Carbon subduction and mid-ocean ridge emissions modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates

Ben Mather, University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Sunday 14 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Evaluating Dynamic Topography Predictions using the Stratigraphic Record

Victoria Fernandes, GFZ Potsdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Origin of carbonatites using the triple-isotope approach

Elsa Amsellem, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

The Tristan da Cunha mantle plume, new insights from geophysical, petrological and geochemical studies along the Walvis Ridge hotspot track and at Tristan da Cunha Island

Wolfram Geissler, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cyprus: Seismicity, Subduction and Serpentinite

Tom Merry, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cancelled: postponed to May 1st, 2024

Maximilian Werner, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Repeated rupture of persistent fault zone asperities: structure and variability of large earthquakes at the Kermadec subduction zone

Karen Lythgoe, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Natural hazards in a warming world: exploring the big questions

Max Van Wyk de Vries, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles subduction zone

Jenny Collier -- Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

The 2021 Mw 8.1 Kermadec Earthquake Sequence: Deep Megathrust Slip Nucleation and M8 Rupture along the Slab-Mantle Contact

Lingling Ye -- Southern University of Science and Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Radical uncertainty in subsurface science: How do we make decisions?

Andrew Curtis -- University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Planetary seismology: from InSight Mission to Mars to Upcoming Lunar Missions

Doyeon Kim -- Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Natural variability of faults and earthquakes over a range of temporal scales, and the implications for seismic hazard

Zoe Mildon -- University of Plymouth.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Seismological evidence for secular mantle cooling beneath cratons

Federico Munch -- ETH Zürich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: the PI-LAB experiment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and a global perspective

Catherine Rychert -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Long term thermochemical evolution of Earth's mantle

Maxim Ballmer -- University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Architecture & Composition of the Australian Lithosphere – Perspectives from Mantle Xenoliths & Receiver Functions

Zachary Sudholz -- University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Structure and evolution of the upper mantle of the Australian Plate from waveform tomography with massive datasets

Janneke de Laat -- University of Cambridge.

Bullard Labs tearoom, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Does water escape from subducted slabs at the core-mantle boundary?

Kei Hirose, University of Tokyo.

Bullard Labs tearoom, Department of Earth Sciences, Madingley Rise.

Tuesday 11 July 2023, 14:30-15:30

Seeing into the heart of a planet: InSights from the Martian Core

Jessica Irving -- University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

The interplay of deep Earth and surface processes shaping Southeast Asia and the Australian continents

Sabin Zahirovic -- University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Recent progress in imaging the subsurface structure of Mars by Zhurong rover radar

Ling Chen -- Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Magma overpressure and its importance for eruption triggering and explosivity

Mike Cassidy -- University of Birmingham.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lowermost-mantle density and thermochemical structure from from recent normal-mode measurements

Rûna van Tent -- Utrecht University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Probing Into the Crust Through eastern Scotland: Seismological constraints on the Highland Boundary Fault

Amy Gilligan -- University of Aberdeen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

On or Off? Interpreting episodic tremor during the Fagradalsfjall eruption 2021

Eva P. S. Eibl - University of Potsdam.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Using numerical models of whole-mantle convection to unravel mantle-lithosphere interactions.

Maelis Arnould, University of Lyon.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Constraining the chemistry of the lower mantle from global tomography

Laura Cobden - Utrecht University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Global 3D model of mantle attenuation using seismic normal modes and surface waves

Sujania Talavera-Soza - UC San Diego.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Destruction and regrowth of cratonic lithospheric mantle by emplacement of large igneous provinces

Simon Stephenson, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Reviving dead tectonic plates for insights on Earth’s surface bulges and wobbly spin

Jonny Wu, University of Houston.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Mapping mantle flow with seismic anisotropy: a seismo-geodynamics approach

Ana Ferreira -- UCL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Why Do Earthquakes Cause Damage?

