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Welcome to the UCL Palaeoclimate seminar series.
The seminar programme for Term One of the 2022-23 academic year is listed below. The seminars are open to all members of 皇家华人hether you are a student, researcher or a member of academic staff. Each seminar will be held on a hybrid basis, and online participation is also open to participants from outside UCL.
Unless otherwise stated, all seminars will take place on听Tuesdays from听1-2pm (no seminar in Reading Week).听This term the seminars will usually be in South Quad Pop-up Learning Hub G1.听We look forward to welcoming you to the seminars this term.
Seminar series convenors
- Zarina Hewett
- Eirini Papachristopoulou
Seminar details
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, 10th October | Dr Jack Wharton -听A stronger and deeper North Atlantic subtropical gyre during the Last Glacial Maximum |
| Tuesday,听17th October听 | Professor David Thornalley听-听Paleo and modern perspectives on Atlantic Overturning |
| Tuesday,听31st October | (University of Cambridge) -听Ice, mud, and models: how paleo data assimilation is helping illuminate our geologic past |
| ***Reading Week 鈥� No Seminar***听 | |
| Tuesday,听14th November | (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA) -听A microfossil history from the bottom of the sea: sharks, fish, microfossils, and 85 million years of global change |
| Tuesday,听21st November | Dr Lucy Roberts听-听Monitoring seasonal microfossil calcification for improved coastal palaeotemperatures |
| Tuesday,听28th November | Dr Vasiliki Margari - Extreme glacial cooling likely led to hominin depopulation of Europe in the Early Pleistocene |
| Tuesday,听5th December | Professor Chronis Tzedakis -听Last Interglacial pollen records from Europe |
| Tuesday,听12th December | (Shaanxi Normal University) -听The environmental effects of the uplift of the East Qinling Mountains during the Late Cenozoic: geological records and model simulation |
| Tuesday, 16th January | (University of Cambridge) -听The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa (NB: Lecture to take place in听Room G17, North West Wing) |
- Important seminar information
Code of Conduct statement
- The seminars will be held as a mixture of in-person and Zoom talks. In-person talks will be made available for a virtual audience through live streaming via Zoom with a link provided beforehand in the weekly seminar email. Zoom can be downloaded for free from the UCL Software database ().听
- We will aim to start the seminars at 1pm in order to ensure everyone can join. The talks will last 30-40 minutes with the final 15 minutes dedicated to questions.听
- For Zoom attendees we request that your video and microphone be听turned off throughout the seminar, except if you ask a question at the end of the talk.听
- Please post any questions during the talk in the chat to be answered in the Q&A session at the end. If all of the questions in the chat box have been answered before the end of the seminar, the attendees will be able to 鈥渞aise a hand鈥� and ask questions as well.听
- The seminars will be recorded with the speaker鈥檚 agreement. It is strongly encouraged to join the live seminars. However, if you are unable to attend recordings will be available on request from the seminar series convenors, Zarina Hewett (zarina.hewett.21@ucl.ac.uk) and Eirini Papachristopoulou (e.papachristopoulou@ucl.ac.uk). We ask that you do not share recordings听unless granted permission by the seminar series convenors and the speaker.听
- Every attendee is expected to conduct themselves appropriately throughout the seminar. UCL Geography is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion (or lack thereof). Any type of harassment will not be tolerated during the virtual seminars. If you notice anything during one of the seminars, please feel free to contact the seminar series convenors (email addresses above).听