Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences in Australasia Seminars

 

WOMEESA Virtual Seminar Series

Recordings of past WOMEESA Virtual Seminar Series are available at the bottom of this page and on our WOMEESA YouTube channel.

On the second Wednesday of each month a woman in Earth or Environmental science in Australasia presents a seminar about their research and their career pathway. Our seminar series aims to increase the visibility of women scientists and provide inspiring role models for other scientists and science educators. Seminars are hosted live via zoom.

 

Our next seminar:

Associate Professor Rebecca Carey

University of Tasmania

Talk title: Pop, Fizzle, Bang: Case studies of the interactions between volcanoes and magma with the ocean

Date and time: November 6, 12pm (AEDT, Melbourne/Sydney/Tasmania time)

Zoom link: Register for the zoom link here

Rebecca’s bio: Rebecca’s research contributes to the knowledge and understanding of volcano-sedimentary processes and products and marine geoscience. Her research combines volcanology, sedimentology, geochemistry, petrology, marine geology and economic geology. Her ARC-funded projects have focused on investigating the spatio-temporal relationships among plumes, plate boundaries and eruption products in the offshore Eastern Australian context, volcanic eruption, plume and transport processes in subaerial and submarine environments, and exploring complexities in the volcanic architectures in modern and ancient settings.

 

October 2023 seminar

Eleanor Beidatsch

University of New England

United by Opal: A Discussion of Disability Equality in Geoscience Using Lived Experience of Fieldwork in Outback Lightning Ridge

Thursday 26 October 2023

 

November 2022 seminar

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Kathryn Amos, UNIVERSITY OF Adelaide

Reflections on my experiences with academic promotions and leadership: the good, the bad (advice), and the ugly

Wednesday 23 November 2022

 

October 2022 seminar

dr CHRISTINA RIESSELMAN, university of Otago

How warm is too warm for Antarctica? 3-million-year-old lessons from a 400 ppm world

Wednesday 14 October, 2022

 

September 2022 seminar

Jenni Hopkins, victoria university of Wellington

“Why is having a family as a female academic such a difficult decision?”

Wednesday 14 September, 2022

 

August 2022 seminar

helen Williams, auckland university of technology

“Adventures in Geophysics”

Wednesday 10 August, 2022

 

July 2022 seminar

RACHEL KIRBY, The Australian National University

“Forged in Fire: the formation, cooling history and age of impacts on the IIE iron parent body”

CHARLOTTE PIZER, Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka

“Hunting for earthquake evidence on the Hikurangi subduction margin”

neethu madhukumar, James Cook University

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) for weather forecasting”

 

June 2022 seminar

DR Coralie Siégel

CSIRO

“Reflection on a journey into geology: from geode hunting to mineral exploration”

Wednesday 8 June, 2022

 

May 2022 seminar

DR Juliet Sefton

Tufts University

“Late Holocene sea-level changes on small ocean islands”

Wednesday 11 May, 2022

 

April 2022 seminar

DR CAROLINE EAKIN

The Australian National University

“A seismologist down-under: Investigating mantle deformation beneath Australia.”

Wednesday 13 April, 2022

 

March 2022 seminar

Dr Marji Puotinen

Australian Institute of Marine Science

“Cyclones, coral reefs, penguins, kids, Antarctica and leadership!”

Wednesday 9 March, 2022

 

February 2022 seminar

Assoc. Professor Hannah Power

University of Newcastle

“From runup to overwash: understanding waves to better manage coastal hazards”

Wednesday 9 February 2022, 2pm (AEDT)

 

December 2021 seminar

Assoc. Professor Caroline Tiddy

University of South Australia

“What could inclusion in geoscience look like?”

Wednesday December 8, 2pm (AEDT)

 

November 2021 seminar

Emily Leyden

The University of Adelaide

“The world beneath your feet: A journey to mature age PhD in Soil Science”

Wednesday November 10, 2pm (AEDT)

 

October 2021 seminar

Dr Katelyn Johnson

GNS Science | Te Pu Ao

“Reconstructing Holocene climate variability offshore Adélie Land, East Antarctica”.

Wednesday October 13, 2pm (AEST)

 

September 2021 seminar

dr Anita Parbhakar-fox

University of Queensland

“Minority report: a career in environmental geosciences”

Wednesday September 15, 2pm (AEST)

 

August 2021 seminar

dr Jacqueline Halpin

University of Tasmania

“Subglacial Antarctica: terra incognita to terra-more-firma

Wednesday 4 August, 2pm (AEST)

 

July 2021 seminar

dr teagan blaikie

CSIRO

“Aeromagnetic interpretation of the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province”

Wednesday 7 July, 2pm (AEST)

 

June 2021 seminar

DR RACHELLE KERNEN

University of Adelaide

“Creating and Promoting Gender Equity and Diversity in Professional Geological Societies”

Wednesday 2 June, 2pm (AEST)

Link to the pre-print paper: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5FC7W

 

May 2021 seminar

DR LORNA STRACHAN

University of Auckland

“The invisible woman, 20 years in geoscience. My story so far”

Wednesday 5 May, 2pm (AEST)

 
 

April 2021 seminar

dr indrani mukherjee

University of Tasmania

“The Brilliant Billion in Earth's history - life and mineral deposits”

Wednesday 7 April, 2pm (AEST)

 

March 2021 seminar

PROFESSOR GRACIELA METTERNICHT

University of New South Wales

“Applications of Copernicus satellites to service low impact agriculture in Australia: the COALA H2020 Project”

Wednesday 3 March, 2pm (AEDT)

 

Applications of Copernicus satellites to service low impact agriculture in Australia: the COALA H2020 ProjectAbstract:The Copernicus programme brings a new p...

 

February 2021 seminar

Dr Isra Ezad

Macquarie University

"Using computer vision to see mantle grain size: an experimental and computational approach to understanding grain size in the mantle"

Wednesday 3 February, 2pm (AEDT)

 

Using computer vision to see mantle grain size: an experimental and computational approach to understanding grain size in the mantle.

 

December 2020 seminar

Dr Ailie Gallant

Monash University

“From droughts to flooding rains: the connections between drought and extreme rainfall"

Tuesday December 1, 2pm (AEDT)

 

Seminars by Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences in Australasia

We have compiled online seminars and talks from Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences in Australasia. Hope you are as inspired as us by the diverse and impactful work they are doing.

Toward a Century of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Geosciences: Solutions Through Innovation and Leadership--AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Over the last cen...

WOMEESA PreSiDENT, HEATHER HANDLEY

See Heather Handley’s invited talk at the AGU 2019 Fall Meeting in San Francisco on ‘Gender is Still on the Agenda in Geosciences: Paths to Equity and Equality Start With Leadership’s Commitment to Change’ within the session ‘Toward a Century of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Geosciences’

Heather’s talk starts at 28:35 minutes and runs until 36:43.

 

Volcanic crystals provide detailed records of the inner workings of volcanoes and improve our understanding of the depths, processes and timescales of magma ...

Teresa UBIDE

Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland

Under the volcano: the secret life of minerals

 

Presented by Caroline Tiddy, University of South Australia, at Discovery Day 2019, 28 November, Adelaide. https://fii.unisa.edu.au/ http://www.energymining.s...

Caroline Tiddy

Senior Research Fellow, Future Industries Institute

Subduction, rollback and decoupling: Mineral systems in southern Proterozoic Australia

 

Experimental development of S-C structures by Melanie Finch (Monash University, AU)

Melanie Finch

Assistant Lecturer, Monash University

The ephemeral development of C' shear bands

 

Australia's black summer & the connections to human-caused climate change Abstract: The summer of 2019/20 saw devastating climate extremes and bushfires acro...

Nerilie Abram

Professor, Australian National University

Australia’s black summer & the connections to human-caused climate change

 

Mainland Australia's next volcanic eruption: Insights into future activity from volcanology, petrology, Indigenous knowledge and public perceptions Abstract:...

Heather Handley

Associate Professor, Macquarie University

Mainland Australia's next volcanic eruption: Insights into future activity from volcanology, petrology, Indigenous knowledge and public perceptions

 

Critical minerals geosciences, renewables and sustainability Speaker: Bénédicte Cenki-Tok Montpellier University & Sydney University 8nd July, 2020 Hosts: Al...

Bénédicte Cenki-Tok

Montpellier University and Sydney University

Critical minerals geosciences, renewables and sustainability

 

The Neogene evolution of the Murray Basin - a unique continental archive of tectonic, climatic and geomorphic change: Sandra McLaren (The University of Melbo...

sandra mclaren

Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

The Neogene evolution of the Murray Basin – a unique continental archive of tectonic, climatic and geomorphic change

 

ASEG Webinar Date: 14th July 2020 Title: Mentoring through change, a perspective Presenter: Marina Costelloe Abstract: Building on her experience as an ASEG ...

Marina Costelloe

Director Seismic and MT, Geoscience Australia

Mentoring through change, a perspective

 

Coupling Surface Evolution and Mantle Dynamics: two examples of the interplay of Tectonics, Eustasy and Surface Processes Abstract: Over deep time, mantle fl...

Claire Mallard

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Sydney

Coupling Surface Evolution and Mantle Dynamics: two examples of the interplay of Tectonics, Eustasy and Surface Processes

 

Seminar by Associate Professor Kira Westaway New dating of a river terrace location in Central Java called Ngandong has finally established the true age for ...

Kira Westaway

Associate Professor, Macquarie University

Defined by our ancestors; Drawing a line under the Homo erectus story from Ngandong, Java

 

The next installment of our extended seminar series. Presented by Dr Erin Martin, Research Associate at Monash University, Australia, titled: The core of Rod...

Erin Martin

Research Associate, Monash University

The core of Rodinia formed by the juxtaposition of opposed retreating and advancing accretionary orogens

 

Dr Kate Selway presents a seminar on Electromagnetic geophysics: What is it good for? Loads of things! Groundwater, contaminants, climate, tectonics and much...

Kate Selway

ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University

Electromagnetic geophysics: What is it good for? Loads of things! Groundwater, contaminants, climate, tectonics and much more...

 

marthe klocking

Australian National University

Mantle temperature, lithospheric thickness and dynamic topography: Decoding the secrets of volcanic rocks

 

dorrit jacob

Australian National University

What do diamonds and marine calcifiers have in common? A medley of research topics

 

eleanor green

The University of Melbourne

Uncertainties and correlations in geological phase equilibria modelling

 

Speaker: Dr Kathryn WaltenbergTopic:Australia as it exists today is a product of geological processes that have occurred over its 4.5 billion year history. ...

Kathryn Waltenberg

Geoscience Australia

An Isotopic Atlas of Australia: a window into the geological evolution of the Australian continent