Mon 03 Nov 13:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Rafael Reiss, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- Monday 03 November 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: MR3, CMS.
- Series: Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars; organiser: Bethan Wynne-Cattanach.
Mon 17 Nov 13:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Kasturi Shah, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- Monday 17 November 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: MR3, CMS.
- Series: Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars; organiser: Bethan Wynne-Cattanach.
Mon 24 Nov 13:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
- Monday 24 November 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: MR3, CMS.
- Series: Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars; organiser: Bethan Wynne-Cattanach.
Mon 10 Nov 13:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Bieito Fernandez Castro, University of Southampton
- Monday 10 November 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: MR3, CMS.
- Series: Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars; organiser: Bethan Wynne-Cattanach.
Mon 13 Oct 13:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Emanuele Silvio Gentile, University of Reading
- Monday 13 October 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: MR3, CMS.
- Series: Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars; organiser: Bethan Wynne-Cattanach.
Wed 22 Oct 15:30: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Tarkan Bilge
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 22 October 2025, 15:30-16:30
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 12.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 24 Sep 15:30: Persistent warming and reduced freshening of the abyssal Southern Ocean. - Kathy Gunn
Recent observations reveal that Antarctic Bottom Water is thinning, warming, freshening, and spreading more slowly northward into the abyssal ocean. Using the most-up-to-date historical data (1985-2024) alongside simulations out to 2050, I review and assess abyssal ocean changes that are ongoing and projected. Between 1985-2024, isopycnals below 3000 m have descended at a rate of -95±5 m/decade, and have been replaced by warmer water, resulting in warming of 0.02±0.02 °C/decade. Freshening of -0.002±0.003 g/kg/decade also occurred, due to meltwater-driven changes in the continental shelf waters. Projections, in line with the latest observations, suggest thinning and warming will persist in response to continued glacial melt. However, freshening slows and even reverses. Meltwater makes shelf waters too light to reach the deep ocean, weakens the shelf-to-abyss connection, alters long-standing trends, and doubles the deep ocean contribution to Southern Ocean sea level rise.
- Speaker: Kathryn Gunn (University of Southampton)
- Wednesday 24 September 2025, 15:30-16:30
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1 (http://bit.ly/4pDlm6l).
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 15 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Brad reed and Jan De Rydt
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 2.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 17 Dec 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Yohei Takano
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 17 December 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 03 Dec 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Josue Martinez
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 19 Nov 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Bethan Wynne-Cattanach
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 19 November 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Mon 06 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Franka Jesse
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Monday 06 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 330b.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 29 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Michael Haigh
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 330b.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Tue 21 Oct 15:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Valentina Volova
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Tuesday 21 October 2025, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 08 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Birgit Rogalla
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 08 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 2.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 01 Oct 18:45: A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)
Dino Martins will talk about the relationship between honeybees and people.
Honeybees are one of the most familiar and widespread insects that are kept, managed, exploited and familiar to humanity. It is often said that ‘There is a crisis around bees’, but the reality is that overall honeybee numbers are actually increasing worldwide, the result of more intensive management, mass production and commercial trade of queens and colonies.
With examples drawn from around the world, this talk will highlight the complex, multi-faceted relationship we have with honeybees and explore how we can all play a role in better stewardship of the planet.
Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)
- Speaker: Dino Martins
- Wednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 09 Oct 18:45: The Past and Future of Natural History
Brian Eversham will present a history of naturalists over 3000 years, of trends in wildlife and the study of wildlife, and some personal thoughts on where it’s heading, and where the next generation of field naturalists might come from.
- Speaker: Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
- Thursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 16 Oct 18:45: Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards
Peter Pilbeam will describe the trials and tribulations of searching for snow leopards in the Altai mountains in southern Siberia and in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. And (eventually) finding them in Ladakh in north-eastern India, in China, and in Mongolia.
- Speaker: Peter Pilbeam
- Thursday 16 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 23 Oct 18:45: Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future
In this talk, final year PhD student Matt Hayes discusses how he combines fieldwork and studying museum specimens to research butterfly populations from the past and present.
Matt’s work is partnered with the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire with whom he trials management strategies to see how species can be protected from some of the negative impacts of climate change and extreme weather events.
Matt also studies the UK butterfly specimens held at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge to see how wildlife of the past can inform modern day conservation action.
- Speaker: Matt Hayes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge
- Thursday 23 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 30 Oct 18:45: Plastics in the Environment
Claire Barlow will talk about plastics: amazing materials that have transformed our lives, but at a cost. Their durability, one of the properties that makes them so useful, means that large and small pieces of plastic waste find their way into the natural environment, causing many different problems.
We will look at where the plastic waste comes from, and investigate some of the ways in which it affects living organisms. Solutions are not easy, but there are a lot of good initiatives and there is some hope for the future.
- Speaker: Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing, IfM
- Thursday 30 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.