Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate Group
Palaeo Critique Seminar Programme: Autumn 2009 - Spring 2010
The 'Palaeo Critique' seminar series provides an opportunity for the review and discussion of current research papers in palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology. Furthermore, informal seminars on current research topics involving staff and postgraduate students within the NOCS are also welcome.
Seminars are held in Room 074/02 on Wednesdays at 10:30-11:30am, once every two weeks. If you would like to give a presentation, please contact either of the seminar conveners Adam Charles or Joe Stewart.
Talks
5 October 2009 Time: 3.00pm, Venue: Room 074/02
Guest Speaker: Dr Kristina Faul, Mills College, USA
Title: 'The role of reactive phosphorus regeneration in Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events'
21 October 2009
Speakers: New PhD students (TBC)
Title: Introductions
4 November 2009
Speaker: Dr Jenny Stanford, NOCS
CANCELLED
Title: 'Controls on the East Asian monsoon during the last glacial cycle, based on comparison between Hulu Cave and polar ice-core records' [Abstract]
18 November 2009
Speaker: Dr Kirsty Edgar, NOCS
Title: 'Symbiont bleaching in planktonic foraminifera during the MECO'
2 December 2009
Speaker: Dr Steve Bohaty, NOCS
Title: 'Dissolution in the deep sea across the E-O boundary'
11 December 2009 3 short talks: Time: 11.00am, Venue: Room 064/03
Dr Jenny Stanford (NOCS):
TITLE: A new concept for the Paleoceanographic evolution of Heinrich event 1 in the North Atlantic NOCS
Introductory talks by Sarah O'Dea and Cristina Sghibartz
4 February 2010
Time: 2-3pm, Conference Room
Speaker: Chris Beer, NOCS.
TITLE: 'Did the Closure of the Central American Seaway result in Northern Hemisphere Glaciation?'
24 February 2010
Speaker: Prof. John Marshall, NOCS.
TITLE: 'The Frasnian/Famennian mass extinction: is life suicidal?'
14 April 2010
Speaker: Giuliana Panieri, University of Bologna, Italy.
TITLE: 'Benthic Foraminifera as a proxy of local gas emissions'
25 May 2010
Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Erez.
TITLE: 'Biomineralization in foraminifera: from ocean acidification to proxy calibration'
9 June 2010
Speaker: Mike Henehan.
TITLE: 'Ground-truthing the Boron Isotope Proxy'
18 June 2010
Time: 11.30am, Conference Room
Speaker: Tom Dunkley Jones.
TITLE: 'The fossil record of Paleogene climate change'
