rift (Juliet Biggs (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford))

2009-11-18 16:30: A consideration of the effects of dust aerosol and surface dust on Snowball Earth deglaciation (Dorian Abbot (Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago))

2010-01-20 16:30: Geochronological studies on causes and consequences of an expanding eastern Tibet (Dr Andy Carter, University College London)

2010-01-27 16:30: New insights into folding and faulting in the Zagros mountains (Iran) (Dr Ed Nissen, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-03 16:30: Elastic anomalies and anelastic loss mechanisms due to phase transitions in minerals (Professor Michael Carpenter, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-17 16:30: Sweeping carbon under the geological rug: leakage and mixing in carbon sequestration (Dr Jerome Neufeld, ITG, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-24 16:30: Surface rupture and landsliding in the great 12 May 2008 Sichuan earthquake (Dr Alexander Densmore, Durham University)

2010-03-03 16:30: On Carbon Sequestration (Professor Andy Woods, BPI Institute, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-10 16:30: Slab geometry and mantle flow in the Rivera-Cocos subduction zone (Professor James Ni, New Mexico State University)

2010-04-21 16:30: POSTPONED DUE TO VOLCANO: Evidence of water in the mantle transition zone from multimode surface waves (Professor Jeannot Trampert (Universiteit Utrecht))

2010-04-28 16:30: Numerical geodynamo modelling - Deciphering the magnetic signal (Dr Julien Aubert (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris))

2010-05-10 14:00: Laterally varying structure and solidification texture of the inner core - Special Seminar (Prof. Vernon  Cormier (University of Connecticut))

2010-05-12 16:30: Structure and Lateral Variation of the West Sumatran Subduction Zone as Revealed by Local Seismicity (Dr Dietrich Lange (University of Cambridge))

2010-05-19 16:30: Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations (Dr Rhodri Davies (Imperial College, London))

2010-10-13 16:30: Waveform Technologies for Monitoring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Ross Heyburn (AWE Blacknest))

2010-10-20 16:30: Unraveling the dynamics of subduction: models and plate motions (Saskia Goes (Imperial College))

2010-10-27 16:30: Seismic monitoring of surface processes: Toward a continuous monitoring of river sediment transport and hillslope processes (Arnaud Burtin (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-03 16:30: Geological Storage of CO2 (Cor Hofstee (TNO, Utrecht))

2010-11-10 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Andy Leonard)

2010-11-17 16:30: A numerical model for dyke propagation in presence of elastic, density and strength discontinuities (Francesco Maccaferri (University of Bologna))

2010-11-24 16:30: Dynamics of dyke intrusion in the mid-crust of Iceland (Prof. Bob White (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-12 14:00: Earth's core: an interdisciplinary afternoon (Speakers from across the University)

2011-01-26 16:30: New Flowlines from the North Atlantic Ocean (Nicky White, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-02 16:30: Mantle upwelling and lithospheric destruction beneath North America (Prof. Richard M Allen (U.C. Berkeley))

2011-02-09 16:30: Thermal structure beneath Hawaii inferred from seismic (inverse scattering) images of upper mantle  discontinuities (Professor Rob van der Hilst (MIT))

2011-02-23 16:30: Volcano seismology in a wider volcanological context (Professor Jurgen Neuberg (University of Leeds))

2011-03-02 16:30: Mantle strain-dependant rheology and long-term lithosphere strength (Frédéric Gueydan, Université Rennes)

2011-03-09 16:30: Seismological and dynamic structure of Earth's core (Dr Arwen Deuss (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-04 16:30: The development of a magmatic rifted margin: evidence from Ethiopia (Dr Ian Bastow (University of Bristol))

2011-05-11 16:30: Deep structure of the continents (Keith Priestley, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-18 11:15: Genesis and evolution of Archean cratonic upper mantle (Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

2011-05-25 16:30: A seismologist's view on mantle dynamics (Jeannot Trampert (Utrecht University))

2011-09-28 16:30: Seismic anisotropy and superplume boundaries in the D" region (Sanne Cottaar, UC Berkeley)

