Palaeoclimate Seminar Series
Explore cutting-edge research in palaeoclimate at UCL Geography with our Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series. Open to all, in-person and online participants are welcome.
Unless otherwise stated, all seminars will take place on Thursdays from 1-2pm
This term, the seminars will usually be in G07 in the North West Wing. There will be no seminar in Reading Week.
Term One Seminar Schedule
Speaker: Dr Aleksandr (Sasha) Montelli, Department of Geography, UCL
Title: New data collected from the seafloor of Ronne Entrance: implications for the deglacial evolution of three West Antarctic ice shelves
Speaker: Dr Daniel Skinner, University of Bristol
Title: Changes in the South Pacific hydroclimate over the past two millennia (and beyond!)
Speaker: Professor Luke Skinner, University of Cambridge
Title: The Heinrich 2-step: evidence for two-phase Heinrich events and implications for the canonical 'hosing theory' of abrupt change
Speaker: Dr Benjamin Petrick, Department of Earth Sciences, UCL
Title: What causes coral reefs to collapse? A palaeoclimatic perspective
No Seminar
Speaker: Dr Charles Williams, Department of Geography, UCL & University of Bristol
Title: The relative role of direct orbital forcing, CO2, and ice sheet feedbacks on Quaternary climate
Please note: This seminar has been cancelled.
Speaker: Professor Philip Hughes, University of Manchester
Title: Anatomy of a cold stage: examining the structure of Pleistocene glacial cycles
Speaker: Dr Diederik Liebrand, Department of Earth Sciences, UCL
Title: Saw-tooth shaped Quaternary climate cycles – what can they tell us?
Term Two Seminar Schedule
Speaker: Dr Daniel James, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Title: Seasonally Resolved Multiannual Droughts in the Maya Terminal Classic (800-1000 CE, Yucatán, Mexico)
Speaker: Dr Alex Clark, Royal Holloway University of London
Title: Investigating the unstable and rapid retreat of the central British-Irish Ice Sheet after the Last Glacial Maximum
Speaker: Friso de Graaf, Queen Mary University of London and UCL
Title: Late Pliocene Pacific Ocean Overturning and its impact on the Plio-Pleistocene Transition
Speaker: Professor Chronis Tzedakis, Department of Geography, UCL
Title: Interglacial and glacial intensities over the past 1.5 Myr from sea surface temperature records
Speaker: Dr Phil Hopley, Birkbeck, University of London
Title: Plio-Pleistocene Hydroclimate of South Africa
No Seminar
Speaker: Dr Laura Boyall, Bangor University
Title: Palaeoclimate for Policy: insights from a palaeolimnological investigation on how to best integrate palaeoclimate information into policy decision making
Speaker: Professor Simon Blockley, Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: Towards a tephra-based framework for integrating archaeological and environmental archives from the Caucuses to the Levant since the last Interglacial
Speaker: Professor Rick Schulting, University of Oxford
Title: TBC
Human responses (or lack thereof) to the 8.2 ka event
More information
Speaker: Abigail Hunt, Bournemouth University and UCL
Title: TBC
Speaker: Dr Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge
Title: Palaeoecological perspectives on southeast Australia’s palaeoclimate
Past Seminars
Catch up on previous talks from the UCL Geography Palaeoclimate Seminar Series. Recordings of past seminars are available here, showcasing leading research on past climates, environmental change, and the methods used to understand Earth’s climate history.
Convenors
Code of Conduct statement
- The seminars will be held as a mixture of in-person and Zoom talks. In-person talks will be made available for a virtual audience through live streaming via Zoom with a link provided beforehand in the weekly seminar email. Zoom can be downloaded for free from the UCL Software database.
- We will aim to start the seminars at 1pm in order to ensure everyone can join. The talks will last 30-40 minutes with the final 15 minutes dedicated to questions.
- For Zoom attendees we request that your video and microphone be turned off throughout the seminar, except if you ask a question at the end of the talk.
- Please post any questions during the talk in the chat to be answered in the Q&A session at the end. If all of 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 be recorded with the speaker’s agreement. It is strongly encouraged to join the live seminars. However, if you are unable to attend recordings will be available on request from the seminar series convenors, Richard Lowther (richard.lowther.23@ucl.ac.uk) and Eirini Papachristopoulou (e.papachristopoulou@ucl.ac.uk). We ask that you do not share recordings unless granted permission by the seminar series convenors and the speaker.
- Every attendee is 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 convenors (email addresses above).
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