Lectures
Lectures are open to all and there is no charge for admission. However regular attendees are expected to be members of the society.
Lectures are usually held as detailed below.
The University of Reading,
Whiteknights, Reading.
Use Car Park 8
Forthcoming Lectures
All the forthcoming lectures for this year are listed below. If available posters for these lectures can be found via the poster link. Where an abstract is available a details link will be shown.
To see a list of past lectures click the button.
Lecture Archive
Monday 4 March 2019
The 'real' Value of Micropaleontology
Dr. Haydon Bailey, Consultant Micropalaeontologist
Details
Monday 1 April 2019
The Iceland Plume
Dr Stephen Jones, University of Birmingham
Monday 13 May 2019
Microbialites
role of bacteria and viruses in carbonate precipitation
Prof. Maurice Tucker, University of Bristol
Details
Monday 3 June 2019
Evening Geological Ramble in Hazeley Heath
Hartley Wintney
Ailsa Davies, RGS
Monday 1 July 2019
The bizarre Cretaceous limestone reservoirs that formed in lakes at the bottom of the South Atlantic
Dr Paul Wright, PW Carbonate Geoscience
Monday 5 August 2019
Rock and mineral identification
Dr Hazel McGoff, University of Reading
Presidential Address
Dr Clive Edmonds
Monday 7 October 2019
Palaeogene Volcanism on Skye
Dr Simon Drake & Dr Andy Beard , Birkbeck College
Details
Monday 4 November 2019
The Thames through time
Prof Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway College
Details
Monday 2 December 2019
Survivors
the animals and plants that time has left behind
Richard Fortey, Natural History Museum