Seminar Series

BPI Seminar Series

Taking control of flowing dense suspensions

Dr Chris Ness (University of Cambridge)

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
TBC

TBC

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
Density stratification in gravity currents; topographic interactions, shear layer stability, and impact on the global sediment budget

Professor Ben Kneller, University of Aberdeen

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
TBC

Speaker to be confirmed

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
TBC

Speaker to be confirmed

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
TBC

Dr Zhihua Xie, University of Cardiff

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
TBC

Speaker to be confirmed

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity

Nenad Miljkovic, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing (UIUC)

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
TBC

Professor Allan Matthews, University of Manchester

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ

Occasional Earth Science Seminars

The Great Migration: 3.8 billion years of carbon circulation through Earth

Matthieu Galvez, ETH-Zurich

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Seminars

The last stage of Earth's formation: Recovery from the Moon-forming giant impact

Simon Lock, Harvard Univsersity

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
Probing lateral variations in Earth’s mantle viscosity across timescales

Dr Jacqueline Austermann, University of Cambridge

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
TBD

Dr Amy Gilligan, University of Aberdeen

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
Volcano seismology: listening to the heartbeat of volcanoes

Prof. Jurgen Neuberg, University of Leeds

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
Drowning in data? How can we exploit massive geodetic data?

Prof. Tim Wright, University of Leeds

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
Quo vadis full-waveform inversion

Dr Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
TBD

Dr Emma Liu, University of Cambridge

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
TBD

Dr Derek Keir, University of Southampton

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.
TBD

Dr James Hammond, Birbeck, Univserity of London

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs.

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Biologically-induced weathering and soil development in the earliest land-plant ecosystems

Dr Ria Mitchell, Natural History Museum, London

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Iron and zinc stable isotope constraints on slab dehydration and devolatilisation processes

Dr Helen Williams, University of Cambridge

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
The origin and early diversification of land plants

Prof. Charles Wellman, University of Sheffield

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Controls on microbial communities in subseafloor environments investigated by ocean drilling

Prof. Mark Lever, ETH Zürich

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Influence of Himalayan river dynamics on the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation in NW India

Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Directly dating faults: in-situ U-Pb calcite dating

Dr Catherine Mottram, University of Portsmouth

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
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

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Deep time continental weathering and climate change in the Palaeozoic

Dr Jennifer Morris, University of Cardiff

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Katherine Joy, University of Manchester

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Prof. Emily Rayfield, University of Bristol

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Prof. Simon Poulton, University of Leeds

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Carl Stevenson, University of Birmingham

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Nick Tosca, University of Oxford

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Acoustic imaging of catastrophic flood terrains in the English Channel: How Britain became an island

Prof. Jenny Collier, Imperial College London

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Liam Herringshaw, University of Hull

Tue, 01 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Prof. Heinz Wanner, University of Bern

Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Marie Busfield, Aberystwyth University

Tue, 15 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Richard Walker, University of Oxford

Tue, 22 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site
Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews

Tue, 29 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane
MIS 7, The "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record

Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane
Climatic controls on peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane
North Atlantic variability and its link to European climate and history over the last 3000 years

Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane