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The Wyley History of the Geologists' Association in the 50 Years 1958
THE WYLEY HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION 1958–2008 Leake, Bishop & Howarth ASSOCIATION THE GEOLOGISTS’ OF HISTORY WYLEY THE The Wyley History of the Geologists’ Association in the 50 years 1958–2008 by Bernard Elgey Leake, Arthur Clive Bishop ISBN 978-0900717-71-0 and Richard John Howarth 9 780900 717710 GAHistory_cover_A5red.indd 1 19/08/2013 16:12 The Geologists’ Association, founded in 1858, exists to foster the progress and Bernard Elgey Leake was Professor of Geology (now Emeritus) in the diffusion of the science of Geology. It holds lecture meetings in London and, via University of Glasgow and Honorary Keeper of the Geological Collections in the Local Groups, throughout England and Wales. It conducts field meetings and Hunterian Museum (1974–97) and is now an Honorary Research Fellow in the School publishes Proceedings, the GA Magazine, Field Guides and Circulars regularly. For of Earth and Ocean Sciences in Cardiff University. He joined the GA in 1970, was further information apply to: Treasurer from 1997–2009 and is now an Honorary Life Member. He was the last The Executive Secretary, sole editor of the Journal of the Geological Society (1972–4); Treasurer (1981–5; Geologists’ Association, 1989–1996) and President (1986–8) of the Geological Society and President of the Burlington House, Mineralogical Society (1998–2000). He is a petrologist, geochemist, mineralogist, Piccadilly, a life-long mapper of the geology of Connemara, Ireland and a Fellow of the London W1J 0DU Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has held research Fellowships in the Universities of phone: 020 74349298 Liverpool (1955–7), Western Australia (1985) and Canterbury, NZ (1999) and a e-mail: [email protected] lectureship and Readership at the University of Bristol (1957–74). -
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The magazine of The Geological Society of London Geoscientist Volume 19 • No 8 • August 2009 Wadia and Nanga Parbat Nuclear and present danger Watson Lecture Theatre NEW! Read it first at Geoscientist Online - www.geolsoc.org.uk from the editor Heroic age Ted Nield reflects on the heroes of the geological past, and why we envy them. In this issue of Geoscientist we celebrate the 90th anniversary Freedom. As pioneers they had little or no literature to mug of the publication of one of those books that are rarely written up. Nobody else was doing what they were doing. They tended these days (and if they are written, hardly ever by one author). to be given enormous jobs when they were in their mid to late The book in question is Geology of India, by Darashaw twenties, and were – by and large - left to get on with them. Nosherwan Wadia. No manager looked over their shoulders, asking where their next paper was coming from, or when the next sheet would be D N Wadia exemplifies the sort of world-bestriding hero that finished. No bean-counter totted up citations or did could perhaps only have existed in the dream-time of Earth cost/benefit analyses of research output to satisfy the latest sciences; men like Alex du Toit (1878-1948) who between 1903 government fad. It was just them, and the rocks. and 1920 mapped in detail over 50,000 square miles between the Cape and Natal, of which 43,000 square miles were Life cannot be that way now. -
Conference to Celebrate the Centenary of the First Female Fellows of the Geological Society London
Conference to Celebrate the Centenary of the First Female Fellows of the Geological Society London May 21st 2019 Organised by Geological Society London: History of Geology Group A Conference to Celebrate the Centenary of the First Female Fellows of the Geological Society London May 21st 2019 Organised by the Geological Society London: History of Geology Group Welcome to the conference! We are celebrating 100 years to the day since the admission of the first female Fellows of the Geological Society - 21st May 1919. Conference Convenors: Prof. Cynthia Burek University of Chester [email protected] Dr. Bettie Higgs, University College Cork b.higgs@ucc,ie Cover photos: (from left to right) Sedgwick Club with Gertrude Elles, Margaret Crosfield, Ethel Skeat and Ethel Wood; Individual photographs of Maria Ogilvie Gordon; Gertrude Elles; Catherine Raisin; Margaret Crosfield on a Geologists’ Association fieldtrip to Leith Hill 1912. SUMMARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 9.00-9.55 am Registration Session 1: Chair Prof. Cynthia Burek 9.55-10.00 Welcome and Introduction 10.00-10.50 Keynote Speaker: World War I through Affirmation Action — Women in Petroleum Geology Make a Difference Robbie Gries 10.50-11.10 Janet Watson: First female President of the Geological Society Glynda Easterbrook 11.10-11.30 Coffee and Posters (see poster abstracts) Session 2: Chair Dr. Bettie Higgs 11.30-11.50 Margaret Chorley Crosfield FGS: The very first female Fellow of the Geological Society Cynthia Burek 11.50-12.10 Maria Graham and the Geological Society Carl Thompson 12.10-12.30 -
Meteorite Iron in Egyptian Artefacts
