Seminars 2009
Departmental seminars are held on Mondays (or sometimes on Wednesdays) in Rm 210 Geology on the dates and times list below.
Please contact Dr Catherine Reid for further details. All are welcome to attend.
| October 22 2-3pm |
Dr Marlene Villeneuve (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) | "Influence of Geomechanical Characteristics on Rock Fracture." Research Seminar |
| October 22 9-10am |
Dr Marlene Villeneuve (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) | "Kinematic Failure and Keyblock Analysis." Teaching Seminar |
| October 20 12-1pm |
Dr Thomas Mitchell (Hiroshima University, Japan) | "Aspects of combined field and laboratory studies and their applications in engineering geology." Teaching Seminar |
October 19 |
Dr Thomas Mitchell (Hiroshima University, Japan) | "Combined field and laboratory studies of fault zones within the seismic cycle: Aspects of current & past research." Research Seminar |
| October 8 1-2pm Room 210 |
Assoc Prof Mark Abbott (University of Pittsburgh) | "Lakes as Paleoclimate Archives." Teaching Seminar |
| October 7 12-1pm Room 221 |
Assoc Prof Mark Abbott (University of Pittsburgh) |
"Lake Records of Human and Climate History from the Central Andes." Research Seminar |
| October 6 1-2pm Room 221 |
Prof Alexander Wolfe (University of Alberta) | "Expressions of the Holocene-Anthropocene boundary in sediments from remote lakes: an application of Quaternary science." Teaching Seminar |
| October 5 12-1pm Room 221 |
Prof Alexander Wolfe (University of Alberta) | "Quaternary glaciation, landscapes, and lakes." Research Seminar |
| October 2 1-2pm Room 221 |
Dr Ulrich Salzmann (British Antarctic Survey) | "Disentangling Holocene tropical climate variability from human impact - Lessons from the West African Savanna." Teaching Seminar |
| October 1 12-1pm Room 221 |
Dr Ulrich Salzmann (British Antarctic Survey) |
"Vegetation of a Warmer World: Data-model comparison of global biome distributions for the Late Pliocene and the 21st century." Research Seminar |
| September 29 1-2pm Room 221 |
Dr Stefan Winkler (Universitaet Wuertzburg) | "Ice cores and palaeoclimatology: principles, protential and problems." Teaching Seminar |
| September 28 12-1pm Room 221 |
Dr Stefan Winkler (Universitaet Wuertzburg) | "Investigating the New Zealand Holocene glacier chronology." Research Seminar |
| September 25 1-2pm |
Christopher Oze (Brynmwar College, USA) | ""DisMantling Ultramafic Material." Research Seminar |
| September 24 1-2pm |
Christopher Oze (Brynmwar College, USA) | "The Fast and the Favorable: Application of kinetics and thermodynamics in igneous and hydrothermal systems." |
| September 23 1-2pm |
Kathy Campbell (Auckland University) | “Palaeoenvironmental and Evolutionary Significance of Hydrocarbon Seeps.” Research Seminar |
| September 22 5:30pm |
Kathy Campbell (Auckland University) | “Terrestrial hot-springs and the search for early life on Earth (and Mars?).” Hochstetter Lecture (C Lecture Block) |
| September 15 1-2pm |
Michael Rowe (University of Iowa, USA) | "Magmatic processes and the role of volatiles in magmas revealed by melt inclusions and mineral chemistry." Research Seminar |
| September 15 12-1pm |
Michael Rowe (University of Iowa, USA) | "Open System Processes: Magma mixing and assimilation." Teaching Seminar |
| September 11 1-2pm |
Marlina Elburg (University of Ghent, Belgium) | "Causes and effects of calc-alkaline and tholeiitic differentiation trends in arc magmas." Research Seminar |
| September 10 1-2pm |
Marlina Elburg (University of Ghent, Belgium) | "Basalt petrogenesis: partial melting in a ternary system." Teaching Seminar |
| September 9 1-3pm |
MSc Student Talks | List of Speakers |
| September 7 1-2pm |
Jesse Dykstra PhD candidate, Geological Sciences | "Landslide-Generated Tsunami Hazards in Fiordland, New Zealand and Norway." |
| August 21 1-2pm |
Andrew Greene (University of Hawaii, USA) | "Exploring oceanic plateaus on land and at sea to understand the largest magmatic events on Earth." Research Seminar |
| August 20 1-2pm |
Andrew Greene (University of Hawaii, USA) |
"Volcanism at the Hawaiian hotspot" Teaching Seminar |
| August 19 4:15pm |
Assoc Prof Misko Cubrinovski (Department of Civil Engineering) |
"Effects of Fines on Liquefaction Resistance of Sandy Soils." |
| August 11 12-1pm |
