Below is a timetable for the 2012-2013 seminar series. All are welcome to the seminars which take place in the Jackson Lab, Second Floor of the Butler Building at the School of BEES. Check posters and BEES Facebook or Twitter in case of venue change. The series is coordinated by Dr. John Quinn. Email John at j.quinn@ucc.ie for more information.
| Date | Time | Seminar Details |
| 12 Oct | 4pm Friday | An ecological characterisation of saltmarshes on peat substrate on the southwest coast of Ireland.
Dr. Grace Cott, UCC |
| 18 Oct | 5pm Thursday | Pangaean Rifting: onset of Triassic sedimentation in Nova Scotia, E. Canada.
Professor Brian Williams, Aberdeen University |
| 26 Oct | 4pm Friday | Hen Harriers and land use changes in Ireland.
Dr. Mark Wilson, UCC |
| 31 Oct | 4pm Wednesday | Irish Mineralization and the TELLUS data.
Dr. Garth Earls, former director of the Geological Survey of N. Ireland |
| 9 Nov | 4pm Friday | The evolutionary ecology of cognition.
Dr. Ella Cole, University of Oxford |
| 22 Nov | 5pm Thursday | The ophiolite enigma resolved.
Professor John Dewey, Univeristy College Oxford |
| 23 Nov | 4pm Friday | Collective dispersal effects on neutral population genetics in marine invertebrates.
Dr. Jon Yearsley, UCD |
| 6 Dec | 5pm Thursday | Biominerals.
Dr. Adrian Finch, University of St. Andrews |
| 7 Dec | 4pm Friday | Reconstructing the Hg contamination in Lake Geneva from the sediment record.
Dr. Jean-Luc Loizeau, University of Geneva |
| 11 Jan 2013 | 4pm Friday | Beacons, decoys and stealth foraging: Echoacoustic communication between bats, moths and flowers.
Dr. Marc Holderied, University of Bristol |
| 24 Jan | 4pm Thursday | Systems in sedimentary basins (A-Z): From intra-basaltic plays, igneous compartmentalization to salt!
Dr. Nick Schofield, University of Birmingham |
| 25 Jan | 4pm Friday | Different approaches to estimating cetacean population size.
Dr. Emer Rogan, UCC |
| 30 Jan | 4pm Wednesday | Mopping up the turbidite mess – again.
Dr. Peter Haughton, UCD |
| 7 Feb | 4pm Thursday | Lateral magma flow in the upper crust: towards a paradigm shift in understanding volcano evolution?
Dr. Craig Magee, Imperial College London |
| 8 Feb | 4pm Friday | Bioprospecting in the Andean Highlands: a non GM approach to the control of potato blight for a low-input sustainable agricultural system.
Dr. Barbara Doyle-Prestwich |
| 22 Feb | 4pm Friday | Targeting conservation action using trait-based frameworks.
Dr. Simon Butler, University of East Anglia |
| 8 March | 4pm Friday | Irish deer populations: the last 14,000 years
Dr. Ruth Carden, UCC |
| 22 March | 4pm Friday | Why are populations of our migrant birds that winter in West Africa declining?
Dr. Will Cresswell, University of St. Andrews |