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Here is a list of the presentations we had the chance to host in house or virtually during previous terms
2021-2022
| WHEN | WHO/WHAT |
| 22/09/2021 | 1st Logic meeting of 2021-2022 |
| 06/10/2021 | Dr. Timothy M. Gibson - Yale University (on Zoom only) |
| 20/10/2021 | Logic catch up - KLB 127 |
| 03/11/2021 | Logic catch up - KLB 127 |
| 17/11/2021 | Dr. Carlos Tornero Dacasa - The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) - "Tracing life-stories from past herds: isotopic glints of light on altitudinal pastoral herding systems" |
| 01/12/2021 | Dr. Niklas Meinecke - MARUM - "Clumped isotope thermometry in foraminifera, From calibration to Plio-Pleistocene temperature reconstructions in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool" |
| 15/12/2021 | A Merry LoGiC Christmas! virtual get together on Zoom -4pm- (link sent by email) |
| 2022 | |
| 5/01/2022 | New Year Catch Up (Zoom) |
| 19/01/2022 | "LoGIC member update" session: |
| 02/02/2022 | Susan Little -'Ongoing activities of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee at the European Association of Geochemistry’ |
| 16/02/2022 | Katie McFall -Title TBC |
| 02/03/2022 | Catch Up Session - Small Teaching Lab |
| 16/03/2022 | "LoGIC member update" session: Jonathan Holmes (UCL Geog) - 'Tales from the lockdown raingauge' - in the Small Teaching Lab |
| 30/03/2022 | Geochem Group Writing Workshop - external event |
| 6/04/2022 | Catch up Session - Small Teaching Lab |
| 13/04/2022 | -- Easter Break -- |
| 27/04/2022 | Practice Talks |
| 5/05/2022 | Geochemistry Group Research in Progress Meeting 5 - 6 May 2022, Cardiff (External Event) |
| 18/05/2022 | Dr Katie Hemer (IoA) - Stable isotope analysis, osteology, and skeletal histology to explore past population health, diet, migration, and childhood in the past. - Small Teaching Lab |
| 1/06/2022 | Tim Jesper Suhrhoff (ETH Zurich) -A first look at paleo-silicate rock weathering at Lake Baikal using Be, Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes - on line |
| 15/06/2022 | LoGIC Summer Picnic!!! 1pm in Gordon Square |
| 20/07/2022 | Tianchen He (University of Leeds) - "Marine redox dynamics across the end-Triassic mass extinction" - on Zoom |
2nd & 3rd Term 2020-2021
| WHEN | WHO/WHAT |
| 06/01/2021 | Maximilian Hansen (JoGU Mainz; Speleothem Research): "Stable isotope fractionation processes (∂18O and ∂ 13C) during precipitation of speleothem calcite: systematic investigation in laboratory experiments" |
| 13/01/2021 | Keeping up with... Hazel Reade (UCL, IoA): "Nitrogen Palaeo-Isoscapes: Exploring past spatial variations in environmental δ15N" |
| 20/01/2021 | Franziska Stamm (Lund University): "Extreme silicon isotope fractionation due to Si complexation and implications for silica biomineralization" |
| 27/01/2021 (5PM) | Scott Blumenthal (University of Oregon): "Dietary niche partitioning among African fossil hominins: evidence from intra-tooth isotopic analysis using laser ablation IRMS" @5PM |
| 03/02/2021 | Fieke Mulders (UCL, Earth Science) : "Predicting reaction rates in natural environments" |
| 10/02/2021 | Keeping up with... J. Schwanethal (UCL/ Open University): "Autistic Spectrometry" |
| 17/02/2021 | Noah Planavsky (Yale University): "The evolution of the global Si cycle " |
| 24/02/2021 | Laszlo Kocsis (Brunei Darussalam): "Neogene fossils from Brunei (North Borneo) with focus on the 'Borneo amber' record" |
| 03/03/2021 | Jeffrey P. H. Perez (GFZ Potsdam): "Arsenic cycling in groundwater and the effect of GR transformation on As removal" |
| 10/03/2021 | Keeping up with... John McArthur (UCL, Earth Science) : "Where did Belemnites live?" |
| 17/03/2021 | Rosalie Tostevin (University of Cape Town): "Rare earth elements in carbonate as environmental and ecological tracers" |
| 24/03/2021 | Klervia Jaouen (Geosciences Env. Toulouse): "How Zn isotopes can document ancient diets?" |
| 31/03/2021 | Anna Harrison (Geosciences Env. Toulouse): "Harnessing mineral weathering to capture CO2: Mechanisms and tracers" |
| 07/04/2021 | -- Easter Break -- |
| 14/04/2021 | Mathieu Dellinger (Durham): "Rhenium isotopes as a proxy for redox processes: Insights from the study of the Mackenzie River" |
| 21/04/2021 | Roz Gillis (ICArEHB, Universidade do Algarve): “Forest foddering and the first herds of Europe: stable isotopic perspectives.” |
| 28/04/2021 | Meghan Burchell (Memorial University of NFL, St.John's): "Stable isotopes, gender and status on the Pacific Northwest Coast" |
| 05/05/2021 | Keeping up with... Phil Hopley (Birkbeck/UCL): "Plio-Pleistocene Stable Isotopes of Africa: Insights from Caves and Carnivores" |
| 12/05/2021 | Tais Wittchen Dahl (University of Copenhagen): "Reconstructing geological time and paleoenvironments at ultra-high stratigraphic resolution – new prospects with core scanning XRF" |
| 19/05/2021 | Antoine Souron (University of Bordeaux): "Beyond the C3 browse / C4 grass paradigm in paleodietary reconstructions of African mammals? An example using Plio-Pleistocene bovids and theropiths" |
| 26/05/2021 | Vasileios Mavromatis (Geosciences Env. Toulouse): "The role of aqueous complexation and precipitation pathway on the isotopic composition of carbonate minerals" |
| 02/06/2021 | Keeping up with... TBD |
| 09/06/2021 | Hal Bradbury (Cambridge): "The link between the global carbon cycle and the interplay between calcium and sulfur in marine pore fluid" |
| 16/06/2021 | Hervé Bocherens (University of Tuebingen): "Isotopic insights on the ecological interactions between humans and woolly mammoths and their implications for megafauna extinction" |
1st Term 2020-2021
| WHEN | WHO/WHAT |
| 07/10/2020 | Keeping up with... Delphine Fremondeau (UCL, IoA): "Investigating the reproductive management of domestic herds by sequential stable oxygen isotope analysis in tooth enamel" |
| 14/10/2020 | Molly Trudgill (University of St Andrews): "Pulses of ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary recorded by boron isotopes" |
| 21/10/2020 | Xiangdong Zhao (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology): "Recovery of lake ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction in northwestern China" & "Terrestrial records of the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in China" |
| 28/10/2020 | Keeping up with... Pieter Vermeesch (UCL, Earth Sciences): "A geological neutrino detector" |
| 04/11/2020 | Patrick Roberts (Max Plack Institute, Jena): "Past tropical forest changes, megafaunal extinctions, and hominin turnover in Southeast Asia" |
11/11/2020 | 1- Raphael Pietzsch (University of Oxford): "Unveiling the geological history and past environments of ancient deposits with isotopes" 2- Sophie Gill (University of Oxford): "The response of coccolithophores and foraminifera to enhanced alkalinity as a CO2 sequestration technique" |
| 18/11/2020 | Sarah Pederzani (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): " Cold climatic conditions during an early occurence of Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens in Europe - stable isotope evidence from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria" |
| 25/11/2020 | Eric Walliser (JoGU Mainz): "Inoceramids, rudists and sclerochronology - A story on the ocean-atmosphere system of Central Europe during the late Turonian" |
| 02/12/2020 | Keeping up with... John McArthur (UCL, Earth Sciences): "Ocean acidification in the early Toarcian " |
09/12/2020 | Ashleigh Hood (University of Melbourne): "Oxygenation and diagenesis from the Devonian reefs of the Canning Basin." ! AT 10AM ! |
