• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Fridays at 12 noon
• Web Address: https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/events/
• Organising department: Department of Earth Sciences

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles subduction zone
  Professor Jenny Collier (Imperial College)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Does the Antarctic Ice Sheet care about Earth Rheology?
  Dr. Pippa Whitehouse (Durham University)

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Pseudofossils and the search for life on Mars
  Dr Sean McMahon (Edinburgh)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - A Matter of Time: The Coupled Role of Host Star Age, Radiogenic Heat Budgets and the Lifetime of Habitable Climates on Rocky Exoplanets
  Dr Cayman Unterborn (Arizona State University)

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Calibrating changes across the Precambrian-Cambrian transition
  Dr Emmy Smith (Johns Hopkins University)

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Reducing the Earth to Simple Physical Models: From Ice Sheets to Earthquakes
  Dr Victor Tsai (Brown University)

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Biomineralisation and boron proxies: how do shells record archives of seawater carbon chemistry?
  Dr Oscar Branson (Cambridge)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Segmentation of subducting oceanic plates by brittle-ductile damage
  Prof. Taras Gerya (ETH Zurich)

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Silicic magmatism: granite pluton growth, magma chamber formation and volcanism
  Prof. Steve Sparks (University of Bristol)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Direct and indirect contributions of ocean warming to the last interglacial sea-level highstand: insights and nuances for future predictions
  Dr. Sarah Shackleton (Princeton University)

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mantle controls over the evolution of oceanic basalts
  Dr David Neave (University of Manchester)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Paleoclimate in the IPCC; Climate and ocean circulation in the Phanerozoic
  Dr Dan Lunt (University of Bristol)

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Going platinum: PGE and chalcophile elements from the mantle to mineral deposits
  Dr Hannah Hughes (Exeter)

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED We are surprised to present evidence for a magmatic source for nitrogen in Earth’s crust
  Dr Sami Mikhail (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, St Andrews)

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Deep life, bio-energetics and biogeochemical cycling in subseafloor sediments
  TBA

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The deep biosphere: What lies beneath and why we should care
  Dr Sophie Nixon (Manchester)

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Dead shells speak: detecting unsuspected ecosystem change on continental shelves
  Prof Susan Kidwell (Chicago)

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Earth Sciences Departmental research seminar with Prof Andreas Fichtner
  Prof Andreas Fichtner (ETHZürich)

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Iron-Sulfur Chemistry on Earth, Mars and Venus: Implications for the origins and evolution of life in alien environments
  Dr. Paul Rimmer (Cambridge)

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Earth Sciences research seminar with Dr Ricardo Ramalho
  Dr Ricardo Ramalho (Cardiff)

Friday 13 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Earth Sciences Departmental research seminar with Prof . Paul Wessel (UHM)
  Prof. Paul Wessel (UHM)

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - VESIcal: An open-source thermodynamic model engine for mixed volatile (H2O-CO2) solubility in silicate melts
  Dr Kayla Iacovino (NASA)

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The deep biosphere: What lies beneath and why we should care
  Dr Sophie Nixon (Manchester)

Friday 10 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Modeling ice stream dynamics: a tale of theory, numerical models, and observations
  Dr Elisa Mantelli (University of Tasmania)

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Earth Sciences Departmental research seminar with Dr Dan Frost
  Dr Dan Frost (University of Bayreuth)

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The uneven ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet: a study of fjord-scale fluxes
  Dr Nanna B. Karlsson (GEUS)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Tracking variations in volcano construction and lithospheric flexure along the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain
  Prof Robert A. Dunn (University of Hawaii)

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The operation of the terrestrial methane cycle during the Cenozoic and Mesozoic, including hyperthermals such as the PETM and T-OAE
  Dr David Naafs (Bristol)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Moon as an archive of collisional processes in the Solar System: New Views from Apollo samples and lunar meteorites
  Prof Katie Joy (Manchester)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Plan A+: How stratospheric aerosol geoengineering could play a role in climate policy
  Dr Peter Irvine (UCL)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Down to the deep – ocean biology’s role in the carbon cycle
  Prof Stephanie Henson (National Oceanography Centre)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Battery metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero
  Dr Nick Gardiner (St Andrew’s)

