Name: Associate Professor Nick Tosca
University of Oxford
https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/events/

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 10 March 2017

‘Evidence for an ancient redox-stratified lake in Gale crater, Mars’
Date: 10 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Joel Hurowitz (Stony Brook University )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Friday 29 April 2016

Noble gas geochronology: a tale of two triangles
Date: 29 April 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Pieter Vermeesch (UCL)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 May 2016

Multi-sensor geophysical constraints on crustal melt in the central Andes: the PLUTONS project
Date: 6 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Matt Pritchard (Cornell University)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 May 2016

Mixing it up in the Proterozoic: oxygen, animals and marine ventilation
Date: 13 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nick Butterfield (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 May 2016

The Rock-Atmosphere interface, the Critical Zone of the Earth
Date: 20 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Jerome Gaillardet (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 May 2016

The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
Date: 27 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Ray Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
Venue Details: tba
Organisers: Claire Grainger (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Host: Claire Grainger (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 June 2016

Magnetic microscopy of metallic meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN DATE!)
Date: 1 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Harrison (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 June 2016

Curiosity's geological exploration of Gale crater, Mars
Date: 10 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 June 2016

Freezing! Snowball-Earth events: Biologically induced initiation and ocean circulation
Date: 17 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Eli Tziperman (Harvard Universtiy, USA)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 October 2016

Biotic and abiotic controls on the origin of a modern grassland ecosystem over the last five million years
Date: 14 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof David Fox (University of Minnesota)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 October 2016

'Blobs in the bowels of the Earth'
Date: 21 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Associate Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 October 2016

Reaction-induced cracking during mineral carbonation: Evidence from time-resolved microtomography
Date: 28 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Wen-Lu Zhou (University of Maryland)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 November 2016

‘Space Instrumentation in Oxford Physics: To the Moon, Mars and beyond then back again’
Date: 4 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Neil Bowles (Oxford University)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 11 November 2016

Modern-day uptake of CO2
Date: 11 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Watson (University of Exeter)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: lex
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 18 November 2016

New insights into the (paleo)sulfur cycle’
Date: 18 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Guillaume Paris (University of Lorraine)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 November 2016

Of fossils and genes – amphibian evolution through deep time
Date: 25 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut Berlin)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Dr Roger Benson (University of Oxford )

Friday 2 December 2016

‘Reconstructing fracture opening histories and timing using structural diagenesis'
Date: 2 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Stephen Laubach (University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 January 2017

Seconds after impact: Insights into the thermal history of tektites
Date: 20 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Ed Stolper (California Institute of Technology)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 January 2017

'Greater than the sum of the parts: grain boundaries in the mantle’
Date: 27 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof David Dobson (University College London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 3 February 2017

‘An astrophysicists’ view of the emergence of terrestrial vertebrates’
Date: 3 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 February 2017

‘Controls on the distribution of Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization’
Date: 10 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Rolf Romer (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 February 2017

‘Are the Zinc Isotopes Sensitive Tracers of the Mantle Differentiation Processes?’
Date: 17 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nadine Matielli (Université Libre de Bruxelles )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 February 2017

‘Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain: possible links with Alzheimer’s disease?’
Date: 24 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Barbara Maher (University of Lancaster)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 3 March 2017

‘The mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe: from slab to plume and beyond’
Date: 3 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 March 2017

‘Evidence for an ancient redox-stratified lake in Gale crater, Mars’
Date: 10 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Joel Hurowitz (Stony Brook University )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford), Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Nick Tosca (University of Oxford)