Title to be confirmed

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fault friction and behaviour

Dr Alex Copley, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tim Greenfield, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Himalaya, the Hadean, In-between, and Beyond

Prof Alex Webb, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California

Dr Jessica Hawthorne, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

The relation between waves and structure: How to explore, exploit, exhume

Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

A global view of volcano deformation

Dr Juliet Biggs, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mixed rheology shear zones and the spectrum of fault slip styles

Dr Ake Fagereng, University of Cardiff.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Isotopic constraints on atmospheric loss and climate change on Mars

Prof Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Late stages of continental rifting in Afar, Ethiopia - magnetotellurics in a multi-disciplinary study

Prof Kathy Whaler, University of Edinburgh.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Earthquake precursors linked to high compressibility fluids at oceanic fracture zones

Prof Louis Geli, Ifremer.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Periodic Crustal Deformation and Seismicity

Prof Roland Burgmann, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wedge evolution, surface processes and dynamics of deep-seated structures in the Zagros foreland basin

Dr Mortaza Pirouz, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Monday 29 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

Compaction around a spherical inclusion in partially molten rock

Dr Laura Alisic, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe from P-to-s conversions

Dr Sanne Cottaar, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

A seismic image for the base of an oceanic plate from high resolution, shot-generated, seismic reflection waves

Prof Tim Stern, Victoria University of Wellington.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

The Earth’s core - not just a homogeneous ball of pure iron

Prof Lidunka Vočadlo, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

What lies beneath? Interactions between Antarctica and the solid Earth

Dr Pippa Whitehouse, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Rate- (and state-) dependent brittle deformation in crustal rocks

Dr Nicolas Brantut, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

The role of dynamic topography in closing the mid-Pliocene ice volume budget

Jacqueline Austermann, Harvard University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

A microgeodynamic approach in detecting partial melting in the Earth's mantle

Dr Sash Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

The nature and properties of fracture damage surrounding faults

Dr Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Large earthquakes in stable continental plate interiors: the need for a new paradigm

Dr Eric Calais, ENS Paris.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:15-17:15

Looking inside moons using gravity and topography

Dr Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Magmatism on the terrestrial planets

Dr Chloe Michaut, IPGP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Death of a dynamo: a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body

Dr Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

From mapping to temporal monitoring: Exploring the characteristics of fault creep with SAR Interferometry

Dr Romain Jolivet, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Observations of Stress on Faults

Dr Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fluid dynamics of core-mantle differentiation

Dr Renaud Deguen, University of Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

A new paradigm for the geodynamo: a gentle introduction

Prof Andy Jackson, ETH Zurich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

The dynamics of marine ice sheet

Prof Grae Worster, University of Cambridge, DAMTP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Molten Earth: Silicate Melt in the Deep Interior

Prof Lars Stixrude, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Linking geodynamics and seismic observations in the lowermost mantle

Dr James Wookey, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Traveltime dispersion in an isotropic elastic mantle derived from a geodynamic model

Dr Bernhard Schuberth, LMU Munich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Eric Debayle, ENS Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Applications of adjoint methods to modelling post-glacial sea level

David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Dynamic topography, true polar wander and their potential role in the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations

Dr Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Global seismic tomography based on 3D wave simulations and adjoint methods

Dr Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Terrane stations: intra-oceanic subduction assembled Cordilleran North America

Dr Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Estimates of elastic thickness from GOCE data

Prof Dan McKenzie, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Mantle Dynamics, Isostasy, and Surface Topography

Prof Peter Molnar.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Core-mantle differentiation in planetesimals and planetary embryos

Prof Yanick Ricard, ENS-Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Flow and flexure in the Earth’s crust

Dr Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Full-waveform inversion: high-resolution, high-fidelity, seismic properties from 3D field data

Prof Mike Warner, Imperial College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Ongoing deglaciation in Iceland: the impact on volcanic activity

Dr Andy Hooper, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Recording P waves everywhere in the oceans

Prof Guust Nolet, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Shear-velocity structure, tectonics and volcanism of the Tyrrhenian Sea: mantle (de)hydration of a back-arc basin

Dr Hanneke Paulssen, University of Utrecht.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seismic Interferometry - New Theory and Applications

