Join us for an interesting and informative evening! The Geologists’ Association organizes a series of illustrated evening lectures on a wide range of geological topics. These take place on the first Friday of the month and are held in the Janet Watson Lecture Theatre of the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1V 0JU.
Tea at 5.30 pm with the lecture starting at 6.00 pm. All the above meetings are held in the Lecture Theatre of the Geological Society. Following the talk we have a reception in the lower library with wine and nibbles.
Non-members are very welcome to attend for an introductory visit – please telephone (020 7434 9298) or email (sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk) the Executive Secretary to book a place.
2020 LECTURE MEETINGS
January 3 – Strange bedfellows (Life, Oxygen and Gypsum) during the emergence of complex life around the Ediacaran Cambrian transition
Prof Graham Shields
February 7 – Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater
Prof Jo Morgan
March 6 – Environments and Landscapes during the development of the mid-Palaeocene Hebridean Igneous Province, NW Scotland
Dr Ian Williamson
April 3 – “Pills and Politics”; a new look at George Bellas Greenough and his Geological Map of 1820.
Prof Hugh Torrens
May 1 – Presidential Address Nick Pierpoint
June 5 – Halstead Lecture: Deep carbon cycling over the past 200 million years: contributions from tectonic settings
Kevin Wong
July 3 – Geothermal Resources of the UK
Dr Catherine Hirst
October 2 – A journey from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: Bivalve mollusc body size trends across the end-Triassic mass extinction and recovery
Dr Jed Atkinson
December 4 – Environmental conditions that existed during rebuilding of an Early Carboniferous ecosystem
Prof Sarah Davies
2019 LECTURE MEETINGS
January 4 – Control the Drainage: the Gospel Accorded to Sinkholes
Dr Tony Waltham
March 8 – Halstead Lecture
Note later start time of 6.30pm with tea from 6pm
The secret Life of salt giants: 3d seismic data reveals new insights into the structural evolution of salt-influenced passive margins
Sian Evans
April 5 – Minerals of the English Midlands
Roy Starkey
May 3 – AGM and Presidential Address
Risky Business –Exploring for Hydrocarbons
Nick Pierpoint
July 5 – Cretaceous amber: bits of ancient ecosystems
Dr Ricardo Perez-De-La-Fuente
October 4 – Searching for an impact crater in Scotland
Dr Mike Simms
2018 LECTURE MEETINGS
January 5 – Enigmas in Himalayan Geology
Dr Danny Clark-Lowes
February 2 – A sceptical look at the Dino-Bird controversy
Mike Howgate
March 2 – Redrawing the geological map of South Wales
Prof John Cope
April 6 – Halstead Lecture
How It’s Made: Volcanoes
Dr Craig MaGee
May 4 – AGM and Presidential Address
Geoconservation for science and society
Dr Colin Prosser
June 1 – Geological disposal of radioactive waste in the UK
Dr Jon Turner
October 5th – Redrawing the geological map of South Wales
Professor John C. W. Cope
December 7 – Hyoliths – where they fit in
Dr Martin Smith
2017 LECTURE MEETINGS
January 6 – Prof Paul Upchurch
New Perspectives on dinosaur diversity and extinction
February 3 – Prof Simon Lewis
The Palaeolithic of Breckland: old sites, new questions Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture
March 3 – Dr Thomas Gernon
Diamonds and Chocolate: New Volcanic Process Discovered
April 7 – Professor Tim Reston
Crustal Thinning – What happens when a continent breaks up
May 5 – Dr Colin Prosser
AGM and Presidential Address
Conserving Rocks! – How did that come about? A brief history of Geoconservation in the UK
June 2 – Dean Lomax
The incredible Ichthyosaurus: a reassessment of a British Jurassic Icon
July 7 – Antonio Ferreira
Radon, the Geogenic Gas
October 6 – Dr Maria McNamara
New Advances in the study of fossil animal colour
December 1 – Prof Tamsin Mather
Volcanoes and Global change?
2016 LECTURE MEETINGS
January 8 – Dr Fausto Ferraccioli
The Gambursev Subglacial Mountains parodox in East Antarctica: solved or enduringly enigmatic?
February 5 – Dr Imran Rahman
A Virtual World of Palaeontology
March 11 – Dr Nick Longrich
Giant marine reptiles and whales during the Eocene-Oligocene cooling event
April 1 – Dr Julie Prytulak
The Biggest Volcano on Earth
May 6 – Dr Haydon Bailey
AGM and Presidential Address
Foraminifera II: Planktonics – The free floating story
June 3 – Dr Colin Summerhayes
Cambridge Earth’s Climate Evolution
July 1 – Dr Lidia Lonergan
The Geology and Scenery of Italy: the Role of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonic Plates
*POSTPONED* October 7 – Dr Antonio Ferreira
Radon, a silent GeoHazard
*Change of talk*
October 7 – Haydon Bailey
The Geology of the Chilterns and the potential impact of HS2
December 2 -Prof John Cosgrove
The Evolution of a fold thrust belt – an example from the Zagros Mountains of Iran
GA Video Lectures
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