Cambridge Environment 2005-06-14 12:30: Sustainable Energy (David MacKay, Inference Group) 2005-10-05 12:30: Sustainable computer workstations (Seb Wills, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-11-10 12:45: Teaching sustainability to engineering students (Tam�s Bert�nyi, Darwin) 2005-11-16 17:00: Sustainable Manufacturing and Consumer Needs: lessons from the attribution of carbon emissions in the UK (Prof. Tim Jackson, University of Surrey) 2006-02-01 17:00: To be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2006-05-08 17:00: Emissions trading, energy efficiency, and the law of unintended consequences (Michael Grubb, Director of the Carbon Trust, and professor of economics in Cambridge and Imperial College) 2006-10-09 14:15: 1st year PhD student presentations (Louise O'Brien, Scott Hosking, Angela Symington, Neil Dickson (CAS)) 2006-10-10 19:30: Introductory Talk and Discussion (Steve Stretton) 2006-10-19 16:30: Financing Energy Innovation (White, Davidson, Workman, McGregor, Gillespie) 2006-10-23 14:15: Some highlights of the RETRO project (Dr Nick Savage, Met. Office (ex. CAS)) 2006-10-24 11:00: Prospects for All-Weather Microwave Radiance Assimilation (Prof. Albin Gasiewski, NOAA, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) 2006-10-26 20:00: Sustainable Energy - Without the Bullshit (Prof. David MacKay, Physics Dept) 2006-11-06 14:15: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica: 800,000 years of climate and environmental change from ice cores (Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey) 2006-11-11 17:00: Living Dangerously: My Life as an Explorer (Ranulph Fiennes) 2006-11-13 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Andrew Robinson, Dept. of Chemistry) 2006-11-15 17:00: Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the UK (Julian M.Allwood, Søren E Laursen, Cecilia M de Rodriguez, Nancy M P Bocken (IfM, University of Cambridge)) 2006-11-20 14:15: An annual cycle of long lived stratospheric gases from MIPAS (Dr Martin Juckes, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2006-11-22 12:00: ‘A wild lion through the window’ – Reflections on studios in Cambridge and Ahmedebad (Nicholas Ray) 2006-11-24 10:00: Rubbish (Claire Barlow, Production Process Group) 2006-11-25 20:00: Warnings from the Inland Ice (Professor Elizabeth Morris) 2006-11-27 19:30: Zero Carbon City Dongtan (Dr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup) 2006-11-28 19:30: "Climate change and global warming" - Dr William Connolley (Dr William Connolley) 2006-11-29 12:15: Does Palladian Architecture exist? (Dr Richard Hewlings) 2006-11-29 18:00: Driven to Extinction? How transport policy can save the world (Nigel Brigham SUSTRANS) 2006-11-30 17:00: Hurricane Katrina - A Study of Geosystems in Crisis (Professor Tom O’Rourke (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)) 2006-12-01 09:10: The Big Picture (Daniel Nocera, MIT) 2006-12-01 10:10: The Transition from Fossil Fuels (Nick Butler, B.P.) 2006-12-01 11:30: Carbon Sequestration (Jon Gibbins, Imperial College London) 2006-12-01 13:30: Biofuels (Karl Carter, British Sugar) 2006-12-01 14:30: Tide, Wave, and Offshore Wind (Trevor Whittaker, Queen's University of Belfast) 2006-12-01 15:50: Nuclear fission and fusion (William J Nuttall, Judge Business School, Cambridge) 2006-12-01 16:40: Discussion (Chair: Ian Fells, University of Newcastle) 2006-12-06 17:00: Nanotechnology and precautionary risk management (Professor Roland Clift (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey)) 2007-01-24 17:00: Global Earth Science and Sustainability (Professor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)) 2007-01-29 10:30: How permeable is the tropopause ? - Simulations with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) (Dr Paul Konopka, Forschungszentrum Juelich) 2007-01-30 12:00: How to develop a cumulus parameterization logically and consistently (Dr Jun-Ichi Jano, Meteo France (Toulouse)) 2007-01-31 12:15: People’s homes: Span in the twenty-first century (Madeleine Adams & Charlie McKeith (Research Design)) 2007-02-01 14:00: Multiphase flow in porous media from the micron to kilometre scale (Martin Blunt (Imperial)) 2007-02-05 14:15: Convective-scale modelling, predictability and simulation of the "Hector" thunderstorm (Dr Richard Forbes, UK Met. Office) 2007-02-05 14:45: High resolution models: understanding tropical convection and transport through the tropical tropopause layer. (Dr Maria Russo, Chemistry Dept.) 2007-02-06 19:30: Joss Garman from Plane Stupid: Why the green movement is taking to the streets (Joss Garman, Co-Founder of Plane Stupid) 2007-02-07 12:15: VivaCity2020: an overview of the urban design decision-making process (Dr Chris Boyko (Lancaster University)) 2007-02-07 18:00: The promise of energy biosciences (Dr Steven Koonin (Chief Scientist, BP)) 2007-02-08 14:00: Mixing in stratified fluids: More questions than answers (Colm Caulfield (DAMTP & BPI)) 2007-02-11 14:15: Understanding the properties and impacts of multicomponent atmospheric aerosol (Dr Gordon McFiggans, Univ. Manchester) 2007-02-12 19:30: New technology: the answer to climate change? (Jonathan Kohler, Tyndall Centre) 2007-02-14 12:15: Decision making in design and service practice (Dr Julie Jupp (Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge)) 2007-02-15 14:00: The stratosphere and climate (Mark Baldwin (Reading)) 2007-02-21 12:15: “Greasepaint, glamour and Gropius”: modern architecture in the heyday of regional Rep, 1945-75 (Elain Harwood (English Heritage)) 2007-02-21 18:00: When the Rivers Run Dry (Fred Pearce, New Scientist) 2007-02-22 19:30: Carbon Calculation and your personal footprint (Rosemary Randall and Andy Brown, Cambridge Carbon Footprint) 2007-02-26 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Guang Zeng, Dept. Chemistry (CAS)) 2007-02-28 12:15: CABE’s take on design research: can it be quantified? (Elanor Warwick (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)) 2007-02-28 18:00: Can we quantify sustainability ? (Professor Richard Darton, Oxford University) 2007-03-01 14:00: A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology (Danny Feltham (UCL)) 2007-03-05 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Carlos Buontempo, UK Met. Office) 2007-03-07 12:15: Designing Dynamic Environments for the Performing Arts (Anne Dye (The Martin Centre)) 2007-03-07 18:00: One Planet Living (Pooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional)) 2007-03-07 18:45: Nuclear power in the light of climate change (Keith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dave Elliott (Open University), Steve Kidd (World Nuclear Association), Bill Nuttal(Cambridge University Judge Business School)) 2007-03-08 14:00: H2O in melt inclusions - what can we learn? (Madeline Humphreys (DES)) 2007-03-12 14:15: Recent Antarctic climate change (Dr John Turner, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-03-14 12:15: Adolf Loos, Architecturelessness, and Architectural Art (Professor Joseph Masheck (Hofstra University)) 2007-03-14 17:00: 'Garbage Warrior' sneak-preview screening with director and producer for Q&A (Ollie Hodge and Rachel Wexler) 2007-03-14 18:00: A new sustainable way of life - the sine qua non of human development ? CANCELLED (Clare Short MP (CANCELLED)) 2007-03-15 19:30: An Environmental Case for Nuclear Energy? Talk and kick-off meeting (Stephen Stretton: Cambridge Zero Carbon Society & Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy) 2007-03-20 11:30: Bubbles and bangs: sensing volcanic emissions (Dr Clive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography) 2007-04-19 16:30: Energy Insecurity (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-04-25 18:00: Why sustainable development might be bad for the environment (Professor Susan Owens, Cambridge University) 2007-04-27 16:30: Silbury Hill – An Ancient Environmental Icon (Dr Dick Parry) 2007-05-02 18:00: Sustainable Development (Professor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government)) 2007-05-04 16:30: Impacts of Climate Change on Contaminated Land and Containment Systems (Sinead Smith (CUED)) 2007-05-16 20:00: Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-05-23 17:00: The UK's National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (Peter Laybourn, Director of NISP) 2007-06-01 13:00: Training the Next Generation of Tropical Ecologists (Dr. Rosie Trevelyan) 2007-06-06 17:00: The role of packaging in society (Dick Searle, Chief Executive of the Packaging Federation) 2007-06-07 14:15: Contrails and water vapour (Dr Michael Ponater, DLR) 2007-06-11 16:30: Interactions and relationships between humans and animals in the zoo (Geoff Hosey, University of Bolton) 2007-06-11 19:30: Nuclear Fusion as a Global Energy Source? Work at UKAEA Culham Laboratory and elsewhere to harness fusion energy (Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith FRS. Director, UKAEA Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxford) 2007-06-12 14:05: The Research Councils Energy Programme and its role in supporting fuel cell research (Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK) 2007-06-12 14:35: Novel Nanostructured Hydride Composites: Hydrogen Storage Materials for Zero-Emission Car (Professor Dr Rüdiger Bormann, Institute for Materials Research, GKSS Research Centre, 21502 Geesthacht,, Germany) 2007-06-12 15:05: Excitonic Solar Cells: New Approaches to Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion (Professor Laurie Peter, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath) 2007-06-12 16:00: Sustainable Air Travel - The Challenge for Aero-Engine Materials (Dr Neil Glover, Rolls-Royce Plc) 2007-06-12 16:30: Materials Development for Fusion Energy (Dr Geoffrey Cottrell, Culham Science Centre) 2007-06-12 17:30: Environmentally informed material choice: strategies, tools, data and difficulties (Professor Mike Ashby CBE, FRS, FREng., Engineering Department, Cambridge University) 2007-06-13 11:00: fabulous careers in cornwall () 2007-06-13 17:00: CCF Seminar: The Global Oil Depletion Debate (Steven M. Gorelick, Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, Stanford University) 2007-06-19 16:00: Investigations of Rutford Ice Stream using DELORES (the BAS DEep-LOoking Radio-Echo Sounder) (Dr Ed King, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-06-20 09:00: Energy Technology (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-06-20 14:15: Observations and modelling of the effects of aerosols on the anvil outflow from deep tropical convection. (Dr Paul Connolly, UMIST) 2007-06-21 16:15: Thermochronological strategies for reconstructing long-term orogenic growth histories: examples from the Himalaya (Dr. Andy Carter (University College London)) 2007-06-25 14:15: Halogen chemistry in the troposphere: From aerosol particles to volcanic plumes. (Dr Roland von Glasow, UEA) 2007-06-25 15:00: Geochemical and Mineralogical Records of Atmospheric Photochemistry (Dr Doug Rumble, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington DC.) 2007-06-26 11:00: Sustainable Energy - Without the BS (David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-06-27 16:00: Ocean mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation: the Southern Ocean crossroads (Dr Alberto Naveira Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)) 2007-06-28 16:15: Palaeozoic evolution of the north-central margin of the Proto Andes (David Chew (Trinity College Dublin)) 2007-07-05 14:00: Improving Waterflood Oil Recovery: Understanding the Habitat and Targetting Recovery of Remaining Oil (Cliff Black, BP Senior Advisor Waterflood Management & IOR) 2007-07-18 14:55: Biodiesel Production: Different Aspects of the Process (Mónica Berrios Caballero, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain,) 2007-07-26 16:30: Ecosystem based management: Linked-ecosystem modelling of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Neil Gribble, Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries, and James Cook University, Australia) 2007-07-28 14:15: New Second Years' short talks (Ailsa Benton, Luke Knowles, Evgenia Ilyinskaya) 2007-07-31 11:00: Revisiting Levy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer (Andrew Edwards, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-08-07 11:00: The effect of a maturation time on plankton patchiness generated by chaotic stirring (Alexandra Tzella, Atmospheric Dynamics Group, DAMTP, U. Cambridge) 2007-08-07 16:00: Focussing on the peripheral: grounding lines, coastal stress-boundaries, and the inside-out ice sheet. (Rob Arthern, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-08-13 09:00: Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue (Nick Watkins (Organiser), British Antarctic Survey) 2007-08-13 09:20: Is a Grand Unified Earth System Science possible? And if so, what might it look like? My best GUESS. (John Harte, University of California, Berkeley) 2007-08-13 10:05: Ice cores and climate: Patterns and causes of change (Eric W. Wolff, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-08-13 11:20: Tipping Elements in the Earth System (Tim Lenton, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) 2007-08-13 12:05: Qualitative Physics: An alternative approach to assess coupled human-environment systems ( Jurgen P. Kropp, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany) 2007-08-13 14:00: Unnatural Complexity: Towards Achievable Aims for Complicated Simulation Models in Applications with Data (Weather-like) and those without (Climate-like) (Leonard A. Smith, London School of Economics, London, U.K.) 2007-08-13 14:45: Patterned segregation: Order out of complexity (Tom Mullin, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, U.K.) 2007-08-13 16:00: The Scaling Laws of Human Travel – New Approaches to the Forecast of Epidemics (Theo Geisel, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany ) 2007-08-13 16:45: Title to be announced [speaker to be confirmed] (Geoff West, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, U.S.A.) 2007-08-21 11:00: Dissolved Oxygen and Argon in some areas of the Southern Ocean, a proxy for the estimation of Marine Productivity (Karel Castro-Morales, UEA) 2007-08-28 10:30: Scaling in the geometrical features of the gradient contact process (Gunnar Pruessner, University of Warwick and Imperial College) 2007-09-11 11:00: Diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage (Andy Thompson, UEA) 2007-09-11 14:00: Some Recent Results in the Theory of Free and Confined Levy Flights (A. V. Chechkin, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kharkov, Ukraine) 2007-09-13 16:15: Ice cores and tree-rings give a new slant on the great plagues of history (Prof. Mike Baillie, Queens University Belfast) 2007-09-20 16:15: Geochemical fluxes to the oceans from rivers: why they are wrong and consequences for marine geochemical budgets (Dr. Derek Vance) 2007-09-25 16:00: The role of crystal fabric on ice flow and radar stratigraphy near the ice divide (Carlos Martin, BAS) 2007-09-25 17:00: Dynamics of ecological speciation: case studies and mathematical models (Sergey Gavrilets, University of Tennessee) 2007-10-02 10:30: Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling: The Importance of Stationary Planetary Waves (Edwin Gerber, Columbia University) 2007-10-02 16:00: Physical controls on the location and initiation of a regular phytoplankton bloom north of the Crozet Plateau (Hugh Venables, BAS) 2007-10-02 17:00: Impact of genetic factors on extinction risk and implications for conservation management in New Zealand. (Ian Jamieson, University of Otago, NZ) 2007-10-03 19:00: Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest release (Prof Bjorn Lomborg) 2007-10-04 16:15: Deciphering Antarctic ice sheet history and landscape evolution with geomorphology and cosmogenic isotopes. (Dr. Mike Bentley, Durham University) 2007-10-08 14:15: Second Year Project Talks (Ailsa Benton, Luke Knowles, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-09 11:00: The Atlantic; strong but subservient in the meridional overturning circulation (Agatha de Boer, UEA) 2007-10-10 09:00: Horizon: Energy "What does the future hold?" (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-10-10 17:00: Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities (Julian Allwood, Senior Lecturer - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-10 19:00: Agrofuels and the risk of ecosystem collapse (Deepak Rughani, BioFuelWatch) 2007-10-11 11:00: Probabilistic weather forecasting: scientific research and commercial application (Emily Shuckburgh, BAS) 2007-10-11 14:00: A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology (Danny Feltham (UCL)) 2007-10-11 16:15: News and views of Falklands geology (Dr. Phil Stone, British Geological Survey) 2007-10-12 13:00: Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales (Gareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales) 2007-10-16 10:30: Natural Complexity Programme group meeting (Nick Watkins, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-10-16 17:00: Do hawk cuckoo chicks simulate larger broods? (Dr Keita Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan) 2007-10-17 14:00: Climate change and the polar ice sheets (Andy Shepherd, University of Edinburgh) 2007-10-18 14:00: The melt inclusion record of concurrent mixing and cooling in basaltic magma chambers (John Mclennan (Earth Sciences)) 2007-10-19 13:00: Locomotion in Australian Monitor Lizards: Ecomorphological and Ecophysiological Considerations (Dr. Chris Clemente, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-22 14:15: TALK POSTPONED, new date TBA (Dr Bill Sturges, University of East Anglia) 2007-10-22 17:00: Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of Imagination (Caspar Henderson, Author and Journalist) 2007-10-23 11:00: Sustainable Energy - Without the BS (Director's Cut) (David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-10-23 14:45: Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill (Dr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen) 2007-10-23 17:00: Distributed intelligence in ants: how information is regulated through quorum sensing and teaching with evaluation. (Nigel Franks, University of Bristol) 2007-10-24 11:00: The ablation of icebergs and ice shelves (Andrew Wells, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-24 17:00: Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants (Andy Woods, BP Professor - BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-25 14:00: Volatile geochemistry of volcanic eruptions (Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences)) 2007-10-25 16:15: Antarctic Fossil Forests: Attack of the Insects (Claire McDonald, University of Leeds) 2007-10-26 13:00: Kakapo: The Conservation Biology of the World's Weirdest Parrot (Professor Mick Clout, University of Auckland) 2007-10-30 17:00: Why are extreme sex ratios so rare? (Ido Pen, University of Groningen.) 2007-10-30 17:30: Science of the Skies - what the government needs to know in the fight against climate change (Dr Victoria Pope, Head of Climate Change for Government at the MET Office Hadley Centre) 2007-11-01 14:00: Marvelous mathematical models (Hassan Aref (Virginia & Denmark)) 2007-11-02 13:00: A Bird in the Hand: Stone Curlew Conservation (Alison Johnston, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-05 17:00: What is a Climate Refugee? (Deborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow) 2007-11-06 17:00: Baboon Metaphysics (Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania) 2007-11-07 17:00: ‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs (Alan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge) 2007-11-09 13:00: Birds and People (Dr Nigel Collar, BirdLife International) 2007-11-12 14:15: The observed trend in the Southern Annular Mode: is it the ozone hole or is it greenhouse gases? (Dr Howard Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge) 2007-11-12 16:00: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Rachel Warren, University of East Anglia) 2007-11-13 11:00: A recent subglacial volcanic eruption in West Antarctica (David Vaughan, BAS) 2007-11-13 17:00: Global patterns of diversity in birds (Ian Owens, Imperial College London) 2007-11-16 13:00: Getting the Biggest Buck for the Bang: Conservation Management of Deer in New Zealand (Dr. David Coomes, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-19 14:15: Studying lightning-produced nitrogen oxides; methods and uncertainties (Dr. Lorenzo Labrador, University of Manchester) 2007-11-19 17:00: ICT and Climate Change (Molly Webb, The Climate Group) 2007-11-20 17:00: Life history strategies in free ranging ungulates (Kelly Moyes, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-20 18:45: Carbon Detox (George Marshall, COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network)) 2007-11-21 13:00: Aviation and climate (Dr. Piers Forster, Univeristy of Leeds) 2007-11-21 14:00: Tropical fingerprints on the polar mesosphere (Dr R E Hibbins, British Antarctic Survey) 2007-11-21 17:00: Material, Energy and Climate Change (Ernst Worrell, Lead-author of the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report) 2007-11-22 14:00: Climate change and the trillion-dollar millennium mathematics problem (Tim Palmer (ECMWF)) 2007-11-23 13:00: Combining Economics and Ecology to Predict the Effects of Zero Set Aside on Winter Food for Farmland Birds (Dr. Ira Cooke, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-26 13:45: Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2° C? (Dr Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester & Dr Terry Barker, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-26 14:15: The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of chlorine peroxide (ClOOCl) and implications for polar ozone chemistry (Dr Francis Pope (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-27 17:00: Capturing the super-organism (Andy Gardner, University of Oxford) 2007-11-29 14:00: The stability of ice sheets: current understanding (Geoffrey Boulton (Edinburgh)) 2007-11-30 13:00: Aquatic Alien Invasions: Teleportation or Transportation? (Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group) 2007-12-03 14:15: Significance of deep tropical storms as agents of stratosphere-troposphere exchanges: Insights from high-resolution numerical simulations (Dr Charles Chemel , Centre for Atmospheric & Instrumentation Research, University of Hertfordshire) 2007-12-03 17:00: Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England (Bettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence) 2007-12-06 14:00: Mechanisms of ocean heat uptake in coupled climate models (Helene Banks, Hadley Centre) 2007-12-06 17:00: Testing hypotheses about sexual selection and species recognition in Australian Bowerbirds using principles from sensory ecology (John Endler, University of California, Santa Barbara (TBC)) 2007-12-07 13:00: Mathematical Models of Microcolony Formation in Bacteria (Dr. Leah Johnson, National Centre for Statistical Ecology, University of Cambridge) 2007-12-10 14:15: Using DOAS to study tropospheric chemistry: From volcanoes to airports (Dr V. Tsanev, CAS) 2007-12-11 17:00: The private life of malaria parasites: reproductive decisions and mating strategies (Sarah Reece, University of Edinburgh) 2007-12-13 13:00: Locomotion and adhesion: tarsal attachment control in ants (Thomas Endlein, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, Zoology Department) 2007-12-14 12:00: Humpback and minke whale density distributions in the Southern Ocean: relationships with the sea ice edge (Bas Beekmans (BAS)) 2008-01-08 11:00: High resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling (Dave Stevens, UEA) 2008-01-09 18:00: Honda's challenge towards future environmental technologies (Mr Tomohiko Kawanabe, Senior Managing Director and Chief Officer, Advance Research Center, Honda R&D Co. Ltd & President of Honda Research Institute Co) 2008-01-11 09:00: Cambridge Conservation Forum 2008 Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-01-18 13:00: Free-loading, racketeering and murder: a day in the life of cowbirds (Professor Mike Clinchy, University of Western Ontario) 2008-01-18 16:00: The world in a bowl of mush: solidification and fluid flow from the inner core to the Arctic ocean (Jerome Neufeld, Cambridge) 2008-01-22 11:00: Unstructured meshes and adaptivity for 3D multi-scale ocean modelling (Matthew Piggott, Imperial College London) 2008-01-22 13:00: Porous ceramics by controlled solidification of (colloidal) suspensions (Sylvain Deville (Saint-Gobain)) 2008-01-22 17:00: Synergistic food and predator effects on demography: working backwards from population to individual (Liana Zanette, University of Western Ontario) 2008-01-23 13:00: A new age in town building (Ben Bolgar, Prince's Foundation) 2008-01-23 18:00: The challenges of managing the American foreign aid program post-9/11 in Pakistan and Afghanistan (Mark Ward, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)) 2008-01-24 14:05: Thermal evolution of the Earth: evidence from Archean komatiites and basalts (Nick Arndt (LGCA, Universite J Fourier)) 2008-01-24 16:30: Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics (Angela Breitenbach (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)) 2008-01-24 17:15: Travelling 1st class on the Titanic? (Barbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency) 2008-01-25 13:00: Mapping European Seabed Habitats (Sarah Young, Marine Ecologist, Joint Nature Conservation Committee) 2008-01-28 14:15: A new chemiluminescent technique for ozone observations (Dr. Jim B. McQuaid, University of Leeds) 2008-01-28 17:00: Imaging the Arctic (Nick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk) 2008-01-29 11:00: The observed trend in the Southern Annular Mode: is it the ozone hole or is it greenhouse gases? (Howard Roscoe, BAS) 2008-01-29 13:00: Static zones in granular flows (Chris Cawthorn (ITG, DAMTP)) 2008-01-29 17:00: The peppered moth: The proof of Darwinian evolution (Mike Majerus, University of Cambridge) 2008-01-30 13:00: Environmental implications of buildings equipped with wireless internet (Ji-Young Song, The Martin Centre) 2008-01-30 17:00: Directions to 2050 (David Hone - Group Climate Change Adviser, Royal Dutch Shell) 2008-01-31 14:05: Geophysical evidence for highly focused fluid flow in sedimentary basins (Joe Cartwright (Cardiff)) 2008-01-31 16:00: Recent dynamics and biomass carbon balance in the Amazon forests - what on earth is going on? (Professor O.P. Phillips, University of Leeds) 2008-01-31 19:00: Cambridge University Energy Network - Nuclear Fusion lecture (Dr. Bill Nuttall, the Judge Business School and the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-01 13:00: CUCHI 2007: Twelve 3rd year Natscis learn about conservation science in the Chilean Lake District (Claire Thompson, Part II Student, Zoology Department) 2008-02-05 10:00: Second and third order structure functions calculated from QuikSCAT measured near-surface winds over the Pacific Ocean (Greg King (University of Warwick, UK and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal)) 2008-02-05 13:00: Vortices and jets in geophysical flows (Andy Thompson (DAMTP)) 2008-02-05 17:00: The importance of individual differences in the interaction between animals (John McNamara, University of Bristol) 2008-02-06 13:00: Human perceptions of urban density (Vicky Cheng, the Martin Centre) 2008-02-06 16:30: The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado) 2008-02-06 18:00: Climate change, peak oil, and the coming global energy crisis (Dr Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century)) 2008-02-06 20:00: Climate change: the tipping point debate (Paul Brown and Frank McDonald) 2008-02-07 13:15: Chemistry of Volcanic Plumes (Tjarda Roberts, Centre for Atmospheric Science) 2008-02-07 14:05: Mixing induced in oceanic overflows and dense gravity currents: a new entrainment parameterization (Claudia Cenedese (WHOI)) 2008-02-07 14:15: The Antarctic ozone hole: review and update (Prof. Susan Solomon, NOAA/ERL, Chemical Sciences Division) 2008-02-07 16:00: Building the next generation climate model (N. Nikoforakis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-07 19:30: What if science doesn't save the world? Energy security in crisis (David MacKay (chair), Jonathan David, Pierre Noel, and Andrew Woods) 2008-02-07 19:30: WHAT IF SCIENCE DOESN'T SAVE THE WORLD?: Energy Security in Crisis (Jonathan Davis, Dr Pierre Noel, Professor Andrew Woods) 2008-02-08 13:00: The impacts of climate change on Indian Ocean coral reef biodiversity (Professor Charles Sheppard, University of Warwick) 2008-02-11 17:00: The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change (Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter) 2008-02-11 19:45: Emissions constraint: global leadership in social disruption? (John Buckley, International Renewable Energy Trade Promoter) 2008-02-12 13:00: Reactive symplectite formation as tracers of late-stage liquids: Skaergaard Intrusion, East Greenland (Gemma Stripp (Earth Sciences)) 2008-02-12 16:15: New Perspectives on Linkages between Ozone Depletion and Climate Change (Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado) 2008-02-12 17:00: The link between melanism and immunity in insects (Sheena Cotter, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-13 13:00: On a room with underfloor air supply (Dr Torwong Chenvidyakarn, Dept of Architecture) 2008-02-13 17:00: High efficiency, low emissions: Power generation on the road to thermotopia (John Young - Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-13 18:00: Creating a Better Place - the Environment Agency - and shaping sustainability (Baroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Environment Agency) 2008-02-13 19:30: Should we use nuclear energy to tackle climate change? (Stephen Stretton, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, and Ian Ralls, Cambridge Friends of the Earth) 2008-02-14 14:05: Rossby waves in the Ocean: Theoretical advances and recent satellite observations (Nathan Paldor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)) 2008-02-14 17:15: The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households (Adair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI) 2008-02-15 13:00: Biodiversity hanging by a thread: assessing the importance of fungal hyphae in maintaining rainforest biodiversity (Jake Snaddon, Zoology Department) 2008-02-15 14:00: The birth of the Kyoto Protocol and its mechanisms (Prof Christine Zumkeller) 2008-02-15 17:00: Beyond Bali: Status and Prospects for International Cooperation (Christine Zumkeller) 2008-02-15 17:00: Clean development mechanism, Joint implementation and EU ETS (Christine Zumkeller (UNFCCC)) 2008-02-15 19:00: "Total Denial" - Film Screening (Earth Rights International) 2008-02-16 13:30: EarthTalk (Dr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences) 2008-02-18 14:15: Part III student talks (Clare Davis , Colin Berkley, Joe Moed , Peter Smith , Lee Harper , Lay May Leow) 2008-02-19 13:00: Modelling meltwater plumes from tidewater glaciers (Ruth Mugford (Earth Sciences)) 2008-02-19 17:00: Monkeys seeing red: Signal content of red coloration in mandrills (Jo Setchell, Durham University) 2008-02-20 11:00: The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode (James Screen (BAS/UEA)) 2008-02-20 13:00: Portable : Flexible : Architecture (Professor Robert Kronenberg, University of Liverpool) 2008-02-21 14:05: Models of convective exchange between lava lakes and magma chambers (Steve Blake (Open University)) 2008-02-22 13:00: Establishing distribution, habitat and landscape-use of the Andean bear (Shaenandhoa Garcia-Rangel) 2008-02-25 14:15: Producing a nudged version of the UKCA (Dr. Paul Telford, CAS) 2008-02-25 15:00: Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development (Dr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh)) 2008-02-25 17:00: "Serious Things": On Literature and Environmentalism (Gregory Norminton) 2008-02-26 13:00: Ripples on icicles and stalactites (Kazuto Ueno (Nagoya University Japan)) 2008-02-26 17:00: Sperm competition and speciation in mammals (Montserrat Gomendio, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid) 2008-02-26 20:00: Living with tsunamis: Sumatra and the Mediterranean (James Jackson) 2008-02-27 09:00: Sustain-Ability: a conference to mark 40 years of the Martin Centre (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-02-27 17:00: Can we live on renewables? (David MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-27 18:00: Sustainable Development in the Built Environment; Progress or Procrastination? (Professor Peter Brandon and Dr Patrizia Lombardi (Salford University)) 2008-02-28 11:30: Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean (Professor Tom Peacock, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT) 2008-02-28 14:05: Advances in simulating wave propagation in complex media: applications to rotational seismology and scattering (Heiner Igel (LMU Munich)) 2008-02-28 19:00: THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE - what do we know, how do we know it, and what should we do? (Dr. Chris Hope, Reader in Policy Modelling at the Judge Business School) 2008-02-28 19:30: An Introduction to Bryophytes (Mosses and Liverworts) (Dr Mark Hill, Head of the Biological Records Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Monkswood) 2008-02-28 19:30: Biofuelling the future? (Panel debate, chaired by Prof. Ian Fells CBE, FRSE (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University)) 2008-03-03 14:15: Parameterisations of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Reactions: Recent work of the IUPAC Kinetics Data Evaluation Panel (Dr. R. A. Cox, CAS, Chairman, The IUPAC Subcommittee for Kinetics Data Evaluation for Atmospheric Chemistry) 2008-03-04 13:00: Vortex ring interaction with a particle layer (Nastja Bethke (DAMTP)) 2008-03-04 17:00: The evolution of sinistral snails (Angus Davison, University of Nottingham) 2008-03-05 13:00: Sir Basil Spence: architecture, tradition and modernity (Dr Louise Campbell, University of Warwick) 2008-03-05 17:10: Physical Limitations on Energy Supply (David J.C. MacKay, Physics Department) 2008-03-06 13:15: Measuring Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone in the Atmosphere (Will Flynn, Department of Chemistry) 2008-03-06 14:05: Development of hydrocarbon miscibility in water and gas injection (Tara La Force (Imperial College)) 2008-03-06 17:15: Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China (Sian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong) 2008-03-06 19:00: Searching for Evil (Dr Richard Clayton, Security Group, Computer Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge) 2008-03-07 13:00: Theories in alien invasions: Resistance vs. Meltdown (Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group) 2008-03-07 19:30: National and International Environmental Policy and Climate Change (Sir Martin Holdgate) 2008-03-10 14:15: "Isoprene and biofuels: Sensitivity studies in a global chemistry-climate model" (Rachel) / "Emissions, transport and deposition of volcanic aerosol in the troposphere" (Jane) (Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Dept. of Geography, and Rachel Pike, CAS) 2008-03-10 17:00: The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost (Melanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer) 2008-03-11 11:00: Dynamic thinning and thickening of coastal Antarctica - a new, high-resolution view of comtemporary change. (Hamish Pritchard (BAS)) 2008-03-11 17:00: Does limited dispersal favour cooperation? (Stu West, Edinburgh University) 2008-03-12 15:30: Some aspects of the energy scene (Dr Jack Howard, Aston University) 2008-03-12 17:00: Lighting for the 21st Century (Colin Humphreys - Professor of Material Science, University of Cambridge) 2008-03-12 18:00: Carbon Footprinting: Industry, People, the Universe and Everything (Professor Adisa Azapagic (Manchester University)) 2008-03-12 20:00: Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics) 2008-03-13 09:30: Rapid Climate Change: Lessons from the past to inform the future (One day symposium) 2008-03-13 13:00: Respiratory Responses To Temperature By Ectomycorrhizal Fungi (Dr. Glenna M. Malcolm, Pennsylvania State University) 2008-03-13 14:05: CANCELLED - Submarine granular flows: how the interstitial fluid dramatically influences the granular dynamics (Olivier Pouliquen (IUSTI, Marseille)) 2008-03-13 16:00: Recent fieldwork over Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica (Andy Smith (BAS)) 2008-03-14 11:30: Engineering fundamentals of energy efficiency (Jonathan Cullen (Department of Engineering)) 2008-03-14 18:00: Hidden in rock and frozen in time (Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey and Dr Aradhna Tripati, Department of Earth Sciences) 2008-03-18 11:00: Snow Falling on Sea Ice: Antarctic Snow, Ice Thickness, and the Quest for the "Holy Grail" (Ted Maksym (British Antarctic Survey)) 2008-03-18 13:00: Premelting phenomena and rock fracturing/Sector flow of viscous gravity currents (Ioanna Vlahou/Daisuke Takagi (ITG, DAMTP)) 2008-03-20 16:00: Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments (Bill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) 2008-03-20 18:30: Wicken Fen: the science behind the vision (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-03-27 10:30: Multipoint measurements of correlation in complex systems (Robert Wicks University of Warwick) 2008-03-27 19:00: Future Transportation Fuels: A Vision of a Viable Negative CO2 Energy Economy (Jamie Turner, Chief Engineer - Powertrain Research SI Combustion and Charging Specialist, Lotus Engineering) 2008-03-27 19:30: Cambridge, Coprolite City (Dr Toby Carter, Lecturer in Zoology at Anglia Ruskin University and President of the Cambridge Natural History Society) 2008-04-01 11:00: Engineering in Antarctica - A Summer in the Field - 2007-2008 (Matthew Gascoyne (BAS)) 2008-04-02 14:00: Transient simulations of the Little Ice Age and beyond with a global reduced complexity model (Prof Lawrence Mysak (McGill University, Canada)) 2008-04-08 11:00: EGU talks (Stéphane Bauguitte / Regine Röthlisberger (BAS)) 2008-04-10 19:30: Climate Change and Local Wildlife (Brian Eversham, Conservation Director of the Wildlife Trust for this area, a remarkable expert on invertebrates.) 2008-04-15 17:00: The evolution, function and meaning of alarm communication in marmots (Dan Blumstein, University of California Los Angeles) 2008-04-21 14:00: PLATO: an autonomous, diesel/solar powered, station for astronomy and atmospheric science at Dome A (Michael C. B. Ashley (University of New South Wales)) 2008-04-22 11:00: Glacial Cycles and Carbon Dioxide: A conceptual model (Andy Hogg (The Australian National University)) 2008-04-23 18:00: Sustainable Development at the Eden Project (Tim Smit (Eden Project)) 2008-04-24 10:30: Generalizing the Reynolds number from turbulence to Self Organized Criticality and ecosystems (Sandra C. Chapman (University of Warwick)) 2008-04-24 17:15: Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem (Professor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey) 2008-04-24 19:30: The Great Fen Project (Chris Gerrard, Project Officer for the Great Fen Project) 2008-04-25 13:00: Colour Pattern Polymorphism in the Harlequin Ladybird: an Evolutionary Conundrum (Laura-Jane Michie, Department of Genetics) 2008-04-28 14:15: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Prof. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-04-28 17:00: Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World (Norman Myers, University of Oxford) 2008-04-30 13:00: Missing Greens: the historiography of British environmental consciousness 1900-1980 (Alan Powers, University of Greenwich) 2008-04-30 18:00: Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics (Professor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre)) 2008-04-30 19:00: A CUEN LECTURE – wind energy turns to bamboo (Dr. Jim Platts, Institute for Manufacturing) 2008-05-01 10:00: The open/closed field line boundary in the ionosphere as a diagnostic of magnetospheric dynamics (Peter Boakes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester) 2008-05-01 17:15: International environmental governance (Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA) 2008-05-07 13:00: THE NEW STUDIO BUILDING: CONSTRUCTION FOR COMFORT (Meredith Bowles (Mole Architects) and Phil Armitage (Max Fordham)) 2008-05-09 13:00: Why does a mussel have the shape it has? Ecomorphological trends in freshwater mussels and their use for reconstructing palaeoenvironments (Alexandra Zieritz, Aquatic Ecology Group) 2008-05-12 13:00: Are coral reef fishes at risk or resilient to climate change? (Dr. Morgan Pratchett, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University) 2008-05-12 17:00: The Ecological Thought (Timothy Morton, UC-Davis) 2008-05-13 11:00: Rothera, environmental change and you (Jon Shanklin (BAS)) 2008-05-14 13:00: Frontier Urbanism in Contested Jerusalem (Dr Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-16 13:45: Policies for Reducing Personal Carbon (Dr Terry Barker, 4CMR, and others) 2008-05-19 14:15: The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission (Dr. Hartmut Boesch, University of Leicester) 2008-05-19 17:00: The Disjointed Temporality of Climate Change (Karen Pinkus, USC) 2008-05-21 13:00: Remote sensing for the built environment (Keiko Saito, Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment) 2008-05-22 14:15: Understanding 20th century surface temperature variability (David W J Thompson, Colorado State University) 2008-05-23 13:00: How can we save the endangered Giant Ibis? (Omaliss Keo, Conservation Science Group) 2008-05-27 14:00: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-05-30 13:00: Deforestation in western Madagascar: Understanding the past, reframing the present (Ivan Scales, Department of Geography) 2008-06-02 14:15: Blowing snow and bromine explosion- a model study (Dr. Xin Yang, Centre for Atmospheric Science) 2008-06-03 11:00: Observing mean Ekman currents in Drake Passage (Yueng-Djern Lenn (Bangor University)) 2008-06-05 10:00: Web-based Experiments with Earth System Models of Different Complexity used for Education at Freie Universität (Dr Ingo Kirchner (Freie Universtät Berlin, Germany)) 2008-06-06 13:00: Scent Communication in Banded Mongooses (Neil Jordan, Large Animal Research Group) 2008-06-06 16:00: Arctic sea ice and climate change (Peter Wadhams, DAMTP) 2008-06-10 11:00: GEF project summary (Joan Junyent (BAS)) 2008-06-11 12:00: Cetacean conservation in the Southern Ocean - relevance of the CCAMLR and the Madrid Protocol (Dr Daniel Owen) 2008-06-11 14:00: Effects of Current Flow in the Global Circuit on Winter Storm Vorticity and Polar Surface Pressures (Brian Tinsley, Centre for Space Sciences, Univ. of Texas, Dallas, USA) 2008-06-12 10:30: Why do we need a theory of non-elephants? (Kim Christensen, Imperial College, London) 2008-06-17 11:00: Human control of the Radiation Belts. Protecting satellites from "terrorists" with nuclear weapons (Craig J Rodger, Physics Department, University of Otago) 2008-06-17 17:00: Mutualism and competition structure neotropical butterfly communities (Marianne Elias, University of Edinburgh) 2008-06-20 14:15: Data fusion and the reconstruction of the 20th century temperature record (Dr Julian Hill, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire) 2008-06-23 14:15: "Atmospheric ozone: chemistry/climate interactions in the troposphere and stratosphere" AND "Understanding the relation between V(PSC) and Arctic ozone loss" (Prof. John Pyle & Dr. Neil Harris, CAS) 2008-06-24 09:00: Clean Coal Technologies – towards a low carbon economy (Chair: Dr Jeff Chapman, Chief Executive of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association) 2008-06-24 11:00: The proximal cause of glacial terminations (Eric Wolff (BAS)) 2008-06-25 09:30: The root causes of environmental unsustainability (Sir John Haughton FRS, Lord Brian Griffiths, and others) 2008-06-27 14:30: Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Prof. Bill Johns, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami) 2008-07-01 11:00: MASIN: Airborne Meteorological Science in BAS (Tom Lachlan-Cope (BAS)) 2008-07-14 11:00: Annual, seasonal & diurnal dynamics at the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (Dr Alun Hubbard (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University)) 2008-08-01 15:00: Physical Modeling of Critical Infrastructure Systems Subjected to Natural Hazards (Prof Tarek Abdoun, Associate Professor at the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York) 2008-08-05 11:00: Back to basics: Trace metal evidence for a more alkaline glacial ocean (Ros Rickaby (Oxford University)) 2008-08-06 10:30: The risk of an abrupt climate change: probabilities from a deterministic model using emulators (Peter Challenor (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)) 2008-08-14 14:00: Studies of Natural and Artificial Ice (Prof Ian Baker (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA)) 2008-08-27 14:00: Variability of Southern Ocean mode and intermediate waters during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: The view from Drake Passage (Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton)) 2008-09-17 11:00: Sailors in the southern oceans: logbooks and climatic research (Dennis Wheeler, University of Sunderland) 2008-09-18 14:15: The TES instrument on NASA Aura. (Dr Annmarie Eldering, JPL) 2008-09-19 12:00: Atmospheric complexity or scale by scale simplicity? (Shaun Lovejoy, McGill University) 2008-09-22 09:30: Global Context of Energy Crisis (Prof Robert Watson (DEFRA)) 2008-09-22 10:45: The Economics of A Zero Carbon Society (Dr Terry Barker (Tyndall Centre, 4CMR)) 2008-09-22 11:30: Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (Prof David Mackay (Cambridge University)) 2008-09-22 13:15: Overview of Alternative Technology Expansion & Its funding (Filipe Santos (Martifer Solar) and Sarah Forrest (Goldman Sachs)) 2008-09-22 14:00: Role of Business in Responding to Climate Change Risks and Opportunities (Leo Johnson (Pricewaterhouse Coopers)) 2008-09-22 15:15: Nuclear Power – What else? (Dr Fabian Roques (CERA)) 2008-09-22 16:00: Fundamental Challenges to Investment in Sustainable Energy in Transition Economies (Panel (chair: Prof. David MacKay)) 2008-09-23 09:00: Policies for an Environmentally Sustainable Economy (Mr. Roman Webber (Deliotte) and Paul Ekins (Green Fiscal Commission)) 2008-09-23 09:45: Venture Capital, Risk and the Business of Global Climate Change - A Global View (Mr. Bernie Bulkin (Vantage Point Venture Capital) and Prof. Michael Manielli (ZYen, London Accords)) 2008-09-23 11:00: The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic shelf seas (Clare Postlethwaite (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory)) 2008-09-23 11:00: Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon (Prof. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green)) 2008-09-23 11:45: Commitments Through Policy and Incentive Schemes: Facilitating Innovation & Investment (Panel (char: Mr Nick Butler)) 2008-09-23 13:30: Delivering Sustainable Energy Solutions; an Energy Company View (Mr Angus Norman (EDF)) 2008-09-23 14:00: Large Scale Deployment of Solar Energy, Working with Policy and Investment (Prof. Doenitz (MAN/ Solar Millennium), Dr. Joachim Reiss (Q-Cells) and Dr. Harry Zervos (IDTechEx)) 2008-09-23 15:00: Solar Power: Incentives for Scaling Up (Panel (chair: Prof. Peter Guthrie)) 2008-09-24 09:00: Behaviour Change and the Role of NGOs (Mr Duncan McLaren (Friends of the Earth Scotland) and Mr Gavin Starks (AMEE)) 2008-09-24 09:45: Education of Climate Change at Cambridge & Beyond (Professor David Mackay (Cambridge University)) 2008-09-24 10:30: Public Policy (Speaker TBC (AEA Technology)) 2008-09-24 11:30: Coping with ice: How do Antarctic fish survive in ice-laden water? (Prof. Clive Evans (University of Auckland)) 2008-09-24 11:45: The Possibilities – Changing How We Approach Design (Mr. Ross Lovegrove (Lovegrove Studios)) 2008-09-24 12:30: The Future of Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cells (Mr Richard Blundell (Think UK) and Mr Michael Evans (CMR Fuel Cells)) 2008-09-24 14:15: What to do with the CO2 we can’t eliminate? (Mr. Derek McLeish (Carbon Sciences Inc)) 2008-10-01 13:30: The ecology of a melting glacier: biotic feedbacks upon surface melt rates and biogeochemical significance. (Dr Andy Hodson (University of Sheffield)) 2008-10-02 10:30: Long Memory Networks in Climatological Studies (Ed Bullmore (University of Cambridge; Dept of Psychiatry)) 2008-10-07 13:00: Close encounters of the viscous kind - First contact in a viscous fluid (Chris Cawthorn (ITG)) 2008-10-07 17:00: Mutualistic mimicry drives ecological niche convergence in a butterfly community (Marianne Elias, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-09 14:05: Whither sea ice (John Wettlaufer (Yale)) 2008-10-14 13:00: Miscible flow in porous media (Richard Booth (Oxford)) 2008-10-14 17:00: Exploring evolution in morphospace for mycalesine butterflies (Paul Brakefield, University of Sheffield) 2008-10-16 10:30: Underlying dynamics of glacial millennial-scale climate transitions derived from ice-core data (Frank Kwasniok (University of Exeter)) 2008-10-17 11:00: Numerical simulation of the Filchner overflow (Alexander Wilchinsky, University College London) 2008-10-17 13:00: Bryozoan, Cordylophora and sponge biofouling in UK water treatment works (Rebecca Mant, Aquatic Ecology Group) 2008-10-17 16:00: Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy (Oliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse") 2008-10-17 17:00: Carbon aspects of the cycles of metals (Thomas Graedel - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University) 2008-10-20 14:15: Uncertainties in estimates of the aerosol radiative effects – Efficiency of primary and secondary aerosols. (Dr Philip Stier) 2008-10-21 13:00: Fluid dynamics of carbon dioxide sequestration (Jerome Neufeld (ITG)) 2008-10-21 17:00: Breeding ecology of the Spotted Barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens): a journey into the unknown world of a tropical, understory furnariid (Harold Greeney, Yanayacu Biological Station, Ecuador) 2008-10-23 14:05: Past changes in the marine carbon cycle (Harry Elderfield (Earth Sciences)) 2008-10-24 13:00: Comprehensive, effectively managed, and ecologically representative national and regional marine protected area networks – will we meet the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2012 target? (Sue Wells, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre) 2008-10-27 10:30: Probing the temporal power-law characteristics of the global atmospheric circulation (Dmitry Vyushin, Department of Physics, University of Toronto) 2008-10-27 14:15: Spectroscopic studies of the chlorine monoxide dimer (ClOOCl) (Isla Young, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge) 2008-10-27 14:15: A brief introduction to Astrochemistry (Dr Valentine Wakelam, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.) 2008-10-28 11:00: Regional modelling of ocean processes in the Bellingshausen Sea (Paul Holland, British Antarctic Survey) 2008-10-28 13:00: Washboard road (Jim McElwaine (DAMTP)) 2008-10-28 17:00: Harmless nectar source or deadly trap - wetness-based activation of traps in carnivorous pitcher plants (Ulrike Bauer, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2008-10-28 19:00: Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air (Prof. David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-10-29 17:00: Energy plans that add up (David MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-30 10:30: What we can learn about Climate Dynamics from ice-cores (Peter Ditlevsen (Niels Bohr Institute, Kobenhagen)) 2008-10-30 14:05: Physical Limnology: A review (Jorg Imberger (Western Australia)) 2008-10-30 17:15: The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible? (Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University) 2008-10-31 13:00: Farming and biodiversity in India - Title TBC (Malvika Onial, Conservation Science Group) 2008-11-03 14:15: Optical control and characterisation of aerosol particles (Dr Jon Wills, University of Bristol) 2008-11-04 13:00: Non-monotonic rate-and-state friction: consequences of the physics of friction on earthquake mechanics (Thibaut Putelat (ITG)) 2008-11-04 17:00: Evolution in the fast lane: the tempo of co-evolution in a male-killer/butterfly conflict revealed using museum specimens (Emily Hornett, University of Liverpool/University of Cambridge) 2008-11-05 12:00: Detecting and mapping vegetation distribution on the Antarctic Peninsula from remote sensing data (Peter Fretwell (BAS)) 2008-11-06 14:00: A regime view of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Atlantic jetstream variability (Tim Woollings (University of Reading)) 2008-11-06 14:05: Influence of laterial variations in the mantle on the geodynamo (David Gubbins (Leeds)) 2008-11-07 13:00: Predicting the impact of agricultural management on fat deposition and grazing damage by white-fronted geese (Dr. Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group) 2008-11-10 10:30: Equivalence of the fractional Fokker-Planck and subordinated Langevin equations (M. Magdziarz and A. Weron (Wroclaw University of Technology)) 2008-11-10 14:15: Size resolved modelling of UTLS aerosol (Dr Rene Hommel, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-11 11:00: The aerosol indirect effect in mixed phase and ice clouds (Tom Choularton, The University of Manchester) 2008-11-11 13:00: Bending and buckling of slender viscous threads/Fracturing of an elastic porous rock (Maurice Bount/Ioanna Vlahou (ITG)) 2008-11-11 14:00: FARIMA modeling of solar flare activity from empirical time series of soft X-ray solar emission (K.Burnecki and A. Weron (Wroclaw University of Technology)) 2008-11-11 17:00: Birdsong singing flexibility under noisy conditions (Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University) 2008-11-11 17:00: Listening in Place (Dr Katharine Norman, City University) 2008-11-12 17:00: Britain’s building stock: a carbon challenge (Michael Kelly - Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-13 14:05: Air-sea exchange of trace gases (Peter Liss (UEA)) 2008-11-14 13:00: P-p-p-problems with penguins- how population genetics and tagging studies can reveal the cryptic ecology of penguins. (Tom Hart, Penguinologist, Institute of Zoology) 2008-11-17 14:15: Measured Optical Properties of Aerosols (Dr Dan Peters, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford) 2008-11-18 11:00: Spin-up of Southern Hemisphere subpolar gyres in a warming climate (Zhaomin Wang, British Antarctic Survey) 2008-11-18 13:00: APS DFD practice talks (Various speakers) 2008-11-18 17:00: Heterozygosity and fitness in seals (Joe Hoffman, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2008-11-18 19:30: Alternative means of harnessing solar energy (Ben Taylor, Polymer Fluids Group, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Paolo Bombelli, Centre for Research in Electrochemical Science and Technology (CREST)) 2008-11-20 19:00: The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation (Dr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh) 2008-11-21 13:00: Measuring protected area performance - Large vertebrate population declines in Africa's protected areas (Ian Craigie, Conservation Science Group) 2008-11-24 14:15: Pre-industrial changes in atmospheric methane: is it possible to differentiate between changes in sources and changes in sinks? (Dr James Levine, British Antartic Survey, Cambridge) 2008-11-25 11:00: Attribution of recent climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula: a synthesis of ACES science (John King, British Antarctic Survey) 2008-11-25 17:00: Diversity and diversification in the islands of the Macaronesian region (Brent Emerson, University of East Anglia) 2008-11-25 17:00: Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008) (Benjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-26 17:00: Energy efficiency opportunities from heat pumps (Alex White - Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-27 10:30: Using Bayesian Network Inference to Examine Zooplankton Ecology and Herring Interactions in the Irish Sea (Emily King (British Antarctic Survey)) 2008-11-27 14:05: Underwater granular flows (Olivier Pouliquen) 2008-11-27 17:15: Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with Science (Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University and ESRC Climate Change Professorial Fellow) 2008-12-02 11:00: Characterisation of zooplankton vertical migration in two high Arctic fjords using moored ADCPs (Mags Wallace (University of St Andrews)) 2008-12-02 13:00: Rayleigh-Taylor driven mixing (Andrew Lawrie (DAMTP)) 2008-12-03 11:00: Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic constraints on the budget of NOx and nitrate in polar regions (Dr Samuel Morin of Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geohysique de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France) 2008-12-04 14:00: Ecological networks and global change (Jose Montoya, Marine Sciences Institute (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)) 2008-12-05 13:00: Farming and the future of forest biodiversity in Ghana (Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group) 2008-12-09 11:00: Animal-borne sensors and the Global Ocean Observing System (Lars Boehme (University of St. Andrews)) 2008-12-12 13:00: A child's eye view of the insect world (Dr Ed Turner, Insect Ecology Group) 2008-12-16 17:00: Genetics of Cooperation and Competition in Chimpanzees (Linda Vigilant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) 2009-01-13 17:00: ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES (Professor Martin Parry, Chair, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment) 2009-01-19 14:15: Measurements of OH and HO2 in the Tropics (Dr Lisa Whalley, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds) 2009-01-20 17:00: Evolutionary variability of avian eggshell colours (Phillip Cassey, Centre for Ornithology, University of Birmingham) 2009-01-20 17:00: RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKING (Dr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission) 2009-01-20 19:00: Natural Ventilation and Low Energy Buildings (Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-22 17:15: Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B? (Dr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP) 2009-01-23 13:00: Land use effects on birds of conservation concern in the Midwestern United States (John McCarty and Lillian Wolfenbarger) 2009-01-26 14:15: Troposphere-to-stratosphere exchange: constraints by water vapour (Yu Liu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge) 2009-01-27 13:00: Seismic oceanography and turbulent mixing in the southern ocean (Katy Sheen (Earth Sciences)) 2009-01-27 17:00: Experimental sexual selection, sexual conflict and reproductive isolation (Rhonda Snook, University of Sheffield) 2009-01-27 17:00: ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIES (Dr Flavio Comim, Senior Economist, United Nations Development Programme, Brazil and CSC/VHI, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge) 2009-01-27 17:00: The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading Group (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-01-28 18:00: The role of engineering in entering the ecological age (Peter Head OBE FREng FRSA Director of Sustainability, Arup) 2009-01-28 19:30: Kingfishers Bridge Project (Roger Beecroft, Wildlife Consultant, has worked on the project from 1995) 2009-01-29 14:05: The impact of climate change on the global oceanic sink for CO2 (Corinne Le Quere (UEA/BAS)) 2009-02-03 13:00: Ensembles of stochastic Lagrangian trajectories and the variability of the turbulent diffusion in the atmosphere (Ignacio Pisso (DAMTP)) 2009-02-03 17:00: Barriers to gene exchange in a field cricket hybrid zone (Luana Maroja, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2009-02-04 17:00: Energy use in the University of Cambridge (Paul Hasley, University Energy Manager - University of Cambridge) 2009-02-04 18:00: Sustainable Development - great green dream or impossible ambition? (Tony Juniper, former Director of Friends of the Earth) 2009-02-05 14:00: Formation and Transformation of Secondary Organic Aerosol (Prof. Urs Baltensperger, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerlzand.) 2009-02-05 14:05: The three-dimensional morphology and topology of dendritic mushes (Peter Voorhees (Northwestern)) 2009-02-05 17:00: INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS (Professor Julian Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton), Professor of Climate Modelling, University College, London) 2009-02-06 13:00: Evolution of Bird Colour in a Tetrahedral Colour Space (Cassie Stoddard, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group) 2009-02-09 14:15: Reactive nitrogen in the environment: Single plume, landscape and UK-scale assessment methods (Dr Christine Braban, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh) 2009-02-10 13:00: Ablation - and maybe growth - at the base of floating ice sheets (Dan Hatton (ITG/DAMTP)) 2009-02-10 14:00: The science of space weather (Jonathan Eastwood (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)) 2009-02-10 17:00: Sympatric Speciation (Vincent Savolainen, Imperial College London, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 2009-02-10 17:00: SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE (David Arkell, Director, SmartLIFE and Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Cambridgeshire County Council) 2009-02-10 17:00: The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-02-11 18:00: Water, health and sustainable development (Dr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation) 2009-02-12 14:05: Spin-up, adjustment and equilibrium state of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (David Marshall (Oxford)) 2009-02-12 17:15: Darwin in his time - and in ours (Professor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2009-02-12 19:30: Discussion Group: Energy Policy and Security of Supply (Neta Luria (International Relations, Centre Of International Studies) and Thomas Triebs (Electricity Policy Research Group, Judge Business School)) 2009-02-17 13:00: Tides in the middle Atmosphere (Jian Du (DAMTP)) 2009-02-17 17:00: Protective coloration and avian vision (Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology) 2009-02-17 17:00: CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES (Professor Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge; Fellow, St Edmund’s College) 2009-02-18 17:00: Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World (Andreas Schäfer, Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge) 2009-02-18 18:00: A sustainable technology strategy for engineers (Dr Karel Muldur, TU Delft The Netherlands) 2009-02-19 14:05: Investigating the earthquake cycle and crustal deformation using space geodesy (Barry Parsons (Oxford)) 2009-02-20 11:00: Recent shelf-slope studies in the Arctic Ocean: observations and modeling (Vladimir Ivanov (Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Oban)) 2009-02-20 13:00: Ecology and Conservation of the Lesser Kestrel in Portugal (Ines Catry, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group) 2009-02-23 14:15: Deep convective parameterization: Some issues (and some solutions?) (Dr Bob Plant, University of Reading) 2009-02-24 13:00: Fossil fuel power generation and carbon dioxide emission (John Young (Engineering)) 2009-02-24 17:00: Sex differences in cognition (Sue Healy, University of St Andrews) 2009-02-24 17:00: CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME? (Professor Michael Kelly, Prince Philip Professor, Cambridge; Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, London) 2009-02-25 18:00: Sustainability in the resources sector (Paul Skinner Chairman Rio Tinto) 2009-02-25 19:30: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels (David MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU) 2009-02-26 14:00: Towards the Probabilistic Earth-System Model. (Tim Palmer (ECMWF)) 2009-02-26 14:05: The porridge (and magma) problem: Viscoplastic Rayleigh-Benard convection (Alison Rust (Bristol)) 2009-02-26 20:00: (Mis)communicating Science and Technology: Challenges in Public Communications on Climate Change and Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (Dr David Reiner) 2009-02-27 14:30: Turbulence Acceleration - Dynamo mechanism by transport flow (Prof Chang-Mo RYU (POSTECH, Pohang, Korea)) 2009-03-02 14:15: Air Quality in the 21st Century - How Important are SOA? (Dr Gerd Folberth, Met Office) 2009-03-03 10:15: Decadal variability of tropospheric ozone (Dr Martin Schultz, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany,) 2009-03-03 13:00: Prediction of the response of a tropospheric climate to weak perturbations (Fenwick Cooper (DAMTP)) 2009-03-03 17:00: Reproductive conflicts in social insects (Andrew Bourke, UEA) 2009-03-03 17:00: RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATURE (Chris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury), Chairman of the Environment Agency; former MP and Cabinet Minister; former President Cambridge Union Society) 2009-03-04 15:30: Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport (Dr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK) 2009-03-04 17:00: The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy (Nigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College) 2009-03-05 14:05: Thermoviscous coupling in ice-sheets and its influence on grounding line migration (Richard Hindmarsh (BAS)) 2009-03-06 13:00: Parental care in burying beetles (Sheena Cotter, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group) 2009-03-09 14:15: Investigating natural impacts on atmospheric composition and climate in the remote troposphere (Dr Steve Arnold, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds) 2009-03-10 13:00: Ice shelf dynamics / The effect of channel boundaries on the flow of gravity currents in a porous medium (Sam Pegler / Madeleine Golding (ITG, DAMTP)) 2009-03-10 17:00: THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE? (Professor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor, Community Health and Human Development, Berkeley, University of California) 2009-03-11 18:00: Innovating to sustainability (Professor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University) 2009-03-12 14:05: Origin of the Earth and Moon (Alex Halliday (Oxford)) 2009-03-16 14:15: Ozone Depletion: Science and Scientific Assessments (Dr Keynyn Brysse, Princeton University) 2009-03-17 17:00: Why is sex determination in reptiles so diverse? (Tobias Uller, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology) 2009-03-19 10:30: Why is it useful to treat the magnetosphere as a complex system ? (Nickolas watkins (BAS)) 2009-03-19 17:15: The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard (Dr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) 2009-03-24 11:00: Quantum cascade laser heterodyne radiometry for atmospheric sounding: application to atmospheric ozone monitoring (Dr Damien Weidmann, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2009-03-24 11:00: Quantum cascade laser heterodyne radiometry for atmospheric sounding: application to atmospheric ozone monitoring (Dr Damien Weidmann, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2009-03-25 19:30: Long Strides for Wildlife: ten years of the Wildlife Trust (Nicholas Hammond, Director of the Wildlife Trusts bcnp) 2009-03-26 14:00: Lévy flights and the search behaviour of top predators (David Sims (School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth)) 2009-04-16 10:30: Substorms - A random walk from Earth to Saturn and back (Mervyn Freeman (British Antarctic Survey)) 2009-04-23 19:30: Saving Ely's Wildspace (Professor of Conservation Biology at the Zoology Department, C.U.) 2009-04-24 13:00: 25 decades of dodgy data (Prof. Tim Sparks) 2009-04-27 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Lucy Carpenter, Department of Chemistry, University of York) 2009-04-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, Oxford) 2009-04-29 19:30: Wild flower seeds for Gardens, and for Landscape and Conservation projects (Richard Brown, who with Mark Schofield, set up Emorsgate Wild Seeds.) 2009-04-30 14:05: Modelling laminar flow over curved substrates as a prelude to turbulent flows (Tony Roberts (University of Adelaide)) 2009-04-30 17:15: Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country (Pavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai) 2009-05-01 13:00: Species and diversity patterns in complex human-dominated landscapes: an Atlantic forest case study (Dr Renata Pardini, University of São Paulo) 2009-05-05 17:00: Biodiversity, pollination and biological control in changing landscapes (Teja Tschantka) 2009-05-06 00:00: William MCDonough (CANCELLED) (William McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle") 2009-05-07 11:00: "Advanced Design Integration for Radical Energy Efficiency" (Amory B.Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute)) 2009-05-07 14:00: Observational Evidence of Changes in the Brewer-Dobson Circulation (Qiang Fu (University of Washington/Seattle)) 2009-05-08 13:00: Risk taking, learning, and strategy choice: experiments with humans, bees, and sparrows (Prof. Arnon Lotem) 2009-05-08 16:00: The evolution of mutualism and the role of mutualism in evolution (Egbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) 2009-05-11 13:00: Host-parasite arms races in bird colour space (Dr Martin Stevens and Dr Claire Spottiswoode, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-11 14:15: Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere: From Birmingham to Borneo (Dr Jacqueline Hamilton, Department of Chemistry, University of York.) 2009-05-12 14:00: Reconstruction of the Atlantic bipolar seesaw during the last deglaciation (Dr Stephen Barker, Cardiff University) 2009-05-14 13:30: On the rebound: could energy efficiency improvements backfire? (Hugh Parnell - Cambridge Energy Forum (CEF), Dr Terry Barker - 4CMR, Dr Philip Sargent - CEF, Steven Sorrell - University of Sussex, Blake Alcott, Prof Roger Kemp - Lancaster University, Dr Tim Foxon - University of Leeds, Tina Dallman - UK govmt DEFRA) 2009-05-18 14:15: Continuous wave cavity ring down spectroscopy - sensing of atmospheric trace gases (Dr Manik Pradhan, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-20 14:15: Ocean iron-fertilisation by volcanic ash (Baerbel Langmann, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg) 2009-05-22 13:00: Arthropod biodiversity in Irish agricultural grasslands: results from the Ag-Biota Project (Dr Alvin Helden, Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University) 2009-05-26 17:00: The Economic Downturn and the Carbon Economy (Seb Henbest, New Carbon Finance) 2009-05-27 11:00: Dispersion Relations for the Nonlinear Response of Chaotic Dynamical Systems (Valerio Lucarini, Department of Physics, University of Bologna) 2009-05-29 14:30: The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model (Dr Karsten Neuhoff & Dr Jevgenijs Steinbuks. Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) 2009-06-01 14:15: Assessing the longwave radiative effect of Saharan dust using (Dr Helen Brindley, Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College, London.) 2009-06-05 12:30: A Green New Deal: Climate Change Mitigation as an Economic Stimulus (Dr Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) 2009-06-05 13:00: A hierarchical Bayesian model for smoothed population indices: applications to wader populations in Japan (Dr Tatsuya Amano) 2009-06-08 14:15: DOAS studies of volcanic emissions (Dr Vitchko Tsanev, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge) 2009-06-12 13:00: Adaptive and process-based explanations in the study of parent-offspring communication: experiments with hand-raised house sparrow nestlings and game theoretical modelling (Dr Uri Grodzinski, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2009-06-22 09:00: The 2009 CUEN Annual Energy Conference - Solar Power: Lighting the way towards a sustainable future (See http://www.cuen.org.uk/speakers for details) 2009-06-22 14:05: Effects of subduction geometry on mountain building and volcanism in Japan (Selwyn Sacks (Carnegie Institution, Washington)) 2009-09-17 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Daniel Peavoy (University of Warwick)) 2009-09-20 12:00: 40 Years of the Hawk and Owl Trust: from the verge of extinction to the tower at Tate Modern (Guest speaker: Jefferey Boswall, Wildlife film maker at the BBC Natural History Unit and later for the RSPB) 2009-09-25 14:00: Estimating baseline trends and regional emissions from surface observations (Dr Alistair Manning, Met Office) 2009-10-07 18:00: Cradle to Cradle Design (Bill McDonough William McDonough and Partners) 2009-10-09 11:00: On formation of multiple zonal jets in the ocean (Pavel Berloff , Imperial College) 2009-10-09 13:00: When satellites help predicting animal distribution, movement and performance (Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London) 2009-10-12 14:15: Transport and processing of ozone in the West African monsoon (Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-13 13:00: Nonlinear peristaltic waves: the python's bitter pill to swallow (Daisuke Takgi (ITG/DAMTP)) 2009-10-13 17:00: Sexual conflict over parental investment and the evolution of personality (Dr. Nick Royle, University of Exeter) 2009-10-14 11:00: Tropical Western Pacific Currents and the Origin of Intraseasonal Variability Below the Thermocline (Pierre Dutrieux, BAS) 2009-10-14 16:00: The Pacific Greenhouse Gases Measurement Project (Prof. Kuo-Ying Wang) 2009-10-14 17:00: T2: How adding intelligence can dramatically reduce energy consumption – cheaply (Pilgrim Beart - AlertMe) 2009-10-15 12:00: Heritage and Sustainable Development (Tatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development)) 2009-10-15 14:05: Geological storage of CO2; lessons learned from Australia's CO2CRC Otway Project (Peter Cook (CR2CRC)) 2009-10-16 13:00: Wildlife surveys and site management: the role of volunteers in local conservation work (Dr Ed Turner, Ecology Groups Officer, The Wildlife Trust) 2009-10-19 14:15: An Isoprene Mechanism Intercomparison (Dr Alex Archibald, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-20 13:00: Transport and dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer (Sue Liu (DAMTP)) 2009-10-22 14:05: Sailing On Diffusion (Tom Peacock (MIT)) 2009-10-22 14:30: What will it take to avoid two degrees of warming -- the tale of the trillionth tonne (Myles Allen (Oxford)) 2009-10-26 14:15: CHARACTERISATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS: THE URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE BURNING OF BIOMASS (Dr Ana Calvo, Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics, Universidad de León) 2009-10-27 13:00: Dynamics and spatiotemporal variability of ice streams (Roiy Sayag (ITG/DAMTP)) 2009-10-27 17:00: Watch what you eat: the function of male aggression within pairs of cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus (Dr. Nichola Raihani, Institute of Zoology, London) 2009-10-28 17:00: PAS 2050: The BSI/Defra/Carbon Trust Specification for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Products and Services (Professor Roland Clift - Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey) 2009-10-29 12:00: An interdisciplinary approach for decarbonising the built environment (Tina Fawcett (Environmental Change Institute Oxford)) 2009-10-29 14:05: Seismogenic fracture of magma (Hugh Tuffen (Lancaster)) 2009-11-02 14:15: The Elusive HO3 Radical: Kinetics of formation, thermochemistry and atmospheric role (Prof. Ian Smith, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-03 13:00: Paint and mud: cracks in drying dispersions (Lucas Goehring (BPI)) 2009-11-03 17:00: Cultural transmission in meerkat societies (Dr. Alex Thornton, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-04 19:30: Dr. Michael Pollitt: Delivering the Low Carbon Electricity System (Dr. Michael Pollitt, Electricity Policy Research Group, Judge Business School) 2009-11-05 14:05: Anoxia, methanogenesis, and uniformitarianism (Dan Schrag (Harvard)) 2009-11-06 13:00: Botanising in Cambridgeshire and North East England (Monica Frisch, Cambridge Natural History Society) 2009-11-09 14:15: Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change (Dr Manoj Joshi, NCAS Climate, University of Reading) 2009-11-10 13:00: Estimating uplift rate histories from longitudinal river profile (Gareth Roberts (Bullard)) 2009-11-10 17:00: Co-evolutionary interactions between cuckoos and their hosts (Dr. Bård Stokke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) 2009-11-11 17:00: Engineering Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency (Jonathan Cullen - University of Cambridge) 2009-11-12 12:00: Sustainable built environments: Building design, building performance and building occupants. (Matthew French) 2009-11-12 14:05: Dynamics of thermal plumes in newtonian and non-newtonian fluids (Anne Davaille (CNRS Paris)) 2009-11-13 13:00: Investigating the potential use of the sexually transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, in controlling populations of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Emma Rhule, Genetics Department, Cambridge University) 2009-11-17 17:00: The MHC, sexual selection and parasites; insights from avian populations (Dr. David Richardson, University of East Anglia) 2009-11-18 14:15: Interpreting recent changes in atmospheric methane using satellite observations of gravity (Professor Paul Palmer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh) 2009-11-19 14:05: CANCELLED - Understanding contemporary change in West Antarctica: ocean interactions (Tony Payne (Bristol)) 2009-11-20 13:00: Supporting local conservation overseas: land purchase as a strategy for conservation (Claire Thompson, World Land Trust, UK) 2009-11-23 14:15: Changes in tropospheric ozone: anthropogenic emissions, meteorology and long-range transport (Dr Oliver Wild, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University) 2009-11-24 17:00: Mate choice, colouration and immunocompetence in the ostrich (Prof. Michael Cherry, University of Stellenbosch) 2009-11-25 17:00: Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars (Martin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder) 2009-11-25 19:30: Small Mammals in Cambridgeshire (Sheila Pankhurst, Principal Lecturer in Animal Behaviour in the Zoology Department of Anglia Ruskin University) 2009-11-26 12:00: Sustainable Communities and Regeneration (Prof. Randall Thomas) 2009-11-26 12:30: Pumping iron to save the planet? (Dr Cliff Laws (NIWA)) 2009-11-28 11:30: Global Video Conference on the Copenhagen Treaty (Various) 2009-11-28 20:00: "Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909" (Dr. David Wilson) 2009-11-30 11:00: How fast do ice shelves melt? (Nicholls, Keith W , British Antarctic Survey) 2009-11-30 14:15: UKCA: NOT the United Kingdom Cheerleading Association (Dr Luke Abraham, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge) 2009-12-01 13:00: Disequilibrium melting of a two phase multicomponent mantle (John Rudge (ITG/Bullard)) 2009-12-01 14:00: Convective Troposphere to Stratosphere Transport in the tropics. How important at the global scale? (Jean-Pierre Pommereau) 2009-12-01 17:00: 'Hookworm-driven selection on otariid haemostasis – getting to the bloody point (Dr. Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Institute of Zoology) 2009-12-01 19:30: Discussion Group: The Environmental Impact of Aviation (Antony Evans and Annela Anger-Kraavi) 2009-12-07 17:00: Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) for Europe: Economics, Technical and Social Issues (David Faiman - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Centre) 2009-12-09 11:00: Changes in the outflow of dense water from the Weddell Sea into the Atlantic overturning circulation (Mike Meredith, British Antarctic Survey) 2009-12-11 11:00: Estimating ocean circulation and mixing: A contourwise view (Jan Zika, Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), Grenoble, France) 2010-01-12 14:15: MCM Box Modelling of the OP3 Aircraft Campaign (Mr Daniel Stone, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds) 2010-01-18 14:15: Analysis of clouds and cloud-aerosol interactions with satellite data and general circulation models (Dr Johannes Quaas, Max Planck Institut fur Meteorologie, Germany) 2010-01-19 11:00: Stochastic parametrization in numerical weather prediction (Glenn Shutts (MetOffice and ECMWF)) 2010-01-19 13:00: Pressure ridges and their role in the Arctic Ocean energy budget (Peter Wadhams (DAMTP)) 2010-01-19 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Matthew Bell, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-26 13:00: Global Models of Mammal Distribution (Dr Carlo Rondinini, Sapienza University of Rome) 2010-01-26 13:00: Aspects of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction mechanisms of relevance to decontamination (Maurice Blount (ITG/DAMTP)) 2010-01-26 17:00: Conflict and co-adaptation in the evolution of family life (Professor Mathias Kölliker, University of Basel) 2010-01-27 18:00: Roadmap to 2050 (Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate) 2010-01-27 19:30: Wildllife Sounds and Sound Recording (William Seale, Madingley Toad Rescue) 2010-01-28 14:05: Predicting thrusting sequences and in-situ stress states by optimization (Yves Leroy (ENS Paris)) 2010-01-29 13:00: Conservation in the Bolivian Amazon: Canoes, Capybara and Climate Change (Claudia Comberti) 2010-02-01 11:00: Direct Coupling between the Solar Wind and the Thermosphere (George Siscoe, Center for Space Physics, Boston University) 2010-02-02 13:00: Diagnosis of relative humidity changes in a warmer climate using tracers of last saturation (Jonathan Wright (DAMTP)) 2010-02-02 14:15: Detection and Attribution of changes in European Temperature and Precipitation (Prof. Simon Tett, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh) 2010-02-02 17:00: Dispersal, kinship and cooperative breeding in long-tailed tits (Dr. Stuart Sharp, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-03 16:00: 'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines' (Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office) 2010-02-03 17:00: Reducing Energy Consumption in Paper Making using Advanced Process Control and Optimisation (Dr Paul C Austin - Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-04 12:00: Scenarios for strategic planning in the built environment (Jeff Vickers) 2010-02-04 14:05: The implications of climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation on food, water, energy and human security (Bob Watson (Defra)) 2010-02-06 20:00: With Scott in the Antarctic, Edward Wilson - Explorer, Naturalist, Artist (Isobel Williams, Doctor and Biographer) 2010-02-08 14:15: No talk this week (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-02-09 13:00: Transient phenomena in natural ventilation flows (Imran Coomaraswamy (DAMTP/BPI)) 2010-02-09 17:00: Interacting genotypes and the evolution of social environments (Dr. Alastair Wilson, University of Edinburgh) 2010-02-11 14:05: Eddies, jets, meanders and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Chris Hughes (Proudman)) 2010-02-11 17:30: Cut waste, boost revenue: practical examples from industry (Dr Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Material Processing, IfM) 2010-02-11 19:30: Ice- not just H2O: The Chemistry of Ice Cores (Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk) 2010-02-15 13:00: EWB-Cam Research Project - Energy for Rural Healthcare Centres and School Sanitation Solutions in Bhutan (George Walker and Mimi Coultas, CUED 4th Years) 2010-02-15 14:15: Impacts of different transport modes on the global atmosphere: present and future. (Dr Olivier Dessens, Dept. Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-16 13:00: Mixing, jet sharpening and angular momentum in shallow atmospheres (Richard Wood (DAMTP)) 2010-02-16 17:00: Detecting social transmission of behaviour in the wild (Dr William Hoppitt, University of St. Andrews) 2010-02-17 17:00: Energy Transitions: Slow Transformations and Difficult Substitutions (Dr Vaclav Smil - Distinguished Professor, University of Manitova) 2010-02-17 18:00: You must be joking; Cities as a force for good in the environment (Professor Bruce Beck, University of Georgia) 2010-02-18 14:05: Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance & Uncertainty: the Royal Society study (John Shepherd (Southampton)) 2010-02-19 11:30: Water and Sustainability - An Industrial Perspective (Geoff Townsend (Technical Director, Nalco Ltd)) 2010-02-20 20:00: Penguins to Polar Bears (Paul Goldstein) 2010-02-22 14:15: No talk this week (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-02-23 11:00: Did Neogene climate change impact the mountain belts of Europe? (Hugh Sinclair, The University of Edinburgh) 2010-02-23 13:00: PP and P'P' precursor observations of the mantle transition zone (Elizabeth Day (ITG/DES)) 2010-02-23 17:00: Sperm, fertility and antlers: determinants of reproductive success in a polygynous ungulate (Dr. Aurelio Malo, Imperial College, London) 2010-02-24 17:00: Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal (Dr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-24 17:00: Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic Ice (Professor Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-24 18:00: Cities of the Future (Paul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc.) 2010-02-24 19:30: Monitoring and Management of the Endangered Cape Mountain Zebra (Rebecca Smith) 2010-02-25 14:05: Regime change in volcanic systems (Geoff Wadge (Reading)) 2010-03-01 14:15: Pinatubo and UKCA hindcasts (Dr Paul Telford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-03-02 13:00: Turbulent plumes with heterogeneous chemical reaction (Silvana Cardoso (Chemical Engineering)) 2010-03-03 17:00: Disentangling sexual behaviour to understand evolutionary patterns across populations and species (Dr. Charlie Cornwallis, Oxford University) 2010-03-04 12:00: Who's most vulnerable? Latitudinal comparisons of thermal sensitivity across marine environments (Dr Simon Morley (BAS)) 2010-03-04 12:00: “HERITAGE and FUTURE Cities: Lessons from the PAST for Sustainable FUTURE” (Tatiana V. Vakhitova) 2010-03-04 13:00: Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft (Paul Robertson) 2010-03-04 14:05: The climate impacts of non-CO2 emissions by aviation (Keith Shine (Reading)) 2010-03-05 11:00: Southern Ocean thermocline ventilation (Jean-Baptiste Sallee , CSIRO in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) 2010-03-05 13:00: TALK CANCELLED (Gustavo Canale) 2010-03-05 16:00: Sustainable Action on Vehicle Energy (Dr Peter Jones (University of Warwick)) 2010-03-05 17:30: Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change (Professor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia) 2010-03-06 20:00: Extreme conservation - living and working in Antarctica (Fiona Cahill BA(Hons)) 2010-03-08 14:15: Constraints on Atmospheric CO2 from other Trace Species (Dr Parvadha Suntharalingam, Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia) 2010-03-09 11:00: Evaluating CO2 as a primary driver of Mesozoic climate change (Gregory D. Price, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth) 2010-03-09 13:00: Outlining an investigation into flows in lakes and reservoirs / Propagation and dissipation of Kelvin waves in the tropical tropopause layer (Charlie Hogg (ITG/DAMTP) / Tom Flannaghan (DAMTP)) 2010-03-09 17:00: Evolutionary dynamics and origins of industrial melanism in peppered moths (Ilik Saccheri) 2010-03-10 11:00: SEISMIC ACOUSTIC IMAGES OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT (K. L. Sheen, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2010-03-10 17:00: The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative (Steven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge) 2010-03-10 18:00: Delivering genuine sustainability in the built environment - obstacles and opportunities (Dr David Strong CEO, Inbuilt Ltd; Board Member of UK Green Building Council) 2010-03-11 11:30: Global Water Initiative (Charlie Kennell Scripps Institution of Oceanography) 2010-03-11 19:00: CUEN Seminar: People and Sustainability (Nick Baker) 2010-03-12 13:00: Is chytrid fungus, a global scourge of amphibians, having an effect on the UK's rarest amphibian? (Peter Minting, Institute of Zoology) 2010-03-17 14:00: Variability and trend in the Brewer-Dobson circulation (Howard Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey) 2010-03-18 12:00: Energy Efficient Cities (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-03-20 20:00: The South Sandwich Islands (Robert Headland, Scott Polar Research Institute and South Georgia Association) 2010-03-31 19:30: Wildlife Gardening in a Landscape Garden (Richard Todd, Head Gardener at Anglesey Abbey) 2010-04-15 12:00: Extending our knowledge into the Past: The rescue, reanalysis and accessibility of historic plankton data from the Discovery Investigations 1925-1951 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-04-15 12:00: Sustainable Development: Answers from Different Actors, such as State, NGOs and Business (Ksenia Gerasimova) 2010-04-19 14:15: Flight measurements of lightning produced NOx during the ACTIVE campaign (Lorenzo Labrador, University of Manchester) 2010-04-21 13:15: Sustainability and the traditional architecture of Japan: cities that could revert to summer grass (Professor Martin Morris, Chiba University, Japan) 2010-04-21 20:00: Enchanted Galapagos (Jean Burns, RSPB) 2010-04-22 13:00: Can Eco-compensation Restore Natural Forest in Xishuangbanna, China? (Yi Zhuangfang, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden) 2010-04-22 13:30: The politics of climate change (Tony Giddens) 2010-04-22 19:30: Wimpole Hall, Past and Present (Simon Damant, Head Ranger at Wimpole Hall, National Trust property) 2010-04-26 12:30: When to stop supporting technologies (Rutger-Jan Lange (EPRG)) 2010-04-26 12:30: Global Biofuels Industry: Value Chain and Market Structure (Jin Hooi Chan (EPRG)) 2010-04-26 14:15: Polar Ozone – open issues and first results from RECONCILE (Dr Marc von Hobe, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany) 2010-04-28 13:15: The Isle of Dogs: four development waves, five planning models, twelve plans, thirty five years, and a renaissance - of sorts (Professor Matthew Carmona, Head of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) 2010-04-28 19:30: Flowers of the Brecklands (Tim Pankhurst, Breckland Officer for Plantlife) 2010-04-29 14:05: Climate change: where science and policy meet (Ron Oxburgh) 2010-04-30 09:00: Taking Stock: Methods for Built Environment Research (Nick Baker, Alan Blackwell, Paul Chamberlain, Robert Evans, Wybo Houkes, Michael Pollitt) 2010-05-03 12:30: Smart metering: what and how can we learn from the data? (Aoife Brophy Haney & Philipp Brutscher (EPRG)) 2010-05-04 19:30: Anaerobic Digestion: From Waste to Energy (Dr Michal Chesshire of BiogenGreenfinch) 2010-05-05 13:15: A future zero carbon built environment? (Professor Philip Jones, Head of School and Director of Architectural Science, Welsh School of Architecture) 2010-05-05 18:00: Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory (Professor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego) 2010-05-07 10:30: The Antarctic Ozone Hole: Then and Now (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-10 10:30: No talk this week (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-10 12:30: Do firms sell forward for strategic reasons? An application to the market for natural gas (Jose Luis Moraga) 2010-05-11 17:00: The evolution of mutualism (between species) and the role of mutualism in evolution (Egbert Leigh) 2010-05-11 18:30: The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity (Professor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford) 2010-05-12 13:15: Ecological design and planning (Dr. Ken Yeang, Chairperson, Llewellyn Davies Yeang) 2010-05-12 18:00: Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April) (Professor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University) 2010-05-17 12:30: An electric planet? (Walt Patterson (Chatham House)) 2010-05-17 14:15: Interactions between the OH radical and atmospheric gases (Dr Craig Murray, University of Bristol) 2010-05-19 13:15: A placemaker’s guide to building community (Professor Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus Professor, Oxford Brooks University) 2010-05-19 19:00: Ecuador, birds, bugs and butterflies (Ann and Phil Farrer) 2010-05-20 14:05: The sound of climate change (Walter Munk) 2010-05-24 12:30: Willingness to pay for Electricity and Water Service Attributes (Elcin Akura (EPRG)) 2010-05-24 12:30: Russia-Ukraine Strategic Gas Bargaining (Kong Chyong Chi (EPRG)) 2010-05-24 14:15: Understanding The Adverse Health Effects of Air Pollution One Particle at a Time (Dr Allen Haddrell, University of Bristol) 2010-05-26 13:15: Housing the poor in Latin America: changing attitudes towards urban informality (Dr. Felipe Hernández, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-31 12:30: The new EU Regulation on gas supply security (Pierre Noel & Sachi Findlater (EPRG)) 2010-06-02 13:15: Constructing the contemporary city: informal housing processes in Latin America (Dr. Peter Kellett, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle) 2010-06-03 14:00: Panagrolaimus davidi, an Antarctic nematode model for the survival of extreme environmental stress (David Wharton, Department of Zoology, University of Otago) 2010-06-03 14:05: Extreme Events in Finance and Geophysics. What Geophysics could teach Central Bankers (Philip Bond) 2010-06-07 12:30: Carbon Added information, incentives and instruments: rationale and challenges in the electricity sector (Michael Grubb, Tim Laing and Siobhán McNamara (EPRG)) 2010-06-07 12:30: Preliminary Work on the Development of Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for Individual Buildings (Adam Rysanek (Energy Efficient Cities Initiative)) 2010-06-08 14:15: Organic Aerosol: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (Prof. Colette Heald, Colorado State University.) 2010-06-09 13:15: A new theory of the city (Professor Bill Hillier, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory, University College London) 2010-06-10 19:00: Crossing Australia Using Solar Power (Anthony Law, University of Cambridge) 2010-06-11 16:30: Engineering a low carbon future for the UK (Dr Scott Steedman, FREng, Royal Academy of Engineering) 2010-06-14 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Max Grenz & Thorsten Beckers (TU Berlin)) 2010-06-15 10:30: Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009 (Dr Yvonne Hinssen, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University) 2010-06-15 11:00: Management of Antarctic baleen whales amid past exploitation, current problems, emerging threats and complex marine ecosystems (Rebecca Leaper (Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute University of Tasmania) & Cara Miller (Pacific Islands Programme, WDCS International)) 2010-06-16 11:00: Variability and trends of drifter pathways near the Antarctic Peninsula and potential ecological impacts (Angelika Renner, British Antarctic Survey) 2010-06-16 12:00: Exploring Antarctic Lichen Biodiversity (Dr William Purvis (Natural History Musuem)) 2010-06-21 14:15: Observations and Simulations of Borneo Vortex (Prof. Azizan Abu Samah, IOES, Univ of Malaya) 2010-06-22 09:00: The 2010 CUEN Annual Energy Conference - Driving Change: Energy and Transportation in the 21st Century (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-06-23 12:00: Estimating acclimation temperatures at the assemblage level in the marine environment: towards macrophysiology (Dr Joelle Richard (British Antarctic Survey)) 2010-06-25 13:00: Clues for Climate Change Concealed in the Canopy - Diversity and Ecophysiology of Bryophytes in Peru (Aline Horwath) 2010-06-30 11:00: Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An Observationally-Driven Theoretical Study (Dr. Stephanie Waterman, National Oceanography Centre and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London) 2010-07-05 14:30: Molecular perspectives of adaptations to challenges of polar environment (C-H Christina Cheng (University of Illinois)) 2010-07-07 14:00: CEI - Water Workshop (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-07-21 16:00: Observing the behavior of individual crustacean zooplankton using optics and acoustics. (Dr Jules Jaffe (SCRIPPS, University of California)) 2010-07-29 14:05: CANCELLED - Physical Limnology: Recent Results from Lake Iseo (Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia)) 2010-08-27 11:00: Observing atmospheric transport and mixing using the world's smallest controllable balloon (Paul Voss, Smith College, USA) 2010-09-08 11:00: Turbulence profiling beneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound with particular attention to topographic and cryographic effects (Craig Stevens (National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand)) 2010-09-14 14:15: Understanding and using the tropopause: trends and characterization (Dr. Juan Anel, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.) 2010-09-21 11:00: The unified neutral theory of biodiversity (Robin Hankin (Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research)) 2010-09-28 14:00: Analytical Chemical Techniques for past and present climate studies (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-10-04 14:15: CAS Second year student talks (Gregor Stewart, Zadie Stock and Steve Fuller) 2010-10-05 11:00: The evolutionary history of baleen whales in an Antarctic context (Jennifer Jackson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2010-10-05 16:00: Getting a sense of time for massive radiations in Lepidoptera (Niklas Wahlberg, University of Turku) 2010-10-06 11:00: The influence of tides on melting and freezing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, and Antarctic Bottom Water production (Keith Makinson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2010-10-08 14:15: Recent evidence concerning road vehicle emissions of nitrogen oxides (Dr David Carslaw (Kings College London)) 2010-10-12 14:15: Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss (Dr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA) 2010-10-12 16:00: Dimming of the Garden State: An ecological unravelling (Professor Ralph Mac Nally) 2010-10-14 12:00: Social scientific methods for understanding climate change policy (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-10-16 20:00: “Sir Hubert Wilkins – Forgotten Hero?” (Jim McNeill, Explorer and Adventure Travel organiser) 2010-10-18 14:15: The reactivity, hygroscopicity and volatility of atmospheric aerosols (Dr Francis Pope (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-19 13:00: Building a network model for metallic foams (Anthony Anderson (ITG/DAMTP)) 2010-10-19 16:00: Sympatric speciation on islands (Vincent Savolainen, Imperial College London & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) 2010-10-22 13:00: Setting meaningful restoration goals for a globally imperiled habitat (Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-25 14:15: Optical Absorptivity versus Molecular Composition of Model Organic Aerosol Matter (Dr Angela-G. Rincon-Benavides) 2010-10-26 13:00: Locomotion on a slime layer: water snails versus land snails (Sam Pegler (ITG/DAMTP)) 2010-10-26 16:00: The theory of signals selection as a distinct selection mechanism and its implications for altruism (Amotz Zahavi) 2010-10-28 12:00: Conservation + Sustainability: Can Conservation and Retrofits Work Together? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-10-28 14:05: Decadal climate variability over the past 100 years (Peter Baines (Bristol/Melbourne)) 2010-10-29 13:00: Natural Resource Management - An Ecologist's Perspective (Dr. Martyn Murray, MGM Environmental Solutions / University of Edinburgh) 2010-10-30 20:00: Melting ice - rising seas: Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (Dr. Colin Summerhayes, a marine geologist, is a past Director of the UK's Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory and a former Deputy Director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.) 2010-11-01 14:15: No Seminar This Week () 2010-11-02 13:00: Cave rings (Emma Boland (DAMTP/BAS)) 2010-11-02 16:00: Evidence of sexual selection on olfactive communication by means of male sex pheromone production in Bicyclus anynana (Caroline Nieberding, Académie Louvain (UCL)) 2010-11-04 14:05: Missing mixing in the ocean mixed layer (Stephen Belcher (Reading)) 2010-11-05 13:00: Rainforest conversion and tropical insect communities (Sarah Luke, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-08 14:15: Constraining the secondary organic aerosol budget and the impact of soot aerosol on cloud albedo (Dr Dominick Spracklen) 2010-11-09 13:00: CANCELLED - Dispersion and mixing in quasi two-dimensional jets (Julien Landel (DAMTP/BPI)) 2010-11-09 16:00: Understanding Primate Signaling (James Higham, University of Chicago) 2010-11-11 12:00: Energy consumption from dwellings : do we understand it? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-11 14:05: Climate science informing policy (Emily Shuckburgh (BAS)) 2010-11-12 13:00: The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Northern Africa (Nieves Garcia. IUCN) 2010-11-13 16:00: The Great White Silence (Bryony Dixon, Curator Silent Film, British Film Institute) 2010-11-15 14:15: Reconciling top-down versus bottom-up isoprene emissions from the Amazon Basin (Dr Michael P. Barkley, University of Leicester) 2010-11-16 13:00: CANCELLED - APS DFD practice talks (Various speakers) 2010-11-16 16:00: What can a computer tournament tell us about the evolution of human culture? (Dr. Luke Rendell, University of St. Andrews) 2010-11-17 09:40: Secondary Health Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (Prof Douglas Crawford-Brown, 4CMR, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-17 11:30: Treating carbon addiction in the NHS: sustainable clinical practice (Dr Frances Mortimer, Campaign for Greener Healthcare) 2010-11-18 14:05: Drumlins (Andrew Fowler (Oxford)) 2010-11-19 11:00: Southern Ocean iron fertilisation by baleen whales and Antarctic krill (Dr Steve Nicol (Australian Antarctic Division)) 2010-11-19 13:00: To be connected or not? Floodplain restoration and aquatic diversity (Dr Amael Paillex, Aquatic Ecology and Biology Lab, University of Geneva) 2010-11-20 09:00: Climate Change and Health (Multiple speakers) 2010-11-20 20:00: The Northern Party – in the shadows of the heroic age? (Robin Back, Chairman, Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute) 2010-11-22 14:15: High-Resolutin Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Complexes of Atmospheric Interests. (Dr Bin Ouyang, CAS Cambridge) 2010-11-23 16:00: The long march of the human genes. (Dr. Andrea Manica, Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University) 2010-11-24 16:30: Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy (John Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University) 2010-11-25 12:00: The key stakeholders' response to climate change (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-25 14:05: Ice cores and climate: how long is an interglacial? (Eric Wolff (BAS)) 2010-11-29 14:15: Conservation in realistic simulations of composition beyond the mixing timescale (Dr John Methven, University of Reading) 2010-11-30 13:00: Uncapping the Southern Ocean: evidence for a physical/dynamical barrier in the Southern Ocean and its role in glacial-interglacial CO2 variability (Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences)) 2010-11-30 16:00: The evolution of helpful wasps: comparing direct and indirect fitness benefits (Dr. Elli Leadbeater, University of Sussex) 2010-12-03 11:00: Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW): Observations of annual mode water anomalies and long term (40-85yr) intermediate water trends (Sunke Schmidtko, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) 2010-12-07 16:00: What drives the extraordinary diversification in lemurs ? - When ecology meets genetics (Ute Radespiel, TiHo, Hannover) 2010-12-08 11:00: Southern Ocean Circulation and Atmospheric pCO2 (David Munday (University of Oxford)) 2010-12-16 11:00: Genetic and stable isotope studies on a top marine predator, the killer whale (Andrew Foote, The Centre for GeoGenetics, Universiy of Copenhagen) 2011-01-20 11:00: Multi-decadal trends of ocean circulation in the southeast Indian Ocean (Ming Feng (CSIRO)) 2011-01-21 13:00: Who killed the megafauna? A tale of climate change, murder and mystery. (David Williams and Graham Prescott, University of Cambridge) 2011-01-24 14:15: Ground-based and aircraft LIF systems using thermal dissociation techniques: instrument description and field campaigns results (Dr Piero Di Carlo, CETEMPS-University of L'Aquila (Italy)) 2011-01-25 13:00: Mountain ranges as viscous gravity currents (Alex Copley (Earth Sciences)) 2011-01-25 16:00: Predicting the Genetic, Phenotypic, life history and Demographic Consequences of Environmental Change for Yellowstone Wolves (Prof. Tim Coulson, Imperial College London, Silwood Park) 2011-01-26 11:00: A new mechanism for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes (Arnaud Czaja (Imperial College London)) 2011-01-26 18:00: Energy Security and UK Energy Policy (Professor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University)) 2011-01-27 12:00: Carbon Capture from Solid Fuels (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-01-27 14:05: Underground CO2 Storage: using monitoring and prediction to prove the concept (Andy Chadwick (British Geological Survey)) 2011-01-31 14:15: Influences of microphysical processes on atmospheric humidity: observations and model results (Dr Jonathon Wright, University of Cambridge) 2011-02-01 13:00: Elastic response of a sheet-shelf system near the grounding line (Roiy Sayag (ITG, DAMTP)) 2011-02-01 16:00: The evolution of culture (Prof. Kevin Laland, University of St. Andrews) 2011-02-02 18:00: Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed) (Professor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science)) 2011-02-03 14:05: Compaction and crystallisation in magma chambers: the Skaergaard Intrusion (Dan McKenzie (Earth Sciences)) 2011-02-07 14:15: Assessing air quality forecasts using a new evaluation technique (Dr Helen Dacre, University of Reading) 2011-02-08 13:00: The Atlantic Overturning Circulation is not driven by meridional density gradients (Agatha De Boer (Environmental Sciences, UEA)) 2011-02-09 11:00: Icebergs, meltwater and the overturning circulation during Marine Isotope Stage 6 (Mattias Green (Bangor University)) 2011-02-10 12:00: Implementation of System-Wide Reduced Carbon Emissions Solutions (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-02-10 14:05: Solidification of poly-phase systems: what can gabbroic microstructures tell us? (Marian Holness (Earth Sciences)) 2011-02-11 19:30: Zero Carbon Britain 2030 (Godfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer) 2011-02-12 20:00: Recent Antarctic Climate Change (Professor John Turner - BAS) 2011-02-14 14:15: Solar Effects on the Polar Atmosphere: The Role of Energetic Particle Precipitation (Dr Annika Seppälä, BAS) 2011-02-15 13:00: Turbulent plumes in the Southern Ocean (Paul Holland (BAS)) 2011-02-15 16:00: Can we have our tropical biodiversity and eat it too? (Dr. Ben Phalan, Dept. Of Zoology, Cambridge University) 2011-02-16 14:00: A dynamical mechanism for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole (Dr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey)) 2011-02-17 13:00: Sustainability of Antarctic krill (Dr Simeon Hill, British Antarctic Survey) 2011-02-17 14:05: Venice - sustainability and the impacts of the flood protection barriers (Paul Linden (DAMTP)) 2011-02-17 20:00: The British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37 (Bryan Lintott - SPRI) 2011-02-18 13:00: Movement of British macro-moths through fragmented agricultural landscapes (Claire McLaughlan, University of Cambridge) 2011-02-21 14:15: Isotopic constraints on atmospheric methane sources (Dr Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway University of London) 2011-02-22 13:00: Constraints on mush processes in solidifying gabbro (Madeleine Humphreys (DES, Oxford)) 2011-02-22 16:00: How does an individual’s early social environment influence their morphology and behaviour? (Dr. Joah Madden, School of Psychology, University of Exeter) 2011-02-23 14:00: Thoughts about Chemistry-Climate Modelling and Geoengineering (Dr Peter Braesicke (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-23 18:00: Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities (Professor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre)) 2011-02-24 12:00: How to Enhance Value to Historic Context Through Contemporary Interventions (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-02-24 14:05: TBA (Thierry Alboussiere (ENS Lyon)) 2011-02-25 13:00: Modelling the distribution of Freshwater Invasive Species across Europe (Dr Belinda Gallardo, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge.) 2011-02-26 20:00: Antarctic Science and Policy Advice in a Changing World (Dr Mike Sparrow - SCAR) 2011-03-01 13:00: CANCELLED - Reconciling the hemispherical structure of Earth's inner core with its super-rotation (Lauren Waszek (ITG, Earth Sciences)) 2011-03-01 16:00: Coupled Dynamics of Populations and Phenotypic Traits in Changing Environments (Arpat Ozgul, University of Cambridge) 2011-03-02 18:00: A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time (Dr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative)) 2011-03-04 13:00: Conservation and Corporations (Emma Marsden, University of Cambridge) 2011-03-04 18:00: "Passivhaus - 20 Years of Experience in Very Low Energy Buildings " (Prof. Wolfgang Feist) 2011-03-07 14:15: On trends and feedbacks in the Contemporary Global Carbon Cycle (Prof Emanuel Gloor, University of Leeds) 2011-03-08 13:00: CANCELLED - Instabilities in viscous particle plumes (Andrew Crosby (ITG, DAMTP)) 2011-03-08 16:00: Ecological changes in modified landscapes (Dr. Rob Ewers, Imperial College, Silwood Park) 2011-03-09 13:00: Continental Shelf and Slope Variability in the Southeast Weddell Sea (Cedric Chavanne (University of East Anglia)) 2011-03-09 14:00: Atmospheric Responses to Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure (Dr Hua Lu (British Antarctic Survey)) 2011-03-09 18:00: Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks (Profesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy)) 2011-03-09 19:30: The Conservation of Chalk Grassland Flora - orchids and butterflies (Dr Peter Carey, CU Plant Sciences Department) 2011-03-10 12:00: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Modelling the Resource Performance of Cities (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-03-11 13:00: Tracking an invader: the spread of the harlequin ladybird in Europe and its effects on native ladybirds (Peter Brown, Anglia Ruskin University) 2011-03-12 20:00: The British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37 (Bryan Lintott, SPRI) 2011-03-14 14:15: Real-time measurements of volatile organic compounds by CIR-ToF-MS (Dr Iain White, University of Leicester) 2011-03-15 13:00: Convective dissolution in CO2 sequestration: Porous media convection at high Rayleigh number/Brine drainage in sea ice (Duncan Hewitt/David Rees-Jones (ITG, DAMTP)) 2011-03-16 18:00: Decarbonising the transport system (Professor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover)) 2011-03-21 13:00: Department of Zoology Seminar Day (Various) 2011-03-22 14:00: Elastic response of an ice sheet-ice shelf system near the grounding line (Dr. Roiy Sayag (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-23 14:00: Climatology and recent change of westerly winds over the Amundsen Sea Embayment derived from six re-analyses (Dr Thomas Bracegirdle (British Antarctic Survey)) 2011-03-26 20:00: Variation and change in the Southern Ocean eco-system (Dr Jonathan L. Watkins, BAS) 2011-03-30 19:30: How are the Water Voles doing? (Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust) 2011-03-30 19:30: How are the Water Voles doing? (Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust) 2011-03-30 19:30: How are the Water Voles doing? (Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust) 2011-03-30 19:30: How are the Water Voles doing? (Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust) 2011-04-06 14:00: Analysis of a rapid sea-ice retreat event in the Bellingshausen Sea (Dr John King (British Antarctic Survey)) 2011-04-14 19:00: The Staffordshire Treasure (Dr Kevin Leahy, National Finds Adviser for early mediaeval metalwork) 2011-04-27 19:30: Why We Resist The Truth (Clive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra) 2011-05-04 18:00: Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream? (Dr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida) 2011-05-06 13:00: Does money grow on trees? Implications of livelihood heterogeneity in Amazonian reserves (Pete Newton, University of East Anglia) 2011-05-09 14:15: Atmospheric bromine: from tropics to polar regions (Dr. Xin Yang ( Centre for Atmospheric Science)) 2011-05-10 13:00: Instability of a viscous particle plume (Andrew Crosby, ITG, DAMTP) 2011-05-12 13:00: The effects of capillary forces in two-phase gravity currents (Madeleine Golding, ITG, DAMTP) 2011-05-13 13:00: Acoustic techniques for identifying bats: new ways of obtaining distribution data (Charlotte Walters. Institute of Zoology (London)) 2011-05-16 14:15: CANCELLED ##### Air Pollution and health: myths and realities ####### (Prof Jon Ayres, Director of Institue of Occupational and Environmental Medicene, University of Birmingham) 2011-05-19 12:00: Experiential Learning, Ecological Literacy and Sustainable Design Training (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-05-19 13:00: Building a practical toolkit for measuring ecosystem services (Dr Kelvin Peh, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-19 13:00: Earth's inner core: hemispheres, anisotropy and rotation (Lauren Waszek, Bullard, DES & ITG) 2011-05-19 13:00: Reclaiming South Georgia from its rats: the story so far (Prof Tony Martin, Dundee University) 2011-05-24 13:00: Flow of rivers through lakes (Charlie Hogg, ITG, DAMTP) 2011-05-27 13:00: A hot question in an age of global change: which model is the most sexy? (Yangchen Lin, University of Cambridge) 2011-06-01 15:30: Australian HFC, PFC and SF6 emissions: atmospheric verification (Dr Paul Fraser, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research) 2011-06-02 12:00: Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics I: a survey of local practice (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-06-03 13:00: How can we save the rainforest in SW China? ---Mapping net present value (NPV) of rubber plantations and valuation of ecosystem services to identify targets for forest restoration. (Yi Zhuangfang, PhD student, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) 2011-06-07 14:15: Modelling organic aerosol: sensitivities and simplifications (Prof Gordon McFiggans, University of Manchester) 2011-06-14 10:30: Genetic monitoring and single stock assessment of the New Zealand subantarctic southern right whale (Emma Carroll, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand) 2011-06-15 14:00: Antarctic Meteorological Data at the British Antarctic Survey (Steven Colwell (British Antarctic Survey)) 2011-06-16 12:00: Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics II: issues workshop (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-06-21 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Neil Harris) 2011-06-28 09:00: Gale Force: Offshore Wind Power - 2011 CUEN Annual Conference (Elke Delnooz (Operation Support Manager, Shell/NordZee Wind); Stephanie McGregor (Director of Offshore Transmission, Ofgem); Richard McMahon (Electricity, Power and Energy Conversion Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) and others) 2011-07-15 13:00: The convoluted evolution of behavior: insights from bird eggs and songs (David C. Lahti, Department of Biology, Queens College, The City University of New York (CUNY)) 2011-07-18 15:00: Mapping Epithermal Gold Deposits on the Island of Milos, Greece, using an integrated Spectral Reflectance and Spectral Emissivity Dataset (Dr Graham Ferrier (University of Hull)) 2011-07-19 14:00: Coupling climate and ice sheet models: experiments for the Greenland Ice Sheet (Guðfinna Tollý Aðalgeirsdóttir) 2011-07-20 09:00: Local Practices for a Global Society: Applying Sustainability in Universities (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-07-20 11:00: Ice edge to island blooms: carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean (Elizabeth Jones (NIOZ)) 2011-07-26 15:00: Metabolic Rate in Seabirds – Influences, Limits & Consequences (Jon Green, Liverpool University) 2011-07-27 11:00: Anisotropic eddy transport in models and observations (Igor Kamenkovich (RSMAS, University of Miami)) 2011-07-28 14:00: ESF-IMCOAST: a European South American integrated study of coastal climate change at King-George Island (Doris Abele (AWI)) 2011-08-10 13:00: Dense water cascading off the continental shelf - overview and recent modelling results (Fred Wobus (Plymouth University)) 2011-08-15 16:00: Experimental and comparative studies of innovation in birds (Professor Louis Lefebvre, McGill University) 2011-09-16 11:30: Stratosphere-Troposphere interaction and climate prediction. (Dr Adam Scaife, Met Office Hadley Centre.) 2011-09-30 13:00: Colony defense by post-reproductive adults and young nymphs in a social aphid (Keigo Uematsu. Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo.) 2011-10-03 14:15: Modelling changes in the global methane hydrate inventory (Stephen Hunter, University of Leeds) 2011-10-04 16:00: Butterflies on steroids: hormones, gene expression and how to deal with fluctuating environments (Vicencio Oostra - Leiden University, The Netherlands) 2011-10-06 13:00: Assessing the effusion rate of lava flows from thermal remote-sensing: theoretical and experimental studies of the spreading and cooling of viscous gravity currents (Fanny Garel (IPGP)) 2011-10-08 14:00: "Transparency Creates Values: Corporate Environmental and Social Disclosure in China" (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-10-10 14:15: Second Year PhD Presentations - I (Oliver Squire (University of Cambridge), Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-11 13:00: Impact of boundaries on ocean vortex patch dynamics (Andrew Crosby (DAMTP)) 2011-10-11 16:00: Life-history, group dynamics and intra-sexual competition in monogamous owl monkeys of Argentina (Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, University of Pennsylvania) 2011-10-12 11:00: Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf (Karen M. Assmann (BAS)) 2011-10-13 12:00: Summer School Proceeedings (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-10-13 14:00: How does the data assimilation method in the Northern Hemisphere affect the representation of mid-Holocene climate? (Aurélien Mairesse (Université catholique de Louvain)) 2011-10-15 20:00: Angie Butler: The Quest for Frank Wild (Angie Butler (Author)) 2011-10-17 13:00: Bacteria foraging in a turbulent ocean (John Taylor (DAMTP)) 2011-10-17 14:15: Second Year PhD Presentations - II (James Keeble (University of Cambridge), Matthew McLeod (University of Cambridge) and Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-18 13:00: Dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional turbulent jets (Julien Landel (DAMTP, BPI)) 2011-10-18 16:00: Magic traits, sensory drive and local adaptation: modelling the ecological context of divergent sexual selection (Sander van Doorn - University of Bern) 2011-10-21 11:00: Water mass transformations and air-sea exchange in the Barents Sea (Marius Årthun (BAS)) 2011-10-24 13:00: Dynamical mechanisms for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole (Andrew Orr (BAS)) 2011-10-25 13:00: Mixing of a stable linear density stratification in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow (Rosie Oglethorpe (DAMTP, BPI)) 2011-10-25 16:00: A bitter prey to swallow: investigating avian responses to bitter tastes and the implications for antipredator defences (Hannah Rowland - University of Cambridge) 2011-10-25 16:15: Timescales of chemical reactions (Prof Michael Pilling, University of Leeds) 2011-10-27 12:00: Russia & Central Asia: Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-10-27 19:30: Rain Water Harvesting with Graham Cross (Graham Cross) 2011-10-29 10:15: Amundsen and Scott: Lives Explored (Various Speakers) 2011-10-31 13:00: Mixing at high Richardson number (Colm Caulfield (BPI, DAMTP)) 2011-11-01 16:00: Animal collective decision making in conflict situations (Larissa Conradt - University of Sussex) 2011-11-07 13:00: Air quality, ozone layer depletion and chemistry-climate interactions - measurements and modelling (John Pyle (Chemistry)) 2011-11-08 13:00: Gravity driven intrusions in stratified fluids (Ben Maurer (DAMTP)) 2011-11-08 16:00: Queens, workers, and working queens: morphological adaptations related to caste-specific behaviours in ants (Roberto A. Keller - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal) 2011-11-10 12:00: Carbon Markets and Eastern Europe (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-11-14 13:00: Modelling melt, water routing and the filling and drainage of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Ian Willis (SPRI)) 2011-11-14 14:15: The role of glassy aerosol in cirrus ice cloud formation (Theodore Wilson, University of Leeds) 2011-11-15 15:30: Modelling the living world? (Dr Mike Harfoot, United Nations Environment Programme - WCMC) 2011-11-15 16:00: Colours of speciation in fish and frogs (Martine Maan - University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 2011-11-17 16:15: The Recent Increase of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent (Prof. