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April
If you missed the last lecture in April by Damian Nance, The Supercontinent Cycle you can access the recording by clicking on the link https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/rec/share/vd4n4LIwLKmYCqgUxqu-OnZoqFpRtngc6xI4Q1OKdw-wf8C1WYT9MJOcx7YjJrqq.WiQ80SDCXQcT1Dwo
Wednesday 19 May - 7 pm on zoom
Geomicrobiology - How Microbes change the Earth - Laura Newsome, Lecturer in Applied Geomicrobiology, Camborne School of Mines and Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter.
Although microbes are very small, their metabolism changes the world, both in the present day and the geological past. This talk will introduce the field of geomicrobiology and give examples of how we can use microbes to clean up pollution and recovery metals from rocks.
Wednesday 21 July at 7pm on zoom (rescheduled from January)
The Ice Age in Cornwall: new perspectives on old problems. Professor James Scourse, Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, University of Exeter (Penryn).
The recently completed 6-year BRITICE-CHRONO NERC Large Grant has reconstructed in great detail the Last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Highlights in our region include new extensive offshore ice limits, very tight constraints on the timing and extent of the glaciation on Scilly but brought into sharper focus some longstanding problems, such as where was the ice limit offshore north Cornwall, or was north Cornwall glaciated after all?
Wednesday 15 September 7pm on zoom
‘Pyrite’ - Frank Howie, Chair of Cornwall Geo-conservation Group.
The Ubiquitous Sulphide
Wednesday 17 November at 7 pm at Truro School if possible
Mark Vanstone, Director of Studies, Truro School: Recording earthquakes with a Raspberry Shake (provisional title)
Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 7pm on zoom
Anna Rood, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
Precariously balanced rocks are ancient formations found throughout the world where a slender boulder is balanced in such a way as to be vulnerable to being pushed over by earthquake shaking. These natural balancing acts provide a geological record of seismic shaking of large, rare earthquakes, a record that could drastically improve estimates of future earthquake ground shaking.