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)
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)
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.
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.
Teresa UBIDE
Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland
Under the volcano: the secret life of minerals
Caroline Tiddy
Senior Research Fellow, Future Industries Institute
Subduction, rollback and decoupling: Mineral systems in southern Proterozoic Australia
Melanie Finch
Assistant Lecturer, Monash University
The ephemeral development of C' shear bands
Nerilie Abram
Professor, Australian National University
Australia’s black summer & the connections to human-caused climate change
Heather Handley
Associate Professor, Macquarie University
Mainland Australia's next volcanic eruption: Insights into future activity from volcanology, petrology, Indigenous knowledge and public perceptions
Bénédicte Cenki-Tok
Montpellier University and Sydney University
Critical minerals geosciences, renewables and sustainability
sandra mclaren
Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
The Neogene evolution of the Murray Basin – a unique continental archive of tectonic, climatic and geomorphic change
Marina Costelloe
Director Seismic and MT, Geoscience Australia
Mentoring through change, a perspective
Claire Mallard
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Sydney
Coupling Surface Evolution and Mantle Dynamics: two examples of the interplay of Tectonics, Eustasy and Surface Processes
Kira Westaway
Associate Professor, Macquarie University
Defined by our ancestors; Drawing a line under the Homo erectus story from Ngandong, Java
Erin Martin
Research Associate, Monash University
The core of Rodinia formed by the juxtaposition of opposed retreating and advancing accretionary orogens
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
Kathryn Waltenberg
Geoscience Australia
An Isotopic Atlas of Australia: a window into the geological evolution of the Australian continent