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Welcome to the UCL Physical Geography seminar series.
Please find below the seminar programme for the upcoming spring term of the 2023-24 academic year, which is open to all members of UCL including students, researchers, and academic staff. We also welcome online participation from individuals outside UCL.
The seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 1-2pm (excluding Reading Week), and unless stated otherwise, they will be held in room G07 of the North-West Wing.
We are excited to host a diverse range of topics and presenters this term and look forward to welcoming you to the seminars.
Seminar series convenors
Seminar details
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Wednesday, 11th October | Professor Martin Lukáč, University of Reading - Agroforestry is a complicated land use system, that's why we love it. |
| Wednesday, 18th October | Dr Heather Graven, Imperial College London - Bomb radiocarbon evidence for strong global carbon uptake and turnover in the terrestrial biosphere |
| Wednesday, 25th October | Daniel Parkes, UCL - Abrupt Climate Change During Extreme Greenland Ice Sheet Melt 412,000 Years Ago |
| Wednesday, 1st November | Dr Jose Gomez-Dans, King's College London - Where there's smoke there's fire: global observations of fire activity |
| Wednesday, 15th November | Paul Wood, British Journalist - Title TBC |
| Wednesday, 29th November | Professor Peter Clift, UCL - Competing natural and anthropogenic processes controlling Holocene sediment flux to Asian marginal seas |
| Wednesday, 6th December | Dr Eloise Marais, UCL - The impact of UK agriculture on air quality, public health, and sensitive habitats |
| End of Term One | |
| Wednesday 24th January | Thomas Johnson, UCL - Mapping Arctic Sea Ice Roughness with MISR (Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer) |
| Wednesday 31st January | Arifin Arifin, UCL - Characterizing deep groundwater using evidence from oil and gas exploration wells in the Lower Kutai Basin of Indonesia |
| Wednesday 07th February | Deyu Ming, UCL - AI-Enhanced Real-Time UK Land Environment Predictions Using the Automated Deep Gaussian Process Emulation |
| Wednesday 21st February | Thomas Keel, UCL - Jet streams and their impact on the future of extreme weather |
| Wednesday 6th March | Mattin Wooster, Kings College London - TBC |
| Wednesday 13th March | Helen Moggridge, UCL - TBC |
- Important seminar information
- The seminars will be held as a mixture of in-person (North West Wing, Room G07) and Zoom talks. In-person talks will be made available for a virtual audience through live streaming via Zoom. You can download Zoom for free on the UCL Software database.
- We will aim to start at 1:05pm to let everyone join. The talks will last 30-40min and will be followed by 15 minutes of questions.
- If you are attending the seminar via Zoom, you will be asked to turn your camera and microphone off throughout the seminar, except when asking a question at the end of the talk.
- It is recommended that you ask your question in the chat section of Zoom. At the end of the talk, the seminar’s host will then ask you to present yourself and ask your question to the speaker. This will be done in chronological order. If all the questions in the chat box have been answered before the end of the seminar, the attendees will be able to “raise a hand” and ask questions as well.
- The seminars will also be recorded with the speaker’s agreement. You will be able to ask the seminar series convenor (Feng Yin, feng.yin.15@ucl.ac.uk) for the video if you have been unable to attend the live seminar. It is, however, strongly encouraged to join the live seminars. If you are provided with the video, please do not share it to a wider audience except if it has been accepted previously by the seminar series convenor and the speaker.
- Every attendee is also expected to conduct themselves appropriately throughout the seminar. UCL Geography is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion (or lack thereof). Any type of harassment will not be tolerated during the virtual seminars. If you notice anything during one of the seminars, please feel free to contact the seminar series convenor (email address above).