Victor Tsai - Brown University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Microgravity for volcano monitoring and research

Elske de Zeeuw-van Dalfsen - KNMI.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Magnetotelluric studies on volcanic islands: an example from the Azores islands

Duygu Kiyan - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

What’s in an impact record? Using impact records to study the composition, age, and structure of planetary crusts

Ya Huei Huang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Upper mantle thermochemical heterogeneity from coupled geophysical–petrological inversion of terrestrial and satellite data

Javier Fullea - Complutense University of Madrid.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Structure and uplift history of the Transantarctic Mountains: a test for convective instability in the upper mantle

Tim Stern - Victoria University of Wellington.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundary

Zhikai Wang - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Tracking fluids through Earth’s crust: Insights from volcanic seismicity and impacts for society

Thomas Hudson - Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Seismic tomography from ocean bottom seismometers

Maria Tsekhmistrenko - University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Global Observations of Deep Tectonic Tremor

Zhigang Peng - Georgia Institute of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre (virtual).

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

From the subduction megathrust to the mantle wedge and slab - what does the Chilean margin have to teach us?

Frederik Tilmann - GFZ Potsdam / FU Berlin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre & ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Upper mantle thermochemical heterogeneity from coupled geophysical–petrological inversion of terrestrial and satellite data

Javier Fullea - Complutense University of Madrid.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Earthquake ground-motion assessment and rupture behaviours of induced seismicity from deep geothermal production

Joanna Holmgren, University of Bristol.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Investigating the Afro-Arabian rift system with passive seismology

Laura Parisi - KAUST.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Absolute Pacific Plate Motions and the Evolution of the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain

Paul Wessel - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

In person (Wolfson Lecture Theatre) and ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

The Generic Mapping Tools and Community-Maintained Open Source Software

Paul Wessel - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

In person (Wolfson Lecture Theatre) and ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Dislocation theory applied to steady and transient creep

Thomas Breithaupt - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

In person (Wolfson) and ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Sublimation-driven convection in Sputnik Planitia on Pluto

Adrien Morison, University of Exeter.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Coupling the thermodynamics and geodynamics of mantle melting: Applications to reactive channelisation beneath mid-ocean ridges

Lucy Tweed, LDEO.

In person (Wolfson) and ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Title to be confirmed

Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Unusual volcanic tsunamis caused by trapdoor faulting at submarine calderas

Osamu Sandambata, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Using high-resolution daily ICEYE SAR interferometry to map magma conduits formation in the shallow crust

Vincent Drouin, Icelandic Meteorological Office.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

[CANCELED] Earthquake ground-motion assessment and rupture behaviours of induced seismicity from deep geothermal production

Joanna Holmgren, University of Bristol.

Canceled.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Inherited lithospheric structures control arc-continent collisional heterogeneity: insights from seismic imaging

Meghan S. Miller, The Australian National University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Imaging metallic deposits using ambient seismic noise

Yihe Xu, Bullard Laboratories.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Towards the origins of lower-mantle heterogeneities: from seismic models to mineral physics

Wenzhong Wang, UCL.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Towards the origins of lower-mantle heterogeneities: from seismic models to mineral physics (***CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKES***)

Wenzhong Wang (Carnegie Institute).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

The interior of Mars revealed by seismology – 1000 sols of InSight

Brigitte Knaypmayer-Endrun (University of Cologne).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

What can evolving seismic anisotropy tell us about the 2018 Kilauea eruption?

Jessica Johnson (University of East Anglia).

Tilley Lecture Theatre (+ Zoom).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Geoscience in Context: Tackling the diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This is a hybrid event. The talk will be given via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581), and screened live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Natasha Dowey, Sheffield Hallam University.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Closing the gap - fluid transport properties of rocks deforming in the ductile regime

Florian Fusseis (University of Edinburgh).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Creeping gabbro: Mafic rock deformation from nature and experiments

Amicia Lee (University of Tromso).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

"The hunt for red noise: scale, power and colour in the Earth Sciences” and “Can faults get weaker? Evidence from the Mochiyama earthquake swarm"

Nicky White and Sam Wimpenny.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Its A Hot Beach Summer

Vashan Wright (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute/Scripps).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Research Symposium

Bullard Faculty.

