• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Thursdays, weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8: 4:30pm
• Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Holocene sandscapes of the United Arab Emirates
  Prof Adrian Parker (Oxford Brookes University)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - New approaches to the understanding dust source processes: recent results from the Chihuahuan Desert
  Dr Rob Bryant (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Lunette dunes of the Australian desert margins: new perspectives on hydrology and climate
  Dr Kathryn Fitzsimmons (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - It's turbulent: new directions on sand transport by the wind
  Prof Andreas Baas (Kings's College, London)

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

• 16:30 - "Sand, Dust, and Division:The Oceano Dunes, California"
  Dr Jack Gillies (Desert Institute, Reno, USA)

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

• 16:30 - "Peopling the desert: The role of drylands in facilitating ancient human migration."
  Simon Armitage

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

• 16:30 - "The Crusty, Dusty diamantina" Why is it so difficult to map cyanobacterial soil crusts from space?"
  Dr Kevin White (University of Reading)

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

• 16:30 - "Loess - from piles of dust to crucial palaeoclimate archives"
  Dr Dan Veres (Romania Academy, Cluj)

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

• 16:30 - Wind erosion: how much should we have?
  Dr John Leys (Dept of the Premier, NSW Australia)