2011-10-12 16:30: Evidence for small-scale features throughout the deep Earth: high frequency, exotic P-wave observations of the Earth's mantle and outer core (Elizabeth Day, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-19 16:30: Iceland Plume pulsing, V-Shaped Ridges and the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (Steve Jones, University of Birmingham)

2011-10-26 16:30: Tectonic versus magmatic seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges: where, how, why ...and how much? (Chris MacLeod, Cardiff University)

2011-11-02 16:30: Insights into the inner core: hemispherical and regional structure (Jessica Irving, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-16 16:30: Rates of hydration in the crust: implications for rheology and the strength of deep faults (Bruce Yardley, University of Leeds)

2011-11-23 16:30: The age, extent, and potential causes of late Quaternary uplift of the coast of north and west Africa (Richard Walker, University of Oxford)

2012-01-25 16:30: Seismological geomorphology (Niels Hovius, Cambridge)

2012-02-01 16:30: Slab detachment and continental collision (Jeroen van Hunen, Durham University)

2012-02-08 16:30: The petrographic record of solidification of mafic magmas (Marian Holness, Cambridge)

2012-02-15 16:30: Seismological Observations Beneath the Oceans: Implications for Lithospheric Structure (Stewart Fishwick, University of Leicester)

2012-02-22 16:30: Tethyan carbonates: Linking tropical seas and crashing plates to some of the largest oil and gas fields in the world (Keith Gerdes, Shell)

2012-02-29 16:30: Dynamics and stability of ice sheets (Roiy Sayag, DAMTP)

2012-03-07 16:30: Constraining fault growth and linkage (Jon Bull, NOC Southampton)

2012-03-14 15:00: TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC MODEL OF THE EARTH (Andreas Fichtner, Utrecht)

2012-04-25 16:30: Stratigraphy: Stranger than Fiction? (Philip  Allen, Imperial)

2012-05-02 16:30: What is the asthenosphere, and why does it matter? (Mark Richards, UC Berkeley)

2012-05-09 16:30: The fate of Himalayan sediments during their transfer from the High range to the Bengal Fan (Jérôme Lavé, Nancy)

2012-05-16 16:30: Core Flows from Above and Below (Jon Mound, University of Leeds)

2012-10-10 16:30: Multi-Scale Dynamics and Rheology of Mantle Flow with Plates (Laura Alisic, Cambridge)

2012-10-17 16:45: Magma poor rifting and continental breakup (Tim Reston, Birmingham)

2012-10-24 16:30: No talk - special seminars downtown (No talk - special seminars downtown)

2012-11-07 16:30: Laboratory simulations of crustal processes: The missing link between field and model (Philip Benson, Portsmouth)

2012-11-14 16:30: Plate - mantle dynamics with strong plates (John Crowley, Oxford)

2012-11-21 16:30: Stratigraphy: stranger than fiction? (Philip Allen, Imperial)

2012-11-22 16:30: Glacial rebound once more:  is there more to be learnt from sea-level analyses? (Kurt Lambeck, ANU)

2012-11-28 16:30: No talk - part 3 poster day (No talk - part 3 poster day)

2013-01-23 16:30: Measuring and Modelling the Earthquake Deformation Cycle (Tim Wright, Leeds)

2013-01-30 16:30: Palaeomagnetism and mantle dynamics from the bottom up (Andy Biggin, Liverpool)

2013-02-06 16:30: Mixing mantle melts (John Rudge, Cambridge)

2013-02-08 12:00: Continental earthquake surface ruptures: New constrains on earthquake cycle and the fault structures (Yann Klinger, IPG Paris)

2013-02-13 16:30: Fast source determination of large earthquakes by using W phase (Luis Rivera, Strasbourg)

2013-02-20 16:30: Orogen-scale thermochronolgic trends and tectonic-climate coupling in the Andes  (Peter Reiners, U. Arizona)

2013-02-27 16:30: The Relationship Between Shear Wave Velocity, Temperature, Attenuation and Viscosity in the Shallow Part of the Mantle (Dan McKenzie, Cambridge)

2013-03-06 16:30: Hunting surface ruptures for the Mw 8.1 1934 Bihar Nepal earthquake (Magali Rizza, EO Singapore/Cambridge)

2013-03-13 16:30: Structure of the Sumatra subduction zone (Tim Henstock, NOC Southampton)