TBC.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 15:00-17:00

Geoscience in Context: A clean energy future isn't set in stone

Thomas Franssen and Mandy de Wilde .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 06 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Seismic evidence for partial melt below tectonic plates

Eric Debayle (ENS-Lyon).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Strain localization during temperature-sensitive creep in the Alpine Fault Zone

Virginia Toy (Univ. of Mainz).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tectonics of the Salton Trough and Northern Gulf of California

Joann Stock (Caltech).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano: Unprecedented insight into the onset and evolution of a caldera collapse

Kyle Anderson (USGS).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Precision Seismology: From Source to Plate Boundary Scales

Felix Waldhauser (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Geoscience in Context

The Green Transition in Natural Resources

Panel discussion: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fuana International) and Andy Whitmore (London Mining Network).

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Supershear Earthquakes: Theory, Experiments and Natural Observations

Harsha Bhat (ENS).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Habitability in the Solar System

Véronique Dehant (Royal Observatory Belgium/UCLouvain).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Core formation on Earth and Mars

Rebecca Fisher (Harvard University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Geoscience in Context

The Future Green Economy: Panel Discussion

Prof. Gargi Bhattacharya (Professor of Sociology at the University of East London), Kate Metcalf (Co-director of the Women’s Environment Network) and Dr. Natalie Jones (Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

Zoom.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

When climate loads the Earth: rheology from geodesy

Kristel Chanard (IPGP).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Faults in a poroelastic solid: Towards understanding the complex coupling of slip and pore-pressure changes

Elias Heimission (Caltech/ETH Zurich).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Once Broken, Hard to Mend: Structural Inheritance and the Quakes that Shake Our World

Folarin Kolawole (BP/University of Oklahoma).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Lightning Talks

Tak Ho, Aisling O'Kane, Al Boyce, Adam Butler, Kieran Gilmore, Nick Rawlinson.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Landscape evolution on Mars: characterizing the ancient hydroclimate using paleolake morphologies

Gaia Stucky de Quay (University of Texas).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Relationships between slow slip, megathrust locking, seismicity, and structure at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

Laura Wallace (GNS New Zealand/University of Texas).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

A trans-disciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation

Fabio Crameri (University of Oslo).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Mantle seismic imaging from top to bottom: subduction dynamics, transition zone topography and core-mantle boundary anisotropy

Florian Millet (University of Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Geoscience in Context

Science and Justice in the Anthropocene

Professor Jill Schneiderman (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

How sharp is the Bottom Boundary of the Oceanic Plate? And why it matters

Tolulope Olugboji, University of Rochester.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Evidence for synchronization in the global earthquake catalog

Rebecca Bendick, University of Montana.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Post-Seismic Deformation Following Deep Earthquakes

Sunny Park, Caltech.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Geoscience in Context

Unique Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S.

Karletta Chief (University of Arizona).

Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Can we predict earthquakes? Evidence for numerical and analogue experiments.

Jeannot Trampert, Utrecht University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Investigating Earth's deep mantle buoyancy and frequency dependent behavior using Earth tides

Harriet Lau, UC Berkeley.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Axial Seamount as a unique laboratory to study how stress changes affect earthquake occurrence

Yen Joe Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Five things about the cold forearc mantle wedge

Kelin Wang, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Hunting active faults in rapid erosional environments

Gayatri Marliyani, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Geoscience in Context

Decolonising the curriculum: lessons from sociology

Ali Meghji, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 24 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Geoscience in Context

Fieldwork in context: challenges and opportunities

Sam Giles, University of Birmingham.

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 August 2020, 12:00-13:00

Geoscience in Context

The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent

Jazmin Scarlett.

