School Seminars 2021 - 2025

2025

• 26th November: Simon Lock (University of Bristol) with introduction by Edith Kubik (UCD) SES Winter Lecture 'Forging Planets with Giant Impacts'
• 19th November:Post-Doc TalksLewis Grant(UCD) 'Automated Quantification of Modal Layering in Ancient Lower Oceanic
  Crust Using Computer Vision'Matias Villarroel(UCD) Volcanology (Title TBC)
• 12th November:PhD Talks (Geophysics Theme)Victoria Susin(UCD & iCRAG);Maurice Weber(DIAS)
  
• 5th November:Alan Selzter (UCD Inaugural Lecture) 'Dissolved gas tracers of physical and biogeochemical groundwater recharge properties'
  
• 29th October:TBC
• 22nd October:John Clifford (Minco Exploration PLC & the NUI SEG Chapter) 'Irish Exploration: Past, Present, Future and the SEG Mineral Exploration Challenge'
  
• 15th October:PhD Talks Savannah Devine(UCD);Victor Vincent(UCD & iCRAG) - Caldera collapse & Copperbelt Geology & Geochronology
• 8th October:Sarah Gleeson (UCD Inaugural Lecture) 'Mineral systems models for clastic dominated Zn deposits: from the geodynamic - to the nano-scales'
• 1st October:Heda Agic (University College Cork) 'Early eukaryote ecosystems: insights from single microfossil carbon isotope analyses'
• 24th September:Micha Ruhl (Trinity College Dublin) 'The Geological Timescale: why time constraints matter - examples from Mesozoic global change events'
• 17th September:Mizuki Ishida (Natural History Museum, London and MDSG Distinguished Lecturer) 'Importance of magmatic input at the periphery of magmatic-hydrothermal systems
• 10th September:Jean-Baptise Tary (DIAS) 'Seismotectonic analysis of the seismicity along the Costa Rica rift, Panama Basin'
• 30th April:Kaja Fenn (University of Liverpool) 'Earth’s Fine Print: From loess geochemistry to atmospheric transport pathways'
• 23rd April:Renée Tamblyn (University of Bern) 'In situ Lu-Hf LA-ICP-MS/MS geochronology: applications and outlook'
• 16th April:Derya Gürer (Heidelberg University) 'Carbonate Veins in Basalts: Tracing the Timing and Conditions of LIP Emplacement and Carbonation'
• 9th April:Michelle Harris (University of Plymouth) 'Using hyperspectral core scanning to investigate seafloor hydrothermal systems'
• 2nd April:PhD Talks (Oceans and Earth Systems Theme)Georgia Ballabio(UCD & iCRAG);Phoebe Walsh(UCD & iCRAG)
• 26th March:Mark Bentley (Heriot Watt University & Langdale Geoscience) Title TBC: CCS and Reservoir Modelling
• 5th March:James Hickey (University of Exeter) 'Volcano deformation: a magma-mush perspective'
• 26th February:Uisdean Nicholson (Heriot Watt University) 'Into the Nadir: seismic evidence for a new K-Pg aged impact crater'
• 19th February:Vincent Roche (UCD & iCRAG) 'Structural controls of natural and induced seismicity'
• 12th February:PhD Talks Geophysics Theme (UCD);Bernard Owusu(DIAS & UCD)'Determining temperature beneath Krafla using geophysical-petrological modeling';Prithwijit Chakraborti(UCD & iCRAG)'Improved subsurface characterization through geophysical modelling with integrated drill hole and physical property constraints for mineral exploration'
• 5th February:Audrey Morley (University of Galway Paleoceanography) 'A solution for constraining past marine Polar Amplification'
• 29th January:Pablo Rodriguez Salgado (UCD Earth Sciences) 'The Fossil-Lagerstätte maar of Camp dels Ninots. Structural, stratigraphic and paleoclimatic implications'
• 22nd January:Edith Kubik (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth) 'Core–mantle isotopic fractionation in large terrestrial planets'