Prof Andrew Curtis, University of Edinburgh .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Gravitational flow of the Calabrian Arc and plate motion of the Ionian Sea

Nicola D'Agostino, INGV Rome.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Recent tectonism and sea-level change in the Aegean: disentangling the coastal sedimentary record

Prof Andy Cundy, University of Brighton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Energetics of Earth's Core and Mantle

Prof Jason Morgan, Royal Holoway, University of London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Biominearlization in marine calcifies from a geochemical perspective

Dr Jess Adkins, Caltech.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

TBA.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

The interplay of crustal stress and structure at Kīlauea Volcano inferred from seismic anisotropy

Dr Jessica Johnson, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Hemispheres, anisotropy and rotation of Earth's inner core

Dr Lauren Waszek, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Fracture and flow: simulations of magma dynamics from the asthenosphere to the crust

Dr Tobias Keller, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

A seismological perspective on the southwestern corner of the Baltic Shield

Dr Valerie Maupin, University of Oslo.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Learning from experience: New approaches to geophysical inversion and classification

Dr Andrew Valentine, University of Utrecht.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Channeled flow at the base of the oceanic asthenosphere: evidence from full waveform tomography

Prof Barbara Romanowicz, College de France, IPG Paris, and Univ. of California, Berkeley..

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Following in Bullard's footsteps: the spin of Earth's core

Dr Phil Livermore, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cretaceous-Recent Dynamic Support of Australia from River Profile Inversion

Gareth Roberts, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption: insights from microseismicity

Jon Tarasewicz, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

The dynamics of magma intrusion: Insights from field studies and analogue experiments

Janine Kavanagh, Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

The enigmatic climatic footprint of supercontinental cycles and the fundamental challenge of snowball earth

Mark Jellinek, UBC.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Mantle plumes and associated flow beneath Arabia and East Africa from joint tomography

Sung-Joon Chang, UEA.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Generation of Plate Tectonics from Grain-Damage and Pinning

David Bercovici, Yale.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Structure of the Sumatra subduction zone

Tim Henstock, NOC Southampton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Hunting surface ruptures for the Mw 8.1 1934 Bihar Nepal earthquake

Magali Rizza, EO Singapore/Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

The Relationship Between Shear Wave Velocity, Temperature, Attenuation and Viscosity in the Shallow Part of the Mantle

Dan McKenzie, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Orogen-scale thermochronolgic trends and tectonic-climate coupling in the Andes

Peter Reiners, U. Arizona.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Fast source determination of large earthquakes by using W phase

Luis Rivera, Strasbourg.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Continental earthquake surface ruptures: New constrains on earthquake cycle and the fault structures

Yann Klinger, IPG Paris.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Friday 08 February 2013, 12:00-01:00

Mixing mantle melts

John Rudge, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Palaeomagnetism and mantle dynamics from the bottom up

Andy Biggin, Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Measuring and Modelling the Earthquake Deformation Cycle

Tim Wright, Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

No talk - part 3 poster day

No talk - part 3 poster day.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Glacial rebound once more: is there more to be learnt from sea-level analyses?

Kurt Lambeck, ANU.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Stratigraphy: stranger than fiction?

Philip Allen, Imperial.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Plate - mantle dynamics with strong plates

John Crowley, Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Laboratory simulations of crustal processes: The missing link between field and model

Philip Benson, Portsmouth.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

No talk - special seminars downtown

No talk - special seminars downtown.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Magma poor rifting and continental breakup

Tim Reston, Birmingham.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:45-17:45

Multi-Scale Dynamics and Rheology of Mantle Flow with Plates

Laura Alisic, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Core Flows from Above and Below

Jon Mound, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

The fate of Himalayan sediments during their transfer from the High range to the Bengal Fan

Jérôme Lavé, Nancy.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

What is the asthenosphere, and why does it matter?

Mark Richards, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Stratigraphy: Stranger than Fiction?

Philip Allen, Imperial.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC MODEL OF THE EARTH

Andreas Fichtner, Utrecht.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 15:00-15:45

Constraining fault growth and linkage

Jon Bull, NOC Southampton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Dynamics and stability of ice sheets

Roiy Sayag, DAMTP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Tethyan carbonates: Linking tropical seas and crashing plates to some of the largest oil and gas fields in the world

Keith Gerdes, Shell.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Seismological Observations Beneath the Oceans: Implications for Lithospheric Structure

Stewart Fishwick, University of Leicester.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

The petrographic record of solidification of mafic magmas

Marian Holness, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Slab detachment and continental collision

Jeroen van Hunen, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Seismological geomorphology

Niels Hovius, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

The age, extent, and potential causes of late Quaternary uplift of the coast of north and west Africa

Richard Walker, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Rates of hydration in the crust: implications for rheology and the strength of deep faults

Bruce Yardley, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Insights into the inner core: hemispherical and regional structure

Jessica Irving, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Tectonic versus magmatic seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges: where, how, why ...and how much?

Chris MacLeod, Cardiff University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Iceland Plume pulsing, V-Shaped Ridges and the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Steve Jones, University of Birmingham.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Evidence for small-scale features throughout the deep Earth: high frequency, exotic P-wave observations of the Earth's mantle and outer core

Elizabeth Day, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Seismic anisotropy and superplume boundaries in the D" region

Sanne Cottaar, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 September 2011, 16:30-17:30

A seismologist's view on mantle dynamics

Jeannot Trampert (Utrecht University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Genesis and evolution of Archean cratonic upper mantle

*Note change of time*

Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 11:15-12:15

Deep structure of the continents

Keith Priestley, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

The development of a magmatic rifted margin: evidence from Ethiopia

Dr Ian Bastow (University of Bristol).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Seismological and dynamic structure of Earth's core

Dr Arwen Deuss (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Mantle strain-dependant rheology and long-term lithosphere strength

Frédéric Gueydan, Université Rennes.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Volcano seismology in a wider volcanological context

Professor Jurgen Neuberg (University of Leeds).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Shell Lecture 2011 - Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Subduction Zones: The 2004-2005 Sumatra Earthquakes

*Note change of time and venue*

Dr Lisa McNeill (National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton).

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Thermal structure beneath Hawaii inferred from seismic (inverse scattering) images of upper mantle discontinuities

Professor Rob van der Hilst (MIT).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Mantle upwelling and lithospheric destruction beneath North America

Prof. Richard M Allen (U.C. Berkeley).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

New Flowlines from the North Atlantic Ocean

Nicky White, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Earth's core: an interdisciplinary afternoon

Further details can be found at: http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~seminar/core_meet.html

Speakers from across the University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 January 2011, 14:00-17:00

Dynamics of dyke intrusion in the mid-crust of Iceland

Prof. Bob White (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

A numerical model for dyke propagation in presence of elastic, density and strength discontinuities

Francesco Maccaferri (University of Bologna).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Andy Leonard.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Geological Storage of CO2

Cor Hofstee (TNO, Utrecht).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Seismic monitoring of surface processes: Toward a continuous monitoring of river sediment transport and hillslope processes

Arnaud Burtin (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Unraveling the dynamics of subduction: models and plate motions

Saskia Goes (Imperial College).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Waveform Technologies for Monitoring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Ross Heyburn (AWE Blacknest).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations

Dr Rhodri Davies (Imperial College, London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Structure and Lateral Variation of the West Sumatran Subduction Zone as Revealed by Local Seismicity

Dr Dietrich Lange (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Laterally varying structure and solidification texture of the inner core - Special Seminar

Prof. Vernon Cormier (University of Connecticut).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Monday 10 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Numerical geodynamo modelling - Deciphering the magnetic signal

Dr Julien Aubert (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

POSTPONED DUE TO VOLCANO: Evidence of water in the mantle transition zone from multimode surface waves

Professor Jeannot Trampert (Universiteit Utrecht).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Slab geometry and mantle flow in the Rivera-Cocos subduction zone

Professor James Ni, New Mexico State University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

On Carbon Sequestration

Professor Andy Woods, BPI Institute, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Surface rupture and landsliding in the great 12 May 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Dr Alexander Densmore, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Sweeping carbon under the geological rug: leakage and mixing in carbon sequestration

Dr Jerome Neufeld, ITG, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Elastic anomalies and anelastic loss mechanisms due to phase transitions in minerals

Professor Michael Carpenter, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

New insights into folding and faulting in the Zagros mountains (Iran)

