Seminars and Events in the School
Carbon dynamics during sea ice formation at different growth rates
Date: 15th October 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
The speaker for this seminar is Daniela Koenig, a PhD student at the University of Liverpool. She will be discussing her Masters research project and manuscript entitled "Carbon dynamics during sea ice formation at different growth rates” (co-authored with Lisa Miller, Kyle Simpson, and Svein Vagle from the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada).
Low carbon developments in Chinese cities
Date: 16th October 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Roxby Building, 6th Floor, Geographical Information Centre.
As national efforts to reduce CO2 emissions intensify, policy-makers need increasingly specific, subnational information about the sources of CO2 and the potential reductions and economic implications of different possible policies. This is particularly true in China, a large and economically diverse country that has rapidly industrialized and urbanized and that has pledged under the Paris Agreement that its emissions will peak by 2030.
A structural geologist in Antarctica: geological investigations and exploration
Date: 17th October 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Lecture Theatre
Antarctica still represents a remote and challenging region where to do geological fieldwork. Many areas of the continent are still not explored, and at the regional scale, the geology and structural architecture poorly known or under debate.
Analysis of the copepod community in the Mediterranean Sea for an environmental assessment and copepods behaviour study through the use of high-speed cameras
Date: 22nd October 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
To assess the environmental impact of a regasification platform in the Mediterranean Sea, zooplankton has been sampled for several years. I analysed some of these samples for my Master Thesis and through statistical analyses I have described the copepod community ecology of that area.
Detention economies: Researching U.S. immigration detention, reading between the (heavily redacted) lines
Date: 23rd October 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Roxby Building, 6th Floor, Geographical Information Centre.
In this presentation I provide an overview of an on-going collaborative research project (with Nancy Hiemstra, Stony Brook U., NY) examining the internal ‘micro’ or ‘intimate’ economies associated with immigrant detention in the U.S. Whilst a good deal of attention is given to the daily cost of detaining people (i.e. per bed cost), considerably less is known about the costs, contracts, subcontracts, and dynamics associated with the day-to-day management and running of detention facilities.
Oceans Seminar Series - Calum Preece
Date: 29th October 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
Abstract to follow
From continental rifting to break-up: insights from analogue and numerical modelling
Date: 29th October 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Map Library
The South Atlantic conjugate margins are the product of continental rifting and break-up of Pangea, which consisted of different crustal features prior to rifting. Continental rift initiation and break-up becomes more complex when a lithosphere consists of large segments with different rheological strength. Analogue models are produced to investigate the effect of far-field forces on a system that consist of multiple rheological segments. Numerical models are performed to include thermal processes and focus on the impact of initial plume emplacement on such a setup.
Unravelling the hazard potential of tsunamis triggered by volcanic flank collapses
Date: 31st October 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Lecture Theatre
Abstract to follow
A-level Geography Masterclass
Date: 7th November 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Eleanor Rathbone Lecture Theatre
The Department of Geography welcomes you to join us for an afternoon of Mastery and Stretch & Challenge. Our A-level Masterclasses provide lectures discussing high order concepts and case studies, with a focus on core content across all exam board syllabi. We aim to support students to achieve their very best, and to stretch the most able students.
Dr Catharine Horswill, University of Glasgow
Date: 8th November 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Lecture Theatre
Abstract to follow
Oceans Seminar Series - Caroline Peacock (Leeds)
Date: 12th November 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
Abstract to follow
From Peri-Tethys to Paratethys - Basin restriction and anoxia in central Eurasia linked to volcanic belts in Iran
Date: 14th November 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Lecture Theatre
From the Alps in western Europe to the great steppes of Kazakhstan, the former Paratethys Sea once covered a vast area of our planet, of which the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Aral lake are today’s remnants. The Paratethys formed as the Tethys ocean gradually closed, and was known as ‘Peri-Tethys’ until the late Eocene.
Oceans Seminar Series - Pascal Salaun
Date: 19th November 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
Abstract to follow
Potential space? Play, parents and streets
Date: 20th November 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Lecture Theatre
In the last 10 years, the playing out movement has promoted the development of temporary residential street closures to allow neighbours to regularly and safely meet and play; starting in Bristol, the initiative has now spread to over 600 streets in around 70 different UK towns and cities.
Understanding environmental drivers of jellyfish blooms: The importance of temperature on the polyp stage of the cnidarian life cycle
Date: 22nd November 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Brodie Tower, Room 106 Brodie Tower
Abstract to follow
Oceans Seminar Series - Katsumi Matsumoto (Minnesota/Oxford)
Date: 26th October 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
Abstract to follow
Amanda Owen, Glasgow University
Date: 28th November 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Roxby Building, 6th Floor, Geographical Information Centre.
Abstract to follow
Oceans Seminar Series - Eugenio Ruiz
Date: 3rd October 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
Abstract to follow
Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow
Date: 6th December 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Jane Herdman Building, Jane Herdman Lecture Theatre
Abstract to follow
Oceans Seminar Series - Arthur Gourain
Date: 10th December 2018
Venue: Nicholson Teaching Studio, Room 101, Nicholson Building
Abstract to follow
Making a new myth to understand an old one: research projects in the edgelands of Milton Keynes and the Lovecraft villages of South Devon
Date: 18th December 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool, Roxby Building, 6th Floor, Geographical Information Centre.
This talk draws on two projects addressing contrasting sites of intricate layering, trace and ambience. The two projects use walking practices, performance and fiction writing as means to understand intentional and interpretative myth-making.