Are we really on solid ground?

Oct 15, 2003

An expert into sea level changes, Associate Professor Colin Murray-Wallace, will present the sixth lecture in the "Frontiers in Science" Public Lecture series being conducted by the Faculty of Science, University of Wollongong. The lecture will be held at 6pm on Tuesday October 28.

The talk, entitled "Are we on solid ground? Changing land and sea levels", will examine some of the critical lines of evidence for major changes in the sea level over recent and geological timescales -- and the impact of these changes in long-term landscape development.

Professor Murray-Wallace is the Project Leader pf the UNESCO and International Union of Geological Sciences project called "Coastal Environmental Change During Sea-Level Highstands" and has published extensively on the subject of sea-level changes.

His talk will focus on how few things remain constant in nature and perhaps there is no better example than the ongoing changes in the relative levels of land and sea.

Since classical antiquity, many astute observations have been documented about relative sea-level changes.

The talk will be held in the Communication Building (Bldg 20) in Lecture Room 1.