2024

• 4th December:Prof. Andrew Sweetman (Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)) 'Detection of novel oxygen production at the manganese nodule-covered aphotic abyssal seafloor'
• 27th November:Dr Susanna Ebmeier (University of Leeds) 'Magmatic architecture and ascent rate from satellite measurements'
• 20th November:Dr Duygu Kiyan (DIAS) 'The 3D electrical structure of the lithosphere beneath Ireland'
• 13th November:Prof. Peter LaFemina (Alfred Wegener Institute, University of Bremen) 'Cascading Hazards in a Migrating Forearc-Arc System: Earthquake and Eruption Triggering in Nicaragua'
• 6th November:UCD PhD Research TalksTom Johnston'Examining the deposits of the 2015 Volcan de Colima dome collapse' Amy Myers'Analogue modelling of lava dome growth following repose'
• 30th October:Prof. Paul Dunlop (University of Ulster) 'The Role of Geological Minerals in Ireland’s Defective Concrete Scandal'
• 23rd October:Dr. Pablo Rodriguez Salgado (iCRAG/UCD) 'Unravelling the Cenozoic Exhumation History of the Celtic Sea Basins: A Multidisciplinary Approach'
• 16th October: Intel Theatre – Room H1.26:Dr. Carlos Corella Santa Cruz (UCD)'Subduction cycling in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand'Dr. Oluwayemisi Olomo (iCRAG/UCD) 'The perceived need for Critical Raw Materials (CRMs)'
• 9th October:Various SES staff (UCD) 'UCD School of Earth Science Facilities Showcase & Updates'
• 2nd October:Catherine Crotty (Winsome Resources Ltd.) 'Exploring for Archaean lithium pegmatites in the Canadian Shield, Quebec'
• 25th September:Dr Matthias Sinnaesal (Trinity College Dublin) 'Temporally calibrating the Cambrian first occurrence of trilobites using astrochronology'
• 18th September:Prof. Cedric John (ECORD Distinguished Lecturer – Queen Mary University London) 'Drilling Down the Data: A Deep Learning Dive into IODP Cores'
  
• 8th May bonus extra seminar:Dr Danny Hnatyshin (Geological Survey of Canada & ex-iCRAG member at UCD) 'Dating with Danny – Geochronology of Ore Deposits'
• 24th April:Prof. Joe Licciardi (University of New Hampshire) 'Timing and patterns of glacier thinning and recession along the northern sector of the Iceland Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation'
• 17th April:UCD PhD Student TalksRioko Moscardini'Temporal and spatial variation in depositional environment and its effect on reservoir quality in the Sherwood Sandstone Group, Northern Ireland' Vincent Adongo'A three-dimensional segmented fault zone model'Nanyu Wei'Petrophysical characterization of the Zn -Pb mineralisation of the Lisheen deposit in Ireland'
• 10th April:Dr Ana Jesus (University of Lisbon) 'Metal and sulfur sources of VMS deposits from the Samail Ophiolite, Oman'
• 3rd April:UCD PhD Student TalksThomas Austin'Benchmarking a Distinct Element Method model of volcanic deformation'Mahdi Khoshlahjeh Azar'Monitoring Irish Peatland Restoration with Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar'La Donna Fredericks'Geometry and nature of inversion structures in the Irish Orefield and their impact on mineral deposits and associated mineralization'
• 27th March:George Reynolds (Metrics Consulting) 'Minerals are Semiconductors'
• 6th March:Prof. Chris Greenwell (Durham University - MinSoc Distinguished Lecturer Series) 'Swelling, wettability alteration and applications of clay and other layered minerals'
• 28th February:UCD PhD student talks Clara Crowell'TOPDOWN: Examining the vertical expression of the last glaciation of Ireland'Kendra Ní Nualláin'Volcanic dome collapse: exploring post-emplacement stability as a function of hydrothermal alteration'Nikita Turton'Global weathering rates and sediment fluxes during early Cenozoic hothouse climates'
• 21st February:Dr Thomas Belgrano (UCD Earth Sciences) 'Levering remote data to modernise geological maps of Earth’s largest ophiolite'
• 14th February:Dr Seán Jordan (Dublin City University) 'From protocells to protosigns: Investigating the origin of life on Earth and potential existence of life elsewhere in our Solar System'
• 7th February:Dr Marlène Villeneuve (Montanuniversität Leoben) 'Better Together: Linking Geology, Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics'
• 31st January:DrBethan Davies (Newcastle University) 'Accelerated glacier volume loss on Juneau Icefield driven by hypsometry and melt-accelerating feedbacks'
• 24th January: Prof. Katrien van Landeghem (Bangor University) 'ECOWind- ACCELERATE: Ecological implications of accelerated seabed mobility around windfarms'

