Name: Prof David Thomas
School of Geography and the Environment

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

High latitude dust: sources, transport pathways and impacts
Date: 13 October 2016, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : prof Joanna Bullard (Loughborough University)
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A thousand wadis up the Nile: Shifting sediment sources in the world’s longest river
Date: 10 November 2016, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Prof Jamie Woodward (University of Manchester)
Venue Details: Gilbert Room, SoGE
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Seeing beneath the surface: ground-penetrating radar in sand dunes
Date: 17 November 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Prof Charlie Bristow (University of Londo)
Venue Details: Gilbert Room, SoGE
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Using aeolianites to understand Land-Ocean Transitions in coastal landscapes"
Date: 1 December 2016, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Prof Mark Bateman (University of Sheffield)
Venue Details: Gilbert Room, SoGE
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

"Sand, Dust, and Division:The Oceano Dunes, California"
Date: 8 November 2018, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Dr Jack Gillies (Desert Institute, Reno, USA)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

"Peopling the desert: The role of drylands in facilitating ancient human migration."
Date: 15 November 2018, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Simon Armitage
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

"The Crusty, Dusty diamantina" Why is it so difficult to map cyanobacterial soil crusts from space?"
Date: 31 January 2019, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dr Kevin White (University of Reading)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

"Loess - from piles of dust to crucial palaeoclimate archives"
Date: 21 February 2019, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dr Dan Veres (Romania Academy, Cluj)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

How a changing Saharan environment shaped human evolution and dispersal out of Africa.
Date: 24 October 2019, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Prof Nick Drake (King's College London)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Probing provenance and processes in sandy drylands using signals from a portable luminescence reader.
Date: 31 October 2019, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Loess: the luminescence chronologist’s best friend?.
Date: 5 December 2019, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Helen Roberts (University of Aberystwyth)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Wind erosion: how much should we have?
Date: 23 January 2020, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr John Leys (Dept of the Premier, NSW Australia)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gottmann Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

CANCELLED - Remote sensing, geomorphology and hydrology: investigating coarse scale controls on dust emission
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 30 January 2020, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Matt Baddock (Loughborough University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Palaeohydrology in the South African Nama Karoo: lake high-stands and associated archaeological implications. (This seminar is in Gottmann Room A)
Date: 13 February 2020, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Andy Carr (University of Leicester)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Gilbert Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

POSTPONED: The ubiquity of sandscapes: Dunefields from Earth to the outer solar system.
Date: 5 March 2020, 16:30 - 17:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Matt Telfer (University of Plymouth)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Herbertson Room
Organiser: Prof David Thomas (School of Geography and the Environment)
Hosts: TBA