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 August 2020, 12:00-13:00

Geoscience in Context

Uncomfortable Histories: working to decolonise the Sedgwick Museum

Liz Hide, Sedgwick Museum.

Zoom.

Tuesday 28 July 2020, 12:00-13:00

Fantastic Fibre-Optics! Applications of distributed acoustic sensing in glaciology [Rescheduled to online]

Dr. Adam Booth, University of Leeds.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Episodic deformation and long-term shear zone activity [Rescheduled to online]

Dr. Claudia Trepmann .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Insights into the mineralogy of the lower mantle using comparisons between global seismic tomography and geodynamic models [Rescheduled to online]

Dr. Paula Koelemeijer, Royal Holloway.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Mantle convection, plumes and dynamic topography - case studies from the North Atlantic and West Antarctica [Rescheduled to online]

Dr. Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

InSAR Monitoring of Tectonic Deformation and Climatic Forcing in North-Eastern Tibet [Rescheduled to online]

Dr. Simon Daout, University of Oxford.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

CANCELLED

Paula Koelemeijer.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Slip rate variability: Quantifying the past to understand the present

Laura Gregory - University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Characterizing global small-scale heterogeneity in the mantle – Interrogating the high-frequency, scattered seismic wavefield

Sebastian Rost - University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lab geophysics: using experiments to constrain the seismic velocities of mantle minerals

Andrew Thompson - University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Rheology of the deep subduction interface and its role in influencing short term seismic style and long-term subduction dynamics.

Whitney Behr - ETH Zurich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

The legacy of MEDUSA: Tracking fluids and earthquakes deep beneath western Greece

Stephane Rondenay.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mapping Seismic Tomography into Earth Structure: Implications for Dynamic Topography, Lithospheric Stability and Sea-Level Reconstructions

Fred Richards - Imperial College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Large cold noses and boomerang earthquakes: exploring new tectonic frontiers using seafloor seismometers in the Atlantic

Dr. Stephen Hicks - Imperial College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Through the Ocean to the Mantle: Under the Seas with a Fleet of Floating Seismic Robots

Frederik Simons - University Princeton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Towards a new global earthquake catalogue - Full waveform constraints on earthquake mechanisms and their uncertainty

Tom Garth - University of Oxford and ISC.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Experimental Exploration of Earth’s Mantle

Hauke Marquardt - University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Adventures in anisotropy at the base of the mantle: New constraints on deep mantle dynamics

Maureen Long - University of Yale.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lithospheric structure, anisotropy and seismicity of the active North Anatolian Fault, Turkey

Dave Cornwell - University of Aberdeen.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fibre-Optic Strain Sensing: A Game Changer for (Urban) Seismic Surveying

Charlotte Krawczyk - GFZ Potsdam and Technical University Berlin..

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

illuminating active fault zones through correlation of optical satellite imagery

James Hollingsworth - University of Grenoble.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches and applications to address grand challenges

Nathalie Vriend - BPI and Univeristy of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Optical seismology

Giuseppe Marra (National physical Laboratory).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

A quantitative relationship between interseismic strain and long-term uplift in northern Chile

Romain Jolivet (Paris).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Constraining Lithospheric Structure Across the United States

Vedran Lekic (Maryland, US).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Teleseismic monitoring: undetected earthquakes, long period volcanic tremors and more...

Piero Poli (Grenoble).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

The Groningen gas field monitored by noise interferometry of deep borehole data

Hanneke Paulssen (Utrecht University, NL).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Illuminating the start of complex life: Statistical analyses of Ediacaran communities

Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Thursday 25 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Continental topographic scaling and evolution: Some implications for mantle convection

Gareth Roberts (Imperial).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Unlocking the secrets of slow slip using next-generation seismic experiments and IODP drilling at the north Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

Rebecca Bell (Imperial, London, UK).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Subglacial floods on volcanoes in Iceland and their geothermal cause

Eva Eibl (GFZ Potsdam, DE).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Flow, failure and friction during volcanic eruptions

