Earth Sciences Seminars - 2021
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb, 3:00 pm - Wed, 1 Dec 2021, 4:00 pm
- Location: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson building or via Zoom
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Dr Alexander Francke 8313 0894
- Email: alexander.francke@adelaide.edu.au
Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences host regular seminars to facilitate a collaborative approach which applies cutting-edge methods to issues vital to sustaining our way of life on this planet.
Academics and students from collaborative institutions are also invited to share their research and knowledge when visiting our department and school.
The seminars are open to the public, industry, researchers from other departments, schools and universities, and to current and past students.
Join us
- Location: Online via Zoom or Mawson Lecture Theatre - Mawson building | Map
- Date/time: Fridays 3pm to 4pm, unless otherwise noted
- To subscribe to the weekly seminars and to obtain the Zoom link, please fill in the Seminar RSVP below.
What's on
| Date | Speaker | Presentation | |
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| Friday March 5 |
Professor Simon Turner Macquarie University |
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| Friday March 12 |
Dr Drew Downs USGS - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory |
Kilauea's newest lava lake: Response and monitoring of the December 2020 eruption Recording |
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| Friday March 19 |
Dr Georgina Falster Washington University in St. Louis |
Imprint of the Pacific Walker circulation in global precipitation δ18O | |
| Friday March 26 |
Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz University of Sydney |
Deep-sea sediments, punch card women and a Cold War cover-up | |
| Friday April 9 |
Dr Anandaroop Ray Geoscience Australia |
Geophysical inversion and geological interpretation while accounting for uncertainty |
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| Friday April 30 |
Renée Tamblyn |
Subduction zone metamorphism: Timescales and emergence in the geological record |
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| Friday May 7 |
Associate Professor Simon Holford |
Emplacement of mafic laccoliths and their role in shallow crustal magma transport: constraints from 3D seismic reflection data |
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| Friday May 14 |
Erin Martin Monash University |
Linking supercontinents to a convective mantle framework |
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| Friday May 21 |
Yuexiao (Mandy) Shao University of Adelaide |
Calibration of alkaline earth metal isotope tracers in semi-arid coastal environments: Implication for modern and palaeo-hydrology of the Coorong, South Australia |
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| Friday May 28 |
Dr Juraj Farkas University of Adelaide |
Redox history of earth’s surface environment: Insights from chromium isotopes and Australian rock records |
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| Friday June 4 |
Dr Christopher Jackson University of Manchester |
Hot rocks beneath our feet; 3D seismic reflection imaging of the processes and products of crustal magmatism Recording |
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| Friday July 30 |
Dr Jeremy Wykes ANSTO |
Medium energy X-ray absorption spectroscopy (MEX) beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron |
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| Friday August 6 |
Professor Kilti Grice Curtin University |
Microbial mayhem during mass extinction events: The incredible evolution of life on earth | |
| Friday August 13 |
Dr Claire Wade University of Adelaide |
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| Friday August 20 |
Lucinda Duxbury University of Adelaide |
Holocene fire ecosystem and climate change on Kangaroo Island Recording |
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| Friday August 20 |
Alex Simpson University of Adelaide |
In-situ Lu-Hf geochronology of garnet, apatite and xenotime by LA ICP MS/MS Recording |
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| Friday August 27 |
Dr Jan-Hendrik May |
Source-to-sink 2.0? Exploring sediment pathways across quaternary landscapes in south-central Australia |
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| Friday September 3 |
Professor Allen Nutman University of Wollongong |
50 years of the Eoarchean: The case for evolving uniformitarianism Recording |
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| Friday September 10 |
Dr Diana Zivak |
A re-evaluation of rutile as a provenance tool | |
| Friday September 17 | Dr Benjamin JW Mills University of Leeds |
Modelling the evolution of Earth's surface conditions over deep time Recording |
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| Friday September 24 |
Dr Sabin Zahirovic University of Sydney |
Insights from numerical Earth models – tectonics, paleogeography, and landscape evolution of northern Australian margins in the Phanerozoic |
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| Friday October 8 |
Dr Haidee Cadd University of NSW |
The ecological legacy of fire in Australia - understanding the past is key to the future. | |
| Friday October 15 |
Dr Margaret Shanafield Flinders University |
From rainfall to recharge: hydrologic processes at the surface water groundwater interface in the Willunga Basin |
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| Friday October 22 |
Dr David Flannery |
Martian geology and importance of Australian analogues in current exploration efforts | |
| Friday October 29 | Dr Dominique Tanner University of Wollongong |
TBC |