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey) 2011-11-18 13:00: Unravelling ecological dynamics at a macro scale: application of hierarchical models (Dr Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group) 2011-11-21 18:30: Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy (Dr Michael Pollitt - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-22 16:00: Significance of the matriline for Mammalian Brain evolution (Barry Keverne - University of Cambridge) 2011-11-23 19:30: Rosemary Randall on ‘Behaviour change: solution or diversion?’ 23 November (Rosemary Randall) 2011-11-24 12:00: Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-11-24 13:00: Tackling big questions with meta-analysis: a case study of life-extension via dietary restriction (Shinichi Nakagawa - Department of Zoology, University of Otago) 2011-11-25 13:00: The importance of evaluating conservation management actions: unexpected outcomes of invasive predator control for malleefowl conservation (Jessica C. Walsh, Conservation Science Group) 2011-11-26 20:00: On Extinction: Natural and unnatural disappearances from the old whaling stations of Antarctica to the Inuit camps of the Arctic (Melanie Challenger) 2011-11-28 13:00: Seismic Oceanography: High resolution imaging of thermohaline circulation to abyssal depths (Nicky White (DES)) 2011-11-28 14:15: A novel satellite mission concept for upper air water vapour, aerosol and cloud observations using Integrated Path Differential Absorption LiDAR Limb Sounding (Alex Hoffman, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-29 13:00: The fluid mechanics of ice-shelf buttressing (Sam Pegler (DAMTP)) 2011-11-29 16:00: The fate of Sundaland's degraded forests (David P Edwards - James Cook University, Cairns, Australia) 2011-12-06 19:00: Sir Joseph Hooker and the Ross Antarctic Expedition (Dr Peter Donaldson) 2011-12-07 14:00: The edge region of the Antarctic stratospheric vortex: its existence and its importance. (Dr Howard Roscoe (BAS)) 2011-12-12 16:00: Geoengineering Mini Symposium. (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-12-12 20:00: Screening of FUEL - the documentary (Documentary Screening) 2012-01-06 14:00: The response of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system to changes in the dipole moment of the Earth's magnetic field (Dr Ingrid Cnossen (NCAR)) 2012-01-16 14:15: Anatomy of ice cores: continuous-flow chemical analysis of polar ice cores (Dr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-01-17 14:30: Gelation phenomena in cluster-cluster aggregation (Colm Connaughton (Mathematics Institute and Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick)) 2012-01-18 14:00: Dynamical heating controls the stratospheric temperature reduction associated with the Antarctic ozone hole (Dr Andrew Orr (BAS)) 2012-01-19 16:15: Southern Ocean processes and circulation, and impacts on carbon drawdown (Jean-Baptiste Sallee, British Antarctic Survey) 2012-01-23 13:00: I don't believe in Climate Change (Dr David Viner, Red Kite Enterprise and Environment) 2012-01-23 13:00: Why is predicting the future of ice sheets so difficult? (David Vaughan (BAS)) 2012-01-24 16:00: Freshwater fliers in changing landscapes: Diversity and evolution of African dragonflies and damselflies (Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra - NCB-Naturalis, The Netherlands) 2012-01-25 14:00: More precise predictions of future polar winter warming (Dr Tom Bracegirdle (BAS)) 2012-01-26 12:00: Applying Sustainability in Universities (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-01-30 19:30: Some Good News About Climate Change (Danny Chivers) 2012-01-31 16:00: The genetics of dispersal variation: integrating functional genomic insights from larvae and adults of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) (Chris Wheat - University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-02-01 18:00: Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open (Dr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department)) 2012-02-06 13:00: Bradford University’s Ecoversity journey: barriers and breakthroughs (Peter Hughes, Centre for Educational Development, University of Bradford) 2012-02-06 13:00: Ocean observations beneath the floating tongue of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: tales from an autonomous yellow submarine and its friends. (Pierre Dutrieux (BAS)) 2012-02-07 13:00: Towards the dynamic modelling of brine fluxes from sea ice (David Rees-Jones (DAMTP)) 2012-02-07 16:00: Why are defensive toxins so variable? (Johanna Mappes - University of Jyväskylä, Finland) 2012-02-08 18:00: The power of markets to protect nature (Ian Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group)) 2012-02-09 11:45: Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: Green League Table Decomposed (Dr Ben Russell, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics (CCM)) 2012-02-11 19:30: The physiology of man-hauling in the Antarctic: could Scott have survived? (Dr Lewis Halsey) 2012-02-13 13:00: Carbon storage in the glacial ocean: radiocarbon recipes (Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences)) 2012-02-14 13:00: Elastica Fantastica - wrinkling, blistering, stretching and sticking of elastic sheets (Till Wagner (DAMTP, BAS)) 2012-02-14 16:00: Life-history responses to environmental stress in butterflies (Marjo Saastamoinen - University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-02-15 18:00: Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change (Dr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee )) 2012-02-17 15:00: Climate-change velocity since the Last Glacial Maximum: Implications for modern distributions and communities (Brody Sandel - Aarhus University, Denmark) 2012-02-19 02:30: The Economics of Happiness (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-02-20 13:00: Science and Technology in Parliament (Dr Stephen Allen, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) 2012-02-20 13:00: Long-life sea surface temperature (Mike Davey (DAMTP)) 2012-02-20 14:30: Hydrogen fuel cells (Winton community) 2012-02-21 13:00: Structure from chaos: vigorous convection in porous media (Duncan Hewitt (DAMTP)) 2012-02-21 16:00: How good is your molecular clock? - evidence for variation in evolutionary rate at many unexpected levels (William Amos - University of Cambridge) 2012-02-22 20:00: HOME the movie - screening (Documentary Screening) 2012-02-23 11:45: GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Promoting Sustainability Through Knowledge Exchange (Nicholas Ridley, Managing Director of NC Real Estate Consulting Ltd and Ex-President of British Council for Offices) 2012-02-24 13:00: Predictive models in ecology: case studies of invasive fire ants and fire risks (Yohay Carmel, Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel) 2012-02-24 17:00: GreenBRIDGE Society Presents a Special Event: Post Durban Panel Discussion (Speakers include: Prof. Doug Crawford-Brown, Jazmin Burgess, Dr Alison Cooke) 2012-02-25 17:30: How vulnerable is reindeer herding in the European Arctic? (Gareth Rees) 2012-02-27 13:00: Assessing Antarctica's contribution to global sea level rise over the next century: progress made within the EU ice2se project (Tony Payne (Bristol, Geographical Sciences)) 2012-02-27 14:15: The Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and it's role in Climate. (Dr Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO) 2012-02-27 16:30: Tea time conversation (Winton community) 2012-02-28 13:00: The formation of non-zonal jets over sloped topography in the ocean (Emma Boland (DAMTP, BAS)) 2012-02-28 16:00: Avian Archimedes? How does the Eurasian Jay learn the Aesops Fable task, and how does this compare to Human Children? (Lucy Cheke - University of Cambridge) 2012-02-29 18:00: Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when? (Jonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future)) 2012-03-01 19:30: Advanced Recycling (Mark Buckton, Cambridge City Council) 2012-03-02 13:00: Empowering generations of conservation leadership - myth or reality! (Kiragu Mwangi, Birdlife International) 2012-03-05 13:00: The Politics of Energy Policy (Robert Jones, former advisor to UK Government) 2012-03-05 13:00: Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope (Karen Heywood (UEA, School of Environmental Sciences)) 2012-03-06 13:00: Drop formation of a power-law fluid on a thin film coating a vertical fibre (Liyan Yu (DAMTP)) 2012-03-06 15:30: Paper discussion group on: “Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming” (Dr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-03-06 16:00: There and back again; the migration of the garden warbler (Ulf Ottosson - A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos, Nigeria) 2012-03-07 18:00: Making peace with the Earth (Dr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation)) 2012-03-08 11:45: GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock (Dr James Keirstead, Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Imperial College London) 2012-03-08 18:30: CAREERS in ENERGY (Mr Vince Pizzoni - Executive Search Consultant, Preng and Associates, London) 2012-03-09 13:00: Biodiversity after forty years of human re-colonization in the Amazon forest (Jose Manuel Ochoa-Qunintero, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-09 14:15: Isotope fractionation in nitrous oxide and CFC-12 reflects stratospheric chemistry and transport rates (Dr Jan Kaiser, University of East Anglia) 2012-03-10 18:45: Title to be confirmed (David Baillie) 2012-03-12 13:00: CANCELLED - Finite volume fountains and dense vortices (Gary Hunt (Imperial, Civil & Environmental Engineering)) 2012-03-12 13:00: Towards national emissions verification for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (Dr Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol) 2012-03-12 13:00: Downwelling in Basins Subject to Buoyancy Loss (Claudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)) 2012-03-13 13:00: Polynyas / Internal Wave Attractors: Focussing without sloping boundaries (Peter Ford / Rob Sutton (DAMTP)) 2012-03-13 16:00: Unraveling the dynamics of rapid species diversification in Cymothoe butterflies (Robin van Velzen - Wageningen University, The Netherlands) 2012-03-13 19:00: Breaking Habits & Going For Green: a Carbon Conversations Taster Session (Bev Sedley, Trustee CCF & Beejal Parekh, Volunteer CCF) 2012-03-14 18:00: The next 40 years (Professor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth)) 2012-03-14 19:30: Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter (Bev Sedley, Trustee CCF) 2012-03-16 13:00: Gödel, Escher, Mahler: love-hate dynamics in ecological networks (Yangchen Lin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-17 19:30: Shackleton’s month at South Georgia (Robert Burton) 2012-03-19 13:00: Climate models and uncertainty (Erica Thompson (Imperial College London) and Emma Boland (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-20 15:30: Erebus volcano: from mantle to atmosphere (Clive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-30 13:00: Mapping plant diversity across the scales (Laurens Geffert, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn) 2012-04-02 14:00: Symposium: “Joining up the atmos-spheres” organised by BAS and CCfCS (Richard Horne, Hua Lu, Howard Roscoe, Tom Bracegirdle and John Pyle) 2012-04-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York)) 2012-04-10 16:00: How Can We Lose a Bus-Sized Fish? Exploring the Hidden Life of the Whale Shark (Simon Pierce - Marine Megafauna Association, Mozambique) 2012-04-12 19:30: The Sharing Economy: An Introduction to Collaborative Consumption (CamLETS, Zipcar, Lourish, and more) 2012-04-16 13:00: Strategic decisions, climate change and resources (Julie Winnard, Ford) 2012-04-16 16:30: Biofuels (Winton community) 2012-04-17 15:30: Antarctic climate variability during past Interglacials: new findings from the EPICA Dome C ice core. (Dr. Katy Pol, British Antarctic Survey) 2012-04-17 16:00: Future methane, OH, and their uncertainties. (Dr Christopher D Holmes, University of California, Irvine) 2012-04-19 14:00: CANCELLED: Statistics and characteristics of mid-latitude travelling ionospheric disturbances observed by HF radars (Dr Adrian Grocott (University of Leicester)) 2012-04-23 13:00: Impact of Recent Climate Change on Montane Mammals and Birds (Steve Beissinger, University of California, Berkeley) 2012-04-27 13:00: Defining synergies and tradeoffs between ecosystem services for integrative land use planning in degraded peatland regions of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia (Elizabeth Law, University of Queensland, Australia) 2012-04-30 13:00: Does gender matter to sustainable development? (Professor Clare Griffiths, University of Chester) 2012-04-30 16:00: Energy Efficient Lighting (Winton Community) 2012-05-01 16:00: Exploring limits to adaptation in response to ecological change (Jon Bridle, University of Bristol) 2012-05-02 19:30: Eco-Renovation Question Time (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-05-03 12:00: Building Energy Performance for Refurbishment – Baselines, Monitoring and Benchmarks (Kerry Sykes from the University of Cambridge, George Bartley from Building Sustainability) 2012-05-09 20:00: GASLAND the documentary - screening (Documentary Screening) 2012-05-14 14:15: Modelling and data assimilation of reactive gases at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. (Dr Johannes Flemming, ECMWF) 2012-05-15 15:30: The Carrington event not observed in most ice core nitrate records (Prof. Eric Wolff FRS, British Antarctic Survey) 2012-05-16 17:00: Special GreenBRIDGE Seminar - Key-requirements for Evaluating Smart and Sustainable Development in Cities and Communities (Dr Patrizia Lombardi - Politecnico di Torino, DIST – Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning) 2012-05-17 11:45: Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment: Built Cultural Heritage Case (Stephen Bond - MA HonDArt FSA MRICS GradDipConsAA) 2012-05-17 14:30: The lek paradox and gene-environment interactions (Andrew Cockburn - The Australian National University) 2012-05-18 18:30: What makes us happy? (Professor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute) 2012-05-21 14:15: Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds. (Dr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-22 15:30: Interpreting the influence of air mass origin on the atmospheric composition of long term measurement stations (Dr. Zoe Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Leicester) 2012-05-23 11:00: The East Greenland Boundary Current System South of Denmark Strait (Alex Brearley (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)) 2012-05-28 11:00: Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of Efficiency (Winton Community) 2012-05-28 14:15: Modelling isocyanic acid (HNCO): Tropospheric distribution, budget, and identification of regions with potential health impacts (Dr Paul Young, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory) 2012-05-29 15:30: Where might we find evidence of a Last Interglacial West Antarctic ice sheet collapse in Antarctic ice core records? (Sarah Bradley, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK) 2012-05-29 18:30: FUTURE of PHOTOVOLTAICS in BUILDINGS (Mr Hamish Watson - CEO, Polysolar Ltd - Cambridge) 2012-05-31 12:00: Sensing the Historic Environment – Its Nature and Relevance (Prof. DEAN HAWKES, Dr. HENRIK SCHOENEFELDT, Prof. COLIN PORTEOUS,) 2012-06-08 18:30: PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-06-14 12:00: Behaviour and Energy Use (Irina Shaorshadze, Margaret Thorley, Dr Rosie Robison, Aaron Gillich) 2012-06-20 11:00: Southern Ocean overturning under past and future climate change (Adele Morrison (Australian National University)) 2012-06-20 14:00: Is the increase of Southern Ocean winds, and SAM, caused by the ozone hole rather than by increased greenhouse gases? (Howard Roscoe (BAS)) 2012-06-26 09:00: NUCLEAR: CLEAR OR UNCLEAR? - CUEN Annual Conference 2012 (For a list of confirmed speakers, please visit the conference website: http://cuens.soc.srcf.net/conference12) 2012-06-27 14:00: Gravity wave activity in the lower stratosphere above Rothera and the Falkland Islands (Tracy Moffat-Griffin (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-07-02 16:00: The limits to energy and material efficiency (Jonathan Cullen) 2012-07-04 11:00: Links between ice loss, stratification and ocean heat content in the Rothera time series (RaTS) (Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-07-14 10:00: Open Eco Gardens (Various) 2012-07-14 12:30: Summer Lunch Talk (In the spirit of Scott. by Lt. Col. Edwards) 2012-07-23 16:00: What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can't (Matthew Brown) 2012-07-25 14:00: Modelling wave-ice interactions (Luke Bennetts (University of Adelaide)) 2012-08-08 14:00: Meteorological Research at UNIS, Svalbard (Anna Sjøblom Coulson (The University Centre in Svalbard)) 2012-08-28 13:00: Burning for biodiversity? Testing the long-term effects of fire in the Jervis Bay Fire Experiment (Martin Westgate, Australian National University) 2012-09-01 13:00: September Swishing with Cambridge Carbon Footprint (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-09-04 15:30: Paper discussion group: High-resolution interpolar difference of atmospheric methane around the Last Glacial Maximum (Dr. James Levine, British Antarctic Survey) 2012-09-10 14:15: Biomass and Black Carbon particles over Peninsular India: How are they affecting precipitation over the region? (Prof Satyajit Ghosh, VIT University, India and Leeds University, U.K.) 2012-09-11 10:00: Diagnosing potential causes of the HADGEM3 Southern Ocean warm sea surface temperature bias (Dr Pat Hyder, Ocean Modelling Evaluation and Development Met Office) 2012-09-11 14:00: Rapid climate related change at King-George Island: an interdisciplinary approach to coastal systems change (Valeria Bers, Alfred-Wegener0Institute for Polar and Marine Research) 2012-09-24 11:00: The Global Overturning Circulation and Mixing, derived from Inverse Models and Overturning Streamfunctions. (Sjoerd Groeskamp, CSIRO/University of Tasmania) 2012-09-24 13:00: Water meter debate: vital for adapting to climate change or doomed to failure? (Andy Brown (Anglian Water) and Dr James Jenkins (University of Hertfordshire)) 2012-09-24 16:00: Climate finance: barriers and opportunities (Dr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University) 2012-09-25 16:00: Target-based systematic conservation planning and alternative strategies for conservation (Atte Moilanen - University of Helsinki, FInland) 2012-09-26 11:00: Diving into Ancient Oceans: The Southern Ocean, Climate Change and the Silicon Cycle (Dr Katharine Hendry, Cardiff University) 2012-09-27 11:00: Estimates of the amplitude and time scale of global warming. (Dr. Geoff Vallis) 2012-09-27 13:00: The role of avian vision in predator-prey interactions: integrating physiological and behavioural perspectives (Esteban Fernandez-Juricic - Purdue University, USA) 2012-10-03 14:00: Antarctic and Arctic temperature trends (Christian Franzke (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-10-04 13:00: Parasite-induced swarming behaviour in Artemia spp. (Nicolas Rode, Center for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, Montpellier, France) 2012-10-04 13:30: The environmental challenge - Climate action programme in the Diocese of London (Brian Cuthbertson (Church of England, Diocese of London)) 2012-10-08 13:00: Geographically-localised coastal-trapped waves (Ted Johnson (UCL)) 2012-10-09 13:00: Thixotropic gravity currents & the ketchup question (Duncan Hewitt (ITG, DAMTP)) 2012-10-09 13:00: Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the DIMES experiment (Dr. Katy Sheen, University of Southampton ) 2012-10-09 15:30: Why changes in snow fall matter when interpreting temperature from polar ice cores (Dr. Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey) 2012-10-09 16:00: MAD World (Alasdair Houston - University of Bristol, UK) 2012-10-13 19:30: Michael Term Lecture 1 (The Third Reich in Antarctica – the story of the Third German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39 by Colin Summerhayes) 2012-10-15 13:00: A biogeochemical framework for physical oceanographers interested in ocean carbon storage (Philip Goodwin (DES)) 2012-10-15 14:00: Phase-synchronization of tropical variability in global climate model simulations of the recent past (Scott Osprey (University of Oxford)) 2012-10-15 14:15: 1st Year CPGS talks (Sarah Connors, Antara Banerjee and Ewa Bednarz) 2012-10-15 18:30: CU Energy Network WELCOME SQUASH 2012-2013! (CUEN Committee) 2012-10-16 13:00: Spin down of a stellar interior (Rosie Oglethorpe (BPI, DAMTP) ) 2012-10-16 16:00: Markets, social opportunities, and the evolution of fairness (Jean-Baptiste André - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France) 2012-10-17 13:00: Food for Thought: 'Shallow Geothermal Systems for Space Heating and Cooling’ (Denis Garber, PhD Student, Energy Efficient Cities Initiative) 2012-10-17 13:00: Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the DIMES experiment (Dr. Katy Sheen, University of Southampton ) 2012-10-18 13:30: GreenBRIDGE 2012 Symposium Summary (Aaron Gillich (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-22 13:00: What do Students, Farmers, Scientists and Skeptics have in common? (Aimee Roberts, Ella Wiles, Lydia Wade) 2012-10-22 13:00: The 2012 summer sea ice retreat in the Arctic and its implications (Peter Wadhams (DAMTP)) 2012-10-22 14:15: Nocturnal Chemistry in the Troposphere: Laboratory and Field Studies. (Dr Mingjin Tang, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-23 13:00: Buoyancy-induced turbulent mixing in a narrow vertical channel / Seasonal heat storage in porous media (Daan van Sommeren (BPI, DAMTP) / Peter Dudfield (BPI) ) 2012-10-23 16:00: Ecological genetics of life history and host plant adaptation in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Maaike de Jong - University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-10-24 13:00: Food for Thought: Can the US and China build trust to establish institutions? (Michael Tai, PhD Student, Centre for Development Studies) 2012-10-25 13:00: Landscape configuration, connectivity, conservation and climate change (Dr. Jenny Hodgson, University of York) 2012-10-27 19:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture 2 (Henry 'Birdie' Bowers - Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie ) 2012-10-29 13:00: Zooplankton grazing control of Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass: A challenge to geoengineering proposals for Fe-fertilisation of the ocean (Corinne Le Quere (UEA) ) 2012-10-30 13:00: The role of stratospheric water vapour in climate: radiative and dynamical perspectives (Amanda Maycock (Chemistry, DAMTP)) 2012-10-30 16:00: Unraveling the role of natural selection and sexual selection in shaping in the color vision systems of mimetic butterflies (Adriana Briscoe, University of California at Irvine) 2012-10-31 13:00: Exchanges between the Weddell Sea and the rest of the Southern Ocean (Loic Jullion, NOCS) 2012-10-31 13:00: Food for Thought: 'The Air Quality and Climate Tradeoffs in Road Transportation.’ (Uven Chong, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering) 2012-11-01 13:30: Towards Zero Carbon 2012-2016: A Turning Point in Building and Masterplan Design (Thomas Lefevre, Director, Etude) 2012-11-02 13:00: Ancient bones, current issues: marine bioarchaeology as historical ecology (David Orton, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-05 13:00: The role of atmospheric dynamics in ozone-climate coupling (Ted Shepherd (Reading)) 2012-11-05 15:15: The reaction of halogen oxides (BrO and ClO) with CH3O2; laboratory based temperature dependent kinetic and product studies. (Dr Kimberley Leather, University of Manchester) 2012-11-06 13:00: Thermal and tectonic consequences of India underthrusting Tibet (Tim Craig (Bullard, DES) ) 2012-11-06 16:00: Inference of population structure and admixture history using haplotype data in humans and other creatures (Daniel Falush) 2012-11-07 13:00: Food for Thought: ‘Transitions to Climate Change Resilient Cities’ (Marta De Olazabal, PhD Student, Dept. of Land Economy) 2012-11-09 13:00: A comedy of the commons: Toward sustainable use of the Louisiana public oyster grounds (Thomas M. Soniat, Department of Biological Sciences and Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans) 2012-11-10 15:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture 3 (Frozen Planet - the making of the TV Series by Vanessa Berlowitz) 2012-11-12 13:00: Melting at the marine termini of glaciers and ice sheets: insights from a simple plume model (Adrian Jenkins (BAS)) 2012-11-12 14:00: Influences of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field on the Ionosphere (Kathryn McWilliams (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)) 2012-11-12 14:15: The upper troposphere/lower stratosphere and its role in chemistry-climate coupling (Dr Michaela Hegglin, University of Reading) 2012-11-12 16:00: Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money? (Dr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School) 2012-11-12 17:15: EDF R&D: creating value today and preparing for tomorrow (Dr Filomena La Porta - Head of Smart Energy Supply, EDF Energy R&D UK Centre) 2012-11-12 18:00: March of the Penguins (David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey) 2012-11-13 13:00: APS practice talks (Various speakers) 2012-11-13 16:00: Phenology and evolution in the wild - lessons from long term studies (Anne Charmantier - CNRS Montpellier, France) 2012-11-14 13:00: Food for Thought: Ecosystem Services & Sustainable Land Use Practices in Social-Ecological Systems (Aiora Zabala, PhD Student, Dept. of Land Economy.) 2012-11-14 14:00: LiDAR derived sea-ice observations from the Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas (Victoria Hamilton-Morris (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-11-15 13:30: Sustainability Measures in Universities: Cambridge as a Case Study (David Green, Superintendent of Engineering Workshops, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-15 19:30: The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott Cato (Molly Scott Cato, Roehampton University) 2012-11-15 19:30: The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott Cato (Molly Scott Cato, Roehampton University) 2012-11-15 19:30: The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato (Molly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud.) 2012-11-19 13:00: Art and the environment (Dave Pritchard, CIWEM Arts and Environment Network Steering Group) 2012-11-19 14:15: Atmospheric science and policy - the challenge of making them consistent (Prof. Martin Williams, Kings College London) 2012-11-20 11:00: New approaches to understanding marine climate-carbon cycle feedbacks (Dr. Tilla Roy, LSCE/IPSL, Paris) 2012-11-20 16:00: Body temperature regulation in passerines (Jan-Åke Nilsson - University of Lund, Sweden) 2012-11-21 11:00: RAPID-MOC 26N: a Heat budget for the North Atlantic and eddy impacts on the Florida Current (Eleanor Frajka-Williams (University of Southampton)) 2012-11-21 13:00: Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’ (Jon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton.) 2012-11-24 19:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture 4 (By Wind Power Across Antarctica by Ramon Larramendi) 2012-11-26 13:00: Bifurcation structure and stability of families of two-dimensional vortex pairs (Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz (DAMTP)) 2012-11-27 13:00: Efficient mixing in stratified flows: Rayleigh-Taylor instability within a stable stratification (Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP) ) 2012-11-27 16:00: Butterfly defense against predation (Christer Wiklund - Stockholm University, Sweden) 2012-11-28 11:00: Inferring Currents from Streamers (Timothy Grant, BAS/Schlumberger Gould Research) 2012-11-28 13:00: Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’ ( Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey.) 2012-11-29 13:30: Computational Building Performance Analysis (Sam Wilkinson, PhD Candidate, University College London) 2012-12-05 14:00: Air-Sea Interaction in the Southern Ocean: New Results from the SOFS Air-Sea Flux Mooring (Simon Josey (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)) 2012-12-12 11:00: Atmospheric flow over South Georgia and the impacts on regional climate (Daniel Bannister (British Antarctic Survey)) 2012-12-15 15:00: Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse (Dr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist) 2012-12-17 13:00: Health, healthcare, sustainability and climate change. Line in the sand or head in the sand? (David Pencheon, NHS Sustainable Development Unit) 2013-01-14 14:15: Aerosols and global biogeochemical cycles - tiny particles links the atmosphere with the ocean (Dr Zongbo Shi (University of Birmingham)) 2013-01-15 16:00: Fledging mass and survival in a wild bird population: contributions of multi-level processes and selection by a top predator (Sandra Bouwhuis and Oscar Vedder - University of Oxford, UK) 2013-01-21 13:00: Exploration of a simple model for ice ages (Andrew Fowler (OCIAM, Oxford & MACSI, Limerick)) 2013-01-21 16:00: Improving industrial energy efficiency through technology, process and behaviour innovation - policy applications of research (Niall Mackenzie, DECC) 2013-01-22 16:00: Inclusive fitness versus multi-level selection: equivalent approaches to social evolution? (Samir Okasha - University of Bristol, UK) 2013-01-22 19:30: Climate Science in the Media: could it be done better, and how much does it matter? (Dr. Rosie Robison, Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.) 2013-01-23 13:00: Biofuels, indirect land use change and greenhouse gas emissions: A perfect storm of incomplete science and irresolvable politics? (James Palmer, PhD Student, Department of Geography ) 2013-01-28 13:00: Turbulence and energetics in Jupiter's atmosphere (Peter Read (Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics)) 2013-01-29 13:00: Building a conceptual model of the oceanic overturning circulation (Callum Shakespeare (DAMTP)) 2013-01-29 16:00: The role of recombination and rearrangement in the diversity and evolution of Heliconius butterflies (John Davey - University of Cambridge, UK) 2013-01-30 13:00: The Eating Local Challenge: Thinking about the contribution food makes to climate change (Helen Karapandzic, Cambridge Carbon Footprint) 2013-01-31 11:00: Saturation and compensation: Southern Ocean circulation in CMIP5 models (Stephanie Downes, Australian National University) 2013-01-31 13:00: Energy Use in the UK Housing Stock: Are Housing Energy Targets Achievable? At What Cost? (Jason Palmer (Director, CAR Ltd)) 2013-02-03 20:00: FLOW the documentary - screening (Documentary screening) 2013-02-04 13:00: CANCELLED - Avalanching and Segregation of a granular material – tumble, fall, segregate and sort (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP)) 2013-02-05 13:00: Magma chamber processes during crystallization of mafic layered intrusions (Olivier Namur (DES)) 2013-02-05 16:00: Deconstructing visual signals in social butterflies (Susan Finkbeiner - University of California, Irvine, USA) 2013-02-06 13:00: Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis (Gracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty) 2013-02-09 19:30: Lent Term Lecture 1 ('Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins' by Gavin Francis) 2013-02-11 13:00: Convective instability of a reacting diffusive layer in a porous medium (Silvana Cardoso (Engineering)) 2013-02-11 14:15: Hygroscopicity and Phase Transition of Several Kinds of Aerosols (Dr Hai-Jie Tong (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-12 13:00: Field investigation of dyke emplacement mechanics: a case study on the Isle of Rum (Katherine Daniels (DAMTP)) 2013-02-12 16:00: Constraints on adaptations during the evolution of mammalian social systems (Dieter Lukas - Cambridge University) 2013-02-13 13:00: Is black the new green? The potential role of biochar in climate change mitigation (Laura Plant, MPhil Student, Land Economy) 2013-02-13 14:00: Possible impacts of a future Grand Solar Minimum on surface climate (Amanda Maycock (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-14 13:30: GreenBRIDGE Presents: Engagement and Outreach for Green Building Projects (Aaron Gillich (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-18 13:00: Basal control on fast glacier flow (Poull Christoffersen (SPRI)) 2013-02-18 14:15: Understanding uncertainty in computer simulations with an application in global aerosol modelling (Dr Lindsay Lee (University of Leeds)) 2013-02-19 13:00: Secondary instabilities precursory to stratified shear flow transition to turbulence (Ali Mashayek (Toronto, DAMTP)) 2013-02-19 16:00: How identification of the causative mutations illuminates our understanding of evolution: Drosophila pachea ecological specialization and other cases. (Virginie Orgogozo, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot) 2013-02-20 13:00: Translating knowledge about climate change into policy: Lessons from the use of climate science in biodiversity conservation policy in England (David Christian Rose, PhD Student, Department of Geography) 2013-02-20 14:00: Simulations of single clouds and what a LES-type model can tell us about larger scales (Michael Herzog (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-22 13:00: The lost ark. Global amphibian declines, can zoos really make a difference? (Ben Tapley, Zoological Society of London) 2013-02-23 19:30: Lent Term Lecture 2 ('The Sirius Dog Sledge Patrol' by Lieutenant Commander John S Ash) 2013-02-25 13:00: Modelling the plumbing of ice sheets (Ian Hewitt (Oxford, Mathematical Institute)) 2013-02-25 14:15: Brominated Ozone Depleting Substances: Halons and Very Short-Lived Substances (VSLS) (Dr Claire Reeves (University of East Anglia)) 2013-02-25 16:00: Sustainability and Architecture (Prof Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture) 2013-02-25 18:30: CARBON CAPTURE and STORAGE (CCS): its real option value and potential role in the future electricity system (Dr Chi Kong Chyong, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-26 13:00: The Eyjafjallajökull volcanic plumbing system: insights from microseismicity (Jon Tarasewicz (Bullard)) 2013-02-27 13:00: Agricultural adaptation and crop diversity: How developing countries can adjust to climate change (Stella Nordhagen, PhD Student, Department of Land Economy) 2013-02-28 13:30: Energy Retrofit (Dr Anna Mavrogianni and Dr Rokia Raslan) 2013-03-04 13:00: The dynamics of land-atmosphere interaction in West Africa (Doug Parker (Leeds, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science)) 2013-03-05 13:00: Segregation effects in granular collapses/Impingement of a plume on a rigid boundary (Josh Caplan/Alan Jamieson (DAMTP)) 2013-03-06 13:00: Mitigating the effects of methane and manure: A small insight into reducing emissions in UK agriculture (Emily Scott, MPhil, Land Economy ) 2013-03-06 14:00: Climate models and Earth system models: why the differences are and why they're important (Manoj Joshi (UEA)) 2013-03-09 19:30: Lent Term Lecture 3 ('Discovering Bellingshausen' by Rip Bulkeley) 2013-03-11 13:00: Controls on grounding-line dynamics (Sam Pegler (DAMTP)) 2013-03-11 14:15: Ageing of Atmospheric Aerosols (Dr Christian Pfrang (University of Reading)) 2013-03-12 13:00: Theory and experiments for the Ice Sheet-Shelf System/Peeling of elastic sheets: bending, tension and instability (Martin Wearing (ITG, DAMTP, BAS)/Gunnar Peng (ITG, DAMTP)) 2013-03-14 13:30: Cambridge College Retrofit and Energy Efficiency (Peter Armitage, PhD Student, University of Cambridge) 2013-03-15 13:00: The Nature Conservancy’s Marine Habitat Restoration: Achievements from the last decade and challenges for the future. (Dr Boze Hancock, The Nature Conservancy) 2013-03-18 14:15: Stratospheric fractional release, lifetimes, and Ozone Depletion Potentials (Dr Johannes Laube (University of East Anglia)) 2013-03-18 16:00: Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads! (Dr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)) 2013-03-20 14:00: Occam's razor and modelling ecological complexity (Jon Pitchford (York University)) 2013-03-23 19:30: Lent Term Lecture 4 ('DROMLAN: a travelogue, A personal experience of the Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) in the austral spring of 2004' by Peter Clarkson.) 2013-04-16 10:30: A video-plankton and microstructure profiler for the exploration of in situ connections between zooplankton and turbulence (Tetjana Ross (Dalhousie University)) 2013-04-16 14:00: Diurnal ozone variations in the stratosphere revealed in observations from the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) onboard the International Space Station (ISS) ( Takatoshi Sakazaki (Kyoto University)) 2013-04-16 16:00: The evolution of left-right asymmetry in snails and other animals (Menno Schilthuizen - Naturalis NBC, The Netherlands) 2013-04-22 13:00: Submarine melt rate and circulation in an East Greenland fjord (Claudia Cenedese (WHOI)) 2013-04-22 14:00: Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature (Prof Murry Salby (Macquarie University)) 2013-04-22 15:00: The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades (Professor Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University)) 2013-04-23 16:00: Mate choice and visual illusions in great bowerbirds (Laura Kelley, Anglian Ruskin University) 2013-04-25 13:30: GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Heritage and Planning (Oliver Smith, Director, 5th Studio) 2013-04-25 15:30: Reconstruction of past atmospheric aerosol load and composition (organic and inorganic): The case of the European aerosol since 1920 inferred from Alpine ice cores, and prospective for various polar ice cores. (Michel Legrand, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE), France) 2013-04-29 14:15: Climate and health impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol (Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Leeds)) 2013-05-01 11:00: The Weddell Gyre: Freshwater and carbon budgets and exports to the global ocean abyss (Pete Brown (UEA & BAS)) 2013-05-03 13:00: Metabarcoding: emerging technology allows rapid, large-scale monitoring of biodiversity for conservation and management. (Catharine Bruce, University of East Anglia) 2013-05-06 16:00: Mate choice, sexual selection, and the evolutionary dynamics of magic traits (Eva Kisdi - University of Helsinki, Finland) 2013-05-07 20:30: SOLAR MAMAS - documentary screening (Documentary screening) 2013-05-09 13:30: GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Green Building Technologies (Speaker TBC) 2013-05-13 14:15: Urban street canyons: Coupling dynamics, chemistry and within-canyon chemical processing of emissions/Low-cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Personal Exposure Studies and High Density Network for Air Quality Assessment (Dr Vivien Bright/Dr Olalekan Popoola (University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-15 11:00: Ocean heat uptake, the stratification of the Southern Ocean, and the ACC (Till Kuhlbrodt (University of Reading)) 2013-05-17 13:00: West-African straw-coloured fruit bats as a reservoir for viral zoonoses (Kate Baker, Zoological Society of London) 2013-05-20 14:15: Molecular composition of biogenic secondary organic aerosols using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry: linking laboratory and field studies (Dr Ivan Kourtchev (University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-20 16:00: Biological photovoltaic systems (Prof Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry) 2013-05-23 13:30: GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Feasibility and Costing (Speaker TBC) 2013-05-29 11:00: The Biogeochemical Cycle of Iron in the Ocean (Alessandro Tagliabue (University of Liverpool)) 2013-05-29 18:30: Making Electricity Transmission Smarter (Dr Mark Osborne - National Grid) 2013-06-03 14:15: How can we reduce the uncertainty in estimates of aerosol cloud forcing? (Dr Kirsty Pringle (University of Leeds)) 2013-06-06 13:30: GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Behaviour, Management, and Controls (Roderic Bunn, Building Analyst, BSRIA) 2013-06-10 14:15: The assessment of global aerosol-cloud interactions – why is it so hard? (Dr Philip Stier (University of Oxford)) 2013-06-11 11:00: Transient responses of the Southern Ocean to climate change (Andy Hogg (Australian National University)) 2013-06-12 11:00: From wind power input to ocean eddy graveyard (Xiaoming Zhai (University of East Anglia)) 2013-06-12 14:00: The evolutionary invention of food-webs: a palaeobiological and macroecological approach (Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2013-06-13 14:00: Climate effects of ocean overturning on heat content anomalies and atmospheric CO2 (Ric Williams; Liverpool University) 2013-06-17 16:00: Creating Impact from Research (Dr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise) 2013-06-18 09:00: Smart Cities Smart Future - CUEN Annual Conference 2013 (List of speakers in the abstract!) 