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Earth-Life coevolution: trace elements at the interface between geosphere and biosphere through time
  Prof Donato Giovannelli (University of Naples “Federico II”)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Filling in the Map: The space-time geography of Arctic Ocean mixing and why it matters
  Prof Stephanie Waterman (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Towards an understanding of the earthquake process for natural and induced seismicity
  Prof Daniel Faulkner (University of Liverpool)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The origin of water in chondritic meteorites and the Earth
  Dr. Conel Alexander (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Earth formation in the laboratory: core-mantle differentiation after giant impacts
  Dr Maylis Landeau (IPGP & Université Paris Cité)

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Carbon Cycling at the Dawn of the Cenozoic
  Dr Michael Henehan (Bristol)

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Plume-related diamond formation in the central Kaapvaal craton
  Dr Karen Smit (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Skeletons in the closet: ethics, law, and politics in palaeontology
  Dr Nussaibah Raja Schoob (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany))

Friday 26 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding the mechanisms behind global temperature change and oxygen rise over Earth history
  Dr Ben Mills (Leeds)

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Can geodesy shed light on the interplay between hydrology and the solid Earth?
  Dr Kristel Chanard (IPGP, Paris)

Friday 16 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Active Rifting in the East African Rift System and Challenges in Disaster Risk Management
  Prof Atalay Ayele (University of Addis Ababa)

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Ready to Fail: The 2023 Turkiye earthquake disaster - Research seminar with Dr Ekbal Hussain
  Dr Ekbal Hussain (British Geological Survey)

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Rocky planets as the Lavosier-Lomonosov Bridge from the non-living to the living world - Research seminar with Prof Stephen Mojzsis
  Prof Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado Boulder)

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Atmospheric loss in giant impacts: The effect of pre-impact surface conditions; Research seminar with Dr Simon Lock
  Dr Simon Lock (University of Bristol)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Does the silicate Earth have a leaky bottom? - Research seminar with Prof Tim Elliott
  Prof Tim Elliott (University of Bristol)

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Towards a new understanding of the inorganic carbon budget in the Arctic - Research seminar with Dr Emily Stevenson
  Dr Emily Stevenson (University of Cambridge)

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Volatile metals in volcanic systems - Research seminar with Prof Marie Edmonds
  Prof Marie Edmonds (Cambridge)

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mapping mantle flow with seismic anisotropy: a seismo-geodynamics approach
  Prof Ana Ferreira (UCL)

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Landscape evolution and the early Mars hydroclimate: constraints from paleolake and valley morphologies
  Dr Gaia Stucky de Quay (MIT/Harvard)

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - A cobra effect in a greening world: can Earth scientists find the antivenin?
  Prof Cyril Chelle-Michou, (ETH Zurich)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The fastest and furthest-travelling flows on Earth: New insights from direct monitoring of deep-sea hazards
  Dr Mike Clare (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Exploring the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
  Dr Ronja Reese (Northumbria)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Harnessing Earth's Vibrations and Leading Open Science Initiatives in Earth Sciences
  TBA

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Oceanic transform faults revisited
  Prof. Dr. Ingo Grevemeyer (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Searching for habitability on Venus and exoplanets
  TBA

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mineralogical controls on climate and oxygenation
  Prof Caroline Peacock (University of Leeds)

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth and Mars
  Dr Benjamin Tutolo (University of Calgary)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - To Bennu and Back: First Results from the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
  Dr Ashley King (Natural History Museum)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Map of the Arctic indicating samples collected during the CAO ARISE project
  Prof Claire Mahaffey (Liverpool)

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Tracing the fossil, genomic and mineral footprints of Earth’s microbial past
  Prof Tanja Bosak (MIT)

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Peering beneath the ice: observing the ocean under Antarctica’s floating ice shelves
  Dr Peter Davis (British Antarctic Survey (BAS))

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Volcanic whodunnit: new methods to unravel the source and climate impact of past eruptions
  Dr William Hutchison (St Andrews)

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Zircon and Plagioclase Chronicles of Volcano-Magmatic Evolution
  Prof Oleg Melnik (Oxford)

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Risky Mountains in Paradise: Navigating the Volcanic Tapestry of Island Life
  Prof Richard Robertson (UWI)