Fall 2018 Seminar Series
Fridays at 12:30 - 13:15
Friday seminars of Institute of Earth Sciences and Nordic Volcanological Center
Meeting room: Building of Natural Sciences, Askja, western end - 3rd floor seminar room
Everybody is welcome!
Friday lectures are coordinated by Maxwell Christopher Brown (maxwell@hi.is)
7. September: Ed Marshall (Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Earth Sciences): "On the (mis)behavior of water in the mantle"
14. September: Quinten van der Meer (NordVulk Fellow): "The Lithospheric Mantle of the Limpopo Mobile Belt (South Africa)"
21. September: Sigurjón Jónsson (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia): "Is summertime a good time for earthquakes?"
28. September : Vala Hjörleifsdóttir (Orkuveita Reykjavíkur): "Wave gliders and sunsets: Looking for the next large earthquake in Mexico"
5. October: No seminar
12. October: Barbara Kleine: "Fluxes, transport, interaction – Tracking fluids through the crust"
19. October: Hera Guðlaugsdóttir (Graduate Student, University of Iceland): "Volcanic Imprint in the North Atlantic Climate Variability"
26. October: Revathy Parameswaran (Postdoc, Institute of Earth Sciences): "Stalking Himalayan Earthquakes: the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and more"
2. November: Þorsteinn Sæmundsson (University of Iceland): "How stable are the slopes above outlet glaciers in Iceland in light of warmer climate, accelerated glacial retreat and formation of proglacial lakes?"
9. November: Elizabeth Bunin (Graduate Student, Faculty of Earth Sciences): "Late Pleistocene environmental and climate variability inferred from sediments at the open-air archeological site Jordan River Dureijat (Northeast Israel)"
16. November: Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson (Institute of Earth Sciences): "The jökulhlaup hazard resulting from volcanic eruptions in Öræfajökull and other steep-sided ice-covered volcanoes"
23. November: Steffen Mischke (Faculty of Earth Sciences): "Lake Lop Nur: Holocene salinity history and the inference of a man-made environmental disaster"
30. November: Maria Janebo (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences): "Total Grain-Size Distribution of four subplinian–Plinian eruptions of Hekla"
7. December: Gabrielle Stockmann (Faculty of Earth Sciences): "Can Groundwater predict Earthquakes?"
14. December: No seminar
21. December: Erik Sturkell (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg): "The Lockne-Målingen doublet impacts in central Sweden"