Earth Sciences Seminars - 2025
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 11:00am to 12:00pm, 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 11:00am to 12:00pm, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 17 February | Dr Huayong Chen (GIG-CAS) | Using minerals as a tool for mineral exploration |
| Fri 21 February | Dr Thomas Pettke (University of Bern) | Fluid-mediated chemical cycling in subduction zones: The relevance of hydrated oceanic mantle lithosphere |
| Fri 7 March | Dr Jonathon Tyler (University of Adelaide) | The East Asian Monsoon within the global climate system: insights from the Quaternary sediments of Lake Suigetsu, Japan |
| Fri 21 March | Dr Lucy McGee (University of Adelaide) | Post-glacial melt generation in Southern Chile and the development of the Carrán-Los Venados Volcanic Field (40’20°S) |
| Fri 28 March | Dr Stacey Priestley (CSIRO) | Groundwater recharge—How can we observe and measure it? |
| Fri 4 April | Project talks by Kym Edwards and Elnaz Khazaie | |
| Mon 7 April | Dr Isra Ezad (University of Western Australia) | The links between igneous petrology, tectonics and mineral systems |
| Fri 11 April | Dr Chris Kirkland (Curtin University) | Deep time, deep space...deep impact? |
| Fri 2 May | Dr Adam Abersteiner (University of Adelaide) | Mobilising metals: rethinking orthomagmatic ore formation models |
| Fri 9 May | Dr Simon George (Macquarie University) | Preliminary results of IODP Expedition 401, the first element of the Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Gateway (IMMAGE) Land-2-Sea drilling project The isolation and later reconnection of the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean between 6 and 5 million years ago: use of chemical fossils to constrain what happened to life and the environment. |
| Fri 16 May | Dr Fred Bowyer (University of Leeds) | Chronostratigraphic uncertainty at the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: The view from the Nama Group of Namibia and South Africa |
| Fri 23 May | Dr Neesha Schnepf (University of Colorado, Boulder) | The Magnetic Fields of Natural Hazards |
| Fri 30 May | Dr Justin Payne (University of South Australia) | Evolution of the evolution of the Delamerian Orogen |
| Fri 6 June | Dr Georgy Falster (University of Adelaide) | Drought: what, when, where, why, how |
| Fri 13 June | Dr Scott Mooney (University of New South Wales) | Getting less and more from sedimentary charcoal. (The last ~30 years of palaeofire research at UNSW.) |
| Fri 20 June | Dr Jacqueline Halpin (University of Tasmania) | A story of Gondwanan continental collision and collapse—an Antarctic mountain range spills its guts |
| Fri 1 August | Dr Yusuke Suganuma | Holocene Ice Shelf Collapse and Subsequent Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica, Driven by Warm Deep Water Inflow and Sea Level Rise |
| Fri 8 August | Dr Karol Faehnrich (University of Adelaide) | Sea-level fluctuations and changing paleoenvironments during the appearance of the Ediacara Biota in South Australia |
| Fri 15 August | Dr Derrick Hasterok (University of Adelaide) | AI as Your Research Assistant: Smarter Workflows, Better Results |
| Fri 22 August | Project talks by Holly Cooke, Kate Wilson | Petrogenetic processes of a new Central Australian carbonatite system, The tectonic evolution of the central East African Orogen. |
| Tues 26 August | Granites Symposium: Dr Josh Schwartz (California State University, Northridge) | Mafic Recharge in the Root of a Continental Arc |
| Tues 26 August | Granites Symposium: Dr Jade Star Lackey (Pomona College, California) | Oxygen Isotope Tracing of Rapid Burial and Remelting of Upper Arc Rocks in Continental Batholiths: The Many Implications |
| Tues 26 August | Granites Symposium: Dr Bill Collins (Adjunct, Curtin University of Technology) | Origin of Cordilleran batholiths: a partisan view |
| Tues 26 August | Granites Symposium: Dr Rongfeng Ge (Nanjing University) | Magma oxygen fugacity and water content of Archean TTGs: implications for petrogenesis and tectonic setting |
| Fri 5 September | Dr Mawk Pawley (GSSA) | The Nuyts Domain in the Gawler Craton: new results, new insights |
| Fri 12 September | Dr Shawn Lu (University of South Australia) | Novel geochemical proxies for past wildfire characteristics |
| Fri 19 September | Dr Claire Mallard (BHP) | Landscape Evolution Across Scales: Applications to Porphyry and Sediment-Hosted Copper Systems, and AI-Driven Supergene Prediction |