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No big ice sheets in NE Siberia during Late Pleistocene
A new paper out now in Geophysical Research Letters refutes the long-held idea that large-scale ice sheets developed in northeast Siberia during the past 130,000 years. GFÚ researcher, John Jansen, is one of the international team who applied cosmogenic nuclide...
Invited lecture: Boris Gurevich – June 21 / 10:00
Lecture by Boris Gurevich (Curtin University and CSIRO, Perth, Australia) Topic: Seismic attenuation, dispersion and anisotropy in porous rocks: mechanisms and models Place: GFÚ lecture hall / 10 am Boris Gurevich is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin...
Invited lecture: Nicholas Rawlinson – May 30 / 15:00
We cordially invite all those interested to a lecture by Prof. Nicholas Rawlinson (U. Cambridge, UK). More about Prof. Rawlinson's research work can be found here: https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-nicholas-rawlinson
Invited lecture: Paul Carling – March 22 / 10:00
Lecture by Paul A. Carling (University of Southampton, UK) Topic: Field evidence & modelling prospects for catastrophic outbreak floods Place: GFÚ lecture hall / 10 am Abstract: A focus on adaptation to anthropogenic climate change and the effects on the global...