Dr Darren Gravley Institute of Earth & Engineering, University of Auckland | "Surf and Turf: Interactions between terrestrial and marine sedimentation and tectonism in an evolving volcanotectonic graben, North Island, New Zealand." |
| August 10 1-2pm |
Dr Darren Gravley Institute of Earth & Engineering, University of Auckland |
"Longitudinal Learning: undergraduate field and research-based education for geology and earth systems study abroad students." |
| August 4 12-1pm |
Christopher Gomez University Paris 7 Denis Diderot Research Seminar |
"Understanding the tsunami of December 26, 2004 at Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Event, Destructions and post-tsunami campaign." Please see here for more |
| August 3 1-2pm |
Gavin Tippett, Engineering Geologist, Coffey Geotechnics Australia |
“Abandoned Mine Subsidence Assessment and Mitigation”. |
| August 3 12-1pm |
Christopher Gomez University Paris 7 Denis Diderot Teaching Seminar |
"Short Lesson on the Participatory Method: a Community Based Approach of Risk and Disaster Management". Please see here for more |
| July 28 12-1pm |
Tom Wilson, PhD candidate, Geological Sciences Research seminar |
“Impacts of the 1991 Hudson and 2008 Chaiten eruptions, Chile: An example of changing societal vulnerability.” |
| July 27 12-1pm |
Tom Wilson, PhD candidate, Geological Sciences Teaching Seminar |
“Modern Emergency Management In Canterbury: Lessons from recent disasters and future challenges.” |
| July 27 1-2pm |
Richard Jongens, GNS Science, Dunedin |
" QMAP Christchurch: A new 1:250 000 Geological Map and GIS of Christchurch/North Canterbury and the Chathams Islands." |
| July 20 12-1pm |
Kate Pedley (Senior Tutor and PhD candidate in Geological Sciences) | "Modelling subduction processes in the Poverty Indentation, Hikurangi margin" |
| July 13 1-2pm |
Dr Richard Holdaway (Adjunct Professor, Biological Sciences & Geological Sicences | "Life before the end: North Canterbury moa" (see abstract) |
| June 3 1-2pm |
Sam Hampton, PhD candidate, Geological Sciences | "Evolution of Lyttelton Volcano: Growth, structure and collapse?" |
| 29 May 2009, 2:30 - 4:50pm | MSc Student Talks | list of speakers |
| 28 May 2009, 2:30 - 5:10pm | BSc(Hons)/MSc Student Talks |
list of speakers |
| May 18 1-2pm |
Clinton Rissman, PhD candidate, Geological Sciences | "Hydrothermal alteration and subsidence at the Ohaaki hydrothermal field" |
| May 11 1-2pm |
Scott Barnard, PhD candidate, Geological Sciences | "The vulnerability of NZ lifelines infrastructure to ashfall" |
May 4 |
Rose Turnbull PhD candidate, Department of Geological Sciences |
"Mingling and Mixing on Stewart Island." |
| April 29 4-5pm |
Dr Linda Reinen (Pomona College, California) |
"The role of serpentinite in fault creep." |
| April 29 1-2pm |
Dr Eric Grosfils (Pomona College, California. National Association of Geoscience Teachers - Distinguished Speaker) |
"Computational science in geoscience education." |
| April 27 1-2pm |
Joshu Mountjoy, PhD Candidate, Department of Geological Sciences |
"Canyon and Landslide systems on the Hikurangi Margin." |
| April Recess (no seminars) | ||
| April 1–2pm |
Dr Tom Powell (Chief Geologist, Mighty River Power) |
"Mighty River Power Geoscience Research Programme." |
| March 30 1–2pm |
Olivia Hyatt (PhD candidate, Geological Sciences) | New Zealand's glaciers past and present: a global endmember |
| March 23 1–2pm |
Anja Dufresne (PhD candidate, Geological Sciences) | Substrate deformation features associated with rock avalanche emplacement. |
| March 16 1–2pm |
Lucille Tatard (PhD candidate, Geological Sciences) |
"Time-pattern of landslides in New Zealand" |
| March 9 4–5pm |
Professor Bruce Marsh (Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, Mineralogical Society America Distinguished Lecturer) | First direct discovery by drilling of Magma: Puna Rhyolite, Hawaii |
| March 9 1–2pm |
Professor Bruce Marsh (Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, Mineralogical Society America Distinguished Lecturer) | Mush Column Magmatism: an Antarctic Rosetta System - the petrologic evolution of magma in building the terrestrial planets |
| March 6 3–4pm |
Prof Jamie Shulmeister DoGS | Postgraduate Student Orientation |
| March 2 1–8:30pm |
Dr Richard Lane (ARANZ Ltd, Senior Adjunct Fellow, UoC) | "Geological modeling using implicit functions." |
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