Seminars

The Research Seminar Series is aimed at exploring areas of active research in Geography and Geology.

Venue : Seminar Room M4 - Museum Building

Time : Fridays at 1 pm. (tea and coffee are provided, feel free to bring a sandwich)

All are welcome.

(To download and print a copy of the current seminar schedule here)

Seminar Schedule - Michaelmas Semester 2012

5th October Prof. Pete Coxon (Trinity College Dublin)

• Annually-resolved climate variability during MIS 11: Where the wild-fires are...

12th October Dr Michael Flowerdew (British Antarctic Survey)

• Inferring sites of sub-glacial erosion using the Pb isotopic composition of ice-rafted feldspar

19th October Dr Nathan Cogné (Trinity College Dublin)

• Post-rift reactivation of the Brazilian margin

26th October Anthea Lacchia (Trinity College Dublin)

• Normal salinities for Pennsylvanian Basins in North-West Europe: evidence from new ammonoid-bearing horizons in the Carboniferous Shannon Basin, Ireland

and

Michael Babechuk (Trinity College Dublin)

• Using basalts to reconstruct the depletion history of the Earth’s mantle

2nd November Senior Sophister mapping seminars

9th November Reading Week (no seminar)

16th November Dr Mike Simms (National Museums Northern Ireland)

• Giant Impacts: the evidence from Britain and Ireland

23rd November Dr Richard Phillips (University of Leeds)

• Title TBA but will be on Himalayan tectonics

30th November Dr Erin McClymont (Durham University)

• Sea surface and intermediate water temperatures through the Pliocene and Pleistocene: evolving climate feedbacks and glacial cycles

7th December TBA

14th December Kieran Craven (Trinity College Dublin)

• Shorelines in the Shannon: stable isotopes and sea level change