2013-04-16 16:30: Generation of Plate Tectonics from Grain-Damage and Pinning (David Bercovici, Yale)

2013-05-01 16:30: Mantle plumes and associated flow beneath Arabia and East Africa from joint tomography (Sung-Joon Chang, UEA)

2013-05-08 16:30: The enigmatic climatic footprint of supercontinental cycles and the fundamental challenge of snowball earth  (Mark Jellinek, UBC)

2013-05-15 16:30: The dynamics of magma intrusion: Insights from field studies and analogue experiments (Janine Kavanagh, Liverpool)

2013-05-22 16:30: The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption: insights from microseismicity (Jon Tarasewicz, Cambridge)

2013-05-29 16:30: Cretaceous-Recent Dynamic Support of Australia from River Profile Inversion (Gareth Roberts, Cambridge)

2013-10-16 16:30: Following in Bullard's footsteps: the spin of Earth's core (Dr Phil Livermore, University of Leeds)

2013-10-23 16:30: Channeled flow at the base of the oceanic asthenosphere: evidence from full waveform tomography (Prof Barbara Romanowicz, College de France,  IPG Paris,  and  Univ. of California, Berkeley.)

2013-10-30 16:30: Learning from experience: New approaches to geophysical inversion and classification (Dr Andrew Valentine, University of Utrecht)

2013-11-05 14:00: A seismological perspective on the southwestern corner of the Baltic Shield (Dr Valerie Maupin, University of Oslo)

2013-11-06 16:30: Fracture and flow: simulations of magma dynamics from the asthenosphere to the crust (Dr Tobias Keller, University of Oxford)

2013-11-13 16:00: Hemispheres, anisotropy and rotation of Earth's inner core (Dr Lauren Waszek, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-20 16:00: The interplay of crustal stress and structure at Kīlauea Volcano inferred from seismic anisotropy (Dr Jessica Johnson, University of Bristol)

2013-11-27 16:00: Title to be confirmed (TBA)

2014-01-22 16:00: Biominearlization in marine calcifies from a geochemical perspective (Dr Jess Adkins, Caltech)

2014-01-29 16:00: Energetics of Earth's Core and Mantle (Prof Jason Morgan, Royal Holoway, University of London)

2014-02-05 16:00: Recent tectonism and sea-level change in the Aegean: disentangling the coastal sedimentary record (Prof Andy Cundy, University of Brighton)

2014-02-12 16:00: Gravitational flow of the Calabrian Arc and plate motion of the Ionian Sea (Nicola D'Agostino, INGV Rome)

2014-02-19 16:00: Seismic Interferometry - New Theory and Applications (Prof Andrew Curtis, University of Edinburgh )

2014-02-26 16:00: Shear-velocity structure, tectonics and volcanism of the Tyrrhenian Sea: mantle (de)hydration of a back-arc basin  (Dr Hanneke Paulssen, University of Utrecht)

2014-03-05 16:00: Recording P waves everywhere in the oceans (Prof Guust Nolet, University of Nice)

2014-03-12 16:00: Ongoing deglaciation in Iceland: the impact on volcanic activity (Dr Andy Hooper, University of Leeds)

2014-04-30 16:00: Full-waveform inversion: high-resolution, high-fidelity, seismic properties from 3D field data (Prof Mike Warner, Imperial College London)

2014-05-07 16:00: Flow and flexure in the Earth’s crust (Dr Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-14 16:00: Core-mantle differentiation in planetesimals and planetary embryos (Prof Yanick Ricard, ENS-Lyon)

2014-05-16 14:00:  Mantle Dynamics, Isostasy, and Surface Topography (Prof Peter Molnar)

2014-05-21 16:00: Estimates of elastic thickness from GOCE data  (Prof Dan McKenzie, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-28 16:00: Terrane stations: intra-oceanic subduction assembled Cordilleran North America (Dr Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford)

2014-06-04 16:00: Global seismic tomography based on 3D wave simulations and adjoint methods (Dr Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice)

2014-06-11 16:00: Dynamic topography, true polar wander and their potential role in the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations (Dr Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam)

2014-10-15 16:00: Applications of adjoint methods to modelling post-glacial sea level  (David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-22 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Eric Debayle, ENS Lyon)

2014-10-29 16:00: Traveltime dispersion in an isotropic elastic mantle derived from a geodynamic model (Dr Bernhard Schuberth, LMU Munich)

2014-11-05 16:00: Linking geodynamics and seismic observations in the lowermost mantle (Dr James Wookey, University of Bristol)

2014-11-12 16:00: Molten Earth: Silicate Melt in the Deep Interior (Prof Lars Stixrude, UCL)

2014-11-19 16:00: The dynamics of marine ice sheet (Prof Grae Worster, University of Cambridge, DAMTP)

2014-11-26 16:00: A new paradigm for the geodynamo: a gentle introduction (Prof Andy Jackson, ETH Zurich)

2015-01-21 16:00: Fluid dynamics of core-mantle differentiation (Dr Renaud Deguen, University of Lyon)

2015-01-28 16:00: Observations of Stress on Faults (Dr Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2015-02-04 16:00: From mapping to temporal monitoring: Exploring the characteristics of fault creep with SAR Interferometry (Dr Romain Jolivet, Bullard Labs)

2015-02-11 16:00: Death of a dynamo: a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body (Dr Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-18 16:00: Magmatism on the terrestrial planets (Dr  Chloe Michaut, IPGP)

2015-02-25 16:00: Looking inside moons using gravity and topography (Dr Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2015-03-04 16:15: Large earthquakes in stable continental plate interiors: the need for a new paradigm (Dr Eric Calais, ENS Paris)

2015-03-11 16:00: The nature and properties of fracture damage surrounding faults (Dr Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool)

2015-04-22 16:00: A microgeodynamic approach in detecting partial melting in the Earth's mantle  (Dr Sash Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2015-04-23 16:30: The role of dynamic topography in closing the mid-Pliocene ice volume budget (Jacqueline Austermann, Harvard University)

2015-04-29 16:00: Rate- (and state-) dependent brittle deformation in crustal rocks (Dr Nicolas Brantut, University College London)

2015-05-06 16:00: What lies beneath? Interactions between Antarctica and the solid Earth (Dr Pippa Whitehouse, Durham University)

2015-05-13 16:00: The Earth’s core - not just a homogeneous ball of pure iron (Prof Lidunka Vočadlo, University College London)

2015-05-20 16:00: A seismic image for the base of an oceanic plate from high resolution, shot-generated, seismic reflection waves (Prof Tim Stern, Victoria University of Wellington)

2015-05-27 16:00: Mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe from P-to-s conversions  (Dr Sanne Cottaar, Bullard Labs)

2015-06-03 16:00: Compaction around a spherical inclusion in partially molten rock (Dr Laura Alisic, Bullard Labs)

2015-06-29 11:30: Wedge evolution, surface processes and dynamics of deep-seated structures in the Zagros foreland basin (Dr Mortaza Pirouz, Bullard Labs)

2015-07-23 16:00: Periodic Crustal Deformation and Seismicity (Prof Roland Burgmann, UC Berkeley)

2015-10-07 16:00: Earthquake precursors linked to high compressibility fluids at oceanic fracture zones (Prof Louis Geli, Ifremer)

2015-10-14 16:00: Late stages of continental rifting in Afar, Ethiopia - magnetotellurics in a multi-disciplinary study  (Prof Kathy Whaler, University of Edinburgh)

2015-10-21 16:00: Isotopic constraints on atmospheric loss and climate change on Mars (Prof Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2015-10-28 16:00: Mixed rheology shear zones and the spectrum of fault slip styles (Dr Ake Fagereng, University of Cardiff)

2015-11-04 16:00: A global view of volcano deformation (Dr Juliet Biggs, University of Bristol)

2015-11-11 16:00: The relation between waves and structure: How to explore, exploit, exhume (Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford)

2015-11-18 16:00: Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California (Dr Jessica Hawthorne, University of Leeds)

2015-11-25 16:00: The Himalaya, the Hadean, In-between, and Beyond (Prof Alex Webb, University of Leeds)

2016-02-03 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Tim Greenfield, Bullard Labs)

2016-02-10 16:00: Fault friction and behaviour (Dr Alex Copley, Bullard Labs)

2016-02-24 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz )

2016-02-24 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz )