Harrow and Hillingdon Geological Society

Previous Meetings

Date	Speaker	Subject	Reviews
08/05/13	AGM + Film	Williamson Tunnels
10/04/13	Dr Peter Grindrod (UCL)	Exploring Mars: Curiosity, Water and Life
13/03/13	Dr Dewi Lewis (UCL)	Zeolites: from Tutankhamen to Mars in an hour
13/02/13	Dr Clare Warren (OU)	Up the Down Escalator: formation and exhumation of high pressure rocks
09/01/13	Dr Adrian Rundle (NHM)	Unusual microfossils
12/12/12	Graham Marrett	The Big Bang and the Expanding Universe
14/11/12	Dr Michele Paulatto (Oxford University)	CAT scan of an active volcano: Three dimensional seismic tomography at Montserrat
10/10/12	Anton Kearsley (NHM)	How comets threaten satellites
12/09/12	Dr David Brook OBE	The Story of China Clay
08/08/12	Members evening	Walk around Horsenden Hill
11/07/12	Dr Brian Marker OBE	Minerals and the countryside
13/06/12	Prof. Danielle Schreve (Royal Holloway)	Wolves and wildcats: surviving the end of the last Ice Age in Somerset
09/05/12	AGM followed by Sheppy	There's more to sand than you might think
11/04/12	Dr Chris Carlon	The Geology of the High Atacama, Northern Chile
14/03/12	Leila Battison (Oxford University)	Not just Sticks and Balls: A New Perspective on the Origin of Life on Land (a talk about the finding of fossil eukaryotic cells at Loch Torridon)
08/02/12	Dr Jackie Skipper (Geotechnical Consulting Group)	The Thames Tideway Project – or how to unpollute the Thames (again!)
11/01/12	Di Clements	The Geology of London
14/12/2011	Roger Lloyd	The Karst region of Yangshou, China
09/11/2011	Dr Tina van de Flierdt (Imperial)	Reconstructing the history of the Antarctic ice sheet. Clues from the past for the future
12/10/2011	John Stanley Glyn Hatherall	Orcadian Basin then and now Assynt and the Moine Thrust
14/09/2011	Dr Kieren Howard (NHM)	Impact Cratering and Ejecta Deposits: Investigations in the Australian tektite strewn field and new insights from Darwin crater
10/08/2011	Treasure Hunt	Pinner - A great time was had by all.
13/07/2011	Dr Simon Boxall, National Oceanographic Centre, (Southampton Univ.)	Cape Farewell - science, art and music in the high Arctic
08/06/2011	Jane Tubb (East Herts Geol Soc)	'Hertfordshire Puddingstone - some facts, some theories and some unanswered questions'
11/05/2011	AGM + Bob Maurer	Did climatic changes in Europe give rise to the Rock Carvings in North Africa ?
13/04/2011	Revd Dr Timothy Astin (Reading Univ)	Application of Geophysics to Archaeology (investigation of Hebridean islands)
09/03/2011	Rob Sage (Veolia Water)	The Hydrogeology of Hertfordshire
09/02/2011	Dr Haydon Bayley	Caring for the Chilterns – the role of the Geological Advisor
12/01/2011	Mike Cumming Bryan Tabor	La Brea Tar Pit Museum The Ochres of Roussillon and the Canyon of Verdon
08/12/2010	Prof Mark Sephton (Imperial)	Organic matter, meteorites and life in the Solar System
10/11/2010	Dr Bernard J Skillerne de Bristowe	An Introduction to the Geology of Assynt
13/10/2010	Dr David Brook	Tsunami: The Wave that Swallows People
08/09/2010	Ted Wheeler	The Evolution of Whales
11/08/2010	Treasure Hunt	Harrow on the Hill
14/07/2010	Dr Tim Ewin (NHM)	Scelidosaurus, the Dorset Dinosaur'
09/06/2010	Prof. Andrew Fleet NHM	Diamonds through time
12/05/2010	AGM + Jo Crocker	Glaciers and the Icesheet in Chile and Argentina
14/04/2010	Dr David Brook	Aspects of Gypsum
10/03/2010	Dr Jenny Collier (Imperial)	Catastrophic Flooding: How Britain Became an Island
10/02/2010	Dr Philip Collins, Brunel	Earthquakes or ice? What do deformed Quaternary sediments really mean (and does it matter)?
13/01/2010		Cancelled due to bad weather
09/12/2009	Dr Reimar Seltmann (Head of CERCAMS at NHM)	Giant Cu-Au deposits of Central Asia
11/11/2009	Prof Heather Viles (OUCE)	Rapid, catastrophic weathering of limestones within the historic walls of Oxford (field trip)
14/10/2009	Steve Hirons (Birkbeck)	From mud wrestling to metamorphism
09/09/2009	David Brook	The Slippery Slopes - Landslides.
12/08/2009	Ken Kirkman	Conducted tour around the surface of Pinner chalk Mine
08/07/2009	Dr David Smith (Brunel)	Chandrayaan-1: Mineralogical Mapping of the Lunar Surface
10/06/2009	Charlie Underwood (Birkbeck)	A geological traverse across eastern Morocco
13/05/2009	AGM followed by Sheppy	The Volcanoes of the Auvergne - Are they Extinct?
08/04/2009	Dr George Darling (BGS)	Isotopes and Earth Systems: Cosmic Connections
11/03/2009	Michael Cuming	Oman: a geological treasure chest. A member reports
11/02/2009	Michael Hammett	"Mind the Gap" - All about Mortar in Brickwork
14/01/2009	Dr. Steve Edwards - (UCL)	Geological hazards in Papua New Guinea
10/12/2008	Prof Jim Rose (Royal Holloway)	The Earliest Humans in Northern Europe
