Name: Dr Nick Tosca
University of Oxford
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 13 October 2017

‘What terminated the Boring Billion?’
Date: 13 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )

Events this person is organising:

Friday 22 January 2016

Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century
Date: 22 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Heather Graven (Imperial College London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 January 2016

Super volcanoes and their deposits: insights into the dynamics of large magma reservoirs
Date: 29 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 February 2016

Ecology, Extinction, and Development: Assessing the drivers of deep-time diversity dynamics with phenomics
Date: 5 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Anjali Goswami (University College London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 12 February 2016

Using polarities, amplitudes and waveforms of seismic waves to understand mantle structure
Date: 12 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Christine Thomas (University of Muenster)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 19 February 2016

New insights into climate, carbon cycle and biological dynamics during the Paleocene-Eocene Greenhouse World
Date: 19 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Appy Sluijs (University of Utrecht)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 February 2016

CANCELLED: Pulp Friction: How water weakens and destabilizes faults in the seismogenic zone (Replacement tba SOON!)
Date: 26 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Chris Spiers (University of Utrecht)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 March 2016

Expanding InSAR into new areas - from upstate New York to the Cascades
Date: 4 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Rowena Lohman (Cornell Unversity)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 11 March 2016

Title TBC
Date: 11 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sasha Turchyn (Unviersity of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 12 May 2017

Cosmic dust - the fossil shooting stars
Date: 12 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Matthew Genge (Imperial Colege London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 19 May 2017

Sea level on a deforming Earth
Date: 19 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Jacky Austermann (Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof Barry Parsons (University of Oxford)

Friday 26 May 2017

The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Ecosystem Evolution in a Greenhouse World
Date: 26 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Randall Irmis (NHM Utah)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Dr Roger Benson (University of Oxford )

Friday 2 June 2017

Rift dynamics across the scales: From shear zones and rift basins to plate motions and paleo-climate
Date: 2 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sascha Brune (GFZ Germany )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)

Friday 9 June 2017

Past and future Pacific ocean upwelling
Date: 9 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chris Brierley (University College London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Helen Johnson (University of Oxford)

Friday 16 June 2017

Deciphering Earth History: Coupling sedimentological and geochemical insights to ancient and modern carbonates
Date: 16 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Rose (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Dr Stuart Robinson (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 October 2017

‘What terminated the Boring Billion?’
Date: 13 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford )

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 20 October 2017

A path beyond plate tectonics
Date: 20 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

‘A path beyond plate tectonics?’
Date: 20 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)

Friday 27 October 2017

‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
Date: 27 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 3 November 2017

‘Geological emissions of methane to the atmosphere: an updated overview’
Date: 3 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Giuseppe Etiope (Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 10 November 2017

‘Reef boom and doom in deep time: explaining the rise and fall of Phanerozoic reef systems’
Date: 10 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Wolfgang Kiessling (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 17 November 2017

‘Small things matter: nanoscale control of geological processes’
Date: 17 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Oliver Plümper (Utrecht University)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 November 2017

‘On the origins of recent intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia: Insights from seismic imaging and geodynamic modelling’
Date: 24 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nicholas Rawlinson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 1 December 2017

'The obvious and the weaker aspects of the deep carbon cycle'
Date: 1 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Pierre Cartigny (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 19 January 2018

‘Origin of water on the Moon’
Date: 19 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Evelyn Füri (Centre de Recherches Petrohraphiques et Gechimiques)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 January 2018

‘A periscope to kaleidoscope view of earth processes from seismic imaging’
Date: 26 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Stéphane Rondenay (University of Bergen )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 2 February 2018

‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
Date: 2 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 February 2018

‘Energy and matter at the origin of life’
Date: 9 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nick Lane (University College London IRIS)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 February 2018

‘Dynamics of Aseismic Slip’
Date: 16 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Hugo Perfettini (Joseph Fourier University Grenoble )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 23 February 2018

‘Volatiles and Volcanic Vigor’
Date: 23 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Terry Plank (Columbia University)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 March 2018

‘Latitudinal biodiversity gradients in deep time’
Date: 2 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Susannah Maidment (University of Brighton )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 March 2018

‘Jungle Volcano: the descent into Nyiragongo’
Date: 9 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson (Imperial College London)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 May 2018

Protons to Planets: Materials Simulation as a Window into the Molten Earth
Date: 4 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Lars Stixrude (University College )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 11 May 2018

Sink or stall: subduction-transition zone dynamics
Date: 11 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Saskia Goes (Imperial College London )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Friday 18 May 2018

Earth's Early Atmosphere and Biogeochemistry
Date: 18 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof David Catling (University of Washington )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 May 2018

Putting the Brakes on Climate Change: sub-Seafloo Carbon Storage and Enhanced Weathering
Date: 25 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Rachael James (University of Southampton )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 June 2018

Systems Paleobiology
Date: 1 June 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Knoll (Harvard University )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 June 2018

On the origin(s) of the atmosphere and the oceans. Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture
Date: 8 June 2018, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Prof. Bernard Marty (Université de Lorraine CRPG-CNRS )
Venue Details: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 June 2018

Variations and healing of the seismic velocity in Earth materials
Date: 15 June 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Roel Snieder (Colorado School of Mines )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 October 2018

Corals on Acid - Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs
Date: 8 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Adina Paytan (University of California )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 12 October 2018

Why Extensional Detachment Faults Are Still A Problem
Date: 12 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Nick Christie-Blick (Columbia University )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 19 October 2018

Extra-solar planets: detection, population studies and atmospheric characterisation
Date: 19 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford University )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 October 2018

Tectonics, climate, and copper in the Central Andes: Insights from (U-Th)/He hematite geochronology
Date: 26 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Frances Cooper (University of Bristol )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 November 2018

Responsible Sourcing of Minerals
Date: 2 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Frances Wall (Cambourne School of Mines )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 November 2018

4D imaging of elastic properties and damage in crustal using laboratory-scale seismic tomography
Date: 9 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Nicolas Brantut (University College)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: seminar rooms
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 November 2018

Elucidation of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system of the oceanic mantle via broadband ocean bottom seismology
Date: 16 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Hitoshi Kawakatsu (Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 November 2018

How to measure 3 trillion tons of ice
Date: 23 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Shepherd (University of Leeds )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 November 2018

The where, how and when of sulphate in carbonates
Date: 30 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Rose (University of St Andrews )
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 March 2019

Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture - Prof Alex Halliday of Columbia University NY ***CANCELLED***
Date: 1 March 2019, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Prof Alex Halliday (Columbia University NY )
Venue: Beecroft Building ,
Venue Details: Martin Wood lecture theatre
Organisers: Jennifer Felsenberg (University of Oxford ), Dr Nick Tosca (University of Oxford ), Prof Richard Katz (Universtiy of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA