Previous Seminars

This page provides a list of the previous seminars held at the NOC.
Please use the filter below to select a seminar listing.

October 2020

Perspectives on the Evolution of Diatoms
Tuesday, 6 October, 2020 - 14:00
Daniel Conley

March 2020

Using biomarkers to explore the Earth System
Friday, 6 March, 2020 - 13:00
Richard Pancost

February 2020

Crustal Evolution during Continental Collision – The Western Anatolian Laboratory
Friday, 14 February, 2020 - 13:00
Martin Palmer, University of Southampton
Lessons from a new 200 year reanalysis of the global atmospheric circulation
Friday, 7 February, 2020 - 13:00
Gil Compo

January 2020

The Mobile Ocean
Friday, 24 January, 2020 - 13:00
Bob Marsh

December 2019

Neither plant nor animal - The role of mixotrophic protists in aquatic environments
Friday, 13 December, 2019 - 13:00
Susanne Wilken, University of Amsterdam

November 2019

Drilling the oceanic mantle lithosphere: A window on melt extraction and mantle metasomatism at ridges
Friday, 15 November, 2019 - 16:00
Margot Godard, CNRS Montpellier

October 2019

Quantifying the cost of living for marine fishes – the stable carbon isotope composition of carbonate biominerals provides new insights into population responses to climate change.
Friday, 25 October, 2019 - 13:00
Clive Trueman, University of Southampton

June 2019

Strategies in times of crisis
Friday, 7 June, 2019 - 13:00
Professor Daniela Schmidt, University of Bristol

May 2019

Tara Oceans: Eco-Systems Biology at Planetary Scale
Friday, 24 May, 2019 - 13:00
Professor Chris Bowler (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Section, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, FRANCE)
Role of the Pacific Ocean in global decadal climate variability and ocean heat uptake
Wednesday, 22 May, 2019 - 13:00
Prof. Matthew England
Nitrogen fixation across scales
Friday, 17 May, 2019 - 13:00
Dr Mar Benavides
Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales
Friday, 3 May, 2019 - 13:00
Ken Haste Andersen

February 2019

Climate Change and Variability in the North Atlantic : From Tip Jets to Warming Holes
Friday, 15 February, 2019 - 13:00
Professor Simon Josey, NOC,S
Nongenetic inheritance, evolution, and marine microbes
Friday, 1 February, 2019 - 13:00
Dr Sinead Collins, University of Edinburgh

December 2018

Volcanic eruptions: causes and consequences
Friday, 7 December, 2018 - 13:00
Professor David Pyle, University of Oxford

November 2018

SKIM, an ESA satellite mission for exploring global ocean currents and waves
Friday, 2 November, 2018 - 13:00
Prof. Fabrice Ardhuin. IFREMER, France

October 2018

Why are corals colorful?
Friday, 19 October, 2018 - 12:30
Professor Jörg Wiedenmann, University of Southampton
Plastic Contamination of the Oceans: Should we care and what are we doing about it?
Friday, 5 October, 2018 - 13:00
Professor Richard Lampitt, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

May 2018

Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth and the 'Great Unconformity,
Friday, 25 May, 2018 - 14:00
Tom Gernon (OES)
Can we meet the Paris Climate Agreement? Observational and geological constraints on our future carbon budget for a 1.5 and 2 °C world
Friday, 18 May, 2018 - 14:00
Phil Goodwin (OES)
Go with the flow: an introduction to the fascinating world of lagrangian modelling
Friday, 4 May, 2018 - 14:00
Katya Popova (NOC)

April 2018

The eastern Pacific coast as a natural transect of the globe for macroecology and biogeography research
Friday, 27 April, 2018 - 14:00
Phil Fenberg
New insights into seafloor hydrothermal mineralisation: The Blue Mining project
Friday, 20 April, 2018 - 14:00
Bramley Murton (NOC)

