Geosciences Seminar Series
The School of Geosciences hosts two regular seminar series:
Geo.talks 2010
The Geo.talks series comprises of fortnightly research presentations by staff and students within the School, as well as by eminent visiting scholars. Talks are normally held at 12pm on Thursdays in the Madsen Conference Room (Rm 449, Madsen Building), and are nominally 30-40 minutes in length followed by discussions. Geo.talks provides an opportunity to share research being performed in the disciplines of geography, geology and geophysics. In-depth analysis of specific research programs is common, although speakers are also encouraged to present the broader societal and public policy relevance of their research through the series to appeal to the diverse interests contained within the School of Geosciences. Senior Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to present advanced research findings as part of the series.
| Date | Speaker/s | Title |
Location |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May |
Dan Penny and Eleanor Bruce | Geoscience’s engagement in a decade of cross-disciplinary research at the World Heritage site of Angkor, Cambodia | Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 |
12-1 pm |
| 24 May |
Bill Pritchard | Institutions for Food Security: Global Insights from Rural India | The Refectory, Main Quadrangle | 6-8 pm |
| 3 June |
Jeff Neilson, Bob Fisher and Yayoi Lagerqvist | Resource rights and carbon markets in the forest landscapes of Indonesia | Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 | 12:30-1:30 pm |
| 10 June |
Jody Webster | First results and stories from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 325 to the Great Barrier Reef | Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 | 12-1 pm |
| 5 August |
Dietmar Müller |
Building a virtual geological observatory |
Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 | 12-1 pm |
| 12 August |
Bob Fisher |
Local institutions in forest and pasture management in Northern Mongolia |
Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 | 12-1 pm |
| 26 August |
Steve Micklethwaite |
Earthquakes and exploration |
Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 |
12-1 pm |
| 2 September |
Gavin Birch | Contaminant stratification in Estuarine Environments | Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 | 12-1 pm |
| 16 September |
Colin Cooke | New perspectives on pre-industrial metal pollution: integrating geoarchaeology and biogeochemistry from the Andes | Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 | 12-1 pm |
| 30 September |
TBA | |||
| 14 October |
TBA | |||
| 28 October |
Lesley Head |
TBA |
Madsen Conference Room, Rm 449 |
12-1 pm |
Southeast Asian Seminar Series
The Australian Mekong Resource Centre (AMRC) Southeast Asian seminar series, is run in conjunction with the Chair of Southeast Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts. It is held fortnightly at 12:30pm on Thursdays in the Madsen Conference Room (Rm 449, Madsen Building), with speakers from the AMRC and the wider community and is designed to bring together those with interests in Mekong Region environment and development issues. If you would like to be on the mailing list for this seminar series, please email
Please click here for a list of Southeast Asian seminars in 2010.