2013-06-26 11:00: Southern Ocean eddies and the ocean carbon cycle (David Munday (University of Oxford)) 2013-06-26 18:00: Delivering Future-Friendly Buildings: the next 800 years? (Dr Brenda Boardman, University of Oxford) 2013-06-28 13:00: Modelling subglacial hydrology (Ian Hewitt, Universtiy of Oxford) 2013-07-02 11:00: Playing with fire: Ice core biomass burning records from four continents (Dr. Natalie Kehrwald, University of Venice, Italy) 2013-07-02 11:00: Mesoscale eddies at the Antarctic margins: Linking cross-shelf exchange with Southern Ocean overturning (Andrew Thompson; Caltech) 2013-07-02 19:30: Secrets of Antarctica (Anne Miller) 2013-07-03 14:00: The influence of the Amundsen Sea Low on the climate of West Antarctica and its representation in coupled climate model simulations (Scott Hosking (British Antarctic Survey)) 2013-07-10 14:00: An event-based approach to understanding decadal variability in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Lesley Allison (University of Reading)) 2013-07-12 11:00: Mixing by meso-scale eddies in the Southern Ocean: two perspectives. (Emma Boland; BAS) 2013-07-15 16:00: Energy efficient magnetic cooling technology (Dr Sibel Ozcan) 2013-07-25 11:00: Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement in the Bisicles Ice Sheet Model (Dr Stephen Cornford, University of Bristol) 2013-07-31 14:00: Recent advances in modelling sea ice (Michel Tsamados (University of Reading)) 2013-08-01 11:30: Deep ice cores from Dome Fuji, East Antarctica (Dr. Kumiko Goto-Azuma, National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan) 2013-08-02 16:00: Episodic Memory and the Sense of Time: Some Conceptual and Empirical Constraints. (Carl Craver, Washingon University in St. Louis) 2013-08-12 16:00: The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment (Dr Rosamunde Almond) 2013-08-15 15:00: The response of Antarctic marine ice streams to strong ocean forcing - a modelling approach (Dr. Daniel Goldberg (University of Edinburgh)) 2013-09-03 11:00: Radar Instrumentation for Polar Research: Status and Future (S. Gogineni, The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, The University of Kansas) 2013-09-09 16:00: Using sunlight-activated photo-catalysts to disinfect water (Dr Vasant Kumar) 2013-09-16 11:00: North Atlantic Oscillation: teleconnections, mechanisms and long range predictability (Adam Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre)) 2013-09-25 14:00: A System of Conservative Regridding for Ice / Atmosphere Coupling in a GCM (Dr Robert Fischer (NASA GISS )) 2013-09-25 15:30: Modeling Land-Ice Retreat, Ice-Ocean Interactions and Sea-Level Rise in the Community Earth System Model (William Lipscomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Xylar Asay-Davis, New York University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory) 2013-09-30 09:00: Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery (For full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery) 2013-10-08 14:00: Changes in the Extratropical and Tropical Impacts on the East Asian Winter Monsoon/Carbon dioxide flux measurement of the magacity of Beijing with eddy covariance method (Wen Chen and Huizhi Liu (Chinese Academy of Science)) 2013-10-08 15:00: Opening the black box: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) modelling in Antarctica (Pippa Whitehouse, University of Durham) 2013-10-08 16:00: The Rhythm of Africa: how life history traits affect dynamics of a fruit-feeding butterfly community (Freerk Molleman - University of Rennes, France. WEBSITE:) 2013-10-11 11:00: Tropical Atlantic Ocean Impacts on Antarctic Peninsula Area Climate (David M. Holland (New York University)) 2013-10-12 19:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture 1 (Exotic terrestrial mammals in Antarctic regions by Bob Headland) 2013-10-14 13:00: Diapycnal transport in the ocean overturning circulation (Graham Hughes (DAMTP/Australian National University)) 2013-10-14 14:15: Aerosol observational studies for climate research: from light absorption to the kinetics of cloud droplet formation (Justin Langridge (Met Office)) 2013-10-15 13:00: Inferring the subsurface flow of Antarctic ice from satellite observations and other challenges for ice sheet prediction (Robert Arthern (BAS)) 2013-10-15 16:00: Fishy cognition (Culum Brown (Macquarie University)) 2013-10-15 19:00: CUEN squash event (the CUEN committee) 2013-10-16 12:00: Ensuring Energy Efficient Buildings (Craig Robertson, Samuel Stamp, Kim Bouwer) 2013-10-21 13:00: Mud wrestling: modelling shear-thinning and thixotropic fluid flow (David Pritchard (Strathclyde)) 2013-10-21 14:15: Atmospheric Ozone Formation: New measurement approaches to sidestep chemical complexity (Bill Bloss (University of Birmingham)) 2013-10-22 13:00: The capillary interaction between objects at liquid interfaces (Himantha Cooray (ITG, DAMTP)) 2013-10-22 16:00: Conflict, coadaptation, and the emergence of reproductive isolation in a placental fish (Matt Schrader, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-23 11:00: Air-Sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation (Jeremy P. Grist (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)) 2013-10-25 13:00: Get Fat Before You Fly: Carry-over Effects and Reproductive Success in An Arctic-nesting Migratory Bird (Xavier Harrison, Instute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London) 2013-10-26 19:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture 2 (Operation Tabarin by John Dudeney) 2013-10-28 13:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (Reading)) 2013-10-29 13:00: Arctic sea ice : trends, stability and variability (Woosok Moon (ITG, DAMTP)) 2013-10-29 16:00: When the cat's away the mice will play, but what about the rats? Introduced mammal interactions on islands (James Russell, University of Auckland) 2013-10-30 11:00: Testing eddy compensation and eddy saturation in the Southern Ocean (Dan Jones (British Antarctic Survey)) 2013-10-30 12:00: Green Research in Cambridge (Cambridge PhD Candidates) 2013-10-31 11:00: High Resolution Climate Modelling (Marie-Estelle Demory (Reading)) 2013-11-01 13:00: Island Conquerors: the population dynamics and management of invasive rats on islands (James Russell (University of Auckland)) 2013-11-04 13:00: Turbulence modelling for large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer (Rica Enriquez (DAMTP)) 2013-11-04 14:15: Remote sensing of air quality: Measurements, modelling and applications (Roland Leigh (University of Leicester)) 2013-11-04 18:30: Open Innovation – Introducing Shell Ideas360 (Chaco van der Sijp, Shell GameChanger) 2013-11-05 13:00: A periodic mixing mechanism in stratified turbulent Taylor-Couette flow (Rosie Oglethorpe (DAMTP)) 2013-11-05 16:00: Population divergence and reproductive isolation in an Anolis lizard (Jessica Stapley, University of Sheffield) 2013-11-07 14:15: Determining the source regions for surface to stratosphere transport: A retro-transport approach (Phil Haines (UCL)) 2013-11-08 13:00: Goings on in the engine room: How the hidden layer of our mind connects with the future of the planet (Professor Chris Rapley, UCL) 2013-11-08 13:00: Drivers and biodiversity consequences of landscape-scale deforestation in the western Brazilian Amazon (Jose Ochoa Quintero, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-08 13:30: Quantifying changes in past atmospheric chemistry from ice core records of the oxygen isotopes of sulfate and nitrate (Dr. Eric Sofen, University of York) 2013-11-09 16:00: Michaelmas Term Lecture 3 (Special lecture for AGM Day) 2013-11-11 13:00: Cosmogonical musings and pleas (John Wettlaufer (Oxford)) 2013-11-12 10:00: Laboratory study of nitrate photolysis in Antarctic snow: quantum yield, domain of photolysis, isotope effects and wavelength dependence (Dr. Carl Meusinger, University of Copenhagen) 2013-11-12 13:00: Subglacial hydrology and the formation of ice streams (Teresa Kyrke-Smith (Oxford, Earth Sciences)) 2013-11-12 16:00: Maternal and paternal effects on offspring behavior and survival (Katie McGhee, University of Illinois) 2013-11-13 10:00: Bird Island Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions: 2010 studies and future work (Dr. Christine Braban, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, U.K.) 2013-11-13 11:00: Vigorous ice shelf-ocean interactions: zooming in on the Pine Island case (Pierre Dutrieux (British Antarctic Survey)) 2013-11-13 12:00: Debate - PassivHaus vs Passive House (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-11-15 13:00: Recent advancements in global biodiversity scenarios (Piero Visconti (Microsoft Computational Ecology and Environmental Science)) 2013-11-18 13:00: Shallow flows: 2D or not 2D? (GertJan van Heijst (Eindhoven University of Technology)) 2013-11-18 14:15: The biogeochemical impacts of forests: the role of biogenic secondary organic aerosol in the climate system (Catherine Scott (University of Leeds)) 2013-11-19 13:00: CANCELLED - APS DFD practice talks (Various speakers) 2013-11-19 13:00: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Sustainability Agenda: time to abandon traditional forms of Sovereignty? (Paul Ingram, BASIC) 2013-11-19 16:00: Bacteria-phage interactions within their long-lived tree host (Britt Koskella, University of Exeter) 2013-11-20 13:00: Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica (Louise Biddle, University of East Anglia) 2013-11-21 14:15: Stratospheric dynamics in a geoengineered world (Angus Ferraro (University of Reading)) 2013-11-22 13:00: Glaciers: from the Kilimanjaro ice fields to the IPCC (Georg Kaser, Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research, University of Innsbruck, Austria. IPCC Working Group 1 Lead Author in Assessment Report 4 and Assessment Report 5) 2013-11-23 19:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture 4 (British Antarctic Survey Aviation by Rod Arnold) 2013-11-25 14:15: Various (First year CPGS talks: Michal Filus, Brendan Mahon, Peer Nowack and Francis Wragg) 2013-11-25 19:00: CUEN Documentary Screening: 'Fracking: The New Energy Rush' (Documentary Screening) 2013-11-26 16:00: Colour evolution in insects: from polymorphisms to speciation (Erik Svensson (Lund University)) 2013-11-27 11:00: Understanding global patterns of mesoscale eddy properties and diffusivities (Andreas Klocker (Australian National University)) 2013-11-27 12:00: Energy Efficiency and Financing Mechanisms for Retrofitting Commercial Buildings (Francisco Guerrero Neguillo, Dr Adam Rysanek) 2013-11-27 13:00: Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica (Alek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL) 2013-12-02 13:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (Reading)) 2013-12-02 13:00: The Passivhaus Building Standard: Questioning the energy saving magic bullet (Chris Foulds, Global Sustainability Institute, ARU) 2013-12-02 14:15: Characterisation of aerosol by PMF analysis of single particle mass spectra (Chiara Giorio (University of Cambridge)) 2013-12-02 16:00: Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow (Prof Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School) 2013-12-02 18:00: 'Second coming: the rebirth of nuclear power in the UK' - CUEN Seminar Series (Dr. Simon Taylor and Dr. Eugene Shwageraus, University of Cambridge) 2013-12-03 13:00: Flow dynamics of marine ice sheets (Martin Wearing (ITG, DAMTP)) 2013-12-04 11:00: Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere (David Ferreira (University of Reading)) 2013-12-07 18:00: 'Careers in Renewables' + 'Shale Gas in the UK: will it solve our energy issue?' (Mr Vince Pizzoni, Executive Search Consultant, Peng and Associates, London) 2013-12-16 14:15: Water and light mediated multi-phase organic chemistry in the contemporary and on ancient Earth (Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado)) 2013-12-16 16:00: Open-ended inorganic nanotubes: band-gap and bands-engineering of a photo-catalyst (Dr Gilberto Teobaldi) 2013-12-18 14:00: The next generation of UK Earth System Models: The UKESM project (Colin Jones (UK Met Office)) 2014-01-06 11:00: The Southern Ocean reveals its climate secrets: Paleotemperature insights from marine sediments (Dr. Amelia Shevenell, University of South Florida) 2014-01-15 11:00: Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic continental shelf (Alek Petty (University College London)) 2014-01-17 13:00: GSI Research Seminar Series - Professor Tim O'Riordan - 'Redefining Sustainability in a Post Austerity Britain' (Professor Tim O'Riordan OBE, DL, FBA, University of East Anglia) 2014-01-20 14:15: Land-atmosphere interactions: what models do and don't tell us (Prof Rob MacKenzie (University of Birmingham) - Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research) 2014-01-21 16:00: Family life of birds: sex, conflicts and cooperation (Tamas Szekely (University of Bath)) 2014-01-22 12:00: Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours (Sarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) 2014-01-22 12:00: Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours (Sarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) 2014-01-27 13:00: Diagnostics and dynamics: Two approaches for setting eddy diffusivity in ocean models (Scott Bachman (DAMTP)) 2014-01-27 16:00: Business-oriented Solutions for Resource Recovery and Reuse at Scale in Developing Countries (Luca Di Mario) 2014-01-28 13:00: Viscous peeling of an elastic sheet (Gunnar Peng (ITG, DAMTP)) 2014-01-28 16:00: Begging, vigilance and interspecies interactions in pied babblers (Alex Thompson (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-29 13:00: GSI Research Seminar Series - Climate change and Migration (Alex Randall, Climate Outreach Information Nework) 2014-01-30 13:00: The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era (Alexander Summers, Botanic Garden) 2014-01-30 14:00: Tropospheric and stratospheric cloud and dynamics research at the Australian Antarctic Division (Simon Alexander, Australia Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia) 2014-01-30 20:00: **EVENT POSTPONED** Cambridge's Future: Green Jobs, Green Growth (Dr Julian Huppert, Member of Parliament for Cambridge) 2014-02-03 13:00: Why the stratosphere might help us predict how warm this spring will be (Peter Hitchcock (DAMTP)) 2014-02-03 14:15: The changing methane budget: Arctic to Tropics (Prof Euan Nisbet (Royal Holloway)) 2014-02-04 16:00: Loud calls or big balls? Tradeoff between vocal tract and testes dimensions reflect different male reproductive strategies in howler monkeys, Alouatta spp. (Jacob Dunn (Bioanthropology, University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-05 12:00: Understanding and encouraging energy efficient home renovations (Charlie Wilson (Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia)) 2014-02-06 13:10: Cassandra's Climate (Michael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger) 2014-02-10 13:00: Calculating ice flux across ice-sheet grounding lines and ice-shelf calving fronts (Richard Hindmarsh (BAS)) 2014-02-10 14:15: Representing Model Uncertainty in the ECMWF Convection Scheme (Dr Hannah Arnold (University of Oxford)) 2014-02-11 13:00: Linear optimal perturbations of stratified shear layers (Alexis Kaminski (DAMTP)) 2014-02-11 16:00: Distributed Decisions: new insights from radio-tagged ants (Elva Robinson, University of York) 2014-02-12 11:00: Small-scale thermodynamic and dynamic studies using autonomous drifting ice buoys and satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data (Phil Hwang (The Scottish Association for Marine Science)) 2014-02-16 17:00: 'Trashed' Film Screening ('Trashed' Film Screening) 2014-02-17 11:00: Open-ocean convection becoming less intense in the Greenland and Iceland Seas (G.W.K. Moore, Department of Physics University of Toronto, Canada) 2014-02-17 13:00: CANCELLED - Lava flows (Alison Rust (Bristol)) 2014-02-17 14:15: Reactive halogens in the polar boundary layer and volcanic plumes - Implications for O3, CH4 and mercury (Prof Roland von Glasow (UEA)) 2014-02-18 13:00: Energy cascades in the atmosphere and in a simple shallow-water model (Pierre Augier (DAMTP)) 2014-02-18 16:00: Family life: the evolution of social organisation and prosociality in primates and cetaceans (Susanne Shultz, University of Manchester) 2014-02-19 12:00: Estimating energy savings and models of energy consumption in domestic buildings (Mary Gregory, Department of Energy and Climate Change) 2014-02-19 14:00: Enhanced turbulent mixing driven by wind shear alignment in the ocean (Tom Rippeth (Bangor University)) 2014-02-20 13:00: Mapping Methane in the Arctic (Dr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-21 14:00: Coping with climate change in the next half-century (Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Sustainability Solutions Institute (Previous Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1998-2006) (University of California)) 2014-02-22 19:30: Lent Term Lecture 1 (Submarines in the Arctic: four decades of pack ice and the Royal Navy by Dr Charles Swithinbank, Prof Peter Wadhams and Dr Nick Hughes) 2014-02-24 13:00: Experiments with mode 2-type internal solitary waves (Peter Davies (Dundee)) 2014-02-24 16:00: Importance and Application of Chemical Activation in Atmospheric Chemistry (Prof Paul Seakins (University of Leeds)) 2014-02-25 13:00: Geometric controls on the propagation and leakage of CO2 in geological aquifers (Sam Pegler (ITG, DAMTP) 2014-02-27 13:00: Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials (Pu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-28 13:00: GSI Research Seminar Series - Ethical Consumption vs. Sustainable consumption (Dr Dan Welch, Sustainable Consumption Institute) 2014-03-03 13:00: Shocking models of meltwater flow under ice shelves (Andrew Wells (Oxford)) 2014-03-03 14:15: Radical recycling from VOC oxidation in clean-air (Dr Terry Dillon (University of York)) 2014-03-04 13:00: Modular design of low energy buildings (Rachael Bonnebaigt (DAMTP)) 2014-03-05 12:00: Probabilistic graphical models in the assessment of socio-economic and environmental impacts of community deployed energy interventions (Phillip Leicester, Loughborough University) 2014-03-05 12:00: What and where is the information on animal vocalisations? (Arik Kershenbaum (NIMBS Tennessee)) 2014-03-10 13:00: Causes and consequences of viscous anisotropy in deforming, partially molten rocks (Rich Katz (Oxford)) 2014-03-10 14:15: Urban boundary layers - investigating urban flows from building to city scale (Janet Barlow (University of Reading)) 2014-03-11 13:00: GSI Research Seminar Series - Operationalising resilience: linking the conceptual and practical for a more sustainable world (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-03-11 13:00: Basal lubrication of ice sheets (Katarzyna Kowal (ITG, DAMTP)) 2014-03-11 16:00: The wandering Irish badger – contrasts with the GB stereotype (Nicola Marples, Trinity College, Dublin) 2014-03-12 11:00: Toward the prediction of Arctic sea ice under global warming : Stochastic dynamical system approach (Woosok Moon (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-12 19:30: "You can't clear scrub and get chalk grassland unless ...." Forty years experience on the Devil's Ditch (Peter Grubb, Emeritus Professor of Investigative Plant Ecology at the University of Cambridge) 2014-03-13 13:00: The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes (Ed Turner, Department of Zoology) 2014-03-17 14:00: Applying adjoint methods to the glacial isostatic adjustment inverse problem (Dr David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-17 14:15: VOC measurements on board the Zeppelin NT during the PEGASOS campaigns 2012 (Julia Jaeger (Forschungszentrum Jülich)) 2014-03-17 16:00: Electric buses - can they really compete on the front line? (Professor John Miles) 2014-03-18 16:00: From Individuals to Populations: Decision-making, Social Networks, and Population Processes in wild songbirds (Damien Farine - Oxford University, UK) 2014-03-19 11:00: A close up on two aspects of LSW formation (Renske Gelderloos (University of Oxford)) 2014-03-22 19:30: Lent Term Lecture 2 (‘The Life and Work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker and artist ’ by Caroline Walker, Andrew Johnston and Angela Johnston) 2014-03-31 16:00: The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application? (Dr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-02 15:00: Fronts and frontogenesis: a generalised model (Callum Shakespeare (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-03 13:00: Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application (Sarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier)) 2014-04-03 15:00: Space rocks on ice: Hunting for meteorites in Antarctica (Katie Joy (University of Manchester)) 2014-04-03 15:00: Parasitism, family conflict & success in a North Atlantic seabird (Hanna Granroth-Wilding, Edinburgh University / BAS) 2014-04-10 13:00: Uncovering the history of past ice sheets from the clues they leave behind (Dr Dominic Hodgson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-04-16 11:00: Upper water variability in the subpolar North Atlantic (Clare Johnson (The Scottish Association for Marine Science)) 2014-04-24 14:00: The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn's fast flow (Dr Mauro Werder (University of Bristol)) 2014-04-28 14:15: Air quality and climate impacts of the transport sector: planes, trains and automobiles (Marc Stettler (University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-29 13:00: GSI Research Seminar Series - When and how will human society collapse? (Dr Aled Jones, Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI)) 2014-04-29 16:00: What Biologists can learn from bats (Egbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute) 2014-04-29 18:00: Modelling the Risks of Climate Change - Dr. Chris Hope (Dr. Chris Hope) 2014-04-30 12:00: Understanding and Addressing the Performance Gap (Tom Kordel - Senior Consultant at XCO2 Energy.) 2014-05-06 14:15: Defra’s air quality modelling intercomparison project (Dr Michelle Cain (Cambridge)) 2014-05-07 11:00: Conceptual models of ocean heat and carbon uptake (Laure Zanna (University of Oxford)) 2014-05-12 14:15: The Thin Blue Line: Observing Earth’s Atmosphere (Sam Illingworth (Manchester Metropolitan University)) 2014-05-12 16:00: Current Issues in Energy Policy (Dr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-14 12:00: Understanding Historic Buildings – Case Studies from King’s College Chapel and the Glasgow School of Art (Villian Lo, PhD Candidate University of Cambridge, Ranald Lawrence, PhD Candidate University of Cambridge) 2014-05-14 18:00: Shell and Natural Gas (Emile de Jong, General Manager Expertise and Deployment, Shell) 2014-05-19 13:00: Evolution of behavior through niche construction: architect crabs, cultured monkeys, and gossipy humans (Mark Laidre (Dartmouth College)) 2014-05-19 14:15: Middle infrared tunable laser spectroscopy for molecular sensing: from space to terrestrial applications (Dr Damien Weidmann (STFC)) 2014-05-20 14:00: Mesoscale variability in the Weddell Sea:  gliders, drifters and models (Andrew Thompson (Caltech)) 2014-05-21 11:00: Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling (Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-05-28 12:00: The Comfort Controversy (Professor Fergus Nicol, Professor Michael Humphreys) 2014-05-28 15:00: Methyl halide emissions from tropical plants in Southeast Asia (Dr Takuya Saito (National Institute for Environmental Studies) ) 2014-05-29 13:00: Adaptation to Antarctic marine environments: impact on ability to respond to change and potential use to society (Lloyd S. Peck (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-06-02 14:15: Ammonia emissions from seabirds (Dr Stuart Riddick (Cambridge)) 2014-06-04 15:30: Variability in upwelling in the tropical lower stratosphere: effects on tracers and dynamical forcing (Marta Abalos (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS/IPSL))) 2014-06-09 08:30: Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? - CUEN Annual Energy Conference (14 speakers from academia, policy and industry) 2014-06-09 14:15: The Influence of Anthropogenic Aerosol on Multi-Decadal Variations of Climate (Dr Laura Wilcox (Reading)) 2014-06-11 11:00: Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders (Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-06-11 12:00: "Power to the People?" – Community Energy Initiatives and the new "Middle Ground" in the UK Energy System (Sarah Inge Parker, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) 2014-06-16 14:15: Our current understanding of solar irradiance and its effect on stratospheric ozone (Dr William Ball (Imperial)) 2014-06-18 11:00: Two puzzles posed by the Zapiola anticyclone (Antoine Venaille (CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, ENS-Lyon)) 2014-06-18 13:00: Remote geological mapping in Antarctica - time to hang up the hammer? (Teal Riley (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-06-18 14:15: Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula in a chemistry climate model (Dr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-06-23 13:00: Feasibility of Wind & Solar Energy Systems for Large Geographic Domains (Dr Christopher Clack, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) 2014-06-23 16:00: Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different? (Professor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science) 2014-06-24 10:15: High latitude temperature evolution across the Last Interglacial (Dr Emilie Capron, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-06-26 14:00: The Little Ice Age in sea-level records across the North Atlantic ( Dr Leanne Wake (Northumbria University)) 2014-06-27 15:00: The role of pinning-points, marine ice and subglacial channeling in defining the buttressing strength of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica (Reinhard Drews, Université Libre de Bruxelles) 2014-06-27 15:30: Reducing uncertainties in Antarctic ice sheet mass loss projections. (Frank Pattyn, Université Libre de Bruxelles) 2014-06-30 14:15: Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds in a chemistry climate model (Andrew Orr (BAS)) 2014-07-10 13:00: Water pathways in the Southern Ocean from Lagrangian particles (Dr. Erik van Sebille, University of New South Wales) 2014-07-16 14:00: Southern Ocean phytoplankton: mapping iron stressed communities from space and strong responses to volcanic ash supply (Dr. Tom Browning, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford) 2014-07-22 10:15: Atmospheric bromine: its natural sources and effects on atmospheric chemsitry (Dr. Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-07-24 11:00: The Role of Stratospheric Polar Vortex Breakdown in Southern Hemisphere Climate Trends (Gang Chen, Cornell University, NY, United States) 2014-07-25 13:00: Life in the freezer: how do you mix biology and ice ages? (Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-07-30 11:00: The imprint of Southern Ocean overturning on seasonal water mass variability in Drake Passage and the Southern Ocean (Gwyn Evans, University of Southampton) 2014-08-06 11:00: A trio of Antarctic climate variability and meteorology studies (Adrian McDonald, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 2014-08-06 14:00: Diagnosing diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage using numerical models and results from the DIMES experiment (Neill Mackay, National Oceanography Centre Liverpool) 2014-08-07 13:00: Hot water in a cold ocean – hydrothermal ecosystems in the Southern Ocean (Katrin Linse (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-08-27 14:00: Rapid sea-level rise in the Antarctic Shelf Sea in response to increased glacial discharge (Craig Rye, University of Southampton) 2014-08-28 11:00: Sensitivity of Dense Shelf Water formation to ice shelf melting -- a modelling study (Eva Cougnon, University of Tasmania) 2014-09-01 16:00: Meeting the challenges of cancer through nanotechnology. (Quentin Harmer) 2014-09-09 14:00: New insights into past methane cycle changes from ice cores (Prof. Hubertus Fischer, Institute of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland.) 2014-09-17 11:00: Why do different climate models give different answers? An analysis of 21st century wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, in the CMIP5 climate models (Dr. Thomas Bracegirdle) 2014-09-23 10:15: Evaluating anthropogenic environmental changes from the north and south coasts of Greenland (Dr. Bianca B. Perren, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-10-01 11:00: Using simple process models to examine Arctic Ocean dynamics under a changing climate (Peter Davis, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford) 2014-10-06 13:00: You can’t stop progress (Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia) 2014-10-08 14:00: Antarctic Bottom Water in CMIP5 models: characteristics, formation, evolution (Céline Heuzé, University of East Anglia) 2014-10-09 16:00: A regime diagram for ocean geostrophic turbulence (Andreas Klocker, UTAS) 2014-10-13 13:00: Granular segregation in nature (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP)) 2014-10-14 13:00: The equilibration time for viscous and porous gravity currents (Thomasina Ball (DAMTP)) 2014-10-14 16:00: The Assembly of Coevolving Interactions (Prof. John N Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz) 2014-10-16 11:30: Iodine chemistry in the marine troposphere (Dr Alfonso Saiz-Lopez (CSIC)) 2014-10-20 13:00: The slowly evolving background state of the atmosphere (John Methven (Reading)) 2014-10-21 11:00: GDGTs as a Temperature Proxy in Antarctic Lakes: Reconstructing Holocene Climate in Yanou Lake, King George Island (Louise Taylor, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-10-21 13:00: Spheres, swimmers, petals and patterns (Finn Box (BPI)) 2014-10-21 16:00: Cultured Birds? Social networks, personality and social learning in parids. (Dr Lucy Aplin, University of Oxford) 2014-10-22 19:00: The Effect of transport policy/regulations on emissions (Professor Nick Collings) 2014-10-25 19:30: Michaelmas Term Lecture (Susanna Ferrar: "Stuff: what good is an Antarctic Heritage?") 2014-10-27 13:00: Applications of the adjoint method to post-glacial sea level change (David Al-Attar (Bullard, DES)) 2014-10-27 14:15: Why UK urban air quality has not been improving as it should (Dr James Tate (University of Leeds)) 2014-10-28 13:00: Helicity cascade in atmospheric boundary layers: a way to break symmetries at all scales (Enrico Deusebio (DAMTP)) 2014-10-28 15:00: How does a bird know what nest to build? (Dr Sue Healy, University of St Andrews) 2014-10-28 18:00: New Nuclear in the UK (Dr. Timothy Stone CBE) 2014-10-29 11:00: Overturning ideas: Using the mean state of the ocean to understand its role in transient climate change (Jan Zika, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) 2014-10-30 13:00: Antarctic ice flow: what can we learn by combining models and measurements? (Robert Arthern, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-11-03 13:00: Enigmas of Erebus: observations of an active lava lake (Clive Oppenheimer (Geography)) 2014-11-03 14:00: CCfCS IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Symposium (Professor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Professor David MacKay) 2014-11-04 13:00: Bidisperse granular collapses (Joshua Caplan (DAMTP)) 2014-11-04 16:00: Competition, cooperation and the evolution of weapons (Dr John Fitzpatrick, University of Manchester) 2014-11-05 14:30: Recent Changes in Antarctic Sea Ice (Prof. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-11-07 11:00: Understanding and reducing Southern Ocean biases in the HadGEM3 coupled climate model (Dr Patrick Hyder, Met Office) 2014-11-10 13:00: CANCELLED - Diapycnal mixing in the ocean: from large scale meridional overturning circulation to dissipation scale (Ali Mashayek (MIT)) 2014-11-10 14:15: Various talks from 1st years (1st year PhD CPGS talks) 2014-11-11 14:00: Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling during Arctic Polar-night Jet Oscillation Events (Peter Hitchcock, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-11 16:00: Variation in the anti-predator defences of aposematic organisms (Dr Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga, University of Jyvaskyla) 2014-11-12 14:00: A microscale view of mixing and overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton) 2014-11-12 19:00: Making bamboo a high tech material for large wind turbine blades (Dr. Jim Platts) 2014-11-14 16:30: The age of climate resilience” (Dr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald) 2014-11-17 13:00: Large poromechanical deformation of a frictional material (Chris MacMinn (Oxford)) 2014-11-17 14:15: Towards an understanding of the evolution of sea ice extent around the Antarctic Peninsula using the James Ross Island ice core. (Dr Ailsa Benton (BAS)) 2014-11-18 13:00: Turbulent vertical line plumes: entrainment and detrainment (Lotty Gladstone (BPI)) 2014-11-18 14:00: Foehn jets and warming distributions over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica (Andrew Elvidge, University of East Anglia) 2014-11-18 16:00: Of ducks and men – ecology and evolution of influenza A virus in waterfowl (Dr Jonas Waldenström - Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden) 2014-11-19 13:00: Arctic Science at Ny-Alesund Research Station (Nicholas Cox and Kevin Newsham, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-11-19 16:30: The age of climate resilience (Dr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald) 2014-11-20 17:00: CUEN evening seminar: "Lossless Energy Transport: The Magic of Superconductors" (Dr Suchitra Sebastian) 2014-11-24 11:00: Investigating changes to phytoplankton patterns in the Southern Ocean using the evaluative satellite product Zeu, validated by instrumented southern elephant seals. (Lauren Biermann, University of St Andrews) 2014-11-24 14:15: Dynamical and microphysical processes controlling the persistence of low level Arctic mixed-phase clouds (Dr Julien Savre (Geography, University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-25 10:00: Assessing the impact of Holocene climate, sea level, and sea ice change on the Ardley Island penguin colony (Dr. Stephen Roberts, British Antarctic Survey) 2014-11-25 14:00: Advances in high-resolution global climate modelling: achievements and perspectives (Marie Estelle Demory, University of Reading) 2014-11-25 16:00: Behavioural Ecology meets Chemical Ecology: The role of chemical communication in mate choice and family life (Dr Sandra Steiger, University of Ulm) 2014-11-26 11:00: Seagliders: a useful new tool for observing Antarctic oceanic processes (Louise Biddle, University of East Anglia) 2014-11-27 13:00: Fossil pollen and algae reveal Antarctica’s climate as the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago (Vanessa Bowman (British Antarctic Survey)) 2014-12-01 13:00: Cliffs and screes (Keith Richards / Mike Bethel (Geography)) 2014-12-02 13:00: Vortex ring induced mixing of a sharp interface (Jason Olsthoorn (DAMTP)) 2014-12-02 16:00: Colony personalities and the importance of behavioral variance for insect societies (Prof. Dr. Susanne Foitzik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz ) 2014-12-02 17:00: Sino-Russian Gas and Oil Cooperation : The Reality and Its Impacts towards Regional and Global Trading (Professor Keun Wook Paik, associate fellow of the energy, environment, resource department at Chatham House and senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) 2014-12-03 14:00: Vorticity Balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage (Dr. Yvonne Firing, National Oceaongraphy Centre Southampton) 2014-12-08 14:15: Chemistry of mineral dust aerosols and its roles in direct and indirect radiative effects (Mingjin Tang (Cambridge)) 2014-12-09 16:00: Population genetics of host-parasite coevolution (Professor Dieter Ebert, Universität Basel) 2014-12-10 13:00: Christmas Student Special (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-01-13 16:00: Genetic, neuronal and experiential influences on olfactory perception in mice (Dr Darren Logan ( Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)) 2015-01-15 10:30: Multi-parameter observations from coastal waters to the deepest trenches: challenges studying the carbon system with optode technology (Dr Anders Tengberg, Aanderaa/Xylem (Bergen, Norway) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden)) 2015-01-19 13:00: Ditch the 2 degC goal (Charlie Kennel and David Victor (Scripps, UCSD)) 2015-01-19 14:15: The air we breathe - the role of atmospheric sciences in identifying the health impacts of air (Dr Ben Barrat (KCL)) 2015-01-20 14:00: Modelling polar stratospheric clouds, polar ozone and chemistry-climate interactions in the UM-UKCA model (James Keeble, University of Cambridge) 2015-01-20 16:00: The diversification of birds (Dr Gavin Thomas, University of Sheffield) 2015-01-22 16:00: An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms (Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz) 2015-01-22 18:00: International Legal Constraints on Energy Transitions (Professor Jorge E. Vinuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy) 2015-01-26 13:00: On the effect of fluid injection on seismic and aseismic fault slip (Jean-Philippe Avouac (Bullard, Earth Sciences)) 2015-01-26 14:15: Volcanic outgassing (Dr Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences, Cambridge)) 2015-01-27 14:00: Deep vertical propagation of mountain waves above Scandinavia and New Zealand (Andreas Dörnbrack,Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre) 2015-01-27 16:00: Cooperation under the bark: Understanding sociality and symbioses in ambrosia beetles (Dr Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis) 2015-02-02 13:00: Building ventilation and applications in practice (Shaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering)) 2015-02-02 14:15: How well do we know halogen chemistry in the Marine Boundary Layer? (Dr Roberto Sommariva (Leicester)) 2015-02-03 10:00: PhD Student Seminars (British Antarctic Survey) 2015-02-03 16:00: Evolution of social behaviour in wild populations: European badgers & Seychelles warblers (Dr Hannah Dugdale, University of Sheffield) 2015-02-04 11:00: The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future (Sophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University) 2015-02-09 13:00: Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere (Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale, Lyon)) 2015-02-09 14:15: Steps towards understanding tropospheric composition variability (Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis (Imperial College)) 2015-02-10 16:00: The adaptive use of information within and across generations (Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford) 2015-02-12 16:00: Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global south (John Mullet - SOWTech Ltd) 2015-02-16 13:00: Ascending plumes and descending thermals: aspects of convection in the atmosphere (Gabriel Rooney (Met Office)) 2015-02-16 15:00: Long-term trends in ozone concentrations in the UK: local, regional and global influences (Dr Mike Jenkin) 2015-02-17 14:00: An overview of MIPAS observations of polar stratospheric clouds (Dr Reinhold Spang, Juelich Research Centre, Germany.) 