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Date |
Speaker |
Subject |
Reviews |
| 11/03/2020 | Robin Hansen (NHM) | Colours of the Natural History Museum’s Gem Collection | |
| 12/02/2020 | Prof. David Norbury (Consultant Engineering Geologist) | Triumphs and Disasters in Engineering Geology - Abstract | |
| 08/01/2020 | Dr Sandy Hetherington (Oxford) | Getting to the root of roots - About - Abstract | |
| 11/12/2019 | Bob Maurer (HHGS) | A new look at the forces responsible for Plate Tectonics | Abstract |
| 13/11/2019 | Dr Simon Drake (Birkbeck) | Discovery of a Paleocene meteoritic ejecta blanket on the Isle of Skye N W Scotland | Abstract |
| 09/10/2019 | Dr Jonathan Turner (NDA) | Geological disposal of radioactive waste in the UK | |
| 11/09/2019 | Mike Rumsey (NHM) | Enigmatic Minerals of the UK | Abstract |
| 21/08/2019 | Members Evening | Treasure Hunt around Northwood | |
| 10/07/2019 | Dr Tom Booth | Cheddar Man | Abstract |
| 12/06/2019 | Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz (Oxford) | The ups and downs of the South Atlantic ocean - | Abstract |
| 08/05/2019 | AGM - followed by | DVD about the History of Blue John | |
| 10/04/2019 | Dr Jack Wright (Open Univ.) | Planet Mercury: An Update from the Problem Child of the Solar System | Abstract |
| 13/03/2019 | Nick Fay | Trilobites, and their stony stare | Abstract |
| 13/02/2019 | DVD | The Sahara | Abstract |
| 09/01/2019 | Dr Zoe Mildon (Plymouth) | Earthquakes and active faults in central Italy | Abstract |
| 12/12/2018 | Dr Jackie Skipper Geotechnical Consulting Group | The Ruislip Bed and other stories - why the Lambeth Group is so interesting | |
| 14/11/2018 | Dr Douwe van der Meer | Atlas of the Underworld: frontier exploration of the mantle to constrain palaeogeography & biogeography | Abstract |
| 10/10/2018 | Lorraine Cornish (NHM) | Dippy and the Whale |
Abstract |
| 12/09/2018 | Sarah Brazier Etches Collection, Kimmeridge | A Plethora of Plesiosaurs - Life in the Jurassic Sea - | Introduction |
| 08/08/2018 | Members Evening | Quiz Walk around Eastcote | |
| 11/07/2018 | Mike Howgate | A Sceptical Look at the Dino-bird Controversy | Abstract |
| 13/06/2018 | Prof. Heather Viles | The Earth’s surface in the Anthropocene | |
| 09/05/2018 | AGM - followed by | DVD about a Polish salt mine | |
| 11/04/2018 | Joan Waters | The Thera of Everything - Santorini | |
| 14/03/2018 | Prof. David Pyle (Oxford) | Volcanoes: past, present and future | Introduction |
| 14/02/2018 | Prof. Robert Hall (Royal Holloway) | Australia-SE Asia collision, the Wallace Line and Wallacea | |
| 10/01/2018 | Sarah Day (Geological Society) | Dinosaurs, monsters and myths: The challenges and opportunities of communicating Earth science | Abstract |
| 13/12/17 | Dr Haydon Bailey | Holostratigraphy of the Chalk of the North Sea | Abstract |
| 08/11/17 | Adrian Rundle | Microfossils | |
| 11/10/17 | Prof. Giles Harrison (Reading) | Two hundred years since the “year without a summer” – global atmospheric effects of the Mount Tambora eruption | Abstract |
| 13/09/17 | Dr Paul Taylor (NHM) | A brief history of life in 10 fossils | |
| 23/08/17 | Members Evening | Historical Walk around Ruislip | |
| 12/07/17 | John Horsley | Geological Curiosities of Portugal - | |
| 14/06/17 | Dr Susannah Maidment (Brighton Uni) | Latitudinal biodiversity gradients in deep time: a case study using dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western USA |  |
| 10/05/17 | AGM followed by | Film about the Troodos Geopark | |
| 12/04/17 | Prof. Chris Rhodes (Fresh-Lands Environmental Actions) | What Do We Do When the Oil Runs Out? | |
| 08/03/17 | Dr Matt Balme (Open Uni) | Water on Mars | |
| 08/02/17 | Dr David Brook OBE | Geological hazards and disasters | |
| 11/01/17 | Natasha Almeida (NHM) | Adding another dimension: the use of micro-computed tomography in the study of extraterrestrial material | |
| 14/12/16 | Poppy Harding UCL | Siberian Ecosystem Responses to Abrupt Climate Change. Lessons from Lake Records Over the Late Quaternary | |