12/11/2008	Prof. John Cosgrove (Imperial)	Geology of the Zagros Mountains of Iran
08/10/2008	Dr Michael de Freitas (Imperial College)	Representing public concerns with tunnelling in urban areas; an example from Dublin
10/09/2008	James Ford	Historical Brick-making in Reading, and its Implications on Chalk Mining Hazard
13/08/2008	Treasure Hunt	Ruislip High Street, Church yard and Manor Farm estate.
09/07/2008	Dr Peter Grindrod (UCL)	Volcanism on Venus
11/06/2008	Dr Angela Milner (NHM)	Dino-Birds: How dinosaurs became birds
14/05/2008	AGM - Followed by Jo Crocker	The Geology of Alaska and the Yukon
09/04/2008	Dr Mark Sutton	3D fossils: past, present and future
12/03/2008	Prof Frances Wall	Ten Volcanoes
13/02/2008	Dr Bob Symes	Minerals of Northern England – the 15 year old saga
09/01/2008	Dr Haydon Bailey	The forensic use of microfossils
12/12/2007	Geoffrey Larminie	Antarctica – continent for Science?
14/11/2007	Lorraine Cornish	The work of the Palaeontolgy Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum
10/10/2007	Dr Ruth Siddall (UCL)	The Geology of Paintings
12/09/2007	Bryan Cozens	Israel and Jordan
08/08/2007	Jo Crocker	Building Stones Walk around Pinner.
11/07/2007	Dr Ian Jarvis	Deep-sea muds in the NE Atlantic: a 20 Myr record of major disasters
13/06/2007	Dr. Anton Kearsley	Stardust: Minerals and the make-up of a comet
09/05/2007	AGM followed by Liz Binney	Galapagos - in the footsteps of Darwin
11/04/2007	Dr Dave Waltham	Lucky Planet
14/03/2007	Dr Paul Craddock	Mining in Antiquity
03/03/2007	This is on Saturday	New Year Social
14/02/2007	Dr Dave Lowry	Snowball Earth - a Scottish perspective through the 800-500 million year old Dalradian metasediments
10/01/2007	Dr Paul Taylor	Fossil Symbioses
13/12/2006	Michael Hammett	The historical development of British brick-making
08/11/2006	Dr. David Alderton	Mining and pollution in the Balkans
11/10/2006	Diana Smith	Flint - a diverse resource
13/09/2006	Dr Andrew Ross (NHM)	Fossil Insects of the Benbridge Marls, Isle of Wight
10/08/2006	Treasure Hunt	Uxbridge - Note this is on Thursday. Meet outside the station at 6:45pm for a 7:00 prompt start.
12/07/2006	Prof. Howard Colley	Gold from Volcanoes
14/06/2006	Ruth Weinburg (Brent GS)	Geology of the South Island of New Zealand
10/05/2006	AGM	Followed by a talk by Mike Cuming about the summer 2005 North of Ireland trip.
12/04/2006	Dr. Andrew Shortland	To the Mines of the Pharaohs
08/03/2006	Dr. Steve Edwards	Forget global warming and prepare for volcanic cooling
08/02/2006	Dr. Chris Halls	The Kaolin Resources of China
21/01/2006	New Year Social
11/01/2006	Dr. Anton Kearsley	Catching and Analysing Micrometeoroids: The Composition and Mineralogy of dust in Space
14/12/2005	Sheppy Shepherd	Journey to the Centre of the Earth
09/11/2005	Dr. Michael De Freitas	The Engineering Geology of Tunnels
12/10/2005	Dr. George Darling	Geothermal Exploration in the East African Rift Valley
14/09/2005	Dr. Frances Wall	Carbonate volcanism
10/08/2005	Member's Evening	Harrow Treasure Hunt (on foot). Meet 7pm at Harrow on the Hill Station, Greenhill Road Entrance. Maps will be provided. Parking is free after 6:30 pm.
13/07/2005	Prof. John Clemens	Granites and Granitic Magmas: Strange Phenomena and Some Recent Perspectives on Old Problems
08/06/2005	Prof. Richard Selley	Geological and climatic controls on British vineyards
11/05/2005	AGM + Bob Maurer	Mining for Rare Minerals in Mexico
13/04/2005	Dr. Chris Green	Reconstructing Rivers - pebble counting in the British quaternary
09/03/2005	David Lancaster	Diamonds
09/02/2005	Dr John Boardman	The Lake District: Landscape Evolution
12/01/2005	Dr. Daniela Schmidt	The Ocean Drilling program: a Journey to the South Atlantic
08/12/2004	Dr Geoffrey Larminie	A Geologist in the Arctic
10/11/2004	Bryan & Felicity Tabor	The Eysse Valley in Upper Ardeche
13/10/2004	Richard Fox	The Quarrying Industry and Waste Disposal - A Personal View
08/09/2004	Dr. Paul Taylor	Fossil and Living Bryozoa
12/08/2004	Jo Crocker	Geological Walk Around Uxbridge
14/07/2004	Dr. David Brook	Minerals in Britain
09/06/2004	Dr. Debra Croft	Geoscience and Crime
12/05/2004	AGM + Mike Cumming	Languedoc Revisited
14/04/2004	Dr. Danielle Schrieve	The Life and Death of a Woolly Rhino: New Evidence from Whitmoor Haye, Staffordshire.
10/03/2004	Prof. John Mather	The Geology of Bottled Water
1/02/2004	Graham Marrett	Black Holes: At the Edge of Space and Time
14/01/2004	Dr. Mark Sutton	The Worms that Turned: Reconstructing the Animals of the Herefordshire Lagerstätte
10/12/2003	Dr. Adrian Rundle	An Introduction to Microfossils with an Emphasis on Molluscs

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