Programme of indoor meetings 2005/2006

All held at 7.30pm in Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building, on the main University of Leicester campus, except where stated. Details correct as of September 2005.

Further details contact: Chairman Mark Evans, tel. 0116 225 4904, e-mail Mark.Evans@Leicester.gov.uk.

2005

Wednesday October 5th

Dr Liam Herringshaw (University of Birmingham) - 'Weirdoes of the Wenlock Limestone'.

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Wednesday October 19th

Dr David Pyle (University of Cambridge) - 'Volcanism in the Earth System, Past Present and Future'.

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Wednesday November 2nd

Professor Dick Aldridge (University of Leicester) - 'The rise of the chordates: new evidence from exceptionally preserved fossils from China and South Africa'.

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Wednesday November 16th

Dr Conall MacNiocaill (University of Oxford) - 'The Neoproterozoic glacial world: defrosting some of the myths'.

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Wednesday November 30th

Dr Adrian Wood (Coventry University) –  ‘A Pliocene world as seen through the eye of an ostracod'.

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Monday December 5th

Parent Body Lecture, to be held at New Walk Museum, Leicester

Professor Bill Maguire (University College London) - 'Surviving Armageddon: solutions for a threatened planet'.

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Wednesday December 14th

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

2006

Wednesday January 11th

Dr John Nudds (University of Manchester) - 'Exceptional fossils from southern Germany'.

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Wednesday January 25th

Professor Jack Meadows (Loughborough University) - 'The Barwell meteorite: 40 years on'.

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Wednesday February 8th

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

Wednesday February 22nd

Dr Murray Gray (Queen Mary College, University of London) - 'Geodiversity: an important new concept for the earth sciences?'.

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Wednesday March 8th

Dr Jenny Clack (University of Cambridge) - 'Evolution of the four-legged fish - new views of an early tetrapod icon'.

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Saturday March 11th (whole day)

Saturday School, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester. 9.30 am - 5.00 pm. Fire, flood, drought and deep-freeze: the turbulent geological evolution of Leicestershire, Rutland and surrounding areas

Programme and abstracts

Wednesday March 22nd

Annual General Meeting and Chairman's address - Mark Evans (New Walk Museum, Leicester) - 'The Great Sea Dragons - plesiosaurs of the Early Jurassic'.