| 16/12/2020 | Judith Sealy (University of Cape Town): "Last Glacial Maximum in southernmost Africa" |
Lockdown and Post Lockdown schedule - LoGic Virtual Meeting on Zoom
| WHEN | WHO/WHAT | |
| 01/04/2020 | Mel Murphy | |
| 08/04/2020 | Colin Mettam | |
| 15/04/2020 | catch up | |
| 22/04/2020 | David Wilson | |
| 29/04/2020 | Lisa Fuellenbach | |
06/05/2020 | Jonathan Holmes: "Oxygen-isotopes in chironomid head capsules as indicators of late glacial climate: potential and pitfalls" | |
| 13/05/2020 | Huan Cui (Brussels) : "Testing the credibility of geochemical anomalies in sedimentary rocks" | |
| 20/05/2020 | catch up | |
| 27/05/2020 | Romain Guilbaud (Toulouse): "Reconstructing th redox cycling of P in the Precambrian ocean" | |
| 03/06/2020 | catch up | |
| 10/06/2020 | catch up | |
| 17/06/2020 | catch up | |
| 24/06/2020 | catch up | |
| 1/07/2020 | @5.30pm : LoGIC Zoom's Celebrations | |
| 8/07/2020 | Discussion Topic: Race and Racism in Geoscience | |
| 15/07/2020 | catch up | |
| 22/07/2020 | Discussion Topic: Virtual conferences | |
| 22/07/2020 | catch up | |
| 05/08/2020 | - "what have you been up to" section: Anne-Lise Jourdan - "pick a topic" section: Lucy Roberts, "Should Geography and Earth Sciences departments (in general) be more integrated to promote a) cohesive research and b) the student experience" | |
| 12/08/2020 | - "what have you been up to" section: Chunyao Liu & Xianyi Liu - "pick a topic" section: David Wilson, "Earth Science Outreach - experiences, approaches, topics, etc..." | |
| 19/08/2020 | - "what have you been up to" : Fieke Mulders - "pick a topic" : John McArthur, "Extensive arsenic contamination in high-pH unconfined aquifers in the Indus Valley" | |
| 26/08/2020 | - "what have you been up to" : none - "pick a topic" : Anne-Lise Jourdan, NewScientist article on "perpetuating bias, hype, negligence and fraud in science" | |
| 02/09/2020 | LoGIC Summit: updates on labs and discussion on possible new research avenues | |
| 09/09/2020 | LoGIC mini Virtual Conference- program can be found here: Mini Conference Schedule | |
| 16/09/2020 | - catch up - "pick a topic" :Fieke Mulders, "the limitations of scientific freedom on topic-specific grants" | |
| 23/09/2020 | Catch up | |
| 30/09/2020 | - "what have you been up to" : Graham Shields' group |
2nd Term 2019-2020
| WHEN | WHO | WHAT | ROOM |
| 08/01/2020 | Hong Chin Ng (University of Bristol) | Nutrient seepage out of seafloor sediments in the high latitudes | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 15/01/2020 | Pedram Mahzari (UCL Earth Sciences) | Impact of non-aqueous phase wettability on geochemical interactions - Rescheduled from 15/01/2020 | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 22/01/2020 | Amy Edgington (UCL Earth Sciences) | the Geobus: Getting Earth Science Outreach on the Road | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 05/02/2020 | no seminar | (no seminar due to departmental event) | |
| 11/02/2020 | Yukun Shi (Nanjing University) | Geochemical signals from Early Permian foraminifera -Tuesday- | |
| 12/02/2020 | Paul Dennis (University of East Anglia) | RESOLVE: Resolution of Earth’s surface temperature record and ocean isotopic composition over geologic time -cancelled- | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 19/02/2020 | Reading week | No Seminar | |
| 26/02/2020 | Vincent Hare (University of Cape Town) | Do we need calibration for stable carbon isotopes? Effects of CO2 on palaeoclimate and palaeodiet reconstruction | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 11/03/2020 | Paul Dennis (University of East Anglia) | RESOLVE: Resolution of Earth’s surface temperature record and ocean isotopic composition over geologic time - re-cancelled - |
1st Term 2019-2020
| WHEN | WHO | WHAT | ROOM |
| 25/09/2019 | 1- Lewis Alcott (Leeds) | Early Earth oxygenation and links to the phosphorus cycle | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 2- Nick Hayes (Bristol) | Evaluating Controls on the Chemical Weathering Thermostat: Cretaceous-Eocene Edition | ||
| 3- Alex Krause (Leeds) | Evolution of a Habitable Planet | ||
| 02/10/2019 | - | - No Seminar - | - |
| 09/10/2019 | no seminar | no seminar | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 16/10/2019 | TBC | TBC | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 23/10/2019 | Rhiannon Stevens (Institute of Archaeology) | Tracking permafrost thaw and greenhouse gas release across the last deglacial using fossil bone isotopes. | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 30/10/2019 | Paul Dennis (University of East Anglia) | CANCELLED - (RESOLVE: Resolution of Earth’s surface temperature record and ocean isotopic composition over geologic time) | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 06/11/2019 | Reading Week | - No Seminar - | - |
| 13/11/2019 | Ying Zhou (UCL Earth Sciences) | - New Fe speciation evidence for widespread euxinia during the late Ediaracan ocean oxygenation event (Shuram) in South China - New thoughts about the Precambrian mysterious Molar Tooth Structure. | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 20/11/2019 | Anna Joy Drury (UCL Earth Sciences) | Delving into Miocene climate - perspectives from high-resolution XRF and stable isotope records | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 27/11/2019 | Pedram Mazhari (UCL Earth Sciences) | Impact of non-aqueous phase wettability on geochemical interactions - Rescheduled for 15/01/2020 | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 04/12/2019 | John McArthur -cancelled- | Acid groundwaters; no pyrite, no hydrothermalism. Explain -Cancelled due to UCL strike action- | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 11/12/2019 | Bridget Wade (UCL Earth Sciences) | Evolution of Paleogene deep-sea sediments and implications for productivity | Teaching Lab 2 |
| 18/12/2019 | Philip Pogge Von Strandmann (UCL Earth Sciences) | The complexity of organics in weathering - or, Pogge doesn’t understand organic chemistry | Teaching Lab 2 |
2nd Term 2018-2019
| WHEN | WHO | WHAT |
| 27/02/2019 | Long-Fei Gou (Chinese Academy of Sciences) | Spatiotemporal Li isotopic variation in the Yellow River: Sources and fractionation |
| 06/03/2019 | Eric Oelkers (UCL) | Quantifying the rates of mineral-fluid isotopic exchange using the three isotope methods |
| 20/03/2019 | Sadaf Nassem (UCL) | Arsenic and other water‐quality issues affecting groundwater, Indus alluvial plain, Pakistan |
| 27/03/2019 | Philip Pogge Von Strandmann (UCL) | Palaeo-weathering: the short and the long |
| 03/04/2019 | Ann Holbourn (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) | Reconstructing Miocene warm climate dynamics from Indo-Pacific marine archives |
| 01/05/2019 | Sudeshna Basu (UCL) | Implications of noble gases and nitrogen in bulk shales from Haynesville-Bossier formation |
| 08/05/2019 | Lucy Roberts (UCL) | A 3,000 year benthic foraminifera oxygen-isotope record of meltwater in the Arctic Ocean |
| 22/05/2019 | Lisa Fuellenbach (UCL) | Ferrous iron carbonate dissolution in the presence of lead |
| 29/05/2019 | John McArthur (UCL) | Oceanic Anoxic Events? Really? |
| 05/06/2019 | Andy Carter (UCL/ Birkbeck) | How geochronology can help better understand the early Antarctic cryosphere |
| 12/06/2019 | Tim Atkinson (UCL) | Speleothems and isotope gradients in palaeo-rainfall along the Glacial North Atlantic seaboard |
| 26/06/2019 | Mel Murphy (UCL) | High Arctic rivers: a transient source or sink for atmospheric CO2 |
1st Term 2018-2019
| WHEN | WHO | WHAT |
