Earth Sciences Seminars - 2023
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar, 3:00 pm - Fri, 27 Oct 2023, 4:00 pm
- Location: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson building or via Zoom
- Cost: FREE
Seminars are run on Fridays from 3.00pm to 4.00pm, unless otherwise noted.
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 3.00pm to 4.00pm, unless otherwise noted
- To subscribe to the weekly seminars and to obtain the Zoom link, please fill in the Seminar RSVP.
Contact us
Contact name: Dr Darwinaji Subarkah
Contact number: 8313 5378
Email: darwinaji.subarkah@adelaide.edu.au
Contact name: Dr Adam Abersteiner
Contact number: 8313 1280
Email: adam.abersteiner@adelaide.edu.au
What's on
Semester 1
Date | Speaker(s) | Presentation |
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Fri 3 March | Earth Sciences HDR Showcase #1 | Project talks by Sharmaine Verhaert, Thomas Burke, and Oliver Pring |
Fri 10 March | Earth Sciences HDR Showcase #2 | Project talks by Fletcher Nixon, Vanessa Nowinski, Johann Soares, and Kosuke Tsutsui |
Fri 17 March | Earth Sciences HDR Showcase #3 | Project talks by Ananyaa Deepak, Yaser Noorian, and Ruiqi Zheng. |
Fri 24 March |
Alexander Simpson Dr Sohom Roy |
Novel laser ablation geochronological techniques and their applications. |
Fri 31 March | Dr Kathryn Cutts Geological Survey of Finland |
What do Australia, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland have in common? |
Fri 7 April | Break | N/A |
Fri 14 April | Break | N/A |
Fri 21 April | Break | N/A |
Fri 28 April | Dr Ellyse Bunney University of Adelaide and CSIRO |
Timber tracking and food traceability: applications of isotopic provenancing. |
Fri 5 May |
Dr William McMahon Prof Dietmar Muller |
Exploring the sedimentological impact of evolving land plants. Understanding the deep-time tectonic carbon cycle by linking thermodynamic and plate tectonic models. |
Fri 12 May | Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz University of Sydney |
Tracking the vigour of Cenozoic ocean bottom currents using vanished deep-sea sediments. |
Fri 19 May | Alexander De Vries Van Leeuwen University of Adelaide, Geological Survey of South Australia, and MinEx CRC |
Heat production powered metamorphism. |
Semester 2
Date | Speaker(s) | Presentation |
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Mon 31 July |
Dr Kathryn Goodenough |
Lithium pegmatites: a critical resource for the energy transition. |
Fri 4 August |
Dr Rachelle Kernen |
Evaporites and clean energy. |
Fri 11 August |
Dr Mathieu Schuster |
Clastics in Lacustrine Sedimentary Systems: the pivotal role of wind-driven hydrodynamics evidenced from littoral landforms and numerical modeling |
Fri 18 August |
David Baker Dr Adam Abersteiner |
Postgraduate showcase #1: Magnetotelluric imaging of the Australian Lithospheric Continent. |
Fri 25 August |
Ferdinand Mayer-Ullman Prof Ian Campbell |
Porphyry copper deposits: what we know and what we need to know. |
Mon 28 August | Dr Sian Evans University of Oslo |
Salt tectonics: insights from 3D seismic data and implications for CO2 storage |
Fri 1 September |
Assoc. Prof Ingrid Anell |
A story in Stone - A deserted island and its elusive Triassic clinoforms. |
Fri 8 September |
Dr Agathe Lisé-Pronovost |
How to use Earth's magnetic field as a dating tool for Australia's natural and cultural history: recent advances using lake sediments, stalagmites and lava flows. |
Fri 15 September |
Dr Derrick Hasterok Dr Darwinaji Subarkah |
Novel software to process laser ablation geochemical maps. In situ U-Pb dating of carbonates using an image mapping approach. |
Fri 6 October |
Francisca Mallea Lillo |
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Fri 13 October |
Victor Vincent Dr Ulrich Harms |
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Fri 20 October |
Dr Ian Smith Amin Shokrollahi |
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Fri 27 October |
Dr Jack Mulder |
Building Earth's first continents: The Hafnium isotope record of the Hadean-Archean transition. |