Programme of indoor meetings 2003/2004

All held at 7.30pm in Lecture Theatre 10 (LT10) in the Geology Department, Leicester University, except where stated. Details correct as of July 2003. 

Contact Chairman Andrew Swift, tel. 0116 252 3646, as48@le.ac.uk

 

2003

Wednesday October 8th

Dr Neville Hollingworth (NERC, Swindon) - ‘Hunting mammoths in a Co-op creamery’

Abstract

 

Wednesday October 22nd

Dr Mark Maslin (Department of Geography, University College, London) - ‘Tectonics, ice ages and human evolution’

Abstract

 

Wednesday November 5th

Professor Michael Collie (Barkestone, Nottingham) - ‘Geology by canoe: Roderick Murchison’s mapping of the Ural Mountains’

Abstract

 

Wednesday November 19th

Dr Jenni Barclay (School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia) – 'Climate changes volcano: surely some mistake'

Abstract

 

Wednesday December 3rd

Dr Jan Zalasiewicz (Department of Geology, University of Leicester) - ‘Sliding into the deep freeze: the Plio-Pleistocene geology of East Anglia’

Abstract

 

Wednesday December 17th

Christmas meeting, to be held at the New Walk Museum, Leicester

 

2004

Monday January 12th

Parent Body Lecture, to be held at New Walk Museum, Leicester. Dr Jane A Evans (NERC Isotope Geosciences Lab., British Geological Survey, Keyworth) - ‘You are what you eat: isotope studies and migration’

Abstract

 

Wednesday January 14th

Dr Graham Weedon (Department of Environment, Geography and Geology, University of Luton) - ‘From climate change to time scales: examples from the Jurassic in England’

Abstract

 

Wednesday January 28th

Dr Diana Sutherland (Mears Ashby, Northampton) - 'Geology above ground in Northamptonshire'

Abstract

 

Wednesday February 11th

Members evening, to be held at the New Walk Museum, Leicester

 

Saturday February 21st (whole day)

Saturday School, Vaughan College, Leicester. 9.30 am - 5.00 pm. Theme - The marine and flying reptiles of the Mesozoic

Programme with abstracts

Wednesday February 25th

Dr Jane Francis (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds) - ‘From greenhouse to icehouse, from forests to frost. Using fossil plants to track climate change in Antarctica’

Abstracts

 

Wednesday March 10th

Professor Simon Conway-Morris (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) - ‘Meeting the extra-terrestrials: clues from evolution on Planet Earth’

Abstract

 

Wednesday March 24th

AGM and Chairman's address - Andrew Swift (Department of Geology, Leicester University) – Geological highlights of the Midlands, II – Southam (Long Itchington) Quarry, Warwickshire

Abstract