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 Mark Evans, 0116 225 4904, mark.evans@leicester.gov.uk

or Publicity Officer Joanne Norris, 0116 2833127, j.e.norris@ntlworld.com

2010

Wednesday October 6^th

Prof. John Smellie (Dept. of Geology, University of Leicester): Antarctica - the largest glaciovolcanic province in the world and how its volcanic products can help to reconstruct past ice sheets.

Abstract

Wednesday October 20^th

Dr Jeff Liston (Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow): Skullduggery: How big was Leedsichthys?

Abstract

Monday November 1^st

Parent Body Lecture, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

Dr Hazel Rymer (Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Open University): Predicting the next Icelandic ash eruption.

Abstract

Wednesday November 3^rd

Dr Philip Wilby (British Geological Survey, Keyworth): Diversity in the deep: new insights into the Ediacara biotas of Charnwood Forest.

Abstract

Wednesday November 17^th

Tim Wright (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds): Fast and Furious: witnessing the birth of Africa's new ocean.

Abstract

Wednesday December 1^st

Ken McNamara (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge): Stromatolites: Microbes Making Rocks.

Abstract

Wednesday December 15^th

Christmas Meeting, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

2011

Wednesday January 12th

Rob Sansom (Dept. of Geology, University of Leicester): The impact of death on the tree of life: Experimental decomposition and the origin of vertebrates.

Abstract

Wednesday January 26th

Dr Sanjeev Gupta (Dept. of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, London): Catastrophic megaflooding in the English Channel and on Mars.

Abstract

Wednesday February 9th

Professor Philip Donoghue (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol): Shedding synchrotron light on the evolutionary origin of animals.

Wednesday February 23rd

Members Evening, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

Wednesday March 9th

Prof. Peter Rawson (UCL, University of Hull and Scarborough Museums Trust): From Yorkshire to Argentina: an ammonitologist's odyssey.

Abstract

Saturday March 19th, 9am - 5pm

Annual Saturday Seminar on 'Cool Geology: ice sheets past and present'. To be held in LT1, Bennett Building, University of Leicester.

Tickets: £20 with lunch, £14 without lunch.

For further details, see the Saturday Seminar 2011 web page.

Wednesday March 23rd

Annual General Meeting and Chairman s Address

Mark Evans (New Walk Museum, Leicester): Some new plesiosaur discoveries.