Seminars
Upcoming seminars.
Departmental Research Seminar Series
Seminar time: Tuesday at 16:00
Location: Kathleen Lonsdale Building, Teaching Laboratory 126.
Seminar Organiser: Prof John Brodholt & Prof Peter Clift
All members of the department should receive individual invitations via email - any problems please contact the seminar organisers.
Departmental Seminars: Spring 2026 (Jan-March 2026)
| Date: | Presenter: | Title: |
| 13 January | Pieter Vermeesch, Earth Sciences UCL | Did Australopithecus africanus live 2 or 4 million years ago? |
| 20 January | Alessandro Chiarenza, Earth Sciences UCL | From the field to macroevolutionary theory: 160 million years of responses to climate change in Mesozoic dinosaur ecosystems. |
| 27 January | Edward Rhodes, University of Sheffield | Developing luminescence chronologies for geomorphic and active tectonic contexts. |
| 3 February | Oliver Shorttle, University of Cambridge | Finding aliens with Earth Sciences. |
| 10 February | Paul Upchurch, UCL | STEM careers and disability: what we can do to remove barriers and make working environments more inclusive. |
| 17 February | Reading Week | |
| 24 February | Claire Corkhill, University of Bristol | The Mineralogy of a Nuclear Meltdown. |
| 3 March | Mike Kendall, University of Oxford | Heat sensing: Geophysical insights into fluids in volcanic systems. |
| 10 March | Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Potential origins of inherited zircons in mantle-derived magmatic rocks of the Caribbean: from Continental Break-Up to mantle transfer through Ridge Subduction. |
| 17 March | Sarah Boulton, University of Plymouth | The East Anatolian Fault Zone and the 2023 Karamanmaras earthquakes. |
| 24 March | Heather Ford, Queen Mary | Ocean Heat Content during the Warm Pliocene. |
Other Seminar Series
Global Geophysics GoGo Research Seminar | Apex Seminar Series