Earth Sciences Seminars - 2020
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar, 3:00 pm - Tue, 1 Dec 2020, 4:00 pm
- Location: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson building or via Zoom
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Dr Lucy McGee 8313 3260
- Email: lucy.mcgee@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 or Mawson Lecture Theatre - Mawson building | Map
- Date/time: Fridays 3pm to 4pm, unless otherwise noted
- Semester 2 update: Seminars for Semester 2 will be available via Zoom. You are also welcome to join us in person in the Mawson Lecture Theatre, subject to evolving government advice and capacity of the lecture theatre. Adelaide-based speakers will deliver seminars live; interstate and international speakers will be via Zoom.
- 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 6 |
Priya PhD student - University of Adelaide |
Reconstructing the late Pleistocene environmental history of South Australia: High-resolution geochronology and palaeoenvironmental proxies. |
| Friday March 6 |
Dillon Brown PhD student - University of Adelaide |
Exploring styles of metamorphism from the Palaeoproterozoic to the Palaeozoic – a few case studies |
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Thursday |
Professor Patrick De Deckker |
Climatic evolution in the Australian region over the last 94 ka - spanning human occupancy - and unveiling the Local Last Glacial Maximum |
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Friday |
Dr Sam Boone |
The application of low-temperature thermochronlogy in intra-continental rift settings: Insights from the East African Rift System |
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Friday |
Dr Kathy Ehrig |
Preservation of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit - the missing piece of the puzzle |
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Friday |
Dr Bo Yang University of Adelaide |
Tectonic geography reconstruction of the mesoproterozoic wilton package, greater McArthur Basin, northern Australia |
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Friday |
Dr April Abbott |
Widespread overprinting of authigenic neodymium isotope records and its implications to bottom water εNd |
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Friday |
Prof Martin van Kranendonk |
Geological complexity and the origin of life on land: Promising new insights from deep time Earth and implications for solar system exploration VIEW RECORDING |
| Friday August 28 |
Dr Derrick Hasterok University of Adelaide |
What can heat production tell us about continental evolution? |
| Friday September 4 | Associate Professor Carl Spandler University of Adelaide |
Jurassic Arc: discovering the lost world of eastern Australia |
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Friday September 11 |
Professor Balz Kamber |
Petrology and geochemistry of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact basins: lessons for the Hadean Earth and the Palaeoproterozoic ocean |
| Friday September 18 | Dr Mario Werner Geological Society of South Australia |
The importance of the Uno Fault for the southern Gawler Ranges: regional controls on volcanism, magmatism, fluid flow and alteration VIEW RECORDING |
| Friday October 2 |
Elaine Smid Dr Jenni Hopkins |
Towards determining volcanic risk in the urban Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand |
| Friday October 9 | Dr Lorna Strachan University of Auckland |
Chasing earthquake and volcanism signals in a deep marine channel: the Hikurangi Channel, New Zealand |
| Friday October 16 | Dr Jonathon Tyler University of Adelaide |
Climate-water interactions over decades to millennia: refining lessons from the past to address an uncertain future. VIEW RECORDING |
| Friday October 23 | Associate Professor Elena Belousova Macquarie University |
TerraneChron (R): Past, Present, Future VIEW RECORDING |
| Friday October 30 | Dr Alex Francke University of Adelaide |
A >1.3 million years old paleoenvironmental record from the oldest Lake of Europe: Lessons learned from the ICDP deep drilling at Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia, Albania) |
| Friday November 6 | Dr Zoe Thomas University of New South Wales |
Climate-carbon insights from peat deposits in the South Atlantic |