March 2018

Down to the deep - ocean biology's role in the carbon cycle
Friday, 16 March, 2018 - 14:00
Stephanie Henson (NOC)
‘Blue Biotechnology’ - light powered products from marine phytoplankton
Friday, 9 March, 2018 - 14:00
Tom Bibby (OES)
Putting the Brakes on Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage vs Enhanced Weathering
Friday, 2 March, 2018 - 14:00
Rachael James (OES)

December 2017

Reimagining geophysical data using cartograms
Friday, 15 December, 2017 - 14:00
Benjamin Hennig, University of Iceland
2017 Charnock Lecture: A Journey of Biogeochemistry from the Tropical to the Polar Ocean
Friday, 8 December, 2017 - 14:00
Prof Karin Lochte (Director of AWI)
The North Atlantic Ocean is in a state of reduced overturning
Friday, 1 December, 2017 - 14:00
David Smeed, National Oceanography Centre

November 2017

Is the bipolar ocean seesaw broken?
Friday, 24 November, 2017 - 14:00
Joel Pedro (Copenhagen)
Charnock Fellow Lecture, Dark carbon: the role of chemosynthesis in marine food-webs
Friday, 17 November, 2017 - 14:00
Nick Higgs (Plymouth)
The Biological Carbon Pump seen through High Throughput Imaging and “Omics”
Friday, 3 November, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Lionel Guidi (CNRS-UPMC)

October 2017

The Faroe-Shetland Channel—Oceanic Gateway to the North
Friday, 27 October, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Barbara "Bee" Berx (Marine Scotland)
Reconciled model projections for the Antarctic contribution to sea level rise
Friday, 20 October, 2017 - 14:00
Tamsin Edwards, The Open University
Beyond the instrumental period: Are 20th century changes in North Atlantic circulation exceptional?
Friday, 13 October, 2017 - 14:00
David Thornalley (UCL)
Mr Alan Simcock, World Ocean Assessment Report, UN
Friday, 6 October, 2017 - 14:00
Mr Alan Simcock, World Ocean Assessment Report, UN

September 2017

Feedbacks in mineral carbonation and hydration: review, theory, and lessons from Oman
Friday, 29 September, 2017 - 16:00
Prof Peter Kelemen (Columbia/LDEO)
Deglaciations and sea level
Friday, 22 September, 2017 - 14:00
Eelco Rohling

June 2017

The bubbles underneath breaking waves: what they do, why we care and whether it matters
Friday, 16 June, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Helen Czerski, University College London
Rough bottoms: bed roughness and waves in coastal wetlands
Friday, 9 June, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Iris Möller, University of Cambridge
New insights into European climate variations and extremes back to Roman times; dynamics, processes and future perspectives
Thursday, 8 June, 2017 - 14:00
Prof. J. Luterbacher
Deep time climate/extinction events and their relationships with large scale volcanism
Monday, 5 June, 2017 - 15:00
Lawrence Percival (Oxford)
074 Node room (Southampton)
The Anthropocene: an overview of geological assessment to date
Friday, 2 June, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Colin Waters, British Geological Survey

May 2017

Northern hemisphere CO2 fluxes
Friday, 19 May, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Ute Schuster, University of Exeter
Serpentinization and life: Insights through ocean drilling
Friday, 12 May, 2017 - 16:00
Professor Gretchen Früh-Green, ETH Zürich

April 2017

Professor Helen Johnson, University of Oxford
Friday, 28 April, 2017 - 16:00
Professor Helen Johnson, University of Oxford

March 2017

Effects of ocean surface gravity waves: on turbulence, climate, and frontogenesis
Friday, 31 March, 2017 - 16:00
Prof Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University)
Toward a European Ocean Observing System
Friday, 24 March, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Glenn Nolan, Secretary General EuroGOOS
Complex Oceanic Data
Friday, 10 March, 2017 - 16:00
Professor Sofia Olhede (UCL)
The missing timescale in the global ocean's response to past and future climate change
Friday, 3 March, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Kevin Oliver, University of Southampton

February 2017

Constraining Atmosphere/Ocean General Circulation Models using Observations
Friday, 24 February, 2017 - 16:00
Professor Simon Tett, University of Edinburgh
Reconciling the meridional connectivity of the MOC from observations
Friday, 10 February, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton
A manifesto for Bayes Nets in Earth Sciences
Friday, 3 February, 2017 - 16:00
Professor Willy Aspinall, University of Bristol

January 2017

Sea-level variability during late Quaternary interglacials
Friday, 27 January, 2017 - 16:00
Dr Natasha Barlow, University of Leeds
Professor Gabi Hegerl, University of Edinburgh
Friday, 20 January, 2017 - 16:00
Professor Gabi Hegerl, University of Edinburgh
Dr Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute
Friday, 13 January, 2017 - 13:30
Dr Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute

December 2016

Professor Brian Dushaw, University of Washington
Friday, 9 December, 2016 - 16:00
Professor Brian Dushaw, University of Washington
Dr David Ian Jones, University of Southampton
Friday, 2 December, 2016 - 16:00
Dr David Ian Jones, University of Southampton

November 2016

Mud, microbes and man: The biology of sediment dynamics
Friday, 25 November, 2016 - 16:00
Professor David Paterson, University of St Andrews
Farewell to Ice, Professor Peter Wadhams
Friday, 18 November, 2016 - 16:00
Professor Peter Wadhams
Decadal variability of the global ocean carbon sink
Friday, 11 November, 2016 - 16:00
Dr Peter Landschützer, Max Plank Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
TBD
Friday, 4 November, 2016 - 16:00
TBD

October 2016

Anatomy of Heinrich Layer 1 and its Role in the Last Deglaciation
Friday, 28 October, 2016 - 16:00
Professor David Hodell, University of Cambridge
Professor Laura Robinson, University of Bristol
Friday, 21 October, 2016 - 16:00
Professor Laura Robinson, University of Bristol
Network Theory. An Introduction through its Applications.
Friday, 14 October, 2016 - 16:00
Professor Ernesto Estrada, University of Strathclyde
Constraining ocean ventilation pathways and time scales with observations and models
Friday, 7 October, 2016 - 16:00
Professor Samar Khatiwala, University of Oxford

June 2016

Assessing the factors controlling marine picocyanobacterial diversity and abundance
Friday, 3 June, 2016 - 16:00
Professor David Scanlan (University of Warwick)

May 2016

Characterising the climate change response of marine ecosystems
Friday, 27 May, 2016 - 16:00
Dr Stephanie Henson
Gravitational waves: a new window on the Universe (**note this is an additional, special seminar added to the schedule**)
Thursday, 12 May, 2016 - 14:30
Dr David Ian Jones (University of Southampton)

April 2016

Recent variability of North Atlantic transport and storage of anthropogenic C : A model-data comparison along the Ovide section
Friday, 22 April, 2016 - 16:00
Dr Marion Gehlen (LSCE)

March 2016

The National Centre for Earth Observation, climate data sets and satellite missions for the ocean (*note unusual start time*)
Friday, 18 March, 2016 - 14:00
Prof John Remedios (University of Leicester)
Diatoms, sea ice and sediment fluxes: using barium to decipher the high latitude oceans
Friday, 11 March, 2016 - 16:30
Dr Kate Hendry (Bristol)

February 2016

Marine ecosystems in ancient hothouse worlds
Friday, 26 February, 2016 - 16:00
Professor Richard Twitchett (Natural History Museum)
Marine mammals and the oceans
Friday, 12 February, 2016 - 16:00
Dr Alisa Hall
On models and climate change: lessons from the contrasting fortunes of Raymond Pearl and Guy Stewart Callendar
Friday, 5 February, 2016 - 16:00
Prof Tom Anderson

January 2016

Prof Anson MacKay (University College London)
Friday, 8 January, 2016 - 16:00
Prof Anson MacKay (University College London)

December 2015

Coping with environmental change: a physiological perspective
Friday, 11 December, 2015 - 16:00
Dr Nia Whiteley

January 2015

From silk to soap: the trade and infrastructure of medieval Southampton
Thursday, 15 January, 2015 - 16:00
Dr Andy Russel (Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit)