Home Counties North Regional Group
Programme of Meetings 2016
Date and Topic Speaker Venue/Location Time Tuesday 19th AGM and short lecture: The Lusi mud volcano, Indonesia David Shilston, Atkins Sir Robert McAlpine, Eaton January 2016 and Past-President, Court, Maylands Avenue, Hemel The Geological Society Hempstead HP2 7TR of London Late February Schools Geology Challenge Competition 2016 Sponsored by Soil Consultants and RSK Thursday 17th Lecture: Brief history of life in ten fossils Paul Taylor, Natural Sir Robert McAlpine, Eaton March 2016 History Museum Court, Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead HP2 7TR Friday 18th Hertfordshire Field Trip: Geology, stratigraphy, Roman geoarchaeology, John Wong, HCNRG Verulamium Park, city centre, March 2016 Medieval building stones, geomorphology and hydrology of River Ver in Sopwell Nunnery, Watercress 10am to St Albans City Nature Reserve, Hertfordshire. 5.30pm Sunday 10th London Field Trip: River Thames foreshore geology and archaeology John Wong, HCNRG South Bank foreshore, Fulham April 2016 walks at South Bank foreshore in London Borough of Southwark and Palace foreshore, London. 10am to 4pm Fulham Palace foreshore in London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Sunday 22nd Bedfordshire Field Trip: Gault Clay Vale in mid-Bedfordshire, John Wong, HCNRG Hockliffe, Tilsworth, Stanbridge, May 2016 stratigraphy, periglacial geomorphology, building stones of Norman and Eggington, Tebworth, 10am to Medieval churches, geoarchaeology of Iron Age hill fort and Norman Battlesden, Rushmere, 5.30pm motte. Economic geology of glacial erratics. Greensand Ridge in Stockgrove, Bedfordshire. northwest Bedfordshire - stratigraphy, paleogeography and sedimentology of the Lower Greensand, also fluvio-glacial deposits and periglacial landforms. Continued overleaf Meetings start at 18:30 with complimentary refreshments from 18:00 unless stated otherwise. Lectures will last one hour. Thursday 22nd September – Curry night. Please register at our email address for catering purposes stating any dietary requirements. Please look for full details on our webpage and be aware that the programme may be subject to change. Please keep checking our website for updates on forthcoming events http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/hcnrg. Please email [email protected] if you would like to contact us. Home Counties North Regional Group
Programme of Meetings 2016
Date and Topic Speaker Venue/Location Time Thursday Lecture: From Polar Bears to deep-sea seeps, a Mesozoic Simon Kelly, CASP Affinity Water, Tamblin Way, 2nd June 2016 palaeontologist's view of Greenland Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9EZ Friday 15th Lab visit: Soil Consultants Stuart Wagstaff, Soil Soil Consultants, Chiltern House, July 2016 followed by Consultants Earl Howe Road, Holmer Green, 10am to Buckinghamshire Field Trip: tour of Hell Fire Caves – Stratigraphy of the John Wong, HCNRG High Wycombe, 5.30pm local chalk and talk on the Chalk Provinces in the U.K. May also see local Buckinghamshire, HP15 6QT. sarsen and Buckinghamshire Puddingstone. Hell Fire Caves, Buckhamshire. Thursday 22nd Lecture: Colouring the landscape: the extraordinary life of William Smith Owen Green, Oxford Sir Robert McAlpine, Eaton September and the birth of a science University Court, Maylands Avenue, Hemel 2016 Curry (free!) Hempstead HP2 7TR Lecture: The ripple effect: geological adventures underground in Java Tim Atkinson, University College London Thursday 27th Lecture: How will minerals feed the world in 2050? David Manning, Gass Lecture Theatre, Open October 2016 Newcastle University University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes
Meetings start at 18:30 with complimentary refreshments from 18:00 unless stated otherwise. Lectures will last one hour. Thursday 22nd September – Curry night. Please register at our email address for catering purposes stating any dietary requirements. Please look for full details on our webpage and be aware that the programme may be subject to change. Please keep checking our website for updates on forthcoming events http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/hcnrg. Please email [email protected] if you would like to contact us.