• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford) , Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ) , Prof Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
• Timing: Fridays at 12.00
• Web Address: https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/events/
• Organising department: Department of Earth Sciences

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Microbial Sulfur Cycling & The Impacts of Depositional Environment on δ34S Records: Rethinking Stratigraphic Trends and Biogeochemical Interpretations
  Prof David Fike (Washington University)

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding sulfur isotopes in modern and ancient marine sediments: From the microbial to the global scale
  Prof Itay Halevy (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Friday 30 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Geological cycles and a two-stage history of the Continental Crust
  Prof chris Hawkesworth (University of Bristol)

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California
  Jessica Hawthorne (University of Leeds)

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Exploration of the Deep Hydrosphere and Subsurface Life in the Precambrian Continents’
  Prof Barbara Sherwood-Lollar (Univeristy of Toronto)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Crustal-scale degassing and igneous mush re-organisation: a generic concept applied to episodic volcanism at the Soufrière Hills Volcano Montserrat
  Prof Stephen Sparks (University of Bristol)

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - How seismic waves can be used to constrain landslide dynamics and rheology’
  Prof Anne Mangenay (Institut de Physique du globe de Partis )

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The role of the mantle in oceanic transform fault deformation’
  Prof Jessica Warren (University of Delaware)

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century
  Dr Heather Graven (Imperial College London)

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Super volcanoes and their deposits: insights into the dynamics of large magma reservoirs
  TBA

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Ecology, Extinction, and Development: Assessing the drivers of deep-time diversity dynamics with phenomics
  Dr Anjali Goswami (University College London)

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Using polarities, amplitudes and waveforms of seismic waves to understand mantle structure
  Prof Christine Thomas (University of Muenster)

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - New insights into climate, carbon cycle and biological dynamics during the Paleocene-Eocene Greenhouse World
  Prof Appy Sluijs (University of Utrecht)

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED: Pulp Friction: How water weakens and destabilizes faults in the seismogenic zone (Replacement tba SOON!)
  Prof Chris Spiers (University of Utrecht)

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Expanding InSAR into new areas - from upstate New York to the Cascades
  Prof Rowena Lohman (Cornell Unversity)

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Sasha Turchyn (Unviersity of Cambridge)

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Noble gas geochronology: a tale of two triangles
  Dr Pieter Vermeesch (UCL)

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Multi-sensor geophysical constraints on crustal melt in the central Andes: the PLUTONS project
  Prof Matt Pritchard (Cornell University)

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mixing it up in the Proterozoic: oxygen, animals and marine ventilation
  Prof Nick Butterfield (University of Cambridge)

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Rock-Atmosphere interface, the Critical Zone of the Earth
  Prof Jerome Gaillardet (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
  This also is a 3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology
  Prof Ray Pierrehumbert (AOPP)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Magnetic microscopy of metallic meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN DATE!)
  Dr Richard Harrison (University of Oxford)

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Curiosity's geological exploration of Gale crater, Mars
  Prof Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College London)

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Freezing! Snowball-Earth events: Biologically induced initiation and ocean circulation
  Prof Eli Tziperman (Harvard Universtiy, USA)

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Biotic and abiotic controls on the origin of a modern grassland ecosystem over the last five million years
  Prof David Fox (University of Minnesota)

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Blobs in the bowels of the Earth'
  Prof Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan)

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Reaction-induced cracking during mineral carbonation: Evidence from time-resolved microtomography
  Prof Wen-Lu Zhou (University of Maryland)

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Space Instrumentation in Oxford Physics: To the Moon, Mars and beyond then back again’
  Dr Neil Bowles (Oxford University)

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Modern-day uptake of CO2
  Prof Andrew Watson (University of Exeter)

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New insights into the (paleo)sulfur cycle’
  Although you can still find Guillaume on the Caltech webpage, he is now affiliated to the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, CRPG, University Lorraine
  Dr Guillaume Paris (University of Lorraine)

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Of fossils and genes – amphibian evolution through deep time
  Dr Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut Berlin)

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Reconstructing fracture opening histories and timing using structural diagenesis'
  Dr Stephen Laubach (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Seconds after impact: Insights into the thermal history of tektites
  Prof Ed Stolper (California Institute of Technology)

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Greater than the sum of the parts: grain boundaries in the mantle’
  Prof David Dobson (University College London)

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘An astrophysicists’ view of the emergence of terrestrial vertebrates’
  TBA

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Controls on the distribution of Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization’
  Prof Rolf Romer (German Research Centre for Geosciences)

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Are the Zinc Isotopes Sensitive Tracers of the Mantle Differentiation Processes?’
  Prof Nadine Matielli (Université Libre de Bruxelles )

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain: possible links with Alzheimer’s disease?’
  Prof Barbara Maher (University of Lancaster)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘The mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe: from slab to plume and beyond’
  Dr Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge)

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Evidence for an ancient redox-stratified lake in Gale crater, Mars’
  Dr Joel Hurowitz (Stony Brook University )

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘What terminated the Boring Billion?’
  Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘A path beyond plate tectonics?’
  Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
  Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Geological emissions of methane to the atmosphere: an updated overview’
  Giuseppe Etiope (Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome)

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Reef boom and doom in deep time: explaining the rise and fall of Phanerozoic reef systems’
  Prof Wolfgang Kiessling (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany )

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Small things matter: nanoscale control of geological processes’
  Dr Oliver Plümper (Utrecht University)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘On the origins of recent intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia: Insights from seismic imaging and geodynamic modelling’
  Prof Nicholas Rawlinson (University of Cambridge)

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'The obvious and the weaker aspects of the deep carbon cycle'
  Prof Pierre Cartigny (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Origin of water on the Moon’
  Evelyn Füri (Centre de Recherches Petrohraphiques et Gechimiques)

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘A periscope to kaleidoscope view of earth processes from seismic imaging’
  Stéphane Rondenay (University of Bergen )

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
  Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Energy and matter at the origin of life’
  Prof Nick Lane (University College London IRIS)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Dynamics of Aseismic Slip’
  Dr Hugo Perfettini (Joseph Fourier University Grenoble )

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Volatiles and Volcanic Vigor’
  Prof Terry Plank (Columbia University)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Latitudinal biodiversity gradients in deep time’
  Dr Susannah Maidment (University of Brighton )

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Jungle Volcano: the descent into Nyiragongo’
  Prof Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson (Imperial College London)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Impacts of flexible plankton stoichiometry on global ocean biogeochemistry’
  Prof Katsumi Matsumoto (University of Minnesota (visiting Professor @ University of Oxford) )

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Toward monitoring the ocean activity from seismic signal’
  Prof Elenore Stutzmann, IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris )

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Can the fossil record help to inform modern day conservation efforts?’
  Dr Tracy Aze (University of Leeds)

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘The Ediacaran-Cambrian rise of early animals’ *** CANCELLED***
  ***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED***
  Prof Rachel Wood (Edinburgh University )

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Neogene Geochemical Proxy Records: Implications for Future Sea Level Change’
  Prof Carrie Lear (Cardiff Univeristy )

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Sinking slabs through time: connecting mantle potential temperature to oceanic lithosphere buoyancy'
  Dr Owen Weller (Cambridge Univeristy )

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture - Prof Alex Halliday of Columbia University NY ***CANCELLED***
  ***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED***
  Prof Alex Halliday (Columbia University NY )

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Climate and carbon-cycle change in the Paleocene-Eocene: what can the 'boring background' tell us?’
  Dr Kate Littler (Exeter University )