2022-23
All talks for 2022- 23 will take place at the Central Teaching Hub of the University of Liverpool, Lecture Theatre D. Entrance will be via the main door.
Talks will start at 7.30pm
Selected talks may also be accessed using Zoom
2022
Oct 4th
Colonel Martin Amlôt – Presidential Address:
Geology in Conflict
Summary: ‘A personal view by the Society President of the impact of geological factors in warfare and other lower level conflicts. As a former professional soldier Martin Amlôt has some thirty years of experience of military operations both active and potential. As he served in Northern Ireland, Norway, Africa, Cyprus, Hong Kong, the Falklands garrison and most of all, Germany during the Cold War, he became increasingly aware of the. importance of taking the impact of geology into account.
As a student of past conflicts, he realised even more that all armies throughout history have had to be aware of the constraints placed on them by the geology of the landscape over which they fight or might have to fight.
His talk will describe some of the evidence which still exists today of the geology of campaigns throughout history.’
18th – 25th Oct
DINOSAUR WEEK
18th Oct
Professor Phil Manning, Manchester University:
The Last Day of the Dinosaurs
22nd Oct.
Wendy Simkiss, World Museum:
The Dinosaur & Chirothereum exhibits
23rd Oct.
Dr. Maggie Williams, University of Liverpool:
Field excursion to Hoylake – Could dinosaurs have lived here in Jurassic times?
25th Oct.
Dr. John Nudds, Manchester University:
Exceptional preservation of Dinosaur eggs and embryos from the Upper Cetaceous of China and Argentina
8th Nov.
Professor Ben Edwards University of Liverpool:
Fracking
15th Nov.
Sarah Lynch, Coal Authority:
River Pollution
22nd Nov.
Maggie & Peter Williams, University of Liverpool:
Practical session
Modelling lava flows
6th Dec.
Cheese & Wine and Quiz (Hazel Clark – setter)
2023
10th Jan.
Members’ evening
24th Jan.
Professor Andy Plater, University of Liverpool:
Modelling the cost of sea level rise and coastal flooding.
7th Feb.
Dr.Heather Stewart, British Geological Survey:
Exploring the underworld: geomorphology and sediments of subduction trenches
21st Feb.
Dr Janine Kavanagh, University of Liverpool:
Mechanisms of igneous intrusion MKII
28th Feb.
Dr. Chris Stephenson, University of Liverpool:
Meteorites and Mass extinctions
14th March
Annual Dinner
TBA
Professor Richard Worden, University of Liverpool:
Estuaries
TBA
Garry Paton:
Drilling a well