2015-02-17 14:30: An overview on AIRS observations of stratospheric gravity waves (Dr Lars Hoffmann, Juelich Research Centre, Germany.) 2015-02-17 16:00: From species to individuals, a survey of variation in the immune function of birds. (Dr Kevin Matson, University of Groningen) 2015-02-18 11:00: Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula (Jennifer A. Graham, Old Dominion University (VA, USA) and University of East Anglia (UK)) 2015-02-18 14:00: The hidden meteorites of Antarctica (Geoff Evatt, University of Manchester) 2015-02-23 13:00: Towards a new dynamics for Earth's core (Andrew Jackson (ETH Zurich)) 2015-02-24 16:00: Does swimming behind get you ahead?: The energetic benefits of moving in fish schools (Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow) 2015-02-25 13:00: Soil erosion in Britain – is it a problem? (Dr Bob Evans, Global Sustainability Institiute ) 2015-02-28 19:30: Earth's Climate Evolution (Colin Summerhayes) 2015-03-02 13:00: The role of mesoscale processes in biogeochemical cycling during the last glacial termination (Kate Hendry (Earth Sciences)) 2015-03-02 14:15: Inter-hemispheric symmetry or asymmetry in variations of tropical rainbelt during the last glacial cycle? perspectives from a climate model-data comparison (Dr Joy Singarayer (Reading)) 2015-03-03 14:00: The effects of different sudden stratospheric warming types on the ocean (Amee O'Callaghan, University of East Anglia) 2015-03-03 16:00: Social Learning Strategies & Cumulative Culture (Dr Rachel Kendal, University of Durham) 2015-03-05 14:00: Urban Microclimate and human-biometeorology ( Prof.Dr. Andreas Matzarakis, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg) 2015-03-09 13:00: Oil Palms, Alkenes, SCIs and Ozone: New measurement approaches to sidestep atmospheric chemical complexity (Bill Bloss (Birmingham)) 2015-03-10 13:00: Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity? (Prof Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University) 2015-03-10 14:00: Dynamical Response to the QBO in the Northern Winter Stratosphere: Signatures in Wave Forcing and Eddy Fluxes of Potential Vorticity (Ian P. White, British Antarctic Survey) 2015-03-10 16:00: Balancing selection in Müllerian mimicry: causes and consequences (Dr Violaine Llaurens, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité ) 2015-03-11 14:00: Subtropical icebergs, glacial lakes, and Heinrich Events: How did meltwater trigger past abrupt climate change? (Dr. Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 2015-03-12 16:00: A remarkable set of contemplations (Craig Bennett - Friends of the Earth) 2015-03-14 19:30: Life on the edge: language and story telling in a cold place (Stephen Pax Leonard) 2015-03-16 14:15: Glasses in the sky: What's (not) going on inside atmospheric aerosol particles? (Dr Daniel Lienhard (Chemistry, Cambridge)) 2015-03-23 14:15: Smoke and mirrors: Infrared spectroscopy and radiometry for the study of biomass burning emissions (Tom Smith (KCL)) 2015-03-24 14:00: How does atmospheric chemistry affect your climate modelling results? (Peer Johannes Nowack, University of Cambridge) 2015-03-25 14:00: A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change (Prof. David Marshall, University of Oxford) 2015-04-08 14:00: Water-column nutrient fluxes along the continental margin of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone (Lee Bryant, University of Bath) 2015-04-15 13:00: Why we get back under the duvet when climate change is mentioned... (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-04-16 16:00: Patents in theory and in practice (Dr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley) 2015-04-24 13:00: Remaking our future: a radically different approach (Rob Shaw, Director of Sustainability & Climate Change, LDA Design) 2015-04-27 14:15: Modelling individual convective clouds (Leif Denby (Geography, Cambridge)) 2015-04-28 11:00: Causes and effects of recent changes in Antarctic sea-ice transport (Alexander Haumann, ETH Zurich) 2015-04-28 12:00: Current Research on Environment, Energy, Behaviour, and Comfort in Buildings (Prof. Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-28 12:00: Current Research on Environment, Energy, Behaviour, and Comfort in Buildings (Prof. Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-29 13:00: Feedback Loops in Nature– The Making of a TED-Ed Lesson (Anje-Margriet Neutel (British Antarctic Survey)) 2015-04-29 13:00: Who should value nature? (Dario Kenner, Why Green Economy) 2015-04-30 12:15: Influence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse on Antarctic surface climate and ice core records (Eric Steig, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh. Professor, Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington) 2015-05-11 14:15: Modelling aerosol impacts on climate, urban environment and human health (Dr Christina Mitsakou (Cambridge)) 2015-05-12 14:00: Impact of melt ponds on Arctic summer sea ice in the HadGEM3 global coupled climate model (Dr. David Schroeder, University of Reading) 2015-05-14 11:00: Novel Methods for Determining the Evolution of Turbulence in the Surface Boundary Layer (Natasha Lucas, University of Bangor) 2015-05-18 11:00: A study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation development in a large winter cyclone (Greg Thompson (NCAR)) 2015-05-19 14:00: The Arctic Boundary Layer: Coupling Clouds & Sea Ice (Prof. Ian M. Brooks, University of Leeds) 2015-05-20 14:15: Are strong volcanic eruptions important for decadal climate predictions? A historical perspective based on MPI-ESM ensemble simulations (Davide Zanchettin (University of Venice)) 2015-05-21 10:00: The Last Interglacial period: the key to understanding future ice-sheet stability and sea-level changes under a warm climate (Emma Stone, University of Bristol) 2015-05-21 16:00: Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices (Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science) 2015-05-26 12:00: Delivering low carbon economic corridors in developing nations: The case of India (Douglas Crawford-Brown (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-27 11:00: Competition between Atlantic and Antarctic overturning and the glacial-interglacial CO2 problem (Kevin Oliver, NOC Southampton) 2015-05-28 13:00: Using radar to measure and monitor the rate of melting at the base of ice shelves (Keith Nicholls (British Antarctic Survey)) 2015-06-01 14:15: Mobile measurements: urban NO2 and coastal iodine (Dr Steve Ball (Leicester)) 2015-06-08 11:30: Idioms of sustainability in ancient Anuradhapura (Dr Sat Ghosh) 2015-06-08 14:15: Source apportionment of wide range particle size spectra and black carbon collected at an International Airport (Dr Mauro Masiol (Birmingham)) 2015-06-09 12:00: Domesticating pre-installed low and zero carbon energy technologies (Dr. Lise Andreassen) 2015-06-10 14:00: Intense nutrient upwelling and PV mixing in oceanic anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities (Liam Brannigan, University of Oxford) 2015-06-15 14:15: Global modelling of lightning and its impact on tropospheric ozone chemistry (Declan Finney (Edinburgh)) 2015-06-24 11:00: Global tidal dissipation estimates using a simple analytical tool (Adrien Lefauve, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2015-06-24 11:00: Modelling the bioenergetics and foraging behaviours of albatrosses (Philipp Boersch-Supan and Leah Johnson, University of South Florida) 2015-07-01 14:00: Sensitivity of the Antarctic sea ice and trends in ocean models (Joakim Kjellsson, British Antarctic Survey) 2015-07-21 14:15: Measurement strategies, composition and chemistry of secondary organic aerosols (Thorsten Hoffmann (Mainz)) 2015-07-22 14:00: The dynamical influence of ocean eddy fluxes (Dr. James Maddison (School of Maths, Univ. Edinburgh)) 2015-07-29 14:00: Early results from the SMILES project - observations and models (Dr. John Taylor, University of Cambridge) 2015-08-05 15:00: Studies towards Assessing the Effects of Aviation on Climate and Air Quality (Dr Arezoo Khodayari, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)) 2015-08-24 14:00: NIPR Atmospheric Science Activities in the Antarctic and Arctic (Takashi Yamanouchi, Project Professor of National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR)) 2015-09-02 14:00: Modelling Submesoscale Dynamics: A new parameterization for symmetric instability (Dr. Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge) 2015-09-09 10:00: Director's Choice student special seminar (Tom Williams, Martin Black and Emma Smith) 2015-09-16 14:15: Up in the Air, Down Under – Atmospheric Research in Wollongong, Australia (Clare Murphy, University of Wollongong) 2015-09-21 14:00: Controls over mesopelagic mineralisation (Richard Sanders, National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) Southampton) 2015-09-23 14:00: Wave-turbulence interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. (Dr. Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania) 2015-09-30 14:00: What governs the propagation speed of SST Anomalies? (Dr. Stephan Jeffress, Univ. Oxford) 2015-10-07 14:00: Air-sea interactions and the thermohaline circulation (Dr. Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London) 2015-10-07 18:00: Searches for microorganisms in the earth's atmosphere (Professor Jayant V. Narlikar) 2015-10-10 19:30: 'The Non-Existent Islands of the Antarctic'. (Bob Headland) 2015-10-12 13:00: Ice-shelf buttressing, the marine-ice sheet instability, and the sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to ocean conditions (Hilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2015-10-12 14:15: Interplay of Diffusivity and Reactivity in Organic Aerosol Ageing (Dr Sarah Steimer, Cambridge University) 2015-10-13 16:00: Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog (Eva Ringler, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) 2015-10-15 11:00: Investigating Southern Hemisphere stratospheric ozone change and associated impacts on dynamics and climate (Kane Stone, University of Melbourne) 2015-10-16 14:00: The role of plate tectonics in controlling paleo climate and ocean circulation (Prof. Dan Lunt, University of Bristol) 2015-10-19 13:00: 3D Self-Sustaining Processes in Shear Flows with and without Surface Waves (Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire)) 2015-10-20 14:15: Radiative heating of the tropical lower stratosphere under climate change (Dr Peter Hitchcock, Cambridge University) 2015-10-20 16:00: Evolution of visual pigments in New and Old World warblers: from genes to function (Natasha Bloch, UCL) 2015-10-21 14:00: Transport barriers, ocean adjustment and a new perspective on the surface Gulf Stream (Dr. Chris WIlson, NOC, Liverpool) 2015-10-23 13:00: Limits to growth - a new generation (Irma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute)) 2015-10-23 14:00: The characteristics of föhn events over the Larsen Ice Shelf, and their representation in Polar WRF (Jenny Turton, British Antarctic Survey) 2015-10-24 19:30: ‘What colour is Signy Island?’ ( Dr Gareth Rees) 2015-10-26 13:00: Near-inertial waves and turbulence in the winter Gulf Stream (Dan Whitt (DAMTP)) 2015-10-26 13:00: Environmental melancholia (Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC)) 2015-10-27 14:00: Rothera Time Series and the Dutch Collaboration (Hugh Venables, BAS) 2015-10-27 16:00: Genomics of Recent, Rapid Evolution: Examining the Role of Behavioural Flexibility (Nathan Bailey, University of St Andrews) 2015-10-27 16:00: Dynamics of Airborne Droplets (Professor Jonathan Reid, Bristol University) 2015-10-28 14:00: The Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink (Ben Bronselaer, Univ. Oxford) 2015-10-29 11:00: Polar lows: recent research on the dynamics of intense high-latitude cyclones (Prof. Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen) 2015-10-29 11:00: How mammals respond to changing environments, from leopards to devils (Associate Professor Tracy Rogers, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of NSW, Australia) 2015-10-29 18:30: Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet? (Panel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC)) 2015-10-30 17:00: Future Energy Needs and Engineering Reality (Professor Michael Kelly ( Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-02 13:00: Magma storage, eruption and outgassing during volcanic eruptions - from space (Marie Edmonds (Dept. of Earth Sciences)) 2015-11-02 14:15: Introduction of a Portable and Automated On-Line Instrument to Measure Health-Relevant Aerosol-Bound Reactive Oxygen Species (Dr Daniel Lienhard, Francis Wragg) 2015-11-03 16:00: Behavioral flexibility is not predicted by innovation or brain size in great-tailed grackles, New Caledonian crows, and Western scrub jays (Corina Logan, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-04 14:00: Variability of eddy-mean flow interactions in atmospheric storm tracks and an application to the ACC. (Dr. Maarten Ambaum, University of Reading) 2015-11-09 13:00: Tropical Cyclone Motion in the Presence of Surface Discontinuity and Topography (Johnny Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Trinity College Cambridge)) 2015-11-10 16:00: Adaptive immunity of wild songbirds; how to handle pathogens and maximize fitness. (Helena Westerdahl, Lund University) 2015-11-11 14:00: The South Georgia Gravity Wave Experiment (SG-WEX): investigating the small island problem (Tracy Moffat-Griffin, British Antarctic Survey) 2015-11-12 13:00: Co-production: an inclusive approach to climate action (Dr Candice Howarth (Global Sustainability Instititute)) 2015-11-12 16:00: Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers (Hands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability) 2015-11-16 13:00: Flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Origins and glacial-interglacial shifts (Nick McCave (Dept. of Earth Sciences)) 2015-11-16 14:15: CCFCS event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-17 14:00: Effect of topography and surface friction discontinuity on tropical cyclone tracks (Prof. Johny Chan, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong) 2015-11-17 16:00: The valence of experience: learning and the directionality of preferences (Machteld Verzijden, Aarhus University) 2015-11-17 16:00: Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health (Professor Frank Kelly, King's College London) 2015-11-19 16:00: How social interactions shape the genome. (Jenny Tung, Duke University) 2015-11-23 14:15: Ozone-alkene reactions: The role of trees in atmospheric chemistry (Dr Michael Newland, University of East Anglia) 2015-11-24 13:00: Role Models: research models to answer policy questions (Mr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research) 2015-11-24 16:00: Artificial selection reveals the costs and benefits of large brain size (Alexander Kotrschal, Stockholm University) 2015-11-25 17:15: From Kyoto to Paris: A historical perspective on international climate change negotiations (Dr. David S. Reiner (Proveri Inc.)) 2015-11-26 14:00: High-latitude climate sensitivity in a greenhouse world: lessons from the Eocene (Alexander P. Wolfe Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta ) 2015-11-30 13:00: Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf (Alberto Naviera-Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)) 2015-11-30 14:00: Glacier Retreat and the Oceans: A view from Patagonia (Dr. Carlos Moffat) 2015-11-30 14:15: Vortex splitting in the stratosphere by sub planetary-scale cyclogenesis in the troposphere, and some other thoughts about the dynamics of stratospheric sudden warmings (Professor Alan O'Neill, Reading University) 2015-12-01 13:00: Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf (Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton) 2015-12-01 16:00: Genetics and genomics of lifespan in the short-lived African turquoise killifish (Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing) 2015-12-02 13:00: The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change (Ian Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey)) 2015-12-02 14:00: Back to the future? Climate clues from a past warm time interval (Emilie Capron) 2015-12-04 11:00: Natural iron fertilization of productive Antarctic shelf waters (Prof. Rob Sherrell, Rutgers) 2015-12-07 14:15: CPGS Seminars (Steve Campbell, Cameron Rae, David Wade) 2015-12-11 14:00: Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3. (Dr. Pat Hyder, Met Office) 2015-12-14 13:00: Après Paris: Exploring the shadow of COP21 (David Wasdell, Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project) 2016-01-18 13:00: Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and initialised climate predictions (Adame Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre)) 2016-01-18 14:30: Recent advances in knowledge of the kinetics and mechanism of Criegee Intermediates as tropospheric oxidizing species (Dr R.A. Cox, Cambridge University) 2016-01-19 16:00: You, tree, and me make me me: biotic environments and the expression of genetic variation (Darren Rebar, Zoology Cambridge) 2016-01-21 14:15: Variability of the polar stratospheric vortex and its impact on surface climate patterns (Aditi Sheshadri, Columbia University) 2016-01-21 16:00: Living Laboratory for Sustainability (Emily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability) 2016-01-25 13:00: The fluid dynamics of a suspension of frazil ice crystals (David Rees Jones (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)) 2016-01-25 14:15: Extracting policy relevant findings from air pollution monitoring networks (Dr Gary Fuller, King's College London) 2016-01-26 16:00: What chickens and dogs can teach us about genetics and epigenetics of domesticated behaviour (Per Jensen, Linköping University) 2016-02-01 13:00: Deformation in Porous Media; squashing paper, and carbon dioxide storage (Duncan Hewitt (DAMTP)) 2016-02-01 14:15: Laboratory studies of halogen oxide radical reactions and sensor development for reactive gases (Dr Valerio Ferracci, Cambridge University) 2016-02-02 16:00: The Causes and Consequences of Selection at the Gametic Level in Animals (Simone Immler, Uppsala University) 2016-02-03 13:00: Reclaiming Sustainability - a talk based on the book ‘Sustainability: a cultural history’, by Ulrich Grober (Ray Cunningham) 2016-02-08 13:00: Stochastic dynamical systems and seasonal climate dynamics (Woosok Moon (DAMTP)) 2016-02-08 14:15: El Niño 2015/16: the kid is back (Eric Guilyardi, University of Reading) 2016-02-09 16:00: Far from the deafening crowd: the effects of noise pollution on songbirds (John Swaddle, University of Exeter and College of William & Mary) 2016-02-10 11:00: Polar Upper Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Eddies, Turbulence, Spectra, Modelling (Prof. Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University) 2016-02-15 13:00: Dynamical attribution of recent variability in Atlantic overturning (Helen Johnson (Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)) 2016-02-15 14:15: A marine biogenic source of atmospherically relevant ice nucleating particles (Dr Theo Wilson, University of Leeds) 2016-02-16 16:00: Does colour and colour change matter for thermoregulation in animals? (Devi Stuart-Fox, University of Melbourne) 2016-02-17 13:00: Sustainability in performing arts: “So shines a good deed in a naughty world” (James Phillips, Global Sustainability Institute) 2016-02-22 13:00: Flexural Mechanics of Subduction (Neil Ribe (CNRS, Universite Paris Sud)) 2016-02-22 14:15: The Tangled World of Reactive Oxygen Species: the Search for the Bad Actors in Ambient Particles (Prof Suzanne Paulson, UCLA) 2016-02-23 13:00: Change agency: working with difference and conflict (Laurie Michaelis) 2016-02-23 16:00: Zebra stripes: testing old stories with new data (Tim Caro, UC Davis) 2016-02-29 13:00: An equivalent barotropic view of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Dave Munday (British Antarctic Survey)) 2016-02-29 14:15: Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms (Dr Lia Chatzidiakou) 2016-02-29 14:15: Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms (Dr Lia Chatzidiakou) 2016-03-01 16:00: Genome packaging: is that enough to explain the caste plasticity in social insects? (Solenn Patalano, Babraham Institute Cambridge ) 2016-03-07 11:00: The Sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water to Changing Surface Buoyancy Fluxes. (Dr. Kate Snow) 2016-03-07 13:00: How many oceans are there really? Using Lagrangian ocean dynamics to study climate, marine ecosystems and plastic accumulation (Erik van Sebille (Grantham Institute/Physics, Imperial College)) 2016-03-08 14:00: Sea ice climate interactions in the Pliocene Arctic (Fergus Howell (University of Leeds)) 2016-03-08 16:00: A sting in the tail: evolutionary consequences of chemical anti-predator defence in animals (Kevin Arbuckle, University of Liverpool) 2016-03-09 13:00: Nigeria: energy past to climate future (John Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute) 2016-03-14 14:15: Pushing the Envelope – Advancing Atmospheric Observations using Aerial Robotics (Dr Rick Thomas, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham) 2016-03-15 14:00: Planetary Vital Signs (Charles Kennel (University of California San Diego)) 2016-03-16 12:00: Bringing together energy and water: a useful Nexus or just another network? (Michael Green and Chris Foulds, Global Sustainability Institute) 2016-03-16 14:00: Winter is coming. What happens to sea ice anomalies? (Dr. Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2016-03-17 16:00: Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and science (David Bent - Forum for the Future) 2016-03-21 11:30: Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks (Professor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University) 2016-04-15 13:00: Opportunity Peterborough’s Role in the Development of a Sustainable City (Trevor Gibson, Opportunity Peterborough) 2016-04-21 16:00: Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy (Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)) 2016-04-22 13:00: Spending time in a low carbon society: Less stuff, more fun? (Angela Druckman, University of Surrey) 2016-04-25 14:15: Iodine compounds in polar regions and their relevance to regional aerosol & climate. (Dr Howard K Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey) 2016-05-09 14:00: Developing a unified framework for modelling (exo)planets (Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter) 2016-05-10 14:00: Heroic reconstructions of polar climate (Philip Brohan (UK Met Office)) 2016-05-11 11:00: New thoughts about authigenic carbonate (Dr. Sasha Turchyn, Univ. Cambridge) 2016-05-16 14:15: The annual cycle in tropical lower stratospheric temperatures (Dr Alison Ming, Cambridge University) 2016-05-19 13:00: Using tagged seals to evaluate the MODIS record: can perturbations to the base of the Southern Ocean food web be detected in 12 years of data? (Lauren Biermann, CEFAS) 2016-05-19 16:00: Energy Catalyst (Michael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK) 2016-05-20 10:00: Why BAS science matters for Antarctic Policy: Engaging with Politicians, Managers and other Stakeholders (Phil Trathan, Richard Phillips and Jen Jackson) 2016-05-23 14:15: Is the mid-latitude winter storm frequency predictable? (Dr Gregor Leckebusch, University of Birmingham) 2016-05-24 17:30: LATITUDE NORTH BY Charles Moseley (Charles Moseley) 2016-06-02 14:00: Understanding Earth System responses during the Last Glacial Maximum (Dr Peter Hopcroft, University of Bristol) 2016-06-06 14:15: Imaging organic aerosols (Dr Francis Pope, Birmingham University) 2016-06-07 16:00: Meta-(DNA)barcoding & the ecology of coral-reef fish (Moshe Kiflawi (Ben Gurion University, Israel)) 2016-06-08 14:00: How unsteady winds can fuel phytoplankton blooms at fronts in the upper ocean (Dr. Dan Whitt, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-14 14:30: BAS work in the Arctic (Henry Burgess) 2016-06-20 14:15: Laboratory Studies of Criegee Intermediate Reactions (Rabi Chhantyal Pun, Bristol University) 2016-06-21 16:00: A global perspective on conflict and cooperation in animal mating systems (Simon Griffith, Macquarie University, Sydney) 2016-06-22 11:00: Momentum budget in the Arctic: Atmosphere - Ice - Ocean (Dr. Michel Tsamados, (UCL)) 2016-07-20 13:00: The two-timescale response of Antarctic ocean and sea-ice cover to wind changes: a follow-up (Dr. David Ferreira, Univ. Reading) 2016-07-27 13:00: Controls on turbulent mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Dr Alexander Brearley (British Antarctic Survey)) 2016-08-08 15:00: The mechanics of internal wave generation by volcanic eruptions (Peter Baines (University of Melbourne)) 2016-09-02 11:00: The Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: A community-wide effort to quantify tropospheric ozone in a rapidly changing world (Dr Owen Cooper, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA) 2016-09-06 14:00: Atmospheric oxygen: Useful for more than just breathing... (Andrew Manning - University of East Anglia) 2016-09-07 12:30: A model for super El Ninos (Dr Saji Hameed, University of Aizu, Japan) 2016-09-20 14:00: An Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in-situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (Richard Jones, University of East Anglia) 2016-09-20 16:00: SO WHAT is the Global Sustainability Institute? (Meet the team!) 2016-10-07 11:00: Mixing and phytoplankton dynamics in Antarctica's coastal seas (Filipa Carvalho, Rutgers) 2016-10-10 13:00: Reduced-order transport models for energy and the environment (Zhong Zheng (DAMTP)) 2016-10-11 16:00: Non-genetic inheritance in mice (Rahia Mashoodh (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-13 16:00: France’s Nuclear Energy Transition: Turning Points in National Policy and Innovation (Dr. Kathleen Araújo, Stony Brook University) 2016-10-14 13:00: Indicating natural and anthropogenic changes in marine ecosystems: Field studies with seabirds in the North Atlantic (Stefan Garthe, Research and Technology Centre (FTZ), Kiel University, Germany) 2016-10-17 13:00: Adding the time dimension to our large-scale glacier inversions: goals, challenges, and early work (Dan Goldberg (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-10-17 14:15: National air quality monitoring network and model forecast in China: current status, perspectives and challenges (Xiaoyan Wang and Wei Wang, China National Environment Monitoring Centre) 2016-10-18 14:15: 'Exposure Track' -The Impact of Mobile Device Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution (Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Havard University) 2016-10-18 16:00: Evolution of butterfly brains (Stephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-19 14:00: When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths (Dr. Andrew Wells, AOPP, Oxford) 2016-10-24 13:00: Salinity intrusion in Northern San Francisco Bay: Observations and models (Stephen Monismith (Stanford University)) 2016-10-24 14:15: Interactions of HOx with aerosols; Nitric acid-HONO-NOx cycling via particulate nitrate photolysis (Daniel Moon and Dr Chunxiang Ye, University of Leeds) 2016-10-25 13:00: Uncertainty quantification for complex simulators using emulation (Dr Richard Wilkinson, The University of Sheffield) 2016-10-25 16:00: Oral transfer of chemical cues, growth proteins and hormones: crowdsourcing development in social insects (Adria Le Boeuf, University of Lausanne) 2016-10-26 11:00: Wake effects in the ocean - from dolphins to CTDs via western boundary currents (Dave Munday, BAS) 2016-10-31 13:00: Splash and spray from a partially submerged spinning disc (Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP)) 2016-10-31 14:15: Direct Detection of Criegee Intermediates and Reaction Products Using Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy (Dr Dan Stone, University of Leeds) 2016-11-01 14:00: A unified nonlinear stochastic time series analysis for climate science (Dr. Woosok Moon, BAS Cambridge) 2016-11-01 16:00: Host-parasite coevolution (Kayla King (University of Oxford)) 2016-11-02 10:00: Mirabilite and salinity dynamics in sea ice brines (Ben Butler, James Hutton Institute) 2016-11-07 13:00: The precession resonance mechanism in nonlinear wave systems (Dan Lucas (DAMTP)) 2016-11-07 14:15: Comprehensive laboratory studies of hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms (Dr Max McGillen, Bristol University) 2016-11-08 16:00: Evolution of the sexual genome (Alison Wright (UCL)) 2016-11-09 14:00: Detection of climate and environmental change in the big data era (Dr. Claudie Beaulieu, Univ. Southampton) 2016-11-11 12:00: All paths lead to rain: The social construction of a water crisis in India (Dr Zareen Bharucha, Anglia Ruskin University) 2016-11-14 13:00: How Boltzmann statistics govern a river's shape (Olivier Devauchelle (IPGP)) 2016-11-14 14:15: CPGS seminars (Jake Smith, Conor Bolas, Amy King) 2016-11-15 14:00: Sensitivity of simulated summer monsoonal precipitation in Langtang Valley, Himalaya to cloud microphysics schemes in WRF (Dr Andrew Orr, British Antarctic Survey) 2016-11-15 16:00: Evolutionary ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes (Stephanie Carlson (Berkeley)) 2016-11-18 14:00: Abrupt climate changes and sea level rise during the last deglaciation (21,000 to 7,000 years ago) (Dr Lauren Gregoire, The University of Leeds) 2016-11-21 14:15: Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon during the past 6000 years (Daniel Befort, University of Birmingham) 2016-11-22 13:00: The great devolution debate (Panel of experts from academia and local government) 2016-11-22 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Julie Jones (University of Sheffield)) 2016-11-22 14:00: Understanding recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate (Dr Julie Jones, University Sheffield) 2016-11-22 16:00: The evolutionary ecology of innovativeness and personality in the wild (John Quinn (Cork)) 2016-11-23 11:00: The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change (Paul Holland, BAS) 2016-11-28 13:00: Rethinking volcanism from a trans-crustal perspective (Kathy Cashman (University of Bristol)) 2016-11-28 14:15: Impacts of tropical UTLS ozone feedback on surface climate change projections (Dr Peer Nowack, Cambridge University) 2016-11-29 14:00: Scaling and Representative Measurements for Snowpack Sampling (Prof Dr Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University ) 2016-11-29 16:00: Dispersal evolution (Jean Clobert (Station d’Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS Moulis)) 2016-12-06 14:00: Modelling Climate and Water Isotope Signatures of El Niño in the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period (Dr Julia Tindall, University of Leeds) 2016-12-07 11:00: Submesoscale instabilities at ocean fronts (Christian Buckingham (ex-Univ. Soton, soon to be BAS)) 2016-12-07 13:00: How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks (Walter Robinson, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University) 2016-12-08 13:00: Responsible Futures: A twenty-first century university (Sammi Whitaker, Anglia Ruskin University) 2017-01-12 14:00: The properties of absorbing aerosol in the atmospheric and its role in the tropics and in the Arctic (Prof Hugh Coe, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester) 2017-01-17 16:00: Conservation ecology of West African's montane forest habitats - primary seed dispersers and their substitutes. (Hazel Chapman (University of Canterbury)) 2017-01-24 16:00: Information gaps in ecology and conservation (Tatsuya Amano (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk / Department of Zoology University of Cambridge)) 2017-01-24 16:00: Failing States, Collapsing Systems (Nafeez Ahmed, Author, Security Scholar and Journalist) 2017-01-24 16:00: Book Launch & Talk: Failing States, Collapsing Systems (Nafeez Ahmed, Visiting Fellow of the Global Sustainability Insititute) 2017-01-27 14:00: Organisations + Change: Lessons for Sustainability? (A panel of speakers from different disciplinary perspectives) 2017-01-30 13:00: On the generation of waves by turbulent wind (Frédéric Moisy (FAST)) 2017-01-30 14:15: Air Pollution and Human Health (APHH) in a Chinese Megacity (Beijing): campaign overview (Dr Lekan Popoola) 2017-01-31 16:00: The Behavioural Ecology of Mosquitoes (Lauren Cator (Imperial College London)) 2017-02-06 13:00: Debris flow analogue models: how far can we push them? (Lis Bowman (University of Sheffield)) 2017-02-06 14:15: Inferring causality in the atmosphere - constraining aerosol-cloud interactions from observations (Edward Gryspeerdt, Imperial College, London) 2017-02-07 14:00: Turbulent transport and mixing of oceanic sea salt aerosol over the Indian sub-continent: Cloud microphysical and geo-engineering implications (Prof Dr. S. Ghosh, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India) 2017-02-07 16:00: Genetic evolution of humans and closely related species (Aida Andres (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)) 2017-02-09 16:00: Greening up the Cavendish and the University: the Maxwell Centre as a test case (Ottavio Croze) 2017-02-13 13:00: Impacts and fragmentation in liquid-liquid systems: Planet formation in the lab (Maylis Landeau (DAMTP)) 2017-02-13 13:00: Inter-group tolerance in humans and other primates (Anne Pisor (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) 2017-02-13 14:15: Interaction between gaseous halogen oxides and other radical families (Dr David Rowley, University College, London) 2017-02-14 16:00: Parasites, Immune Function, and Human Life Histories (Aaron Blackwell (University of California, Santa Barbara)) 2017-02-15 11:00: Ice ice baby, under pressure: Ice-ocean interactions in and around ice shelves (Jim Jordan (British Antarctic Survey, Imperial College London)) 2017-02-20 13:00: Understanding drivers of Arctic sea ice loss through analysis of observations and models (Julienne Stroeve (UCL)) 2017-02-20 14:15: Global modelling of tropospheric halogens and their impacts on air quality and climate (Dr Tomás Sherwen, University of York) 2017-02-21 14:00: The effects of ozone depletion, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and increased aerosols on precipitation in High-Mountain Asia (Zoran E.H. Kaufmann, EPFL, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Switzerland) 2017-02-21 16:00: Eco-evolutionary dynamics (Andrés López-Sepulcre (IEES CNRS Paris)) 2017-02-27 13:00: Inferences of mantle viscosity based on ice age datasets (Jacky Austermann (Bullard) ) 2017-02-27 14:15: New Developments in Climate Observations (Prof Stephen Briggs, European Space Agency) 2017-02-28 16:00: Global questions about parenting and movement ecology in the world’s biggest tern (David Craig (Willamette University)) 2017-03-03 14:00: The Formation of Southern Ocean Gyres (Ryan Patmore, BAS) 2017-03-06 13:00: Mixing efficiency in run-down gravity currents (Paul Linden (DAMTP)) 2017-03-06 14:15: Modeling the Physical Multi-Phase Interactions of HNO3 Between Snow and Air on the Antarctic Plateau (Dome C) and coast (Halley) (Hoi Ga Chan, British Antarctic Survey) 2017-03-07 16:00: From collective animal behaviour to collective motion of football teams (David Sumpter (Uppsala University)) 2017-03-09 11:00: Sources and sinks of bioactive trace metals across the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Amber Annett, Rutgers University) 2017-03-13 13:00: The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change (Paul Holland (BAS)) 2017-03-13 14:15: A comprehensive model analysis of the UK atmospheric composition and air-surface exchange of pollutants (Dr Massimo Vieno, CEH, Edinburgh) 2017-03-14 16:00: Neural basis of mating behaviour (Carolina Rezaval (University of Oxford)) 2017-03-16 16:00: Fast Fashion: Slowing it down (Kristen Nuttall, Appso-Supro) 2017-03-16 16:00: Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked? (Paul Mantle, Frontier IP Group) 2017-03-20 14:15: Using and Developing the Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) (Dr Scott Archer-Nicholls, Cambridge University) 2017-03-21 14:00: Arctic climate change – mid latitude circulation and extreme weather linkages (Prof Dr E. Hanna) 2017-03-23 13:00: What are you worth? Valuing ourselves and our natural environment (Prof Aled Jones, Global Sustainability Institute) 2017-04-03 13:00: Sustainability and health – what are the issues (Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia) 2017-04-04 14:00: The effects of directional wind shear on orographic gravity-wave breaking (Maria V. Guarino, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology) 2017-04-04 14:00: Variability of water isotopes in Antarctic snow and ice-core records (Thomas Laepple, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 2017-04-12 14:00: Making your work ODA-able: refocussing science for official development assistance (Lucy Bricheno, NOC, Liverpool) 2017-04-19 11:00: Different uses for spatial overlap scores: testing gannet sexual segregation & predicting kittiwake foraging areas (Beth Clark, University of Exeter/RSPB) 2017-04-28 13:00: Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub (Duncan Catchpole, Cambridge Organic Food Co) 2017-05-02 13:00: The Southern Ocean in climate models (Erik Behrens National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) 2017-05-08 11:00: Krill feeding in fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula (and a few penguins & seals) (Alison Cleary, Norwegian Polar Institute) 2017-05-08 14:15: Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds (Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge)) 2017-05-10 11:00: Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (Yvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton) 2017-05-10 11:00: The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion? (Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley) 2017-05-10 13:00: Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation (Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi, Australian Antarctic Division) 2017-05-11 14:00: Snow cover variability in Western Himalayas and its implications on socio-economic status and livelihood of local communities (Dr Shresth Tayal, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi) 2017-05-15 14:15: Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer (Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific) 2017-05-17 14:00: The Southern Ocean carbon cycle: Insights from a recently installed atmospheric O2 and CO2 measurement system at the Halley Research Station, Antarctica (Thomas Barningham , UEA, School of Environmental Sciences) 2017-05-22 14:00: ECCO version 4: an ocean data analysis and parameter estimation framework (Gael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2017-05-22 14:15: Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system (Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University) 2017-05-23 14:00: SO-AntEco: Contributing information and scientific advice to the CCAMLR South Orkney Islands MPA review ( Madeleine Brasier, University of Liverpool and Natural History Museum, London ) 2017-05-24 11:00: Seasonal changes in Circumpolar Deep Water in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, using seal-borne tags (Helen Mallet, University of East Anglia) 2017-06-06 13:00: Group living – causes and consequences: lessons from the biology of social spiders (Prof Leticia Aviles (University of British Columbia)) 2017-06-07 11:00: Examining mechanisms