On the 29/03/2019 I attended a Hutton Club talk was Dr Leanne Wake about calculating the sea-level history for Greenland over the Little Ice Age to present day. Until recently there has been little proxy records for Greenland making it very difficult to reconstruct the sea-level history for Greenland. However, Wake has started to gather…
Are Southern Westerlies changing the Patagonia ice limits?
On the 15th of March I attended a talk by Dr Rachel Smediey from the University of Liverpool related to how the changing climate in Patagonia has influenced the Patagonia Ice Sheet. The talk was very interesting by using cosmogenic nuclide and luminescence dating to understand the ice limits as the climate changes. The main…
How can topography be linked to tectonics?
The San Andreas Fault (SAF) located in California is one of the most active transform faults currently found in the world. While I have studied the tectonics behind the SAF before, the Hutton Club seminar 22/02/19 by Dr Fiona Clubb from the University of Potsdam focused on how the tectonics of this fault influence the…
Zealandia The Eighth Continent
We’ve always been taught in high school Geography classes that there are seven world continents BUT now it has been identified that Zealandia is the eighth continent – Something I discovered at my first Earth and Planetary Science seminar. On the 28th of February I attended an Edinburgh University Earth and Planetary Science seminar that explained…
Do you know what can be found under ice caps?
I asked my friends what they thought was under an ice cap – the reply… more ice? The truth is that there can be many different things hidden under ice for example: large mountain ranges like the Transantarctic Mountains in Antarctica or many geomorphic features formed by the ice as seen now in the Scottish…
Factors That Lead to Chemical Weathering in Granite
My last Hutton Club seminar of the semester was led by Heather Buss from the University of Bristol and was related to chemical weathering. The seminar was about Buss’ recent work related to the environment that granite becomes chemically weathered. The talk drew on multiple lab experiments in different conditions to mirror the effect of…
An Icey View on the Influence of The British Irish Ice Sheet
I decided to attend an Edinburgh Geological Society talk on the 21st of November at Dynamic Earth related to my favourite study area of paleo-ice sheets. The aim of the talk was to be an outreach lecture highlighting the current research on understanding the British Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) which covered a large area of…
Applications of Google Earth Engine for Understanding Tidewater Glaciers
On the of 5th of October, I attended a seminar led by University of Liverpool’s James Lea. I have a particular strong passion for glacial research and was excited to hear about Lea’s new research. The first part of the seminar discussed the overall stability of tidewater glaciers in Greenland which was understood by Lea’s…
The Link Between Deformation and the Geomorphology of River Catchments
Edinburgh’s own Hugh Sinclair showcased the developments of his recent research at the Hutton Club Seminar with regards to the role that tectonics have on river catchments. Sinclair questioned why river catchments with active tectonics have a small aspect ratio geometry (width/length)? The small aspect ratio geometry results in the fault active areas having wider…
Sediment Routing Altered By Global Warming Events
On the 28th of September 2018, Professor Sebastian Catelltort from the University of Geneva showcased his research at the Hutton Club Seminar. This seminar was exploring the idea of extreme changes in climate having an effect on the routing systems of sediment. Catelltort used the example of the Pyrenees mountains specifically during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal…
Rockin Research - Geographical And Geological Processes 