Spring 2016 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
22 January - Leif Anderson: "The importance of year-to-year climate variability on glacier length and the moraine record"
5 February - Emrys Phillis: “Glacier Downsizing” - how Falljökull in SE Iceland has responded to a warming climate
12 February - Dr. Martin Hensch, Iceland Met Office: "Temporal stress changes associated with the 29 May 2008 Mw6 earthquake doublet in the western South Iceland Seismic Zone"
19 February - Alexander H. Jarosch: "Jökulhlaups in my computer: Where does the heat go?"
26 February - No seminar
4 March - Dr. Suzanne Prestrud Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder: "Weathering in glaciated landscapes"
11 March - No seminar
18 March - Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë: "THE RANGÁ FORMATION IN SOUTHERN ICELAND: A CONTINUOUS EEMIAN ESTUARINE RECORD FORCED BY GLACIO-ISOSTASY"
Jean-Luc Schneider: "The Late Pleistocene – Holocene Þjórsá-Kaldakvísl-Tungnaá outwash system (South-West Iceland) A large “Channeled Scabland” in Iceland?"
25 March - Easter
1 April - Guðrún Larsen: "Jökulhlaup from Katla volcano - a historical perspective"
8 April - JFÍ Spring conference
15 April - Dr. Jacqueline Owen (Lancaster University): "What affects the eruptive behaviour of subglacial volcanoes? Case studies from Torfajökull and Katla"
22 April - No seminar
29 April - Deirdre Clark: "Monitoring of CO2-H2S gas mixture injection in basaltic rocks at Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Plant, Iceland"
6 May - Maxwell Brown: "The global character of excursions: Insights from empirical and dynamo models"