Public lecture on sea level changes

Nov 06, 2003

An expert into sea level changes, Associate Professor Colin Murray-Wallace, presented the sixth lecture in the "Frontiers in Science" Public Lecture series conducted by the Faculty of Science on October 28.

The talk, entitled "Are we on solid ground? Changing land and sea levels", examined 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 focused 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.