Dr Ed Nissen, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Geochronological studies on causes and consequences of an expanding eastern Tibet

Dr Andy Carter, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

A consideration of the effects of dust aerosol and surface dust on Snowball Earth deglaciation

Dorian Abbot (Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Actively deforming magma systems in the East African Rift

Juliet Biggs (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Great Sumatran earthquakes and tsunamis from recent marine studies

Satish Singh (IPGP, Paris).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Grumbling Glaciers: Microearthquakes and subglacial dynamics in Antarctica

Andy Smith (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Unfinished business regarding the Milankovitch theory of the Ice Ages

David Hodell (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Quantitative monitoring of underground CO2 storage.

Andy Chadwick (British Geological Survey).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

A geochemical model of the formation of the Earth's core.

John Rudge (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

From Minerals to Mantles: The Planetary Mosaic

Lars Stixrude (University College London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Global seismic tomography (NOTE: 11:15 AM)

Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 11:15-12:15

What will the next Sumatran earthquake be like?

John McCloskey (University of Ulster).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia collision

Mark Allen (University of Durham).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Global Radial Anisotropy in the Earth's Upper Mantle and Transition Zone

Ana Ferreira (University of East Anglia).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Volatiles in arc magmas and their role in triggering and sustaining volcanic eruptions

Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

The North Sea: there is life in the old dog yet

Andy Leonard (BP).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Hot blobs, swells and sea level

Bryan Lovell (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Sustainable energy plans that add up

David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

"Reconstructing the Pleistocene glacial history of the central North Sea using 3D seismic data"

Note change of time to 14:00

Lidia Longeran (Imperial College, London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Seismic oceanography (full title TBA)

Steve Jones (Trinity College, Dublin).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Determining the timescales of magmatic processes from measurement of short-lived U- and Th-decay series isotopes in volcanic gases and lavas.

Note change of date and time

Ken Sims (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

"The active tectonics of aseismic regions. Examples from Mongolia and Iran."

Richard Walker (University of Oxford).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Global seismology (full title TBA)

Sebastian Rost (University of Leeds).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Active tectonics (full title TBA)

Steve Roecker (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Thermal and fertility pulses in the Iceland Plume"

Godfrey Fitton (University of Edinburgh).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

"Topography: a window into the Earth's Mantle"

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (University College, London).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

What field sedimentology in the Caucasus can tell you about the Arabia-Eurasia collision

Steve Vincent (CASP).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

A new approach to solving 3D geodynamical problems: applications to folding, subduction and other large-scale flows

Jean Braun (University of Rennes).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Tara Deen (British Antarctic Survey).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Seismic scattering in the lower mantle: Evidence for small-scale chemical heterogeneity

Peter Shearer (Scripps Institute of Oceanography).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

Architecture and construction of the Slave craton derived from joint interpretation of multiple seismic techniques and geochemistry

David Snyder (Geological Survey of Canada).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 16:30-17:30

Seismic IMAGES of hydraulic fracture

Leo Eisner (Schlumberger Cambridge Research).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

Some observations of highly extended continental lithosphere

Tim Minshull (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

Mapping the lithosphere with surface waves

Keith Priestley (Bullard Labs).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

Vertical and lateral changes in composition beneath a craton as revealed by seismic surface waves

Helle Pedersen (LGIT, Grenoble).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

Modelling lithospheric deformation through time and space

Nicky White (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

Some observational constraints on ridge-hotspot interactions

Marcia Maia (University of Brest).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

Statistically determining errors of velocity models

Richard Hobbs (Durham University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Passive seismic monitoring, seismic anisotropy, and the state-of-stress in a reservoir

Mike Kendall (Bristol University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

Geological constraints on Himalaya - Tibet collision processes

Mike Searle (Oxford University).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

Phase and Correlation in `Random' Seismic Fields: Imaging with background noise and coda

Michel Campillo (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

Surface wave tomography: insights into the structure of the upper mantle beneath Australia

Stewart Fishwick (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

Global MORB Chemistry and Ridge Axial Depth - A New Interpretation

Yaoling Niu (University of Durham).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

The deep roots of volcanoes: models of magma-mantle interaction

Richard Katz (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:30-17:30