2023

• 6th December: UCD PhD student talksRachel Healy;'Conservation palaeobiology approaches to the assessment of environmental change; A case study from Galway Bay'Hannah Othen;'Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the complexly faulted basin margins across the Irish Carboniferous'Victor Vincent;'Phase transition of copper sulfides from hypogene to supergene conditions; Insights from the Lubambe Cu-Co deposit'
• 29th November:DrDaniel Palmowski (Terranta GmbH Germany) 'Geological Process Modelling. Applications to Mineral Systems and Hydrogen Exploration'
• 22nd November:Adriana Lemgruber-Traby (IFP Energies nouvelles France) 'Overview and applications of multiphysics evolutive basin modelling'
• 15th November:Dr Marc Alban-Millet (Cardiff University) 'Tracing crustal formation and evolution with titanium isotopes'
• 8th November:Dr Anna Lim (AEGEO Norway) 'Exploring the deep ocean: discoveries at the nexus of tectonic, volcanic and hydrothermal activity'
• 1st November:Dr Pete Rowley (University of Bristol) 'Shear madness - complexity in pyroclastic density current deposits'
• 25th October:Dr Filipa Luz (Almina Mining Portugal) 'Iberian Pyrite Belt storytelling: from Roman times to the future with a backward stop at Devonian times'
• 18th October:Prof. Katherine Joy (university of Manchester) 'TBC'
• 11th October:Kieran Craven (Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland) 'Navigating Climate Change: Pathways to 2050'
• 4th October:Dr Alexis Hrysiewicz (UCD, iCRAG) 'SAR and InSAR application on temperate raised peatlands'
• 27th September:UCD PhD student talksEleanor Dunn;'Unrest and Dynamic Triggering on Sierra Negra Volcano, Galápagos'Elena Geiger;'Spodumene pegmatite haloes: characterization, exploration vectoring and ore potential'Malena Martinez Cazorla:'Unravelling the controls on high grade cobalt mineralization in the Central African Copperbelt'
• 20th September:Dr Elliot Carter (Trinity College Dublin) 'There and back again: tracking mantle and subducted volatiles using halogens and trace elements'
• 26th April:Prof.Stephen Hesselbo (University of Exeter) 'Towards an understanding of Early Jurassic Earth system and timescale: recent results from new and legacy cores'
• 19th April:Dr Jeremy Ely (University of Sheffield) 'Can two wrongs make a right? Model-data comparison of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet'
• 12th April:Dr Phil Renforth (Heriot-Watt University) 'Geochemical carbon dioxide removal – a new frontier in climate change mitigation'
• 5th April:Dr Nicole Richter (RWTH Aachen University) 'A tale of penguins and volcanoes'
• 29th March:Prof.Eleonora Rivalta (GFZ, Potsdam)'Forecasting the pathway of dikes and eruptive fissure location by inversion of volcanic edifice stresses'
• 8th March:Prof. Raúl Fonseca (Ruhr University Bochum) 'Experimental and Natural constraints on Ti isotope fractionation in the Earth and Moon'
• 1st March:Dr Martin Schöpfer (University of Vienna) 'On the spacing of fold-related fractures'
• 22nd February:Dr Jason Briner (University at Buffalo) 'Project GreenDrill: Site selection for cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating of the Greenland Ice Sheet bed'
• 15th February: PhD Student Special! Three 15 minute talks lined up:Prithwijit Chakraborti:'Mapping the 3D distribution of volcanic rocks in the Limerick Basin (Ireland) subsurface using petrophysics as a guide for regional geophysical data analysis and inverse geophysical modelling'Maurice Weber:'Origin of high-frequency tremor on Mount Etna - investigating sources and mechanisms of tremor in high frequency ranges rarely looked at through large deployments of dense arrays of seismic stations in summit region'Regina Maass:'Time lapse and virtual source seismic imagery at Krafla'
• 8th February:Dr Bruce Misstear (Trinity College Dublin) 'Groundwater: making the invisible visible (a personal view)'
• 1st February:Research Exchange Seminar, hosted by the NUI SEG Student Chapter. Students will give a 3 minute flash talk about their research with the intention of finding new areas of collaboration within the geoscience community.
• 25th January: Conor Moynihan (Teck Resources Ltd.) 'Deep Zn Exploration in the Irish Midlands'

