• 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

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

Friday 4 December 2020

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

Friday 22 January 2021

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

Friday 12 March 2021

• 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

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

Friday 14 May 2021

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

Friday 11 June 2021

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

Friday 22 October 2021

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

Friday 29 October 2021

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

Friday 12 November 2021

• 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

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

Friday 26 November 2021

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

Friday 21 January 2022

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

Friday 4 February 2022

• 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

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

Friday 18 February 2022

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

Friday 25 February 2022

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

Friday 4 March 2022

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

Friday 29 April 2022

• 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

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

Friday 13 May 2022

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

Friday 20 May 2022

• 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

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

Friday 10 June 2022

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

Friday 17 June 2022

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

Friday 14 October 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 18 November 2022

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

Friday 2 December 2022

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

Friday 27 January 2023

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 3 March 2023

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

Friday 10 March 2023

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

Friday 5 May 2023

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

Friday 12 May 2023

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

Friday 19 May 2023

• 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

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

Friday 2 June 2023

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

Friday 16 June 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 24 November 2023

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

Friday 1 December 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 9 February 2024

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

Friday 16 February 2024

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

Friday 23 February 2024

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

Friday 1 March 2024

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

Friday 8 March 2024

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

Friday 26 April 2024

• 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

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

Friday 10 May 2024

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

Friday 17 May 2024

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 14 June 2024

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

Friday 18 October 2024

• 12:00 - Dynamics of natural landslides from numerical modelling and seismic inversion
  Prof Anne Mangeney (Université Paris Cité)

Friday 25 October 2024

• 12:00 - Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean
  Dr Simon Lamb (Victoria University of Wellingon, New Zealand)

Friday 1 November 2024

• 12:00 - Utilising the potential of large-N seismology: Monitoring water in the critical zone
  Prof James Hammond (Birkbeck, University of London)

Friday 8 November 2024

• 12:00 - Can we engineer our oceans to help deliver a safe, stable climate?
  CANCELLED
  Dr Paul Halloran (University of Exeter)

Friday 15 November 2024

• 12:00 - Vanadium isotopes: 15 years retrospective and future research prospects
  Prof Julia Pryulak (Durham University)

Friday 22 November 2024

• 12:00 - Paleogeography of the southern Eurasian margin in the lead-up to India-Eurasia collision
  Dr Craig Martin (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday 29 November 2024

• 12:00 - The Shuram anomaly: What caused the largest ever carbon isotope anomaly and what can it tell us?
  Prof Graham Shields (UCL)
• 13:00 - Unveiling Permeability Pathways in Ultramafic Rock: Potential for Natural Hydrogen Generation and CO₂ Mineralisation
  Arnaud Lager (Decahydron)

Friday 6 December 2024

• 12:00 - X-ray computed tomography: A modern Aladdin’s lamp to discover orogenic gold deposits
  Dr Muhammad Sayab (The Geological Survey of Finland GTK)

Friday 24 January 2025

• 12:00 - A journey through tides: Jellyfish, dinosaurs, and evolution
  Prof Mattias Green (Bangor University)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 12:00 - Lab geophysics: using the large volume press to interpret mantle seismology
  Dr Andrew R. Thomson (UCL)

Friday 7 February 2025

• 12:00 - Testing the permeability of the barrier separating the inner and outer circumsolar disk
  Dr Yves Marrocchi (CRPG, Universite de Lorraine)

Friday 14 February 2025

• 12:00 - Seeing into the heart of a planet: InSights from the Martian core
  Dr Jessica Irving (University of Bristol)

Friday 21 February 2025

• 12:00 - Strengths and weaknesses of large-sample machine learning for hydroclimatic extremes
  Dr Louise Slater (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 March 2025

• 12:00 - Iron-rich peatlands in a warming world
  Dr Casey Bryce (University of Bristol)

Friday 14 March 2025

• 12:00 - From Sediment to Spodumene
  Prof Claire E.Bucholz (Caltech)