for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic (Dr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey)) 2017-06-12 14:15: What has the Antarctic ozone hole to do with biological evolution? (Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge)) 2017-06-19 11:00: The 2016 K-axis Voyage: A Salpa thompsoni goldmine (Paige Kelly, Australian Antarctic Division) 2017-06-20 13:00: Using fisheries samples to investigate seasonal and regional variation in Antarctic krill lipids (Nicole Hellessey, University of Tasmania) 2017-06-20 13:30: Antarctic krill: Life is all about balance in a high CO2 world (Jessica Ericson, University of Tasmania) 2017-06-21 14:00: The euphausiid exception in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) (Dr. Jaime Farber-Lorda (Centro de Investigación Cientifica, Ensenada, Mexico) ) 2017-06-26 11:00: Southern Ocean coccolithophore biogeography – controlling factors and implications for global biogeochemical cycles (Cara Nissen, ETH Zurich ) 2017-06-26 13:00: Ecology and diversity of Southern Ocean pelagic amphipods (Charlotte Havermans, University of Bremen) 2017-06-28 13:00: A year in the life of the minutiae in a changing Arctic Ocean (Bryan Wilson, University of Bergen) 2017-07-03 11:00: Exploring complexity in seabird foraging behaviour (Xavier Meyer, BAS ) 2017-07-03 14:00: The bottom-intensification of mixing causes large, almost cancelling, abyssal upwelling and downwelling (Trevor McDougall, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales) 2017-07-06 10:00: Soundscape ecology: what sound can tell us about ecological functioning (Rachel Buxton, Colorado State University) 2017-07-17 14:00: Quantification of Kelvin wave-induced subsurface warming along the West Antarctic Peninsula (David Webb, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), UNSW, Australia) 2017-07-19 11:00: Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier (Alessandro Silvano, University of Tasmania) 2017-09-05 13:00: Bringing Partula up to date: from Captain Cook to the 2017 search for lost snails. (Dr. Justin Gerlach) 2017-09-08 15:00: Big Data Meets Geo-Computation: Combining Research Reproducibility and Processing Efficiency in High-performance Computing (Giuseppe Amatulli (Yale University)) 2017-09-26 11:00: Measuring pH variability using an experimental sensor on an underwater glider (Michael Hemming, University of East Anglia/LOCEAN, UPMC, Paris) 2017-09-26 14:00: Complex Homology and the Neuromolecular Evolution of Social Behavior (Hans Hoffmann (University of Texas at Austin)) 2017-09-28 14:00: Thermodynamic balance at ice-ocean interface in theory, models and maybe real life (Alena Malyarenko, NIWA, New Zealand) 2017-10-02 14:00: The response of ice sheets to climate variability (Kate Snow, University of Edinburgh) 2017-10-09 13:00: The evolution of ice rheology in glacier shear margins: Crystallographic fabric and thermoviscous feedbacks (Brent Minchew (BAS)) 2017-10-09 14:15: CPGS Seminars (Andrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University) 2017-10-10 13:00: You are what you eat? Gut bacteria and mating preferences in Drosophila (Zenobia Lewis (University of Liverpool)) 2017-10-16 13:00: Wind work on ocean eddies and the decadal-mean impact of relative wind stress on the ocean (Xiaoming Zhai (UEA)) 2017-10-17 13:00: Rapid host and pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak (Camille Bonneaud (University of Exeter)) 2017-10-23 13:00: Aquaplanet and stationary wave monsoons (Ruth Geen (University of Exeter)) 2017-10-23 14:15: Detailed Modelling of Organic Chemistry in the Atmosphere – Recent Advances (and Limitations) (Dr Peter Brauer, University of York) 2017-10-24 13:00: Adaptive radiations and species(?) diversity (Per Lundberg (Lund University)) 2017-10-25 13:00: Variability of the Antarctic slope current system in the northwestern Weddell Sea (Marina Azaneu, University of East Anglia) 2017-10-30 13:00: The linear stability of general zonal flows for any Rossby and Richardson numbers (Mike Bell (Met Office, Exeter)) 2017-10-31 11:00: Oxygen-isotope records of the Early Holocene climate of Europe (Jonathan Holmes, University College London) 2017-10-31 13:00: When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system (Laura Ross (University of Edinburgh)) 2017-10-31 14:00: A regime-based perspective on variability of the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude jet (Nicholas Byrne, University of Reading) 2017-11-01 11:00: Anthropogenic carbon estimates in the oceanic carbon cycle (Tobia Tudino, University of Exeter) 2017-11-06 13:00: Long-range propagation of ocean swell (Bill Young (UCSD)) 2017-11-06 14:15: Using past decadal temperature changes to understand present and future climate (Dr Andrew Schurer, University of Edinburgh) 2017-11-07 13:00: Can social networks explain why females cheat? (Julia Schroeder (Imperial College London)) 2017-11-08 11:00: Links between Southern Ocean dynamics and Antarctic ice melt (Laura Herraiz Borreguero, University of Southampton) 2017-11-13 11:00: Glaciers, icebergs and silicon: Preliminary findings from ICY-LAB research expeditions to SW Greenland (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol) 2017-11-13 13:00: Modelling grain growth in polycrystals (Felix Ng (University of Sheffield)) 2017-11-14 13:00: Neurophysiology in the field: What can it tell us about the ecology of acoustic communication? (Heinrich Römer (University of Graz)) 2017-11-20 14:15: Dual air quality benefit of SO2 emission controls by decreasing sulfate and biogenic secondary organic aerosol (Dr Eloïse Marais, University of Birmingham) 2017-11-21 13:00: Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Parental Care (Chris Cunningham (Swansea University)) 2017-11-21 13:30: Tagging along: where do Marion Island’s Grey-headed albatrosses go? (Kim Stevens, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town) 2017-11-23 11:00: Challenges in Understanding Decadal Trends and Variability of Oceanic Dissolved Oxygen: Perspectives from MPI-ESM's Large Ensemble Simulations (Yohei Takano, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) 2017-11-27 13:00: Aeolian dune development and migration dynamics: field insights from a terrestrial laser scanner (Jo Nield (University of Southampton)) 2017-11-28 13:00: Growing old yet staying young: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity? (Emma Teeling (University College Dublin)) 2017-11-29 11:00: Surface roughness: a key to understanding Arctic sea ice from micro to macro scales (Jack Landy, University of Bristol) 2017-12-05 14:00: Long Range Predictability of the winter atmosphere in the North Atlantic Sector. (Professor Adam Scaife, Met Office) 2017-12-06 11:00: Changes in the Export of Weddell Sea Deep Water (Povl Abrahamsen (British Antarctic Survey)) 2018-01-09 11:00: Decadal oceanic variability drives ice sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-01-22 13:00: Mixing and transport of warm waters on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf (Alex Brearley, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-01-22 14:15: Ambient air quality and human health in India (Luke Conibear, University of Leeds) 2018-01-23 13:00: Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology (Gáspár Jékely (University of Exeter)) 2018-01-23 14:00: Can polar bears change Arctic clouds? (Jo Browse, University of Exeter) 2018-01-29 13:00: Dynamical Response to the QBO and the Solar Forcing in the Northern Winter Stratosphere: Towards a Deeper Mechanistic Understanding (Hua Lu, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-01-30 13:00: Paleogenomics beyond humans (Michi Hofreiter (University of Pottsdam)) 2018-02-01 14:00: Exploring gravity wave characteristics over the Southern Andes, Antarctic Peninsula, and South Georgia Island (Corwin Wright, University of Bath) 2018-02-02 11:00: Arctic and Antarctic aerosol size distributions (Manuel Dall'Osto (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona)) 2018-02-05 13:00: Multi-scale observations of ocean circulation in the Atlantic (Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton) 2018-02-05 14:15: Fundamental Limits to Volcanic Cooling and its Implications for Past Climate on Earth (David Wade, Cambridge University) 2018-02-06 13:00: Evolution in island colonising birds: silvereyes of the south Pacific (Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford)) 2018-02-06 14:00: Understanding model diversity in CMIP5 projections of westerly winds over the Southern Ocean (Tom Bracegirdle, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-02-09 11:00: The role of Birkeland currents in the Dungey cycle (John Coxon, University of Southampton) 2018-02-12 13:00: Surface meltwater ponding and drainage causes ice-shelf flexure (Alison Banwell (University of Cambridge)) 2018-02-13 13:00: Benefits of social relationships in carrion crows (Claudia Wascher (Anglia Ruskin University)) 2018-02-19 13:00: Chemical convection and stratification at the top of the Earth's outer core (Matthieu Bouffard, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) 2018-02-19 14:15: Emissions and Chemistry of air pollution in London and Beijing: a tale of two cities. (Professor James Lee, University of York) 2018-02-20 13:00: Cognition in the wild: foraging hummingbirds and building nests (Sue Healy (University of St. Andrews)) 2018-02-26 13:00: Geophysical flows on Earth and Mars (Jim McElwaine (Durham University)) 2018-02-26 14:15: Methane and the Paris Agreement (Professor Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway and NERC Project MOYA) 2018-02-27 13:00: CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE. (Helen Leggett (University of Cambridge)) 2018-03-05 13:00: Adding turbulent convection to geostrophic circulation: insights into ocean heat transport (Catherine Vreugdenhil) 2018-03-06 11:00: The High Latitude Dust Project (Professor Jo Bullard, Loughborough University) 2018-03-06 13:00: CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE. (Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London)) 2018-03-06 14:00: Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation (Francesco Muschitiello, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) 2018-03-12 13:00: Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century (Heather Graven, Imperial) 2018-03-13 13:00: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION (Jennifer Perry (University of Oxford)) 2018-03-17 16:30: Ireland’s Antarctic Explorers (Michael Smith) 2018-03-21 11:00: Turbulence Beneath the Larsen C Ice Shelf (Peter Davis, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-03-21 14:00: Megafolding of englacial layers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Neil Ross, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK) 2018-04-10 13:00: GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law (Matthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm) 2018-04-11 09:30: Debating Nature's Value Conference (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-04-11 18:00: Cold cases in Antarctic history (Dr. Ursula Rack) 2018-04-18 11:00: The ice-covered Ross Gyre: variability and drivers (Tiago Dotto, National Oceanography Centre) 2018-04-24 13:00: On the origin of human sociality: Ape minds and the evolution of Homo sapiens (Christopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews)) 2018-04-24 13:00: GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches (Dr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute)) 2018-04-24 14:30: Information Extraction from Airborne Radio-Echo Sounding: Basal Properties and Crystal Orientation Fabric of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Tom Jordan, University of Bristol and Stanford University) 2018-04-27 11:00: Rapid laundering of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current (Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton)) 2018-05-01 13:00: Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp (Dr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge)) 2018-05-01 14:00: Polar low formation: ambient environments and the role of moisture (Annick Terpstra, University of East Anglia) 2018-05-08 11:00: High-latitude Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by seasonal sea-ice feedbacks during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (Chris Fogwill, Keele University) 2018-05-08 13:00: Fuxianhuiids and their exceptional contribution to the early evolution of Cambrian euarthropods (Javier Ortega Hernandez (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge)) 2018-05-14 14:15: The search for signs of ozone recovery (Dr James Keeble, Cambridge University) 2018-05-15 13:00: Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems (Dr Emily Mitchell, Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge)) 2018-05-16 11:00: Oceanography to fish population genetics: multidisciplinary studies with numerical models (Emma Young, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-05-21 11:00: Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it. (Rebecca Woodgate, University of Washington) 2018-05-21 14:15: Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale (Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham) 2018-05-22 13:00: Sexual selection and trait investment in a dynamic world (Christine Miller (University of Florida)) 2018-05-23 11:00: Pathways of boundary mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current revealed by a tracer release experiment. (Marie-Jose Messias, University of Exeter) 2018-05-29 13:00: The evolution of color vision in Heliconius butterflies. (Adriana Briscoe (University of California at Irvine)) 2018-06-04 16:00: Designing a strategy for merging atmospheric chemistry models and measurements: Going after what matters (Prof. Michael Prather, Earth system Science Dept, UC Irvine) 2018-06-11 11:15: A Lagrangian analysis of the seasonal and interannual variability in Greenland precipitation sources (Johannes de Leeuw, Utrecht University) 2018-06-11 14:00: Processes controlling the flux of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic Shelves. (Andy Hogg, Australian National University) 2018-06-12 10:00: Climate of 79N glacier (Greenland) (Jenny Turton, Friedrich-Alexander Universität) 2018-06-13 11:00: Dynamics of heat transfer and exchanges across the Antarctic Slope Front (Andrew Stewart, UCLA) 2018-06-13 14:00: Understanding uncertainty via statistical analysis of a global aerosol model (Lindsay Lee, University of Leeds) 2018-06-15 16:00: Hidden problems in the global wind industry (Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-18 14:00: Polar Oceans PhD Student talks (David Bett and Rachael Sanders, BAS) 2018-06-20 14:00: The effect of ice shelf dynamics on marine ice sheet stability ( Marianne Haseloff, University of Oxford) 2018-06-26 14:30: The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies (Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-27 11:00: Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage (Alice Marzocchi, NOC) 2018-07-04 11:00: Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines (Ben Yeager, Imperial College London) 2018-07-05 14:00: Interconnectivity between volume transports through Arctic straits (Agatha de Boer, Stockholm University) 2018-07-13 13:00: THE CHEMICAL WARFARE BETWEEN PLANTS AND INSECTS: From pathway discovery to functional diversification of toxins (Professor Søren Bak , University of Copenhagen) 2018-08-08 11:00: Catalyst design for energy and environmental applications (Dr Muhammad Zaheer) 2018-09-04 13:00: What genes made us human, and how much did they cost? (James Sikela, UC Denver) 2018-09-19 11:00: Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland (Neil Fraser, SAMS) 2018-09-28 11:00: Rates and Mechanisms of turbulent mixing in the west Antarctic. (Ryan Scott, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-10-03 10:30: Polar sea ice variability derived from ice cores: The Bromine approach (Andrea Spolaor, University of Venice) 2018-10-03 11:00: Seismic Imaging of Eddy‐Dominated Warm‐Water Transport Across the Bellingshausen Sea (Kathy Gunn, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-08 13:00: Waves and turbulence in sustained stratified shear flows (Adrien Lefauve, DAMTP) 2018-10-09 13:00: Timing and pattern of tooth eruption – Investigation of their evolution in wild and domestic mammals (Madeleine Geiger (University of Cambridge)) 2018-10-11 18:00: When Your Life Depends on It Extreme Decision making lessons from the Antarctic (Brad Borkan) 2018-10-15 13:00: Waves, turbulence and large-scale flows in mixed convective-stably-stratified fluids (Louis-Alexandre Couston, British Antarctic Survey) 2018-10-15 14:15: An expanding picture of Criegee intermediate tropospheric chemistry (Dr Joseph Beames, Cardiff University) 2018-10-16 13:00: Epigenetics and social insects (Eamonn Mallon (University of Leicester)) 2018-10-17 14:00: Simulating Southern Ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf interactions: model intercomparison and future projections (Kaitlin Naughten (British Antarctic Survey)) 2018-10-22 13:00: Internal wave-induced mean flow (Felix Beckebanze, Mathematical Institute, Utrecht University) 2018-10-23 13:00: Evolution of ant social chromosomes and bumblebee diversity (Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London)) 2018-10-29 13:00: Precessing flows: from geophysics to bioreactors (Patrice Meunier, IRPHÉ, CNRS, Marseille) 2018-10-30 13:00: Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind (Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews)) 2018-10-31 11:00: Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate (David Ferreira, University of Reading) 2018-11-05 13:00: Dynamics of volcanic outgassing and plume transport revealed by proximal Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) measurements (Emma Liu, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-05 14:15: Synchrotron Adventures with Criegee Intermediates: Studies of Tropospheric Chemistry in the Lab (Rebecca Caravan, Sandia National Labs) 2018-11-06 13:00: The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology so cool (Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich)) 2018-11-09 11:00: Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding (Ivan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton) 2018-11-12 13:00: On the dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in experiments and the real world (Aleksandra Lewandowska, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki) 2018-11-12 14:15: Satellite Observations, Earth System Models and Public Engagement Synergies: from Oil and Natural Gas Operations, Enhanced Weathering to Ozone Gardens (Maria Val Martin, University of Sheffield) 2018-11-13 13:00: Sexual conflict in ecological context (Jen Perry (University of Oxford)) 2018-11-14 11:00: Re-thinking controls on the East Australian Current's eddy shedding and mean poleward extent (Christopher Bull) 2018-11-20 13:00: Social learning? So what! Looking for evolutionary consequences of social information use. (Rose Thorogood (University of Cambridge and University of Helsinki)) 2018-11-26 13:00: Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Laura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford) 2018-11-26 14:15: Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry: ground and airborne measurements (Dr Thomas Bannan University of Manchester) 2018-11-27 13:00: Evolution on the wing (Owen McMillan, STRI) 2018-11-28 11:00: Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics (Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Kerr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande ) 2018-11-30 11:00: Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas (Rebecca Frew, University of Reading) 2018-12-03 14:15: Direct measurements of urban pollutant emissions (Eiko Nemitz, CEH) 2018-12-04 13:30: The ExoMars mission: exploring the martian atmosphere and the search for life (James Holmes, The Open University) 2018-12-04 14:30: Constraining the representation of the atmospheric hydrological cycle in General Circulation Models using water isotopes and what would be needed to directly compare ice core water isotope records with model simulations (Hans Christian, University of Bergen) 2018-12-10 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University) 2018-12-11 13:00: Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping (Robert Magrath (Australian National University)) 2018-12-12 14:00: The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice (Kate Hendry, University of Bristol) 2019-01-09 11:00: The present: CryoSat-2 (and other altimeters) for enhanced ocean observation in the polar oceans. The future: SKIM (Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring satellite mission), a candidate satellite mission exploring global ocean currents and waves. (Michel Tsamados (UCL)) 2019-01-16 14:00: Analysis of snow and aerosols deposition variability over High Mountain Asia and other major high mountain ranges (Hoi Ga “Veronica” Chan, Princeton University) 2019-01-21 13:00: Coupled ice-ocean interactions for the Amundsen Sea glaciers, Antarctica (Jan De Rydt - Northumbria University) 2019-01-22 11:00: Modelling coupled ice-ocean interactions in the Amundsen Sea (Jan De Rydt (Northumbria University)) 2019-01-22 13:00: Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution (Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod)) 2019-01-28 13:00: The influence of small-scale turbulence on mixed layer fronts (Matthew Crowe, DAMTP) 2019-01-29 13:00: High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects (Thomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)) 2019-01-30 11:00: Ocean modelling from the Ross to the Tasman Sea (Erik Behrens (NIWA)) 2019-02-04 13:00: Turbulence in Forced Stratified Exchange Flows (Kat Smith, DAMTP) 2019-02-04 14:15: Talk is postponed as of 01.02.2019 (Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University) 2019-02-05 13:00: Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines (Alex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology)) 2019-02-11 13:00: The formation of large impact craters (Gareth Collins, Imperial College London) 2019-02-12 13:00: Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers (Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London)) 2019-02-12 14:00: Exploring How Eruption Source Parameters Affect Volcanic Radiative Forcing (Lauren Marshall, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry) 2019-02-18 11:00: On the interaction of turbulence, waves and mean flows in geophysical fluids (Louis Couston (BAS)) 2019-02-18 14:15: Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic (Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-19 13:00: Why do females fight? (Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford)) 2019-02-19 14:00: Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future (Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-25 13:00: From a steady plume to periodic puffs during confined carbon dioxide dissolution (Francois Nadal, Loughborough University) 2019-02-26 13:00: Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph (Roderick Page (University of Glasgow)) 2019-02-28 14:30: Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic (Dr Jiankai Zhang (Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-04 13:00: Sources of hydrographic variability in Sermilik Fjord, a major glacier fjord in southeast Greenland (Irena Vankova, BAS) 2019-03-04 14:15: Air Pollution in Delhi, India (Ying Chen, Lancaster) 2019-03-05 13:00: The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild (Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh)) 2019-03-11 13:00: The role of lateral rheology contrasts in the evolution of mountain ranges (Camilla Penny, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2019-03-12 13:00: Microbial evolution in the human gut (Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork)) 2019-03-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter)) 2019-03-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-20 10:30: Two talks on Ice-Ocean interaction in East Antarctica (Takeshi Tamura (National Institute of Polar Research) and Daisuke Hirano (Institute of Low Temperature Science)) 2019-04-08 11:00: Getting Under Europa’s Skin (Dr. Britney Schmidt (Georgia Tech)) 2019-05-09 17:45: Britain after Brexit: How to redesign the UK's role in sustainable development (Rt Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP) 2019-05-10 11:00: Modelling and Assessing the Impacts of Intercropping, as a Sustainable Farming Practice, on Food Security, Air Quality, and Public Health (Ka Ming Fung, Graduate Division of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2019-05-13 14:15: Global models for atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment (Hamish Gordon, University of Leeds) 2019-05-20 11:00: The Influence of Large-Scale Ridge Topography on Barotropic Flows in the Southern Ocean (Ryan Patmore (BAS)) 2019-05-29 11:00: Southern Ocean Circulation and Frontal Dynamics from Cryosat-2 Along-track Radar Altimetry (Erik Mackie (BAS)) 2019-06-03 14:15: Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise. (Thomas Aubry, University of Cambridge) 2019-06-05 11:00: Arctic Ocean freshwater variability: a decadal memory of atmospheric circulation (Sam Cornish (University of Oxford)) 2019-06-12 11:00: Optimal perturbation recipes: how to change Southern Ocean heat content (Dan Jones (BAS)) 2019-09-06 11:00: Effect of ocean variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 20th and 21st centuries (Donald Slater (Scripps, UC San Diego)) 2019-09-10 16:00: The Role of New Particle Formation in the Remote Atmosphere: Improving Our Understanding Through Pole-to-pole in-situ Measurements From the Nasa Atmospheric Tomography Mission (Christina Williamson, University of Colorado) 2019-09-23 11:00: Dynamic processes in a supercooled ISW plume: tales from the Victoria Land Coast Current (Natalie Robinson (NIWA, New Zealand)) 2019-09-27 11:00: Variability of stochastically forced zonal jets (Laura Cope (University of Cambridge)) 2019-10-04 11:00: On the quantification of parametric uncertainty in Antarctic ice sheet model projections, including the role of bedrock topography. (Andreas Wernecke (The Open University)) 2019-10-14 13:00: Simply simulating objects and phase change in fluid flow (Eric Hester, University of Sydney) 2019-10-15 13:00: How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex (James Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge)) 2019-10-21 13:00: Processes affecting climate model projections of stratospheric water vapour (Jake Smith, DAMTP) 2019-10-22 13:00: Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of eusociality: How does the queen control reproduction in her workers? (Elizabeth Duncan (Leeds University)) 2019-10-28 13:00: Decoding the thermochemical and magnetic evolution of asteroids using thermal modelling (James Bryson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-28 14:00: Ice cores and aerosols: Past atmospheric chemistry from new generation, continuous ice core analyses (Dr. Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute) 2019-10-29 13:00: Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs (Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia)) 2019-10-29 13:00: Investigation of fine-scale englacial structure using phase-sensitive and polarimetric radar sounding (Tom Jordan, University of Bristol ) 2019-11-04 13:00: Motion of vortices with buoyancy (Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD) 2019-11-05 13:00: Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds (Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL)) 2019-11-11 13:00: Viscoplastic Droplets (Maziyar Jalaal, DAMTP) 2019-11-11 14:00: A Preliminary Simulation of Convections and Airflows Using An Unstructured Adaptive Mesh Finite-Element Model Fluidity-Atmosphere (Dr. Jinxi Li, University of Cambridge) 2019-11-12 11:00: Random movement of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean (Xiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia) 2019-11-12 13:00: Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders (Trine Bilde (Aarhus University)) 2019-11-18 13:00: What sets the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions? (Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey) 2019-11-19 13:00: Tracking trade in underground symbioses (Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam)) 2019-11-25 14:00: Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change (Dr. Nicolas Bellouin, University of Reading) 2019-11-26 11:00: Modeling ocean eddies in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (Mack, Stefanie L., British Antarctic Survey) 2019-11-26 13:00: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations (Josh Firth (Oxford)) 2019-12-02 13:00: Zonal jet variability: insights from a framework of idealised models (Laura Cope, DAMTP) 2019-12-03 11:00: A budget for turbulent mixing and water mass transformation in a partially enclosed deep basin (Carl Spingys, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre) 2019-12-09 16:30: A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration (Martin Siegert, Imperial College) 2019-12-16 14:15: PM2.5/NOx modelling for health exposure research (Nathan Pavlovic) 2020-01-14 13:00: Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects (Simon Segar (Harper Adams University)) 2020-01-20 13:00: Turbulence driven by tides in planetary cores: wave turbulence vs. geostrophic turbulence (Thomas Le Reun, DAMTP) 2020-01-20 14:15: Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models (Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds) 2020-01-21 13:00: Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record (Rob Sansom (University of Manchester)) 2020-01-27 13:00: The ocean boundary layer beneath a melting Antarctic ice shelf: stratification, tides and turbulence (Cat Vregdenhil, DAMTP) 2020-01-28 13:00: A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms (Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose)) 2020-02-03 13:00: Quantifying irreversible mixing in stratified turbulence and breaking internal waves (Chris Howland, DAMTP) 2020-02-03 14:00: Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates (Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol) 2020-02-04 13:00: It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections (Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh)) 2020-02-10 11:00: Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions (Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office) 2020-02-10 13:00: Impacts of surface-derived meltwater on ice motion in Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula (Andrew Sole, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield) 2020-02-11 13:00: The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments (Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University)) 2020-02-18 13:00: Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants. (Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling)) 2020-02-24 13:00: How mixed is the ocean mixed layer? (Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge) 2020-02-25 13:00: Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences (Annette Fayet (Oxford)) 2020-03-02 13:00: Separating the forced atmospheric circulation response to Arctic sea-ice loss from internal variability (Christine McKenna, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds) 2020-03-02 14:00: To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation (Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading) 2020-03-12 14:00: Dynamics of a barotropic current at an ice shelf front (Nadine Steiger, University of Bergen) 2020-04-27 14:00: Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes (Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office) 2020-06-03 16:00: Ice streams: fantastic beasts and how to model them (Elisa Mantelli, Princeton University) 2020-06-09 11:00: The Weddell Polynya: when will it come back? (Casimir de Lavergne, LOCEAN, Sorbonne University) 2020-06-29 14:00: Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results (Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo) 2020-07-02 15:00: ROSETTA-Ice: a new framework for understanding the Ross Ice Shelf (Kirsty Tinto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) 2020-07-08 10:00: Influences of Melt Water from Sea Ice/Ice Shelf in Polar Oceans (Kofan Lu, JAMSTEC) 2020-07-15 16:00: Ikaaġvik Sikukun: Bridging the Scientific and Indigenous Communities to Study Sea Ice Change in Arctic Alaska (Christopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) 2020-07-23 11:00: Ice melt driven by the ocean - Two process studies on the physics of ice-ocean interactions based on observations from NE Greenland and the central Arctic Ocean (Dr Janin Schaffer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) 2020-09-09 15:00: Arctic Freshwater Storage and Export in CMIP6 Models (Hannah Zanowski, University of Colorador Boulder) 2020-09-23 16:00: Observing Iceberg Melt in a Greenland Fjord (Margaret Lindeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) 2020-10-05 11:00: The utility of simple climate models (Dr. Chris Smith, University of Leeds) 2020-10-07 14:00: Melting and mixing at the submarine termini of tidewater glaciers (Rebecca Jackson, Rutgers University) 2020-10-11 13:00: Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-10-12 13:00: Gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media (Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute, University of Cambridge) 2020-10-13 13:00: Replaying the tape of life: how predictable is evolution? (Katie Peichel (Bern)) 2020-10-19 13:00: The ocean’s transient conveyor belt (Shantong Sun, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech) 2020-10-20 13:00: Do fish have necks? How fish use the axial muscles and skeleton to power suction feeding (Ariel Camp (Liverpool)) 2020-10-21 14:00: Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice (Mitch Bushuk, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) 2020-10-23 14:00: Is the Halley temperature record homogeneous? (Prof. John King, British Antarctic Survey) 2020-10-26 13:00: From top to bottom: using surface velocity variations to look below glaciers (Kasia Warburton, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2020-10-27 13:00: The late, great bilaterians: hunting down the first animals in the fossil record (Graham Budd (Uppsala)) 2020-11-02 11:00: Estimating and attributing greenhouse gas fluxes using radiocarbon (Dr. Heather Graven, Imperial College London) 2020-11-02 13:00: Dune-dune interactions: experiments and modelling (Karol Bacik, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2020-11-03 13:00: Convergent Evolution of a Social Symbiosis (Joe Parker (Caltech)) 2020-11-04 15:00: The impact of lee waves on the Southern Ocean circulation and its response to winds (Luwei Yang, University of California, Los Angeles) 2020-11-09 13:00: Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather (Kristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford) 2020-11-10 13:00: Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour (Miriam Liedvogel (Max Planck)) 2020-11-12 14:00: Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic (Professor John Turner, British Antarctic Survey) 2020-11-16 11:00: Aerosol Research at ECMWF (Dr. Angela Benedetti, ECMWF) 2020-11-16 13:00: Double-Diffusive Convection in the Arctic Ocean (Nicole Shibley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University) 2020-11-17 13:00: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations (Josh Firth (Oxford)) 2020-11-18 16:00: SubZero: Floe-Resolving Sea Ice Model (Georgy Manucharyan, University of Washington) 2020-11-24 13:00: How a year-round breeding tropical songbird copes with seasonal aridity (Chima Nwaogu (Fitzpatrick Inst)) 2020-11-30 11:00: Trends and emissions of ammonia and its influence on air quality in the UK deduced with satellite and surface observations and the GEOS-Chem model (Dr. Eloise Marais, University College London) 2020-11-30 13:00: Limitations of the Miles-Howard criterion (Jeremy Parker, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2020-12-02 10:00: Fine-scale ocean processes in the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves (Madi Rosevear, University of Tasmania) 2021-01-13 14:00: An AUV underneath the ‘Doomsday glacier’: Revealing pathways and modification of warm water flowing beneath Thwaites ice shelf, West Antarctica (Anna Wåhlin, University of Gothenburg) 2021-01-18 11:00: Natural halogens and tropospheric ozone (Dr. Fernando Iglesias-Suarez, DLR) 2021-01-19 13:00: Genome duplication, gene dosage, and evolution (Aoife McLysaght - University of Dublin) 2021-01-25 13:00: Contributions to a mechanistic understanding of climate change (Stephan Fueglistaler, Princeton University) 2021-01-26 13:00: The mind of the bee (Lars Chittka - Queen Mary University of London) 2021-01-27 14:00: Interannual variability in Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water formation regions ( Rachael Sanders (British Antarctic Survey)) 2021-02-01 13:00: Nondiffusive turbulent mixing in surface oceanic boundary layers (Dr. Tomas Chor, University of Maryland) 2021-02-02 13:00: Extreme Weapons: A Natural History (Doug Emlen - University of Montana) 2021-02-08 13:00: On the interaction between submesoscales and turbulence: from theory to application (Abigail Bodner, Brown University) 2021-02-09 13:00: Problem solving in slime molds (Audrey Dussutour - Universite Paul Sabatier) 2021-02-10 14:00: Ocean’s response to the stochastic atmospheric forcing (Shenjie Zhou (British Antarctic Survey)) 2021-02-15 11:00: The importance of ice-nucleating particles in tropical deep convective clouds (Rachel Hawker - University of Leeds) 2021-02-15 13:00: The fluid mechanics of CO2 sequestration in heterogeneous porous media: a journey across scales (Graham Benham, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2021-02-16 13:00: The links between sensory and motor systems: from cells to organisms (Natasha Mhatre - University of Western Ontario) 2021-02-22 13:00: The long term development of Triadic Resonance Instability for finite width internal wave beams (Katherine Grayson) 2021-02-23 13:00: Biotic Diversification in Southeast Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago in the Era of NGS (Frank Rheindt - National University of Singapore) 2021-02-24 14:00: A synthesis of Antarctic ice-ocean boundary observations from the underwater vehicle Icefin (Peter Washam (Georgia Institute of Technology)) 2021-03-01 11:00: Right ozone, wrong reasons (Mat Evans - University of York) 2021-03-01 13:00: Un-mixing the Ocean: Double-Diffusion, Ice Shelves and Arctic Eddies (Leo Middleton, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-02 13:00: Multiple determinants maintain diversity in nature (Swanne Gordon - Washington University) 2021-03-08 13:00: Stress coupling between Greenland supraglacial lakes during rapid drainage (Laura Stevens, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford) 2021-03-09 13:00: Nature’s information networks: from collective behavior to ecosystem dynamics (Andrew Hein - University of California) 2021-03-15 11:00: KiD-A: How Different Are Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions from a Variety of Microphysics Schemes? (Adrian Hill - Met Office) 2021-03-15 13:00: What ground deformation can tell us about sub-surface systems (Adam Butler, BPI and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-24 09:00: Spatial and temporal variability of the Antarctic Slope Current in an eddying ocean-sea ice model ( Wilma Huneke (Australian National University)) 2021-03-29 11:00: Automated Strategic Mission Planning for a Future Marine Autonomous Vehicle Fleet (Maria Fox) 2021-04-07 14:00: Contemporary Southern Ocean CO2 flux variability in the UKESM1 and ocean-only simulations. ( Andrea Rochner (University of Exeter)) 2021-04-21 14:00: Digital Sea Ice Physics - A novel approach for computing and parametrising sea ice properties for geophysical applications ( Sønke Maus (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)) 2021-05-05 14:00: From Models to Observations: A Case Study for the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ( Hartmut Hellmer (Alfred Wegener Institute)) 2021-05-19 14:00: Constraining water mass transformation and overflow dynamics on the Arctic shelves ( Elizabeth Yankovsky (New York University)) 