SCIENTISTu u GEO VOLUME 24 NO 3 APRIL 2014 WWW.GEOLSOC.ORG.UK/GEOSCIENTIST The Fellowship Magazine of the Geological Society of London UK / Overseas where sold to individuals: £3.95 READ GEOLSOC BLOG! [geolsoc.wordpress.com] Iron from the sky Meteorite iron in Egyptian artefacts FISH MERCHANT WOMEN GEOLOGISTS BUMS ON SEATS Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Tales of everyday sexism If universities think fieldwork king of the NHM fishes - an Online Special sells geology, they’re mistaken GEOSCIENTIST CONTENTS 06 22 10 16 FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE... 16 King of the fishes Sir Arthur Smith Woodward should be remembered for more than being caught by the Piltdown Hoax, says Mike Smith REGULARS 05 Welcome Ted Nield has a feeling that some eternal verities have become - unsellable 06 Society news What your Society is doing at home and abroad, in London and the regions 09 Soapbox Jonathan Paul says universities need to beef up their industrial links to attract students ON THE COVER: 21 Letters Geoscientist’s Editor in Chief sets the record straight 10 Iron from the sky 22 Books and arts Four new books reviewed by Catherine Meteoritics and Egyptology, two very different Kenny, Mark Griffin, John Milsom and Jason Harvey disciplines, recently collided in the laboratory, 25 People Geoscientists in the news and on the move write Diane Johnson and Joyce Tyldesley 26 Obituary Duncan George Murchison 1928-2013 27 Calendar Society activities this month ONLINE SPECIALS Tales of a woman geologist Susan Treagus recalls her experiences in the male-dominated groves of -
Biographical Notes on Geological Survey Staff BGS Archives GSM1/718 Miss E.M
Biographical notes on Geological Survey staff BGS Archives GSM1/718 Miss E.M. Guppy Selected Documents from the BGS Archives No. 2 TECHNICAL REPORT WO/00/04 Cover photograph: Edward Battersby Bailey BGS Photograph Y00043 Cover design by F.I. MacTaggart NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TECHNICAL REPORT WO/00/04 BGS Archives GSM1/718 Biographical notes on Geological Survey staff Miss E.M. Guppy Selected Documents from the BGS Archives No. 2 A transcription of the original archive notes Keyboarded by Gail Gray and Katherine Fergusson Edited and lightly updated by G. McKenna and R.P. McIntosh Index terms Biography British Geological Survey Bibliographic reference Guppy, E.M. BGS Archives GSM1/718, Biographical notes on Geological Survey staff. British Geological Survey Technical Report WO/00/04 © NERC copyright 2000 Edinburgh, British Geological Survey 2000 INTRODUCTION To mark the centenary of the formation of the Geological Survey, Sir John Flett, Director of the Survey in 1935, wrote his "The first one hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain". Published by HMSO in 1937 this work was to become one of the key texts for anyone carrying out research into the development of the Survey. One section, Appendix 2, is an invaluable reference list of those who served on the staff of the Survey between 1835 and 1935.The Prefatory Note in Flett's work acknowledges the contribution of Miss E M Guppy in the compilation of the staff list. While the list as it appears in the published work provides only brief biographical details on each individual member of staff, the BGS Library Archives include the full MSS notes (GSM1/718) made by Miss Guppy. -
A New Global Geopark and NNR Tributes to Geoconservation
Earth Heritage Marine Protected Creating Charles Areas and Lyell’s World Online Geodiversity ISSUE 54 Winter 2020 Images from Tributes to the GA’s 2020 A new global Geoconservation Photo geopark and champions EarthCompetition Heritage NNRWinter 2020 Earth Heritage 54 1 Earth Heritage INSIDE OUTCROPS The Shale Trail of West Lothian 4 Articles Marine Protected Areas and Geodiversity 6 Pushing Geodiversity up the agenda in Wales… 11 Cover: View of Barr Beacon, Walsall at Reflections from a Geoheritage Sabbatical in Scotland: The View Pinfold Lane Quarry, part from America 13 of the Black Country, Staffa: visitor access estorationr in a sensitive setting 17 a new UNESCO Global A new UNESCO Global Geopark - the Black Country! 20 Geopark. This site shows Saltwells: England’s newest geological National Nature Reserve 23 the contact between the Reconciling geoconservation, research and public safety on the Great Kidderminster Formation Orme’s Head, North Wales 27 (previously known as the A New DIGS Site in the Rodwell Cutting, Weymouth - The story so far 34 Bunter Pebble Beds) and Zooming in with the Rock Doctors 39 the underlying Hopwas Geoconservation and the GA—our response to Covid-19 41 Breccia. More details on Images from the Geologists’ Association 2020 Photo Competition 42 p.20. Photo by Graham Conserving life - past, present and future 44 Worton Creating Charles Lyell’s World Online 47 Tribute to Matthew Parkes 51 Alan Cutler MBE – A tribute to a pioneer in local Geoconservation 53 David Quentin Bowen Obituary – Geoconservation Section 55 William Sawney Bisat (1886-1973) – the goniatite man 57 William Macfadyen and 70 years of geoconservation 62 EarthHeritage @earth_heritage 2 Earth Heritage 54 Winter 2020 Earth Heritage Earth Heritage GUEST MANAGING EDITOR SUSAN MARRIOTT, EDITORIAL [email protected] EDITORS HANNAH TOWNLEY, Natural England 07780 688242 As with number 53, this issue of Earth Heritage has also been [email protected] prepared in very challenging times. -
