Earth Sciences Seminars - 2024
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar, 3:00 pm - Fri, 25 Oct 2024, 4:00 pm
- Location: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson building or via Zoom
- Cost: FREE
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.
Seminars are run on Fridays from 3.00pm to 4.00pm, unless otherwise noted.
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: Andrew Merdith
Contact number: 8313 5378
Email: andrew.merdith@adelaide.edu.au
What's on
| Date | Speaker(s) | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 1 March | Project talks by Mahfuzur Rahman and Ben Robertson | Week 1 PhD showcase - Earth Sciences |
| Fri 8 March | Project talks by Dana Imbrogno and Iain Campbell | Week 2 PhD showcase - Earth Sciences |
| Fri 15 March | Dr Julie Pearce, the University of Queensland | Navigating gas water rock reactions and groundwater impacts: A CO2 geological storage demonstration site in the Great Artesian Basin |
| Fri 22 March | Henry Sukhinin, UniSA & Innoveco | The potential for mine waste valorisation and solving environmental issues on mine sites |
| Break for public holiday | N/A | N/A |
| Fri 5 April | Project talks by Ben Kay and Georgina Virgo | HDR completions - Earth Sciences |
| Fri 3 May | Dr Andrew Merdith, the University of Adelaide | Solid Earth Drivers of Phanerozoic icehouse-greenhouse transitions |
| Fri 10 May | Dr Tamara Fletcher, the University of Adelaide | Arctic cloud and smoke: Investigating Pliocene data-model discord |
| Fri 17 May | Louisa Stokes, Curtin University | Maps to riches: regional-scale sulphur isotope maps of orthomagmatic mineralisation |
| Fri 24 May | Dr Timothy Chapman, University of New England | Physical and geochemical consequences of episodic fluid production during subduction |
| Fri 31 May | Dr Bryant Ware, Curtin University | The Ferrar Continental Flood Basalt: a potential role in the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event? |
| Fri 26 July | Dr Will Defleise, The University of Queensland | Mid-Miocene Ocean Temperatures from Coccolith Clumped Isotopes |
| Fri 2 August | Project talks: Sam Bizhani | Next Gen Explorers Award students |
| Fri 9 August | Dr. Matthew Dodd, The University of Western Australia | Evolution of the marine phosphorus cycle |
| Fri 16 August | Dr. Laura Morrissey, The University of South Australia | Evaporite-bearing orogenic belts produce ligand-rich and diverse metamorphic fluids |
| Fri 23 August | Dr. Susanne Schmid, CSIRO | The Stuart Shelf sediment-hosted copper mineral systems |
| Fri 30 August | Dr. Thomas Chambers, The University of Adelaide | Dating Groundwater by Trapping Atoms |
| Fri 13 September | Dr. Simon Williams, The University of Tasmania | Unravelling the Magnetization of Earth’s Lithosphere from Modelling of Satellite Observations |
| Fri 20 September | Project talks: Sumitha Gunatilake | Cu isotope characterisation of an Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) deposit: a spatially constrained pilot project at Olympic Dam |
| Fri 4 October | Dr. Yousef Zoleikhaei | Every grain has a tale to be told! |
| Fri 11 October | Dr. Xiaofang He | The Neoproterozoic–Early Palaeozoic thermal evolution of Sri Lankan crust and its Eastern Gondwana linkage |
| Fri 18 October | Dr. Jack Mulder | In the footsteps of Mawson’s forgotten men: A geological traverse of the Queen Mary Land coast, Antarctica |
| Fri 25 October | Dr Jon Tyler | TBA |