The Winter Programme 2020-2021
As there are restricting practices through out society, to dampen the spread of the current pandemic, the usual fortnightly meetings by Section C are suspended. In their places are virtual meetings over the internet, shared, by their kind invitation, with the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group (WGCG). (For our American visitors - that's "Warrickshire".) This programme started in July 2020…
2020
Wednesday July 8th
Angus Miller (Secretary Scottish Geology Trust) Contrasting islands: the geology of Eigg and Rum
Wednesday August 19th
Rob Vernon (BSc MSc PhD CGeol FGS (Rtd)) Mining in North Wales
Wednesday September 16th
Professor Malcolm Hart (Emeritus Professor, University of Plymouth) Jurassic calamari: new research on fossil squid-like cephalopods from the Wessex Basin
Wednesday September 30th
Tom Wong-Hearing (Leicester Uni & Ghent) Cambrian Rocks and Climate
Wednesday October 14th
Dr Marco Maffione (University of Birmingham) 50 years of plate tectonics: past, current and future questions
Wednesday October 21st
Peter Lincoln (PhD Researcher, University of East Anglia) From Coprolites to Cholera, the extraordinary life of William Buckland
Wednesday October 28th
Jamie Farquharson (University of Miami) Volcanica
Wednesday November 18th
Richard Edmunds Geological history of the Jurassic Coast (WGCG)
Wednesday December 2nd
Mark T Ireland (Newcastle University) How useful is legacy oil and gas data for nascent geoenergy activities onshore in the United Kingdom
Wednesday December 9th
Aerona Moore (Lapworth Museum of Geology). The History and Hidden Gems of the Lapworth Museum of Geology (WGCG)
Wednesday December 16th
Christmas Meeting social – Online Quiz
2021
Wednesday January 13th
Kirstie Wright (Heriot-Watt University) Tsunamis! Past, present and future
Wednesday January 20th
Jonathan Paul Hydrology of the London Underground
Wednesday February 10th.
Zoe Mildon (Universities of Plymouth and Cambridge) Chasing recent and historical earthquakes around the world
Wednesday February 17th
Ian Fairchild Anthropocene
Wednesday March 10th
tbc
Wednesday March 17th
Dr Simon Drake Skye Meteorites
Monday April 12th
Joint meeting with Parent Body
Wednesday April 21st
Noel Worley tbc