Huiming Bao Seminar, 10th October
Huiming Bao from Louisiana State University will be giving a bonus seminar in the Forbes on Monday 10th October at 12noon. The title of his talk will be “Triple-Isotope Systems: Oxygen and...
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2 New Faculty Positions in Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences invites applications for two positions, one at Professorial level and the other at Lectureship level. We are seeking outstanding individuals who...
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Successful Mining Institute of Scotland Student Seminar held on 29th September
The Mining Institute of Scotland Trust (MIS Trust) held their 5th annual student seminar on the evening of 29th September. The seminar was a great success with many students and staff attending. Ian...
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Life near the triple point
Dr Mark Claire of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences reflects on H2O in its three amazing forms, and its role in this week’s dramatic thunder and lightning. Life on Earth is dominated...
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Dr Sami Mikhail
Speaker: Dr Sami Mikhail, University of St Andrews Date: Wednesday 23rd November 2016, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room 310, Irvine Building Title: Hot Climate Inhibits Volcanism on Venus
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Dr Rosanna Greenop
Speaker: Dr Rosanna Greenop, University of St Andrews Date: Wednesday 9th November 2016, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room 310, Irvine Building Title: Reconstructing surface water radiocarbon reservoir...
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Ben Taylor
Speaker: Ben Taylor, University of St Andrews Date: Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room 310, Irvine Building Title: North Pacific proxies and glacial-interglacial climate change
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Dr Michael Singer
Speaker: Dr Michael Singer, University of St Andrews Date: Wednesday 26th October 2016, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room 310, Irvine Building Title: A new stochastic rainfall generator
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Bonus Seminar | David Fike
Speaker: David Fike, Date: Tuesday 25th October 2016, 4-5pm Location: Seminar Room 310, Irvine Building Title: Depositional Controls on Sulfur Isotope Signatures in the Geologic Record
View ArticleDEES Open Day | Saturday 1st April 2017
The event is for applicants with offers for the BSc Geology and Environmental Earth science degrees and the MGEOL integrated masters. It allows the opportunity for offer holders to experience what it’s...
View ArticleExpedition Report – South Greenland
During the summer, the St. Andrews SoS RARE team (Prof Adrian Finch and Nicky Horsburgh), joined by Dr Will Hutchison (HiTech AlkCarb, also St. Andrews University) undertook a fieldtrip to South...
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3 year Research Fellow in Isotope Geochemistry
Triple oxygen isotope geochemistry and the evolution of the atmosphere Atmospheric oxygen is fundamental to life as we know it, but its concentration has changed dramatically over Earth’s 4.5 billion...
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Did volcanic activity play a role in early human evolution and migration?
The great Rift Valley that runs through Ethiopia has played a pivotal role in human evolution. It is both the location of the earliest fossils of anatomically modern humans and, later, become an...
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Earth & Environmental Sciences students win Highly Commended recognition at...
Two of our recent graduates have been Highly Commended on their submissions to the Undergraduate Awards for 2016. The two students submitted their research dissertation projects which are the...
View ArticleSeminars 2016/17
Please click on the link below to see a full list of scheduled seminars; dees-seminar-series-2016-17
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GeoBus Reaches 50,000 Pupil Milestone
Tuesday 15th November, started out as just another day for the GeoBus team, setting up in Perth Academy to teach our popular earthquakes workshop. It wasn’t just any old day, however, as one of the 28...
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Mark Fox-Powell
Speaker: Mark Fox-Powell Date: Wednesday 25th January 2017, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room (310), Irvine Building Title: Cryogenic silicification of bacteria from hot springs
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Sasha Turchyn
Speaker: Sasha Turchyn (University of Cambridge) Date: Wednesday 1st February 2017, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room (310), Irvine Building Title: Authigenic carbonate formation in modern marine...
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Toby Tyrell
Speaker: Toby Tyrell (University of Southampton) Date: Wednesday 15th February 2017, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room (310), Irvine Building Title: Insights into how Earth stayed habitable, from a...
View ArticleDEES Seminar Series | Kevin Burton
Speaker: Kevin Burton (University of Durham) Date: Wednesday 22nd February 2017, 1-2pm Location: Seminar Room (310), Irvine Building Title: Reconciling the chemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalts with...
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