Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre


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)

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: 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    )

2019-10-16 12:00: New PhD students introductions - Cambridge Volcanology (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2021-10-14 15:00: The influence of seawater infiltration on oceanic transform fault slip behavior (Jessica Warren, University of Delaware)

2021-10-22 15:00: Marine sedimentary carbon cycling (Harold Bradbury, University of Cambridge)

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)

2021-11-11 15:00: Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Natasha Dowey, Sheffield Hallam University)

2021-11-18 15:00: Fast faults and fluids in the earthquake cycle (Tom Mitchell, University College London)

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)

2022-01-20 15:00: Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry (Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-01-27 15:00: Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales (James Rae, University of St. Andrews)

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)

2022-02-10 15:00: The origin of stress- and fluid-driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective (Dr Philip Benson, University of Portsmouth)

2022-02-17 15:00: Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

2022-02-24 15:00: Priming patterns of volcanic eruptions revealed by deep-time diffusion chronometry (Martin Mangler, Durham University)

2022-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds)

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)

2022-05-02 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-10 12:00: The evolution of the geobiological nitrogen cycle (Eva Stüeken, University of St Andrews)

2022-05-17 12:00: [Geoscience in Context]  Skills for sustainable geoscience: evidencing transition in Energy and Higher Education (Jen Roberts, University of Strathclyde)

2022-05-24 12:00:  Crust formation and deformation on the rapidly rotating early Earth  (Simon Lock, University of Bristol)

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)

2022-06-07 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-14 12:00: The eccentricities of calcite production by coccolithophores (Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford)

2022-06-17 12:00: Chemistry-Climate interactions: Using hierarchies of numerical models (Dr Alison Ming DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

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))

2022-07-12 12:00: Freshwater forcing and abrupt climate change: insights from high-resolution models (Dr Alan Condron (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution))

2022-07-13 12:00: Climatic implications of deep ocean turbulence (Dr Ali Mashayek (Imperial College, London))

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)

2022-10-25 12:00: TITLETITLETITLETITLETITLETITLETITLETITLETITLETITLE (Prof. Jason Head, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-01 12:00: Quantifying complexity in challenging data: fault slip rates on millennial timescales (Laura Gregory, University of Leeds)

2022-11-08 12:00: Raising the Colorado Plateau – tales from xenoliths and petrological modeling (Richard Palin, University of Oxford)

2022-11-15 12:00: Understanding the Lithosphere (Sergei Lebedev, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-22 12:00:  Battery Metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero (Nick Gardiner, University of St. Andrews)

2022-11-29 12:00: Biogenic magnetite tracing of ocean oxygenation across Cenozoic warming events (Liao Chang, Peking University)

2023-01-24 12:00: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs (Susannah Maidment, Natural History Museum)

2023-01-31 12:00:  Geochemical Insights into Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability  (Carrie Lear, Cardiff University)

2023-02-07 12:00: A Palaeontological view of the modern climate and biodiversity crisis (Danila Schmidt, University of Bristol)

2023-02-14 12:00: Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling (Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton)

2023-02-28 12:00: A pinch of salt: Halogen cycling through the solid Earth  (Margaret Hartley, University of Manchester)

2023-03-07 12:00: The eruptive tempo and long-term behaviour of open vent volcanoes  (Emma Liu, University College London)

2023-03-14 12:00: Taphonomy and The Tree: are Fossil Taxa Misleadingly "Primitive"? (Robert Asher, 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)

2023-05-09 12:00:  Preservation of H2O heterogeneity in the Icelandic mantle (Simon Matthews (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-16 12:00: Nick Shackleton and the Big White Box in the Car Park (David Hodell, University of Cambridge)

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)

2023-05-30 12:00: A new look at the past provides perspectives for biodiversity management (Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-06 12:00: Seawater calcium concentration may be a key driver of long-term pCO2 (David Evans, University of Southampton)

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)

2023-10-10 12:00: Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth (and Mars?) (Benjamin Tutolo, University of Calgary)

2023-10-17 12:00: After the Moon (Stephen J. Mojzsis, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CsFK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2023-10-24 12:00: Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek, University of Cambridge)

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)

2023-11-07 12:00: Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds (Amy Balanoff, John Hopkins University)

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)

2023-11-21 12:00: How to form a rare-earth rich carbonatite, and why that might be a good thing (Sam Broom-Fendley, University of Exeter)

2023-11-28 12:00: The Holocene history of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, West Antarctica, revealed through subaerial and subglacial archives (Keir Nichols, Imperial College London)

2024-01-23 12:00: A paleoclimate perspective on the (in)stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences)

2024-01-30 12:00: At the Edge of Reactivity: Exploring the Dynamics of Fluid-Mineral Interactions (Oliver Plumper, Utrecht University)

2024-02-06 12:00: Antarctic summer sea-ice variability reconstructed from novel biological archives (Erin McClymont, Durham University)

2024-02-13 12:00: Data-driven slow earthquake dynamics (Adriano Gualandi, Department of Earth Sciences)

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)

2024-02-27 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)

2024-03-05 12:00: Paallavvik Island and the search for Earth's primitive water (Lydia Hallis, University of Glasgow)

2024-03-12 12:00: Microbial responses to warming and their impact on carbon stocks (Cara Magnabosco)

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)

2024-04-30 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)

2024-05-21 12:00: Mapping the core-mantle boundary (Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-28 12:00: Towards a 500 Million-Year History of Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 (Hana Jurikova, University of St Andrews)

2024-06-04 12:00: The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron (oxyhydr)oxides (Jordon Hemingway, ETH Zurich)

2024-10-15 12:00: The Red Queen, Mars, living and dying fast and young: macroevolution in graptoloids (James Crampton, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-10-22 12:00: Exploring Central Africa's Lithium Pegmatites: Geology, Resource Potential, and Geopolitical context (Anouk Borst, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)

2024-10-29 12:00: Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean (Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington)

2024-11-05 12:00: A geochemical test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. (Francis Macdonald, UC Berkeley)

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)

2024-11-19 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)

2024-11-26 12:00: A Systems Approach to Sustainability Transformation: science-based and stakeholders co-designed solution pathways (Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business )

2024-12-03 12:00: Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse?  (David Thornalley, University College London)

2025-01-28 12:00: Fluid Physics of Ice-Covered Oceans (Nicole Shibley, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-04 12:00: The interplay of large-scale tectonics, metamorphism, and earthquake cycles (Alex Copley, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-11 12:00: Environmental controls on mineral-associated permafrost organic carbon fate (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham)

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)

2025-02-25 12:00: Evolution and effects of ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic  (Alison Cribb, University of Southampton)

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)

2025-03-11 12:00: From Sediment to Spodumene (Claire Bucholz, Caltech)

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)

2025-05-13 12:00: Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush (Marian Holness, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-20 12:00: Silica enrichment (and depletion) in the cratonic lithosphere (Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin)

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)

2025-06-03 12:00: How crustal exhumation rates determine the fate of porphyry copper deposits (Frances Cooper, University College London)

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)

2025-09-30 12:00: Carbon Capture and Mineralization (Siggi Gislason, University of Iceland)

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)

2025-10-21 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)

2025-10-28 12:00: Antarctic glacier geophysics - uncovering ice sheet evolution (Professor Martin Siegert, University of Exeter)

2025-11-04 12:00: Mixing and melting: turbulence in the ice shelf/ocean boundary layer (Professor John Taylor, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-10 12:00: Formation and importance of copper-gold-iron deposits in back-arc environments (Professor Adam Simon, University of Michigan)

2025-11-11 12:00: Bridging the gap between isotope geochemistry and plant sciences (Dr Rebekah Moore, Imperial College London)

2025-11-18 12:00: Decoding carbonate (bio)mineralisation using high-throughput mineralogy (Professor Julie Cosmidis, University of Oxford)

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)

2025-12-02 12:00: Core–mantle isotopic fractionation in large terrestrial planets (Dr Edith Kubik, University College Dublin)

2026-01-27 12:00: Birth, Life and Death of the early animals of the Ediacaran  (Dr Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-03 12:00: Does the Isua supracrustal belt preserve the oldest sedimentary rocks on Earth? (Dr Kristoffer Szilas (Natural History Museum Denmark))

2026-02-10 12:00: Assessing the role of the Gephyrocapsa complex during the Mid-Brunhes interval (Dr Alba Gonzalez-Lanchas (University of Oxford/University of Salamanca))

2026-02-17 12:00: Iron rain and iron snow in planetary interiors: insights from fluids experiments (Dr Quentin Kriaa (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))

2026-03-03 12:00: Sulphur stories from the land, sulfur stories from the sea (Dr Guillaume Paris, University of Lorraine)

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)

2026-03-17 12:00: Large-eddy simulations of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath basal terraces (Dr Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 16:00: Science & the Public in Action: Can and should climate scientists be activists? (Erik van Sebille, Professor in Oceanography and Public Engagement at Utrecht University)