Programme of indoor meetings 2009/2010

All held at 7.30pm in Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building, on the main University of Leicester campus, except where stated. Refreshments served from 7.00pm.

Details: Chairman Dr. Joanne E. Norris or Editor Andrew Swift, Tel. 0116 2833127, E-mail  j.e.norris@ntlworld.com

2009

Wednesday October 7th

Dr Lynden Cooper (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Leicester): Glimpses of the Palaeolithic in the Midlands.

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Wednesday October 21st 

Dr Liz Harper (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge): What can living brachiopods tell a palaeontologist?

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Wednesday November 4th

Professor Mike Petterson (Dept. of Geology, University of Leicester): Rebuilding Afghanistan through Geoscience.

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Wednesday November 18th

Professor Paul Wignall (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds): Permian extinctions.

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Monday November 30th

Parent Body Lecture, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

Professor Aubrey Manning (School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh): Life and the Earth: interlocking histories.

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Wednesday December 2nd

Professor Brian Windley (Dept of Geology, Leicester): West Greenland: Arcs and crustal growth in the early Earth.

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Wednesday December 16th

Christmas Meeting, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

2010

Wednesday January 13th

Dr Jan Zalasiewicz (Dept. of Geology, University of Leicester): The Earth after us.

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Wednesday January 27th

Professor Andrew Shepherd (University of Leeds): Observing Earth's ice sheets from space.

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Wednesday February 10th

Dr Noel Worley (British Gypsum, East Leake): The Genesis and Evolution of Sulphate Evaporites in the Midlands.

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Wednesday February 24th

Members Evening, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

Wednesday March 10th

Dr Michael Watts (British Geological Survey): Arsenic mining: Environmental monitoring using earthworms, toenails and a simulated stomach.

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Saturday March 13th

Annual Saturday Seminar, University of Leicester, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm

The Earth's Crazy Paving: a 21st Century Perspective on Plate Tectonics

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Wednesday March 24th

Annual General Meeting, and Chairman’s Address

Dr Joanne Norris (Halcrow Group Ltd., Peterborough): Managing our flood defences for the future. Abstract