2022

• 15th December in person 12pm: Prof. Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho (University of Campinas (UNICAMP) Brazil) 'The APIOM3E Project: Active and Passive Imagery for Oil Monitoring in Mangroves and Marine Environments'
• 30th November:Prof. Helen Williams (University of Cambridge) 'Hard rock and heavy metal: transition metal stable isotope tracers of mantle mineral heterogeneity'
• 23rd November online (streamed in G01): Moritz Kirsch (HZDR, Freiberg) 'Hyperspectral Imaging of Outcrops'
• 16th November: UCD School of Earth Sciences PhD Talks - Giorgia Ballabio 'Seawater Re-Os oscillations during the Early Jurassic' - Victoria Susin 'Insights into the Limerick Basin from geology- and petrophysics-guided reprocessing of 2D seismic data'
• 9th November online (streamed in G01):Dr Anne-Laure Argentin (affiliated University of Michigan and University of Rennes) 'Modelling landslide dams and their impact on landscape evolution'
• 2nd November online (streamed in G01):Dr Edgar Zorn (LMU, Munich) 'Using analogue sandbox models to constrain deformations, structures and stability of volcano flanks and lava domes'
• 26th October:Dr Duygu Kiyan (DIAS) 'Magnetotelluric studies on hydrothermal systems in volcanic regions: an example from the Azores'
• 19th October: Emer Caslin (iCRAG) 'Geoscience in Action: An Atlas for Advancing Sustainability in Geoscience'
• 12th October:Dr Dave McCarthy (British Geological Survey) 'Geological disposal of radioactive waste, the role of a geological survey'
• 5th October:Dr Stephen Gallagher (University of Melbourne) 'The Australian palaeomonsoon'
• 28th September:Claire Geel (iCRAG) 'Pyrite geochemistry as a vector toward mineralization in Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits'
• 21st September:Dr Nat Lifton (Purdue University)'Exposing the potential for in situ cosmogenic 14C'
• 27th April Online: Alumni Professor David Moecher (University of Kentucky, who is visiting TCD as Fulbright Ireland Scholar 2022) 'The Great Reach of the Hot, Giant, Long-Lived Grenville Orogen: Its Influence on the Neoproterozoic to Phanerozoic Clastic Sedimentary Record of Laurentia and Amazonia'
• 20th April Online: Dr Thomas Lamont (University of Bristol) 'Squeeze and trigger: compression followed by crustal relaxation as a cause of high-grade hypogene porphyry copper mineralization?'
• 13th April Online:Prof Jenni Barclay (University of East Anglia) 'Unrest, eruptions and impacts: insights into volcanic behaviour from the historical and recent eruptions of La Soufriere, St Vincent'
• 6th April Online: Dr Alexandra Costanzo (NUI Galway) 'Fluid Inclusion studies and their applications'
• 30th March Online: Dr Jim Hendry (Iapetus Geoscience Limited) 'Origin, significance and implications of fault- and fracture-related dolomitization in Lower Carboniferous limestones on the Isle of Man and the NE margin of the Dublin Basin'
• 23rd March Online: Dr Kathryn Goodenough (British Geological Survey) 'Critical Raw Materials for the Energy Transition'
• 1st March Online: Dr Gael Lymer (UCD) '3D Jurassic development of the Porcupine Basin offshore West of Ireland'
• 23rd February Online: Dr Kier Nichols (Imperial College London) 'Investigating the long-term history of Thwaites Glacier with a subglacial bedrock core'
• 16th February Online:Dr Quentin Crowley (Trinity College Dublin) 'Radon, Geoscience and Public Health'
• 9th February Online - cancelled: Dr Alice-Agnes Gabriel (University of Munich) 'Supercomputing of large earthquakes'
• 24th January Online: Dr Roberto Rizzo (University of Edinburgh) 'Advanced Image Analysis for the interpretation of (micro)structural data'
• 19th January Online: Prof. Eun-Jung Holden (University of Western Australia) 'Geological Knowledge Discovery using Machine Augmented Intelligence'

