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 3 December 2018
The Geology of London
Diana Clements, Geologists' Association
Event Poster
Details
AGM and Members Evening
Social event – member's presentation
Dr Kit Brownlee
Gleanings from my cabinet of curiosities
Geological Storage of Radioactive Waste
Prof John Cosgrove, Imperial College
Presidential Address
The Iceland Plume
Dr Stephen Jones, University of Birmingham
Microbiolites
role of bacteria and viruses in carbonate precipitation
Prof. Maurice Tucker, University of Bristol
Evening Geological Ramble
in the Thames Valley
The bizarre Cretaceous limestone reservoirs that formed in lakes at the bottom of the South Atlantic
Dr Paul Wright, PW Carbonate Geoscience
Rock and mineral identification
Dr Hazel McGoff, University of Reading
Lecture in conjunction with Brecon Beacons Field meeting
TBA
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
Survivors
the animals and plants that time has left behind
Richard Fortey, Natural History Museum