Event Archive

2017

November

• Research Seminar: 'Crato Formation laminites - a representative geomechanical (pre-salt) analogue?'

  09 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us for a research seminar to be given by Dr Stephanie Zihms of Heriot-Watt University entitled ‘Crato Formation laminites - a representative geomechanical (pre-salt) analogue?’ The seminar will take place on Thursday, 9th November in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: With recent hydrocarbon discoveries in...

• Research Seminar: 'Beyond the crust: the role of the mantle lithosphere in plate tectonic processes'

  07 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00

  Please join us for a research seminar to be given by Dr Philip Heron of Durham University entitled ‘Beyond the crust: the role of the mantle lithosphere in plate tectonic processes’. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 7th November in Meston MT4. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: The mantle lithosphere...

• Research Seminar: 'Serpentinization and life: Insights through ocean drilling'

  02 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us for a research seminar presented by Gretchen Früh-Green, senior research scientist at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology of ETH Zurich. The Seminar will take place at 1pm on 2nd November in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: Progressive interaction of seawater with mantle-dominated...

October

• Research Seminar: Observation, Imaging and Interpretation in Ambient Noise Seismology

  26 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us for a Geosciences research seminar on ‘Observation, Imaging and Interpretation in Ambient Noise Seismology’, presented by Dr Sjoerd de Ridder of the University of Edinburgh. The seminar will take place at 1PM in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Seminar Abstract: Microseism noise is excited by...

• Research Seminar: Microbialites, mudstones and Mars: Tracing biosignatures in rocks

  19 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us for a research seminar presented by Dr Cees van der Land of Newcastle University on ‘Microbialites, mudstones and Mars: Tracing biosignatures in rocks’. The seminar will take place at 1PM on Thursday 19th October in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. 

• Research Seminar: Virtual outcrops for structural geology

  12 October 2017, 13:00 - 23:59

  All are invited to a Geosciences research seminar presented by Adam Cawood (University of Aberdeen) on ‘Virtual outcrops for structural geology: applications, workflows and limitations’. The talk will be held at 1PM in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. Abstract: LiDAR, and more recently, Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry, have been used extensively in Earth...

June

• Seminar: Dr Paul Cozens (Curtin University), 'Crime and the night-time economy'

  27 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00

  Please join us for a seminar on 'Crime and the night-time economy' given by Dr Paul Cozens, environmental criminologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Planning and Geography at Curtin University.  The seminar will take place on 27th June from 2-3pm in Meston Lecture Theatre 3. All staff and...

April

• Earth Science Research Seminar: Dr Liam Bullock (University of Aberdeen)

  20 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us on Thursday, 20th of April for a research seminar presented by Dr Liam Bullock of the University of Aberdeen on “Structure, emplacement and textural evolution of young obsidian lavas in the Aeolian Islands, Italy”. The seminar will take place in FN2 from 1-2PM. All are welcome to...

March

• Earth Science Research Seminar: Dr Irena Connon (University of Dundee)

  30 March 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us for an Earth Science Research Seminar presented by Dr Irena Connon of the University of Dundee on “Extreme Weather, Complex Spaces and Diverse Rural Places: An Intra-Community Scale Analysis of Responses to Storm Events in Rural Scotland”. The seminar will take place on 30th March in FN2 from...

• Earth Science Research Seminar: Dr Clare Warren (Open University)

  23 March 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Please join us on Thursday, 23rd March for a research seminar given by Dr Clare Warren of the Open University on "Linking ages to stages and dates to rates: progress in dating tectonic timescales". All are welcome to attend. Abstract The rates and timescales over which plates interact during subduction or collision...