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  • Visit to the Albert Memorial and a journey through time

    The Albert Memorial Kensington Gardens, London, United Kingdom

    led by Professor John Cosgrove, Imperial College London. This visit follows on from the talk on the same subject given by John on the previous Thursday. If you’re intending to […]

  • Unveiling the geology of Mars with robotic explorers

    over Zoom

    Talk by Dr Joe McNeil, Natural History Museum, London. Abstract: Before the first observations of Mars by orbiting spacecraft in the 1970s, it was widely thought that the red planet […]

  • The Rutland Ichthyosaur: Digging up a ‘Dragon’

    over Zoom

    Talk by Dr. Emma Nicholls, Oxford University Museum of Natural History Abstract: The full-scale excavation in 2021 uncovered the largest near-complete reptile skeleton ever found in Britain. The animal nicknamed […]

  • Scotland’s Greatest Ice Age

    Zoom Talk

    Talk by Emeritus Professor Ian Fairchild, University of Birmingham Abstract: The Port Askaig Formation were the first Precambrian rocks interpreted as glacial in origin, anywhere in the world. Now we […]

  • Epping Forest through geological time

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

    48th Percy Evans Lecture given by Mike Lambert, HGS Honorary President As a child, Epping Forest was my playground, where I climbed trees, made dams and rode my bike. But there […]

  • Sea Level Change in the Anthropocene

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

    Talk by Dr. Colin Summerhayes, Emeritus Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Abstract: Given the magnitude and rapid rise of greenhouses gases(including water vapour), their long lifetime in the […]

  • Adventures of an Argon geochronologist: Why do we date rocks?

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

    Talk Dr Sarah Sherlock, Senior Research Fellow, The Open University Abstract: My current preoccupation is to find new ways in which we can increase the spatial resolution of Ar/Ar laserprobe […]

  • Thames Through Time – with a Cornish flavour

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

    Talk by Ian Mercer from the Essex Rock & Mineral Society. Abstract: Ian Mercer reveals the story of the Thames across Essex by digging into the landscape in and around […]

  • Golden Anniversary Dinner

    The Wellington 1 High Street, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Details to follow nearer the time