| 09/11/16 | Humphrey Knight (CRU International.) | Antimony: critical metal mineral deposits in South West England | |
| 12/10/16 | Dr Penny Wozniakiewicz (Kent Univ) | Studying Planetary impacts in the laboratory | |
| 14/09/16 | Dr Bryon Tabor | The textures of peridotite rocks of sub-continental mantle origin | |
| 10/08/16 | Members Evening | Historical Walk around Uxbridge. | |
| 13/07/16 | Lesley Dunlop (Northumbria Univ.) | Chromite, tungsten and iron: Mineral deposits and mines in Portugal | |
| 08/06/16 | William Joyce (Birkbeck) | The Geology of the Moon | |
| 11/05/16 | AGM + Talk by Sheppy | Limestone | |
| 13/04/16 | John Henry | The Beginning of Geological Mapping in England | |
| 09/03/16 | Prof Chris Jackson (Imperial) | Salt of the Earth | |
| 05/03/16 | Spring Social | Ickenham Village Hall | |
| 10/02/16 | Dr Clive Edmonds (Peter Brett Associates) | Geology of the HS2 route in the Chilterns and geoconservation concerns | |
| 13/01/16 | Dr Rebecca Bell (Imperial) | Did the earth move for you? From great earthquakes to silent slip | |
| 09/12/15 | Prof. Rory Mortimore | South Georgia to the South Downs | |
| 11/11/15 | Graham Marett (SWHAS) | The Origin of the Elements | |
| 14/10/15 | Robert Maurer | Our Heritage - Stone Tools and Rock Art | |
| 09/09/15 | Penelope Wilson (Kingston Univ.) | The intrusion 'space problem': a comparative case study of accommodation and deformation structures associated with the emplacement of the Maiden Creek and Trachyte Mesa intrusions, Henry Mountains, Utah | |
| 12/08/15 | Members Evening | Walking through historic Pinner. | |
| 08/07/15 | Bill George | Volcanoes, tropical seas, glaciers and giants - the geology of the Essex coast | |
| 10/06/15 | Dr Philip Collins (Brunel) | That sinking feeling: geology, people and subsidence | |
| 13/05/15 | AGM followed by | Film about Parys Mountain, Anglesey | |
| 08/04/15 | Bernard J Skillerne de Bristowe | A journey through the centre of a mountain | |
| 11/03/15 | Dr Chris Brierley (UCL) | Using past warm climates to inform us about our future world | |
| 11/02/15 | Prof Chris Stringer (NHM) | The Origin of our Species | |
| 14/01/15 | Prof. Gina Barnes (SOAS) | JADE its tectonic formation, geochemistry & archaeology in East Asia | |
| 10/12/14 | Dr Mark Sutton (Imperial) | Virtual Palaeontology | |
| 12/11/14 | Dr David Brook | Limestone mining in the Black Country - an industrial legacy | |
| 08/10/14 | John Stanley | What are Komatiites | |
| 10/09/14 | Dr Giles Miller (NHM) | Searching for early fish in the Ordovician of Oman | |
| 13/08/14 | Harrow | DIY Building Stones Walk | |
| 09/07/14 | Dr Alex Dickson Oxford University | Global warming events in Earth's history | |
| 11/06/14 | Prof. Heather Viles (OUCE) | Rock breakdown in extreme environments: from Namibia to Mars | |
| 14/05/14 | AGM + Sheppy | Meteorites | |
| 09/04/14 | Dr Renske Gelderloos | Arctic Ocean Research | |
| 12/03/14 | Stephen Myers | The Walbrook, the City of London’s River – Its Rise and Fall | |
| 12/02/14 | Adam Pacey | What controls where volcanoes form? Insights from Indonesia | |
| 08/01/14 | Dr Doug Robinson (Bristol Univ) | Naxos – geological evolution of a gneiss dome | |
| 11/12/13 | Dr Tony Grindrod | Energy for the Future | |
| 13/11/13 | Mike Rumsey (NHM) | New materials from nature: Finding new mineral species and the science behind discovery | |
| 09/10/13 | Paul Logan (Heritage Oil) | Kebabs, Carbonates and Baggy Trousers; Adventures of a Geologist in Kurdistan | |
| 11/09/13 | Dr Michael Doel | Mineral Fluorescence | |
| 14/08/13 | Members Evening | Treasure Hunt in Ickenham. | |
| 10/07/13 | Prof Tony Watts (Oxford University) | Mountains in the Sea | |
| 12/06/13 | Prof Gina Barnes (SOAS Uni of London) | Tectonic archaeology in Japan | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 13/10/2010 | Dr David Brook | Tsunami: The Wave that Swallows People | |
08/09/2010 |
Ted Wheeler |
The Evolution of Whales |
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| 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 | |