• BBC Radio 4 – In Touch

    BBC Radio 4

    Tune in to In Touch to hear HGS member Mike Lambert talking about access to museums.

  • The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time characterised by humans

    Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    given by Prof. Mark Williams (University of Leicester). Abstract: The Holocene Epoch was a time of growing human population, urbanisation, agriculture and industry. But over the past 200 years, and […]

  • HGS Summer Event – Is it flat or bent? The Chalk around Royston

    Royston Cave Katherine’s Yard, Melbourne Street, Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Morning at Royston Cave. Park in one of the town centre car parks & walk to Royston Cave. Royston Cave interior Come and explore the amazing Royston Cave; check out […]

    £5
  • Understanding large igneous provinces and volcanic rift margins

    Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    given by Dr Dougal Jerram (DougalEARTH Ltd) Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) represent some of the largest eruptive episodes on the planet and along with their associated volcanic rifted margins, […]

  • GA Lecture

    Zoom Talk

    The rise and fall of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet given by Prof Chris Clark.

  • The first day of the Cenozoic: Insights from the Chicxulub impact crater

    Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    given by Dr. Auriol Rae (Junior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences Trinity College, University of Cambridge) Abstract: 66 Million years ago, a 14 km-diameter meteoroid struck the Earth at approximately […]

  • The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

    over Zoom

    given by Dr Susannah C. R. Maidment (Senior Researcher, Natural History Museum, London) Abstract: Stegosaurs are a group of dinosaurs characterized by the possession of two rows of plates and […]

  • AGM

    Venue TBA

    followed by Talk on Hertfordshire RIGS

  • GA Lecture

    over Zoom

    The Lower Cretaceous ‘East Lindsey Group’ a jewel in the geological crown of Lincolnshire given by Paul Hildreth (Yorkshire Geological Society)

  • Ocean sediments tell the story of Palaeogene environmental change

    over Zoom

    given by Prof Bridget Wade (Department of Earth Sciences, University College London) Abstract: Numerous oceanic, climatic, and biotic conditions relating to biogeochemical cycles and environmental change impact the composition and distribution […]