| 17/10/2018 | Sylvie Bruggmann (Copenhagen) | Calibrating the chromium isotope system and evaluating its potential to record paleo-redox changes |
| 17/10/2018 | Colin Mettam (St Andrews) | Interpreting ancient nitrogen isotope data: The importance of depositional setting, redox conditions and organic matter provenance |
| 28/11/2018 | Prof Weiqiang Li (Nanjing University) | Oscillations in Phanerozoic Seawater Chemistry: constraints from Mg isotopes in dolostones |
| 05/12/2018 | Susannah Porter (UC Santa Barbara) | Some thoughts on oxygen, biomarkers, and the nature of early eukaryots |
| 16/01/2019 | David Wilson (UCL) | Late Pleistocene instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet? Insights from radiogenic isotope provenance tracing |
| 23/01/2019 | Zhenbing She (Wuhan University) | Phosphogenesis and rise of metazoans in the Ediacaran |
| 30/01/2019 | Giuseppe Saldi (UCL) | Boron isotope fractionation during sorption on calcite: insights into its incorporation mechanisms |
2nd Term 2017-2018
| WHEN | WHO | WHAT |
| 10/01/2018 | Rod Brown (University of Glasgow) | Why the age of African topography is controversial and why resolving this argument matters |
| 24/01/2017 | Paul Henry Nadeau (University of Stavanger) | Rock-Water Geochemistry in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs |
| 31/01/2018 | Pieter Vermeesch (UCL) | Redefining delta notation in stable isotope geochemistry |
| 07/02/2018 | Ying Zhou (UCL) | Molar Tooth Structure and its potential to reconstruct Proterozoic Ocean Chemistry |
| Reading Week | -No Seminar- | ----- |
| 21/02/2018 | Mel Murphy (UCL) | Tracing silicate weathering processes in the permafrost-dominated Lena River watershed using lithium isotopes |
| 28/02/2018 | Graham Shields (UCL) | Weathering ocean oxygenation and Ediacaran radiation |
| 21/03/2018 | Jenine McCutcheon (University of Leeds) | Microbial beachrock formation: Implications for reef island stability |
| 22/03/2018 | Elizabeth Niespolo (Berkeley) | U-Th burial dating of ostrich eggshells: a novel approach to dating African archaeological sequences beyond the 14C limit |
| 28/03/2018 | Norman Moles (Univ. of Brighton) | The formation of the Aberfeldy sedex baryte deposits and how they inform on ocean geochemistry in the Neoproterozoic |
| 5/06/2018 | 1-Paul Pearson | Ocean carbon cycling since the middle Miocene: testing the metabolic hypothesis |
| 2-Elaine Mawbey (Bristol) | Investigating the Oligocene-Miocene transient glaciation using geochemical proxies | |
3-Qiong Li | Carbonate isotopic and elemental constraints on seawater chemistry and climate change in the Mesozoic | |
| 13/06/2018 | Eric Oelkers (UCL) | The role of particulate material in the oxgenation of the Earth |
| 27/06/2018 | Sean Jordan (UCL) | The Origin of Life: From Geochemistry to Biochemistry |
| 23/08/2018 | Gaojun Li | TBC |
1st Term 2017-2018
| WHEN | WHO | WHAT |
| 11/10/2017 | Matt Fox (ERC Fellow, UCL) | Using low temperature thermochronology to understand landscape evolu |
| 18/10/2017 | Anna Harrison (Marie Curie Fellow, UCL) | Exploring the impact of the mineral-gas-water interface on mineral reactivity |
| 26/10/2017 | Jeremy Caves Rugenstein (ETHZ, Switzerland) | Cenozoic Carbon Cycle Imbalances and Implications of a Variable Weathering Feedback |
| 01/11/2017 | Logic Group Discussion | ----- |
| Reading Week | -No Seminar- | ----- |
| 29/11/2017 | Philip Pogge von Strandmann (UCL) | Recovery from Snowball Earth |
| 06/12/2017 | Alex Dickson (RHUL) | The effect of thermal maturity on the concentration and isotopic composition of molybdenum, zinc and cadmium in organic-rich mudrocks |
| 13/12/2017 | Andrew Putnis (Universität Münster) | Deformation, hydration, stress generation and mass transfer during non-equilibrium metamorphism |