2021

• 1st December Online: UCD School of Earth Sciences PhD Talks - 'Getting the measure of holes in the ground: digital mapping and morphometric characterisation of karst depressions and collapse calderas' Rob Watson and 'The role of fractures in influencing dome stability at volcanoes' Amy Myers
• 14th November Online: Dr John Murray (NUI Galway) 'The History of Life project'
• 10th November Online: Dr Zhou Zhang (Zhejiang University) 'Re-examining Geochemical Data through the Lens of Data Science'
• 3rd November Online: Dr Richard Gloaguen (Helmholtz Institute Freiberg of Resource Technology)'Innovative mineral exploration using hyperspectral imaging and machine learning'
• 27th October Online: Dr Vanessa Johnston (Karst Research Institute, Slovenia) 'My journey looking into cave speleothems as palaeoclimate archives'
• 18th October Online: Prof. Julia Steinberger (University of Lausanne) 'Living well within planetary limits: is it possible? And what would it take?'
• 13th October Online: Dr Sophie Norris (Dalhousie University) 'Dynamic response of the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation: implications for Lake Agassiz drainage'
• 6th October Online: Thomas Garabetian (European Geothermal Energy Council) 'Overview of geothermal energy in Europe, and prospects to 2030'
• 29th September Online: Dr Vinciane Debaille (Université Libre de Bruxelles) 'Life on Mars?'
• 22nd September Online:Esther Harris (Murdoch University) 'Stakeholder perspectives in minerals exploration'
• 15th September Online:Dr Koen Verbruggen (GSI) & Dr Marie Cowan (GSI) 'Geoscience and Government: Updates from the Geological Surverys of Ireland and Northern Ireland'
• 12th May Online: Prof. Janine Kavanagh (University of Liverpool) 'What lurks beneath? Unravelling the dynamics of Volcanic Plumbing Systems'
• 5th May Online: Prof.Simon Todd (Capriole Energy & UCD) 'The energy transition: drivers, risks and the role of earth scientists and engineers'
• 28th April Online: Hallelujah Ekandjo (iCRAG, UCD) 'Geology overview of the Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb deposit in southern Namibia' and David Drejing-Carroll (iCRAG, UCD) 'Geology of the Nautanen North Cu-Au deposit, Norrbotten, Sweden'
• 21st April Online: Assoc. Professor Lenny Winkel (ETH Zurich) 'Biogeochemical Cycling of Selenium'
• 14th April Online: Dr Weimu Xu (UCD Earth Sciences) 'Carbon release & sequestration: Extreme global climatic change events in Earth history – lessons for future climate mitigation'
  
• 31st March Online: Prof. Jorge M.R.S. Relvas (University of Lisbon) 'Iberian Pyrite Belt: from metallogeny, to mine remediation and science outreach'
• 24th March Online: Prof. Kim Cobb (Georgia Institute of Technology) 'Corals and climate change - from impacts and solutions'
• 3rd March Online: Dr Danielle Howlett (University of Bergen) 'Salty Stuff: Response of Deep-water Depositional Systems by Salt-influenced Topography'
• 24th February Online: Dr Max Frenzel (Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology) 'Geometallurgy of by-products – A case study of indium deportment in a VMS ore'
• 17th February Online: Dr William Daniels (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 'What happens when the Bering Land Bridge' 
• 10th February Online: Dr Brenhin Keller (Dartmouth College) 'From zircon to freeboard: Clues to the origin of the Great Unconformity'
• 2nd February Online: Dr John Paul Moore (iCRAG Postgraduate Researcher) 'Quantitative analysis of faults and fracture systems and their impact on groundwater flow in the bedrocks of Ireland' 
• 27th January Online:Dr Foivos Karakostas (University of Maryland) 'Seismology with InSight on Mars: focus on the seismic attenuation in the Lithosphere'
• 20th January Online: Dr Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco (Trinity College Dublin) 'Reaction Pathways toward the Formation of Bastnäsite'