Seminars 2012
Departmental seminars are held on Thursday (or sometimes other days) in Rm 210 Geology on the dates and times list below.
Please contact Dr Stefan Winkler for further details. All are welcome to attend.
| Nov 15 12-1pm |
Professor Brian McAdoo, Yale-NUS College | "Tsunami: Merging hazards, vulnerabilities and mitigations for disaster risk reduction." |
| Nov 14 12-1pm |
Dr Bill Murphy , University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment |
Research Talk "Science-based criteria for the stability of slopes." |
| Nov 13 12-1pm |
Dr Bill Murphy , University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment |
Teaching Seminar "Earthquake-induced ground failure." |
| Oct 19 12-1pm |
Professor Paul Wallace, University of Oregon | "Volatile recycling & magma generation in subduction zones as inferred from melt inclusion studies of arc volcanoes." |
| Oct 12 12-1pm |
Dr. Natalie Deligne, GNS Science Wellington | "Plant colonisation of recent lava flows: Insights from the central Oregon Cascades, USA." |
| Oct 11 12-1pm |
Jacqueline Dohaney, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Teaching Geology with 21st Century Techniques." |
| Oct 5 12-1pm |
Brendon Duffy, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Syn-collisional extrusion of the Timor arc-continent collision." |
| Oct 4 12-1pm |
Dr Martin Reyners, GNS Science Wellington | "The central role of the Hikurangi Plateau in the Cenozoic tectonics of New Zealand." |
| Sep 20 2-5:10pm |
Departmental Master Talks 2012 | Tea Room, 312a, Von Haast Building 14:30 - 16:30pm |
Sep 20 |
Departmental Master Talks 2012 | Tea Room, 312a, Von Haast Building 2:00 - 5:10pm |
| Sept 20 12-1pm |
Dr Ben Mackey, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geological Sciences | "Using cosmogenic 3He to quantify surface processes." |
| Sept 14 14 |
Dr Andre Niemeijer, Utrecht University (currently visiting the Department) | "Inferring earthquake mechanics using an integrated field and laboratory approach." (abstract here) |
| Sept 13 12-1pm |
Johnny Wardman, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Quantifying the vulnerability of electric powersystems to volcanic ashfall hazards." |
| Sept 6 12-1pm |
Theodosios Kritikos, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Geomorphic hazard assessment in tectonically active mountains using quantitative geomorphology via GIS." |
Aug 31 |
Dr Mauri McSaveney of GNS Science (Adjunct Associate professor in this Department) | "Observations of a disaster tourist in Japan and China." |
| Aug 16 12-1pm |
Jonathan Davidson, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Quantifying the Stress Distribution at the Rotokawa Geothermal Field, New Zealand." |
| Aug 9 12-1pm |
Jeremy O'Brien Mighty River Power | "Geothermal Research in the Taupo Volcanic Zone – An Mighty River Power Perspective." |
| Aug 2 12-1pm |
Jennifer Dubois, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "A Submarine-Landslide Generated Tsunami from the Kaikoura Canyon." |
| July 26 12-1pm |
Sam McColl, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Large ice-contact slope movements and glacier buttressing, deformation and erosion." |
| July 19 12-1pm |
Carolyn Boulton, PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences | "Making Microearthquakes." |
July 13 |
Dr Rose Turnbull, GNS Science, Dunedin | "The 370 Ma Karamea Suite plutonic ‘flare-up’ event: an ancient analogue for the Taupo Volcanic Zone?" |
| June 29 12-1pm |
Assoc Prof Guilherme Gualda, Vanderbilt University | "The workings of a giant magma body: Bishop Tuff, California." |
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