University of Oxford
Department of Earth Sciences
Monday Lecture Series
University of OxfordDepartment of Earth SciencesMonday Lecture Series |
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Lectures are held on Mondays at 4.30 during termtime. They take place in the department lecture theatre and are preceeded by tea and biscuits. Speakers cover the entire breadth of the Earth Sciences. For comments or suggestions please contact Don Porcelli. Note that there are also physical earth science seminars on Friday afternoons.
| 1st Week 19th January |
Professor Alex
Halliday, Institute for isotope Geology & Mineral Resources,
Zurich http://www.erdw.ethz.ch The origin and earliest evolution of the Earth |
| 2nd Week 26th January |
Dr Charles Cockell, British Antartic
Survey, Cambridge University of Southampton http://www.bas.ac.uk/ The recolonisation of asteroid and comet craters - new opportunities for life |
| 3rd
Week 2nd February |
Dr Sturt Manning, University of Reading
http://www.shes.rdg.ac.uk/Staff/AcStaffDetails.asp?PID=SWM Archaelogy in Santorini |
| 4th Week 9th February |
Dr Chris German,
University of Southampton http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/CHD/chemgrp/index.html An integrated study of thermal and chemical fluxes from a single hydrothermal-field: new constraints on global submarine venting to the oceans. |
| 5th Week 16th February |
Dr
Marc St Onge, Geological Survey of Canada http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/gsc/ The Trans-Hudson Orogen of North America – Constraints for Paleoproterozoic Earth |
| 6th Week 23rd February |
Dr Simon Lamb, Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford Raising the Andes |
| 7th Week 1st March |
Dr Dario
Alfè, University College, London http://chianti.geol.ucl.ac.uk/~dario Probing the Earth's core with quantum mechanics |
| 8th Week 8th March |
Dr Clive Oppenheimer, University of
Cambridge http://plinian.com Remote sensing of volcanic gases |