2021-06-02 14:00: Turbulent convection in Antarctic Subglacial Lakes ( Louis-Alexandre Couston (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon)) 2021-06-30 14:00: Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: What is the role of anthropogenic forcing? (British Antarctic Survey) 2021-07-14 14:00: Turbulent melting of a glacier front using high resolution simulations (Mainak Mondal (New York University Abu Dhabi)) 2021-10-12 13:00: Distribution and ecology of albatrosses and petrels; underlying drivers and implications for conservation (Richard Phillips, British Antarctic Survey) 2021-10-19 13:00: The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day relic? (Elli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway University of London) 2021-10-20 09:00: The impact of sea-ice drift and ocean circulation on dispersal of toothfish eggs and juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea (Erik Behrens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) 2021-10-25 13:00: A full-tensor approach for parameterising oceanic eddy tracer transport (Michael Haigh, Imperial College London) 2021-10-26 13:00: Genomic and developmental drivers of color pattern diversification (Claudius Kratochwil, University of Helsinki) 2021-11-01 13:00: Modelling stratified turbulence in the ocean interior (Sam Lewin, DAMTP) 2021-11-02 13:00: Is telomere length a useful biomarker in ecology and evolution? (Dan Nussey, University of Edinburgh) 2021-11-03 15:30: High-frequency fluctuations in Antarctic Bottom Water transport driven by Southern Ocean winds (Andrew Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles) 2021-11-08 13:00: Fingers and Fractures: Instabilities in Viscoplastic Fluid Films (Thomasina Ball, U. Warwick) 2021-11-08 14:00: A proxy-constrained history of 20th century atmospheric circulation in the Amundsen Sea and implications for glacier retreat (Gemma O'Connor, University of Washington) 2021-11-09 13:00: Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes (Judith Mank, University of British Columbia) 2021-11-15 13:00: Unmixing the Ocean: Double Diffusion and Turbulence in Polar Oceans (Leo Middleton, DAMTP) 2021-11-16 13:00: Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation (Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University) 2021-11-17 14:00: Snow on sea ice: poorly observed, poorly modelled, poorly understood (Robbie Mallet, University College London) 2021-11-23 13:00: The functional consequences of extinction and the evolution of gigantism (Catalina Pimiento, Swansea University) 2021-11-29 13:00: Submesoscale in the Texas-Louisiana shelf and its implications on the biogeochemistry (Jinliang Liu, DAMTP) 2021-11-30 13:00: Phylodynamic tools for quantitative palaeobiology (Rachel Warnock, Geozentrum Nordbayern) 2021-12-01 10:00: Assessment of oscillation feature in sub-shelf melting from idealized coupled ice sheet ocean models (Chen Zhao, University of Tasmania) 2021-12-02 13:00: Waves and flows on a coral reef beach and in the adjoining lagoon (Stephen Monismith, Stanford University) 2021-12-08 14:00: The role of Short-lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs) in the climate system (Dr. Vaishali Naik from the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton) 2022-01-14 13:00: Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution (Dr Martha Munoz, Yale) 2022-01-25 13:00: Birdwatching on a cosmic scale: The avian fossil record and the origin of modern bird diversity (Daniel Field (University of Cambridge)) 2022-01-25 14:00: Climate and Composition Implications of a hydrogen economy (Nicola Warwick (University of Cambridge)) 2022-01-26 14:00: Quantifying and reducing uncertainty in projections of sea level rise from ice sheets (Isabel Nias, University of Liverpool) 2022-01-31 13:00: Harnessing Computing for Societal Challenges – the Importance of Multiphase Flows (Damir Juric, Churchill College & CNRS LISN Paris) 2022-02-01 13:00: Impacts and mitigation of anthropogenic noise (Sophie Nedelec (University of Exeter)) 2022-02-08 13:00: Using experimental evolution to tackle questions in speciation research (Isobel Eyres (University of Sheffield)) 2022-02-14 13:00: Connecting Atmospheric & Oceanic Boundary Layer Turbulence to Global Warming: Regional Mixed Layer Depth as an Emergent Constraint (Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University) 2022-02-15 13:00: Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space (Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)) 2022-02-22 13:00: Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies (Daniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University)) 2022-02-28 13:00: Data-driven identification of turbulent mixing in stratified flows (Miles Couchman, DAMTP) 2022-03-01 13:00: Evolution, ecology, and genetics of live-bearing and egg-laying reproduction (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-03-02 14:00: How important is sea ice divergence? (Harry Heorton, UCL) 2022-03-07 13:00: Interannual variability in the tropical lower stratosphere (Alison Ming, DAMTP) 2022-03-08 13:00: Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world (David Sims (Marine Biological Association)) 2022-03-14 13:00: The impact of realistic topographic representation on the parameterisation of lee wave energy flux (Lois Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London) 2022-03-15 13:00: An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna (Pete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway)) 2022-03-16 14:00: Variability and drivers of the subpolar Southern Ocean circulation from satellite altimetry (Matthis Auger, Sorbonne Université) 2022-03-22 13:00: DNA methylation changes at major animal evolutionary transition (Alexandre de Mendoza Soler) 2022-03-23 14:00: Disentangling polar biogeochemistry using multidisciplinary approaches (Kate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey) 2022-04-06 15:00: Boundary layer turbulence below ice shelves in the shear-dominated regime (Carolyn Begeman (Los Alamos National Laboratory)) 2022-04-21 14:00: Recent irreversible retreat of Pine Island Glacier caused by changes in ocean forcing (Bradley Reed, Bangor University) 2022-04-25 14:00: Marine biogeochemistry along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula (Thiago Monteiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/University of Edinburgh) 2022-05-04 14:00: Evaluating the skill of seasonal forecasts of sea ice in the Southern Ocean: insights from the SIPN South project 2017-2022 (François Massonnet, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)) 2022-05-09 13:00: Response of terrestrial aridity to global warming (Qiang Fu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington) 2022-05-11 14:00: Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters to wind amplitude and meltwater (Adele Morrison, Australian National University ) 2022-05-16 14:00: The role of chemistry and oxidants on the forcing from vegetation emissions and the next steps for understanding the atmospheric composition changes and forcing from widespread tree planting (Dr James Weber (The University of Sheffield)) 2022-05-23 13:00: AI for Polar Route and Mission Planning (Maria Fox, Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey) 2022-06-06 13:00: Multiscale vortex structure in the regime of incipient hurricanes (Rupert Klein, Mathematik and Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin ) 2022-06-08 14:00: The role of ocean heat transport from the Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean on sea ice variability (David Schroeder, University of Reading) 2022-06-13 14:00: A new approach to Coupled Data Assimilation and Earth System Reanalysis – climate science for the decades ahead": (Prof. Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg) 2022-06-20 14:00: Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum (Qiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University)) 2022-06-22 11:00: Oceanic and atmospheric controls on decadal melt variability in the Amundsen Sea (Joren Janzing, Utrecht University/BAS) 2022-07-06 15:00: Deep-reaching global ocean overturning circulation generated by surface buoyancy forcing (Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania) 2022-07-12 14:00: The impact of climate variability on ice sheet dynamics in an East Antarctic basin (Felicity McCormack, Monash University) 2022-09-15 14:00: Topography-mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Continental Shelf Slope, East Antarctica (Chengyan Liu, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory ) 2022-10-05 10:00: Using coupled climate models to understand recent and projected Southern Ocean changes (Ariaan Purich, Monash University) 2022-10-07 10:00: Ocean water masses reveal the geographic pattern of water cycle change (Jan Zika, UNSW Sydney) 2022-10-08 13:00: Exploring the origin of multicellularity in real time: what we've learned from 5,000 generations of laboratory evolution (William Ratcliff, Georgia Tech) 2022-10-10 10:00: Reduced overturning and abyssal ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin (Kathy Gunn, CSIRO) 2022-10-10 13:00: Spatio-temporal characteristics of mixed-layer turbulence in an energetic oceanic zone (Pauline Tedesco, Imperial College) 2022-10-11 13:00: Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis (Elizabeth Williams, University of Exeter) 2022-10-17 11:00: Climate variability and change in the subpolar Southern Ocean (and its impact on biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems) (Graeme MacGilchrist, Princeton University & NOAA-GFDL) 2022-10-17 13:00: Mechanisms of formation of a Mesospheric Inversion Layer and Subsequent Elevated Stratopause Associated with the 2019 Stratospheric Sudden Warming (Haruka Okui, University of Tokyo) 2022-10-18 13:00: The dynamics of predators in a novel world (Robert Fletcher, University of Florida) 2022-10-24 13:00: Optimizing scalar transport using branching flows (Anuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz) 2022-10-31 13:00: Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting (Matthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) 2022-11-01 13:00: Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World (Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex) 2022-11-01 13:00: Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes (Clara Zemp) 2022-11-01 14:00: HF radar remote sensing of the marginal ice zone and other interesting places (Stuart Anderson, University of Adelaide) 2022-11-02 14:00: Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats (Channing Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of Washington) 2022-11-07 13:00: The influence of submesoscale instabilities on the equilibration of ocean fronts (Aaron Wienkers, DAMTP) 2022-11-07 15:00: Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice (Lettie Roach, Columbia University) 2022-11-08 13:00: The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system (Christine W Miller, University of Florida) 2022-11-09 14:00: Reconstructing Southern Hemisphere hydroclimate over the Common Era from paleoclimate records and climate models using data assimilation (Quentin Dalaiden, UCLouvain) 2022-11-09 15:00: Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice (Lettie Roach, Columbia University) 2022-11-14 13:00: Experimental insights on the coupling between oceanic internal tides and lee waves (Yvan Dossmann, Université de Lorraine, Nancy) 2022-11-21 14:00: Assessment of Major Air Pollutants in the Tropical Urban Environment of Kuala Lumpur (Prof. Mohd Talib Latif (University Kebangsaan Malaysia)) 2022-11-22 13:00: The hidden depths of avian genomes (Alex Suh, UEA) 2022-11-28 13:00: Physical oceanography of a sub-Antarctic island fjord from observations and modelling (Joanna Zanker, British Antarctic Survey) 2022-11-29 13:00: Olfactory cues in a changing world (Jorg Hardege, University of Hull) 2022-12-05 14:30: The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its modelled effect on the oceans (Prof. Manoj Joshi) 2022-12-07 15:00: Invisible Ship Tracks: What can we learn about the aerosol effect on clouds and climate from previously unseen ship-polluted clouds? (Peter Manshausen (University of Oxford)) 2023-01-16 14:00: Parameterising melt at the base of Antarctic ice shelves with a feedforward neural network (Clara Burgard, University of Grenoble Alpes) 2023-01-17 13:00: Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour (Jens Krause, IGB Berlin) 2023-01-23 13:00: Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations (Stephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia) 2023-01-24 13:00: Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan (Dr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London) 2023-01-25 15:00: Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow (Jia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)) 2023-01-30 13:00: Modelling the response of ice to subglacial flooding (Sophie Tobin, DAMTP) 2023-01-30 14:00: Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol (Prof. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2023-01-31 13:00: Seeing through the noise: how fish use visual information to navigate in challenging conditions (Cait Newport, University of Oxford) 2023-02-06 13:00: Macroalgae Cultivation for Ocean CDR: An Idealized Numerical Study (Si Chen, DAMTP) 2023-02-07 13:00: Is it the weather or the neighbours? The role of the physical and biotic environment in determining biodiversity distributions. (Regan Early, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK) 2023-02-08 15:00: Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming (Ada Gjermundsen (Norweigian Met. Office)) 2023-02-13 13:00: Probabilistic causal network modelling of Southern Hemisphere eddy-driven jet long-range predictability in spring-to-summer (Elena Saggioro, University of Reading) 2023-02-14 13:00: The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards (Dr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University) 2023-02-20 13:00: Viscoplastic model of mountain building (Elvinas Ribinskas, DAMTP) 2023-02-20 14:30: Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus (Paul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2023-02-21 13:00: The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish ( Molly Schumer, Stanford) 2023-02-21 13:00: The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish ( Molly Schumer, Stanford) 2023-02-22 10:00: Subglacial freshwater drainage increases modelled basal melt of the Totten ice shelf (David Gwyther (UNSW)) 2023-02-28 13:00: Modern views on the diversity, functional disparity, and structure of Cambrian ecosystems (Karma Nanglu, Harvard University) 2023-03-06 13:00: AMOC – scratch the ‘surface’ and get to the ‘bottom’ (Shenjie Zhou, British Antarctic Survey) 2023-03-07 13:00: Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics (Josefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen) 2023-03-13 13:00: Computing (generalised) Lagrangian mean without tracking particles (Hossein Kafiabad, Durham University) 2023-03-14 13:00: Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions (Dr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)) 2023-03-22 14:00: Quantifying the relative importance of external forcing in determining SE Pacific Subantarctic mode water properties using density-following adjoint experiments. (Ciara Pimm, University of Liverpool) 2023-03-22 14:30: Chemical modelling of (exo)planetary atmospheres: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it mild but old (Dr Éric Hébrard, University of Exeter) 2023-04-05 15:00: The HUB and Bathymetric Control Of Warm Water Inflow To Antarctic Ice Shelf Grounding Lines (Garrett Finucane, UCLA) 2023-04-19 11:00: Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater (Prof Matt England (UNSW)) 2023-04-21 14:00: Sensitivity of the Antarctic margin's ocean circulation to surface winds (Julia Neme, University of New South Wales) 2023-05-03 11:00: Climatic Reach of small-scale Ocean Turbulence (Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge)) 2023-05-09 14:00: Towards emulated Lagrangian particle dispersion model footprints for satellite observations (Dr Elena Fillola Mayoral, University of Bristol) 2023-05-11 15:00: Lagrangian pathways for sub-Antarctic Mode Water (SAMW) formation and carbon uptake (Bieito Fernandez Castro (University of Southampton)) 2023-05-23 14:00: Modelling marine aerosol, airborne microplastics and rocket launches (Associate Professor Laura Revell, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury) 2023-05-24 15:00: Filling in the Map: The space-time geography of Arctic Ocean mixing and why it matters (Stephanie Waterman (University of British Columbia)) 2023-05-31 15:00: An idealized Weddell Gyre and its extreme sensitivity to resolution (Andrew Styles (University of Oxford)) 2023-06-06 14:00: Snowpack nitrate photolysis drives the summertime atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) budget in coastal Antarctica (Millie Bond, British Antarctic Survey) 2023-07-03 15:00: A new Asymmetric Mode of internal variability for the Global Ocean (Nathan Bindoff (University of Tasmania)) 2023-09-21 11:00: The role of surface forcing in driving pathways and time scales of ocean ventilation: a subpolar perspective (Alice Marzocchi, George Nurser, Louis Clement, Elaine McDonagh) 2023-09-21 11:30: Climatic drivers of steric height in the Southern Ocean (Jennifer Cocks, Alessandro Silvano, Alice Marzocchi, Alberto Naveira Garabato) 2023-09-27 13:00: Investigating the impact of glacial retreat upon iron and macronutrient cycling along the West Antarctic Peninsula (Rhiannon Jones, University of Southampton) 2023-10-09 13:00: Self-assembly in stratified fluids and extreme depth fluctuations in high-altitude Himalayan lakes (Richard Mclaughlin, University of North Carolina) 2023-10-10 11:30: Ozone Secrets: Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Martian Atmosphere (Megan Brown, The Open University and University of Cambridge) 2023-10-11 15:00: Exploring drivers of change in the Ross Sea with a regional ocean model (Alethea Mountford (Northumbria University)) 2023-10-16 13:00: Layering Processes in Double Diffusive Convection (Paul Pruzina, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-23 13:00: Robots, Satellites, Planes, Ships and Models -  The next generation of ocean submesoscale studies (Eric D'Asaro) 2023-10-24 16:00: Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models (Mark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) 2023-10-25 15:00: Observed warming and increased basal melting at Fimbulisen Ice Shelf, East Antarctica (Julius Lauber, NPolar) 2023-10-30 13:00: Reactive melt transport in the mantle (Lucy Tweed (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-06 13:00: Boundary Upwelling of Antarctic Bottom Water by Topographic Turbulence (Lois Baker, University of Edinburgh) 2023-11-09 14:00: Scale-awareness in an energetically constrained eddy parameterisation (Julian Mak (HKUST)) 2023-11-20 13:00: ENSO teleconnections to the Southern Hemisphere and impacts on weather systems (Zoe Gillett, University of New South Wales/DAMTP) 2023-11-21 11:30: Evaluation of 14CO as a Tracer of OH in a Global Model (Liam Blyth – Imperial College London) 2023-11-22 15:00: Plume dynamics below Greenland’s largest floating ice tongue (Markus Reinert (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research/AWI)) 2023-12-06 11:00: Investigation of the role of glacial meltwater in Antarctica (Seung-Tae Yoon (Kyungpook National University)) 2023-12-11 14:00: Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view (Jon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult) 2024-01-10 14:45: Using synthetic observations to inform sampling strategies of ocean physics, biogeochemistry, and biology (Cara Nissen, University of Colorado Boulder) 2024-01-22 13:00: A machine learning approach for identifying the sensitivity of chlorophyll-a to nutrient concentration in the global ocean (Joo-Eun Yoon, DAMTP) 2024-01-24 14:00: Decadal variability of ice-shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea driven by sea-ice freshwater fluxes (Michael Haigh, British Antarctic Survey) 2024-01-29 13:00: Negative effective viscosity in strongly stratified turbulence (Qi Zhou, University of Calgary) 2024-01-30 11:00: What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age? (Peter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.) 2024-02-05 13:00: From internal waves to turbulence in a stably stratified fluid (Costanza Rodda, Imperial College) 2024-02-06 13:00: Fracture of warm ice (Professor Jukka Tuhkuri, Aalto University) 2024-02-09 13:00: The Evolving Relative Role of Stratospheric Ozone and Greenhouse Gasses in Modifying the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink from 1950-2100 (Tereza Jarníková, University of East Anglia) 2024-02-12 13:00: The Influence of Lateral Spreading upon Solitary Wave Formation by Internal Tides (Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta) 2024-02-13 11:00: Chemical transport modelling to support the UNECE Air Convention ( David Simpson - EMEP MSC-W, Norwegian Meteorological Institute) 2024-02-19 13:00: The evolution of source regions beneath active mud volcanoes: a poroelastic phase change problem (Luke Kearney, University of Oxford) 2024-02-26 13:00: Data-Driven and Equation-Informed Optimal Control of Lagrangian pairs in turbulent flows (Chiara Calascibetta) 2024-02-27 11:00: Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia ( Andy Chan - Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University) 2024-02-27 11:00: Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia (Prof Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University) 2024-02-29 11:00: Coupled ice/ocean interactions during the future retreat of West Antarctic ice streams in the Amundsen Sea sector (David Bett, British Antarctic Survey) 2024-03-04 13:00: A Simple Model Coupling Moisture and Large-Scale Dynamics in the Tropical Troposphere (Matt Davison, DAMTP) 2024-03-06 14:00: Drivers and reversibility of abrupt ocean cold-to-warm and warm-to-cold transitions in the Amundsen Sea (Justine Caillet, IGE Géosciences Environnement) 2024-03-11 13:00: Disentangling the Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Circulation Responses to Increased CO2: Considering Interactive Ozone Impacts, (Non)Linearity, Regionality, and Vertical Structure (Molly Menzel, NASA GIS) 2024-03-12 11:00: Toward understanding iodine and sulfur secondary aerosol formation in marine atmosphere (Xu-Cheng He - University of Helsinki/University of Cambridge) 2024-03-20 14:00: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Southern Ocean Ventilation (Andrew Styles, British Antarctic Survey) 2024-04-03 14:00: What are the challenges simulating historical ocean deoxygenation? (Yohei Takano, British Antarctic Survey) 2024-04-24 14:00: Carbon isotope modelling implications for changes in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle during the last deglaciation (Hidetaka Kobayashi, University of Toyama) 2024-04-29 12:30: Large-scale flow structures in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Dynamical origin, formation, and role in material transport (Philipp Vieweg) 2024-05-01 15:00: Ocean, ice, and the spherical cow (Juliana Marson, University of Manitoba) 2024-05-07 11:30: The role of methane for chemistry-climate interactions: rapid radiative adjustments and climate feedbacks (Laura Stecher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Engl: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics)) 2024-05-21 15:00: Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places (Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, The George Washington University) 2024-05-22 13:00: Modelling ocean connectivity and future change at the Antarctic margins (Hannah Dawson, University of Tasmania) 2024-06-04 11:30: Aerosols and clouds in the UKCA across time and space ( Daniel Grosvenor, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds,) 2024-06-07 13:00: Changing fast and slow: Hydrographic variability along the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf during the recent sea ice extremes (Carlos Moffat, University of Delaware) 2024-06-27 13:00: The effect of landfast sea ice buttressing on the glaciers of the Larsen B Embayment (Trystan Surawy-Stepney, University of Leeds) 2024-07-10 14:00: A framework for physically consistent storylines of UK future sea-level rise (Matt Palmer (Met Office & University of Bristol)) 2024-07-17 14:00: Geometric feedback on the Antarctic ice shelf melting by 2200 (Jing Jin, University of Liverpool) 2024-09-17 14:00: A journey through a sub-Antarctic island fjord from glacier retreat to fisheries management (Jo Zanker (Northumbria University)) 2024-10-02 15:30: Tropical and Antarctic sea ice impacts of observed Southern Ocean warming and cooling trends since 1949 (Xiyue (Sally) Zhang (University of Nevada)) 2024-10-08 12:00: Ensembling climate models with Gaussian processes to better characterise future extremes ( Kenza Tazi (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey)) 2024-10-14 13:00: Convective instability, upwelling and mixing efficiency measurements in an abyssal canyon (Prof. Matthew Alford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) 2024-10-16 14:00: Heat and freshwater transport in the vicinity of the Antarctic shelf (Graeme MacGilchrist (University of St. Andrews)) 2024-10-21 13:00: Whodunit? Is climate change responsible for ice loss from Antarctica? (Dr Alex Bradley, British Antarctic Survey) 2024-10-22 11:00: The Fascinating World of Lightning Research ( Dr Daniel Mitchard, Senior Lecturer Lightning Laboratory, Cardiff University) 2024-10-28 13:00: Tackling climate change - going beyond emissions reduction (Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge) 2024-10-29 11:00: Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol cooling in the Southern Ocean (Dr Charel Wohl University of East Anglia) 2024-11-04 13:00: Quantifying model uncertainty in the dynamical and radiative adjustments to stratospheric heating (Dr Colleen Golja, Imperial) 2024-11-05 15:00: Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry after the 2019–2020 Australian Wildfires (Dr. Kane Stone, Research Scientist, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2024-11-08 14:00: Fiber-optic sensing and its application to structural monitoring (Professor Hideaki Murayama, University of Tokyo) 2024-11-08 14:30: Full-scale Measurement of Japanese icebreaker Shirase in Antarctic Sea Ice – Relationship between Ship Structural Response and Ice Conditions (Junji Sawamura, Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan) 2024-11-08 15:30: Experimental work on the wave-ice interaction in a laboratory tank (Professor Takuji Waseda, University of Tokyo) 2024-11-08 16:00: Sea Ice Floe Characteristics in the Beaufort Sea & Introduction of Japan’s new research icebreaker, ARV Mirai II (Dr. Takashi Kikuchi, Director of Institute of Arctic Climate and Environment research, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (IACE/RIGC/JAMSTEC)) 2024-11-11 13:00: From iron cores to estuaries: the interaction of environmental flows with their transported particles (Dr Quentin Kriaa, University of Twente) 2024-11-13 15:00: The variability of the Southern Ocean’s circulation and carbon cycle: New insights from autonomous observations (Alison Gray, University of Washington) 2024-11-18 13:00: Deep-ocean transport and decadal variability inferred from anthropogenic transient tracer observations (Dr Laura Cimoli (DAMTP)) 2024-11-19 11:00: Writing Computational Models that are FAIR and VRAI (Dr Dominic Orchard; Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, and University of Kent) 2024-11-25 13:00: Tracing pathways of change in North Atlantic climate: Have we crossed a tipping point? (Dr Marilena Oltmanns (NOC)) 2024-11-27 14:00: The dominance of biology in driving North Atlantic oxygen trends (Rachel Sanders, British Antarctic Survey) 2024-12-02 13:00: Meeting the Challenge of Net Zero after COP29 (Prof. David Reiner (Judge Business School)) 2024-12-03 11:00: Come rain or snow: extreme precipitation in Antarctica (Dr Ella Gilbert, British Antarctic Survey (PolarRES project)) 2024-12-04 14:00: Revisiting the Foundations of Ice shelf Basal Melt Parameterisations for Stably Stratified Ice-Ocean Boundary Layers (Jayasankar Thrivikraman Pillai, Northumbria University) 2024-12-06 14:00: Data-driven ocean modelling   (Rachel Furner, British Antarctic Survey / ECMWF) 2024-12-11 10:30: Southern Ocean Centennial Oscillations and Response to Climate Forcing (Jonathan Rosser; BAS / LSE) 2025-01-07 11:00: The compounding impacts of Sea-Ice Deficits: A Global Perspective (Petra Heil, Australian Antarctic Division / University of Tasmania) 2025-01-15 14:00: Modelled centennial ocean warming in the Amundsen Sea driven by thermodynamic atmospheric changes, not winds (Katherine Turner (British Antarctic Survey)) 2025-01-21 11:00: The State of Wildfires (Doulgas Kelley UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) 2025-01-27 13:00: Climate policy: why is it needed and how to make it work (Sanna Markkanen (CISL)) 2025-01-29 14:00: Modelling sea ice dynamics using brittle dynamics: impact in pack ice and marginal ice zones (Guillaume Boutin (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center)) 2025-02-03 13:00: The atmospheric response to Arctic amplification: Insights from idealised models (Will Seviour (Exeter)) 2025-02-04 11:00: Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics ( Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)) 2025-02-10 13:00: The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows (Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2025-02-12 13:00: Short-term, high-resolution sea ice forecasting with diffusion model ensembles (Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey) 2025-02-17 13:00: Stratification and mixing regimes in the global coastal ocean: classifications and trends from models and observations (Jo Hopkins (NOC)) 2025-02-18 11:00: Searching for Life in Stranger Seas (William Bains) 2025-02-24 13:00: Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (Helen Roberts (Met Office)) 2025-02-26 15:30: The Impacts of Freshwater Transport on the Weddell Gyre Carbon Budget (Benjamin Taylor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) 2025-03-03 13:00: Intensified shelf break exchange through submarine canyons: upwelling, internal tides, and turbidity currents (Rob Hall (UEA)) 2025-03-04 11:00: High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques (Kasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) 2025-03-10 13:00: Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers (Becky Dell (Geography)) 2025-03-12 14:00: Spatio-temporal Melt and Basal Channel Evolution on Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf from CryoSat-2 (Katie Lowery, British Antarctic Survey) 2025-03-17 13:00: Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution (Jesse Taylor-West (Bristol)) 2025-03-18 11:00: Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft? ( Alistair Duffey PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences) 2025-03-19 14:00: Tipping points of the Ross and Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelves: how worried should we be? (Kaitlin Naughten, British Antarctic Survey) 2025-03-26 15:30: A Bayesian Neural Network approach to study dissolved oxygen in Southern Ocean water masses (Gian Giacomo Navarra, Princeton University) 2025-04-04 13:00: Deep convection and ocean overturning (Bishakh Gayen, University of Melbourne) 2025-04-09 15:00: Exploring the Spatial and Temporal Variability in Water Column Properties in Tidewater Glacier-Ocean Systems in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Claire Parrott, University of British Columbia) 2025-04-23 14:00: Ocean dynamics in the Ross Ice Shelf cavity from in situ observations (Yingpu Xiahou, University of Auckland) 2025-05-07 14:00: Reconstructing wintertime seawater pCO2 on the data-barren shelf of the western Weddell Sea based on summertime bottom water measurements (Elise Droste (University of East Anglia)) 2025-05-13 11:00: Interpreting multimodel ensembles (Prof Richard Chandler, UCL) 2025-05-27 11:00: When fire plumes glow in the dark: Tracing organic aerosol chemical regime dominance clues via light-absorbing species (Dr. Eleni Dovrou, Technical University of Crete) 2025-06-04 13:00: The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) Biogeochemistry Project: Understanding the changing Southern Ocean carbon cycle (Elizabeth H. Shadwick, CSIRO Environment) 2025-06-10 11:00: Global modelling of ice-nucleating particles and their impact on cirrus clouds and the climate system (Dr. Christof Beer) 2025-06-11 14:00: Exploring the Impact of Changing Overturning Circulation on Carbon Storage due to the Biological Carbon Pump: An Idealised Modelling Approach (Elisavet Baltas, University of Cambridge) 2025-06-18 16:00: Decadal changes in Southern Ocean Water Masses inferred from observations (Laura Cimoli, University of Cambridge) 2025-06-24 14:00: The statistical challenges in tackling persistent climate model uncertainty through model-observation comparisons. (Dr Jill S Johnson; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK) 2025-07-02 14:00: Rethinking Antarctic Polynya Productivity: The Impact of Ice-Adjacency Effects on NPP Estimates along Icy Coasts (Hilde Oliver, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) 2025-09-19 11:00: The role of the Southern Ocean in the Climate System: risk, dangers and solutions. - Nathan Bindoff (Nathan Bindoff - University of Tasmania) 2025-09-24 15:30: Persistent warming and reduced freshening of the abyssal Southern Ocean. - Kathy Gunn (Kathryn Gunn (University of Southampton)) 2025-10-07 11:00: Chemistry–climate feedback of atmospheric methane in a methane-emission-flux-driven chemistry–climate model (Dr Laura Stecher, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-08 14:00: Modeling dissolved Pb concentrations in the Western Arctic Ocean: the continued legacy of anthropogenic pollution (Birgit Rogalla (British Antarctic Survey)) 2025-10-13 13:00: Predicting wind extremes in a warming climate: from general circulation to storm-resolving models via improved turbulence representation (Emanuele Silvio Gentile, University of Reading) 2025-10-15 14:00: Calibration of a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model of West Antarctica - Brad reed and Jan De Rydt (Jan De Rydt (University of Northumbria), Brad Reed (University of Northumbria)) 2025-10-20 13:00: Multihazard in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Max Van Wyk de Vries, Department of Earth Sciences / Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-21 11:00: Emerging importance of chemistry-climate coupling on weather to climate timescales (Prof Michaela I. Hegglin, Director at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)) 2025-10-21 15:00: The inflows of modified Warm Deep Water towards the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf: What, Where, When? - Valentina Volkova (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-10-22 15:30: Regulating the Weddell Sea polynya in a coupled model through ocean model parameter tuning - Tarkan Bilge (Tarkan Bilge - British Antarctic Survey) 2025-10-27 13:00: Climate Repair, Now or Never? (Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-29 14:00: Wind-driven coastal polynya variability drives decadal ice-shelf melt variability in the Amundsen Sea - Michael Haigh (Michael Haigh) 2025-11-03 13:00: Horizontal and vertical transport in a large, deep lake: Coastal upwelling and higher- mode standing internal waves in Lake Geneva (Rafael Reiss, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-04 11:00: A Highly Efficient Machine Learning-Based Ozone Parameterization for Climate Sensitivity Simulations (Yiling Ma, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) 2025-11-06 14:00: The Effects of Subglacial Discharge on Ice-Shelf Melt Patterns and Ice-Sheet Response - Franka Jesse (Franka Jesse - Utrecht University) 2025-11-10 13:00: Sources, pathways and drivers of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water formation (Bieito Fernandez Castro, University of Southampton ) 2025-11-17 13:00: Dynamics of fire and ice: wildfire weather and ice-sediment interactions (Kasturi Shah, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-18 11:00: An alkaline world: a new assessment of the global chemical climate for PM2.5 formation and nitrogen and sulphur deposition (Dr Yao Ge, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-19 15:30: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Bethan Wynne-Cattanach (Bethan Wynne-Cattanach (University of Cambridge)) 2025-12-01 13:00: Special event: Good COP, Bad COP: post-COP30 reflections (Prof Piers Forster, University of Leeds) 2025-12-02 11:00: Interactive Coupling of Hydrogen and Methane (Dr Megan Brown, University of Cambridge) 2025-12-03 14:00: Heterogeneity and seasonal cycle of eddy-sea ice interactions (Josue Martinez) (Josue Moreno Martinez (British Antarctic Survey)) 2025-12-17 14:00: Modulation of the North Atlantic Carbon Sink in a Warming World (Yohei Takano)) (Yohei Takano - British Antarctic Survey) 2026-01-21 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Laura Taylor (Laura Taylor (British Antarctic Survey and University of Cambridge)) 2026-01-26 13:00: Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change (Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-02 13:00: Quantifying the human component of the Earth System (Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 2026-02-04 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Giangiacomo Navarra (Giangiacomo Navarra - Princeton) 2026-02-09 13:00: Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models (Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-10 11:00: A synthesised global database of dimethylsulfide concentration in the marine atmosphere (George Manville, University of Exeter) 2026-02-16 13:00: How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives (Catherine Hirst, University of Durham) 2026-02-17 11:00: The search for life beyond the solar system  (Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-18 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-02-18 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-02-23 13:00: Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands (Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University ) 2026-02-24 11:00: Climate scientists as analysts, advisors, advocates, or activists: what’s the difference and does it matter? (Prof Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge) 2026-03-02 13:00: Establishment of Modern Atlantic Circulation linked to Weakening Iceland Scotland Overflow Water (David Thornally, UCL) 2026-03-04 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Helen Shea (Helen Shea - Monash University) 2026-03-09 13:00: Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records (Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2026-03-10 11:00: State of Global Wildfires (Dr Chantelle Burton) 2026-03-16 13:00: Exploring Mechanistic Interactions that Shape the Biological Carbon Pump: Do We Know Enough to Predict Its Future? (Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL) 2026-03-18 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Andrew Styles (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-04-01 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Yavor Kostov (Yavor Kostov) 2026-04-15 13:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Christina Schmidt (BAS): Antarctic Bottom Water formation and its dynamics in a changing climate (Christina Schmidt) 2026-04-29 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-05-13 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-05-14 11:00: Laser tomography for wide area gas emission spatio-temporal reconstruction (Dr Damien Weidmann, Space Science & Technology Dept (RAL Space)) 2026-05-27 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-05-28 11:00: Ice-core timescales and the synchronization of paleoclimate archives (Giulia Sinnl - British Antarctic Survey) 2026-06-18 11:30: Atmospheric Methane - rise, surge, and ongoing post-surge growth. Can we mitigate the rise, and can anything be done to reduce emissions? (Prof Euan Nisbet, Department for Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London)