Fall 2015 Seminar Series
Fridays at 12:15 - 13:00
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 Sæmundur Ari Halldórsson
4 September - Margrét Steinþórsdóttir: "Plant stomatal density as proxy for palaeoatmospheres"
11 September - Josefine Lenz: "The Story behind: Alaskan lake cores reveal permafrost landscape dynamics"
18 September - Dr. Don Nuzzio: "Environmental Analysis using Electrochemistry" and Dr. Gregory K. Druschel: "S and Fe cycling - views from Voltammetry"
25 September - The "Provocative Idea Lab": "Do volcanoes control glacial cycles?" Presented by: Leif Anderson - Respondant: Alex Jarosch
9 October - The "Provocative Idea Lab": "Seismic tremor in geoscience: from volcanoes to ice sheets" Presented by: Bryndís Brandsdóttir (Gjálp example), Páll Einarsson (Grímsvötn example), and Alex Jarosch (Greenland ice sheet) - Respondant: Sæmundur Ári Halldórsson
16 October - Katrine Husum: "Holocene water mass and sea ice reconstructions from the European Arctic: multiproxy evidence"
24 October - Marion Benetti: "The water stable isotopes over the Atlantic Ocean"
30 October - No seminar
6 November - Dr. Morgan Jones, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo: "The effects of large igneous provinces on the global carbon and sulphur cycles"
13 November - Dr. Ívar Örn Benediktsson: "The dancing drumlins of Múlajökull, Iceland"
20 November - No semiar: Fall meeting of the Geoscience Society of Iceland
27 November - No seminar: Nordvulk workshop
4 December - Prof. Ólafur Ingólfsson: "Glacial geological studies of surge-type glaciers in Iceland - research status and future challenges"