Click on the links below to view talks from previous years:
President's Day 2011
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics and St Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
"Small worlds: what laboratory-scale experiments can tell us about sedimentary basins and the stratigraphic record"
Institute Professor, Experimental Geochemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The Pros and Cons of Equilibrium"
Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, University of Edinburgh
"Geological storage of CO2 and radioactive waste: liability or giant green-business?"
Professor of Geology, University of Bristol
"Global volcanic risk"
President's Day 2010
'New Support for the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis'
Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
'Exploring the earth system, grain by grain, with a map, hand lens and mass spectrometer'
Head of NERC’s Isotope Geosciences Laboratory
'Exploring the subsurface – applications of integrated seismic stratigraphic and geomorphologic analyses from the deep abyss to the alluvial plain'
Senior Consultant Geologist, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, Texas
'Coupled Fluid and Fault Activity Near the Base of the Seismogenic Zone (How Faults Get Loded)'
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology, University of Otago, New Zealand
President's Day 2009
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Emeritus, Harvard University
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
(Paul Hoffman was unable to attend due to ill health, and his talk was delivered by Ian Fairchild)
Emeritus Woodwardian Professsor of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor & Head
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota
NASA Senior Research Fellow
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
President's Day 2008