Jackie Kendrick (Liverpool, UK).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Geological Carbon Storage: Geological challenges

Mike Bickle (Cambridge, UK).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

India-Asia collision, tectonics of the Himalaya and implications for building the Tibetan Plateau

Mike Searle (Oxford, UK).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

A dynamic plate base at the slow spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge from the PI-LAB experiment

Kate Rychert (Southampton, UK).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Validating the turbidite approach to paleoseismology using observations from the Mw7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

Jamie Howarth (Wellington, New Zealand).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

No seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Optimising seismometer installations

Will Reis and Libby Passey, Guralp System Limited.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Mantle Mixing/Unmixing vs. Long-term plate motion history: A new constraint from joint analysis of forward and backward scattering waves.

Dr Alex Song, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Seismic tomographic evidence for two collisional styles along the Grenville orogen of North America

Dr Alistair Boyce, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

From continental rifting to conjugate margins: insights from analogue and numerical models

Anouk Beniest, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Serpentinite deformation, dehydration and embrittlemen

Dr Nicolas Brantut, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Structure and dynamics of the lowermost mantle

Dr Andrew Walker, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

From detonators to nuclear tests – scaling-law determination of explosion source signatures

Prof. Anton Ziolkowski, University of Edinburgh.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Crustal structure of the passive margins of the South China Sea and inferred rifting processes from MCS/OBS imaging

ChuanChuan Lü (University of Cambridge).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Reaching for the Holy Grail of Modern Global Seismology: New insights into the centre of the Earth from the detection of J waves

Prof. Hrvoje Tkalčić.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Monday 25 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Seismology in the understanding of Ocean Storms

Prof. Anya Reading, University of Tasmania.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Active faulting and tectonics of the Tien Shan

Prof. Richard Walker, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Global mantle structure from multiple-frequency body-wave tomography

Dr Kasra Hosseini, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Mapping and modelling the variation in strain accumulation along the North Anatolian Fault

Dr Ekbal Hussain, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Crustal structure of the northeastern Arabian plate from active and passive seismic

Dr Simone Pilia, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Pre-melting in the Earth's inner core

Dr Martha Pamato, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Microplates, magmatism and movement, reconciling geological and geophysical observations to provide a new model of the Jurassic breakup of Gondwana

Dr Tom Jordan, British Antartic Survey.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cancelled due to weather conditions

Prof. Ken McCaffrey, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

No Bullard seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Structure and evolution of continental lithosphere: new insights from seismic imaging

Prof. Sergei Lebedev, Dublin Instititute for Advanced Studies.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Imaging seismic velocities (and density?) beneath the Eastern Mediterranean using waveform tomography

Dr Nienke Blom, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

The Geological Record of the Earthquake Cycle in the Lower Crust

Dr Luca Menegon, Plymouth University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

The Outer Core: from a seismologist point of view

Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Genetic partitioning of stress and its space-time variability

Prof. Riccardo Caputo, University of Ferrara.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Constraints on melt distribution from seismology

Dr James Hammond, Birbeck, Univserity of London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Constraints on the timescales of magma-intrusion and faulting during continental breakup in Afar.

Dr Derek Keir, University of Southampton .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Gas and trace metal emissions at basaltic volcanoes: New advances using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Dr Emma Liu, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Quo vadis full-waveform inversion

Dr Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Drowning in data? How can we exploit massive geodetic data?

Prof. Tim Wright, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Volcano seismology: listening to the heartbeat of volcanoes

Prof. Jurgen Neuberg, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

A tale of three orogens: seismological insights into lithospheric processes in Eastern Canada

Dr Amy Gilligan, University of Aberdeen.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Probing lateral variations in Earth’s mantle viscosity across timescales

Dr Jacqueline Austermann, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

The last stage of Earth's formation: Increasing the pressure

Simon Lock, Harvard Univsersity.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

The nature and age of the eastern Mediterranean crust and their geodynamic consequences

Dr Roi Granot, Ben Gurion University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Coastal tectonics in the eastern Mediterranean

Andy Howell - Bullard Laboratories .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

No Bullard seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

No Bullard seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Causes and consequences of upper-mantle seismic anisotropy: The link between olivine microstructure and the nature of plate tectonics

Dr Lars Hansen.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

The persistence of large-scale compositional heterogeneity in the Earth’s mantle

Dr Maxim Ballmer ETH Zurich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

The story of nothing

Professor Malcolm Sambridge, ANU.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Extra Thursday Seminar: Multi-observable thermochemical tomography

Dr. Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Quantifying the details of earliest rift development and how the rift basin fills: Integrating existing marine and terrestrial data and upcoming ocean drilling at the Corinth Rift, Greece

Professor Lisa McNeill, South Hampton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

A guide to the science of Equality & Diversity

Fionnuala Murphy and Rogier Kievit.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

The signature of the Icelandic mantle plume from crust to mid-mantle

Jennifer Jenkins, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

TBD - Cool observations of the Icelandic mantle plume

Jennifer Jenkins.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Friday 31 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Patterns of seismic anisotropy and mantle flow around convergent margins: predictions from 3D geodynamic modelling and implications for the interpretation of seismic tomographies

Dr Manuelle Faccenda, Padova.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Toward looking at the Earth's interior through unbiased tomographic glasses

Dr Christophe Zaroli, Univeriste de Strastbourg .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Advances in the Understanding of Seismicity induced by Natural Gas Production

Dr Dirk Smit, Shell.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seismic velocity structure of volcanic rift zones in Iceland

Dr Rob Green, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

The rheology of the partially molten mantle

Dr John Rudge, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Patterns of Dynamic Topography on Earth

Dr Mark Hoggard, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Volcano geodesy and plate boundary deformation in Iceland

Prof Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Nordic Volcanological Centre.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

The influence of hydrospheric processes on intraplate seismicity

Dr Tim Craig, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Slabs, plumes and their interaction: new insights from global anisotropy tomography

Dr Ana Ferreira, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

A new model for chemical weathering of continental interiors and its implications for Earth's climate evolution

Prof Jean Braun, ISTerre.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Influence of Mantle Thermal Heterogeneity on Outer Core Convection

Dr Jon Mound, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Reconciling scales in global seismology

Dr Thomas Bodin, Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Magmatism Significantly Alters the Thermal Structure of Subduction Zones

Dr David Rees Jones, Bullard Laboratories.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Sink or stall: subduction transition-zone dynamics

Prof Saskis Goes, Imperial College, London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Multi-sensor geophysical constraints on crustal melt in the central Andes at a so-called zombie volcano: the PLUTONS project

Prof Matt Pritchard, Cornell University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Flow mechanisms in tight shales: Insights from microseismicity

Prof Mike Kendall, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Rigid Oceanic Lithosphere: From Production to Destruction

Dr Caroline Eakin, University of Southhampton.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Mechanisms of Episodic continental growth in the early Earth

Prof Anne Davaille, Universite Paris-Sud.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Combining GPS Data with Physics-Based Models to Improve Earthquake and Volcano Forecasting

Prof Paul Segall, Standford University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Seismic evidence for mixing processes in Earth's mantle

Prof Sebastian Rost, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

How much water is subducted into the lower mantle? Evidence from transition zone anisotropy

Dr Andy Nowacki, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Experimental study of polycrystal anelasticity for seismological application

Prof Yasuko Takei, University of Tokyo.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Coupling geodynamic models with geological and geophysical data to constrain the rheology of crust and lithosphere

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

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

Fault friction and behaviour

Dr Alex Copley, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

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

Seismic Invisibility

Dr David Al-Attar, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

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

The velocity structure and micro-seismicity of the Askja central volcano, Iceland

Dr Tim Greenfield, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall, Bullard Labs..

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