Physical Geography seminars

Spring Semester 2010

Seminars are held on Tuesdays in the Geography Department in Room B8 at either 1 pm or 4pm. Seminars are open to all interested people; staff and postgraduates are especially encouraged to attend.
Convenors: Felix Ng and Andrew McGonigle

Tuesday 9 February, 1pm
Before, during and after: ice-marginal dynamics and moraine formation at high-Arctic valley glaciers in neoglacial times
Sven Lukas (Geography, Queen Mary University of London)
 
Tuesday 16 February, 4pm
The last deglaciation: atmospheric swings & oceanic roundabouts
Bob Marsh (National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton)
 
Tuesday 23 February, 1pm
The last British-Irish ice sheet: the deep sea ice-rafted detritis record
James Scourse (Ocean Sciences, Bangor University)
 
Tuesday 16 March, 4pm
Bloomin' diatoms: seasonal records of late Quaternary Antarctic ice-ocean interactions
Eleanor Maddison (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Open University)
 
Tuesday 13 April, 1pm
Projecting global impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity and fisheries
William Cheung (Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia)
 
Tuesday 20 April, 4pm
(A)cultural geomorphology
John Wainwright (Geography, University of Sheffield)
 
Tuesday 27 April, 1pm
Plumbing new depths: the geophysical exploration of subglacial Antarctic lakes
John Woodward (Applied Sciences, Northumbria University)
 
Thursday 29 April, 4pm
The largest late Pleistocene-Holocene explosive eruptions in the Kamchatka Peninsula, NW Pacific, and their tephra as a tool for distal correlations
Vera Ponomareva (Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Kamchatka, Russia)
 
Tuesday 4 May, 4pm
Biogeochemical fluxes from an Arctic glacial melt-water fed river
Claire Plant
(Geography, University of Sheffield)
 
Thursday 13 May, 4pm
Paraglacial bedrock river incision - knickpoint retreat rates from cosmogenic nuclides
John Jansen (Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
 
Tuesday 18 May, 2-5pm
Physical Geography PhD Student Upgrade Presentations
John Wainwright and PhD supervisors