Friday Seminars in Physical Earth Sciences    Department of Earth Sciences
 

Physical Earth Science seminars cover a wide range of subjects in which the quantitative methods of the physical sciences, both theoretical and experimental, are applied to Earth Science problems.

Fridays at 4.30 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre.

Michaelmas Term 2005

1st Week
14th October
Dr. Adrian Muxworthy, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
Magnetostatic interactions: Palaeomagnetic signals and Magnetotactic Bacteria.
2nd Week
21st October

Dr. David Lavallee, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle, UK.
Changes in the global water cycle from GPS measurements of the Earth's shape.
3rd Week
28th October
Dr. Joergen Peder Steffensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen.
TBA.
4th Week
4th November
Dr. Pippa Whitehouse, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, UK.
Understanding solid earth deformation: using GPS to test models of geophysical phenomena around the world .
5th Week
11th November
Dr. Manfred Mudelsee, Climate Risk Analysis, Halle, Germany; and Institute of Meteorology, University of Leipzig.
Analysis of trends, cycles and extremes in Holocene monsoon records.
6th Week
18th November
Dr. Jenni Barclay, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.
Rain falling on volcanoes: mud, mayhem and maybe even explosions.
7th Week
25th November
Dr. Andrew Sorby, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.
Highs and lows: quantitative geomorphology and tectonics in the Basin and Range.
8th Week
2nd December
Dr. David Catling, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.
Oxygen and evolution in the Precambrian.

 

Tea & biscuits will be available from 4.00pm in the upstairs coffee lounge before each lecture.

Convenor: friday-seminars@earth.ox.ac.uk
 
To receive regular e-mail announcements, or to suggest future speakers, contact the convenor.