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The Fellowship magazine of The Geological Society of London Volume 20 • No 4 • April 2010 Change and decay Seismic soldiers Greenly’s map Read itNEW! first atRead Geoscientist it first at GeoscientistOnline - www.geolsoc.org.uk/geoscientist Online - www.geolsoc.org.uk from the editor Needing to be right is a personality trait that shows up to do about that vilified group known as “climate strongly among scientists. But when their hypotheses change deniers”? must always be tested for “rightness” against nature, “Denier”, in the sense of “one who denies”, is an this is no handicap – even if it may look to others as “agent noun”, and there is a horrid inconsistency about little more than the point-scoring pedantry of an eight agent nouns formed from verbs in “-y” (like cry, dry, year-old. Most people’s experience of everyday life is fly, fry - and deny). A machine that makes your hair rarely so black and white. dry is a “dryer”. One that fries chips is a “fryer”. An As editors struggle in the web of words, some will tend aviator is a “flyer” (and a handbill a “flier”). However Into to adopt a more absolutist approach. One such was the it is more common to hear a “town crier” than a “town late Professor Anders Martinsson (1930-83), founder cryer”. In 1926, H W Fowler’s Modern English Usage of the journal Lethaia and of Uppsala University’s urged Anglophones to standardise on the “-ier” form; the Department of Palaeobiology. White space in his fine but that was before we had very many dryers, fryers - publication was rarely left so for long, as Anders and frequent flyers. -
Award Governing Society
Award Governing Society Award Name Academy of American Poets Academy Fellowship Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Academy of American Poets Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Chemistry Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Computer Science Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Economics Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Mathematics Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Molecular Biology Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Neuroscience Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship-Ocean Sciences American Academy In Rome Rome Prize American Academy In Rome Residency American Academy of Actuaries Jarvis Farley Service Award American Academy of Actuaries Robert J Myers Public Service Award American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Honorary Members American Academy of Arts and Sciences The Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Humanistic Studies American Academy of Arts and Sciences Emerson-Thoreau Medal American Academy of Arts and Sciences Founders Award American Academy of Arts and Sciences Talcott Parsons Prize American -
Proceedings Geological Society of London
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. SESSION 1909-1910. November 3rd, 1909. Prof. W. J. SOLLAS, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The List of Donations to the Library was read. The following communications were read :-- 1. ' Certain Jurassic (Lias-Oolite) Strata of South Dorset, and their Correlation.' :By S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. 2. ' Certain Jurassic (" Inferior Oolite ") Ammonites and Brachio- poda.' :By S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. 3. ' The Granite-Ridges of Kharga Oasis : Intrusive or Tectonic?'1 By William Fraser [-[ume, D.Sc., A.R.S.M., F.G.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Egypt. 4. ' The Cretaceous and Eocene Strata of Egypt.' By William Fraser ]-[ume, D.Sc., A.R.S.M., F.G.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Egypt. The following specimens and maps were exhibited :- Ammonites, etc. from the ' Inferior Oolite,' exhibited by S. S. :Buckman, F.G.S., in illustration of his papers. Fossils, rock-specimens, and lantern-slides, exhibited by Dr. W. F. Hum~, A.R.S.M., F.G.S., in illustration of his papers. Carte g4ologique internationale de rEurope, i.~oo.ooo1 : Livraison V[, Sheets EII, F II, F III, Berlin, 1909 ; prese~lted by the Map Com- mission of the International Geological Congress. l Withdrawn by permission of the Council. VOL. LXVI. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIET~'. [Feb. IOIO, :November 17th, 1909. Prof. W. J. SOLLAS, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. James Alexander Haddon Armstrong, Dumisa, via Esperanza (Natal); Robert Alexander Farquharson, B.A., St. -
Geospectrum Spring 2015 4 Hazards and Disasters Series
GEOSPECTRUM News from the Geoscience Community Celebrate the International Year of Soils | The Discovery of Prudhoe Bay | Promoting Geoethics in Society: A New Challenge for Geoscientists | Realistic Advice for the New Geologist | Field Experiments for Methane Production from Hydrates SPECIAL INSERT: Back from the Field; How to Succeed at the Best Student Geologic Map Competition Spring 2015 In This Issue Spring 2015 NEWS 6 WORKFORCE 48 GEOSCIENCE CURRENTS 58 EDUCATION 64 SPECIAL INSERT 75 GEOSCIENCE POLICY 80 AWARDS & LEADERSHIP 89 MEETINGS 98 On the Cover Geospectrum Celebrate the International Year of Soils 11 4220 King Street Alexandria, VA 22302-1502, USA Dscovery of Prudhoe Bay 16 Phone: 703-379-2480 www.agiweb.org/geospectrum Promoting Geoethics in Society 42 [email protected] Realistic Advice for the New Geologist 49 Publisher P. Patrick Leahy Back from the Field - Competing in the Annual Best Editor Student Geologic Map Competition 75 Maureen N. Moses Methane Production from Hydrates 87 Contributing Editor Christpher M. Keane Cover Photo: Vanadinite crystals. from Miblanden Morocco, Africa. Copyright © StoneTrust, Inc.; Image source: Earth Science World Image Bank http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images Member Societies & Council Representatives American Association of Geographers - Douglas Richardson American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Laura C. Zahm The Palynological Society - Fredrick J. Rich Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists - Mark Bennett Association of Earth Science Editors - John R. Keith American Geophysical Union - Melanie Okoro American Institute of Hydrology - Rolando Bravo American Institute of Professional Geologists - Robert A. Stewart American Rock Mechanics Association - Peter H. Smeallie National Association of State Boards of Geologists - Deana S. Sneyd Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography - Adrienne Froelich Sponberg Association for Women Geoscientists - Denise M. -
TWO HUNDRED YEARS of ENGINEERING GEOLOGY Martin G. Culshaw1, Helen J. Reeves2 and Michael S. Rosenbaum3 1School of Engineering
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY Martin G. Culshaw1, Helen J. Reeves2 and Michael S. Rosenbaum3 1School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK (email: [email protected]) (formerly British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham) 2British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK 3Ludlow, UK On 31 March 2007, a joint meeting of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society and the Yorkshire Geological Society was held as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of the Geological Society of London. The meeting focussed on the lives and achievements of five engineering geologists who have made outstanding contributions to their profession and to science. The meeting formed part of the Society's "Local Heroes" initiative for the bicentenary. The set of papers in this issue of the Quaternary Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology celebrates the contribution over the last 200 years by scientists and practitioners who have influenced the development of engineering geology or whose work has been particularly important to related aspects of human history. In addition to papers on the individuals discussed at the meeting, additional papers are included that discuss the development of engineering geology, historically and in the context of education and training. Engineering geology has been an important scientific sub-discipline for as long as people have sought to build and construct their living environment. If nothing else, people soon learnt where buildings could be built safely and where poor foundation conditions or the presence of geohazards meant that unacceptable risks were present. However, engineering geology came to greater prominence with the flowering of geology as a major science in the early 19th century, a time which saw the founding of the Geological Society of London, in 1807. -
East Anglia's Lost Rivers
GeoscientistThe Fellowship magazine of The Geological Society of London | www.geolsoc.org.uk | Volume 22 No 4 | May 2012 CRATONIC BASINS Filling the data gap in Parnaiba, Brazil ANNUAL REVIEW Plus, your guide to the AGM! society on facebook] [www.facebook.com/geolsoc HIDDEN VALLEYS East Anglia’s lost rivers Not Just Software. RockWare. For Over 29 Years. RockWorks® LogPlot® Surface Water PetraSim™ Manager™ 3D Data Management, Powerful, Flexible, A Preprocessor and Analysis and Visualization Easy-to-Use Borehole and Postprocessor for TOUGH2, Well Log Software Maintain data for Rivers, • Powerful measured-sec- Lakes, Streams, Ponds, T2VOC, TMVOC, TOUGHREACT tion/borehole database • Dozens of templates Oceans, or any Surface Water and TOUGH-FX/HYDRATE for managing: available or design your • Monitor elevation, fl ow, ion, • Model multi-component - Lithology own in the drawing-style nutrient, pollutant, biological, fl uid fl ow, heat transfer - Stratigraphy log designer window zooplankton, and phyto- and reactive transport processes - Hydrology • Tabbed data sheets plankton data or create new - Fractures parameters • Saturated and unsaturated • Import/Export data from conditions - Hydrochemistry (e.g. LAS, Excel, RockWorks • Instantly plot a parameter Contaminants) over time using the new time • Fractured and porous media - Geophysics • Paginated and continuous series contour graph • Mesh generation, param- logs at any vertical scale - and more • Easily create Google EarthTM eter defi nition, and display • Create striplogs, • Export to a variety