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Magazine of the Geologists' Association mag29.qxd 20/02/2009 15:31 Page 1 MAGAZINE OF THE GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION Volume 8 No. 1 March 2009 Meetings April/May/June Behind the Scenes - at the Natural History Museum, Berlin October/January Lectures Charlton Field Trip Book reviews Eni Challenge Award Circular 978 Jurassic Churches Part 2 Rockwatch News Tour of the Rift Valley Tanzania NSGGA Lecture The First Welsh Rock Star Local Groups at the Festival of Geology mag29.qxd 20/02/2009 15:29 Page 2 Magazine of the Geologists’ Association From the President Volume 8 No.1, 2009 How do we increase membership so Published by the that the GA can continue to flourish? It is not an easy question to answer at a Geologists’ Association. time when most people are tightening Four issues per year. CONTENTS their belts but it is something that I and colleagues on Council have been devot- ISSN 1476-7600 3. The Association ing a considerable amount of time to Production team: JOHN CROCKER, recently. While we continue to collate 4. GA Meetings April/May/June the results of the recent survey in order Paula Carey, John Cosgrove, 5. Berlin Museum Field Trip to find out what you - our members - Vanessa Harley, Bill French value about our society, we have also 7. Report Oct. and Jan. Lectures been drawing up a plan of campaign to Printed by City Print, Milton Keynes 8. Charlton Field Trip promote the GA more widely, including press releases, brightening up the web- 9. Book Review The GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION site and targeted articles in magazines. 10. Eni Challenge Award Most importantly, we need our mem- does not accept any responsibility for bers to spread the word about the GA views and opinions expressed by indi- 10. Lord Ashcombe’s Teeth so please take a look at the notice on vidual authors in this magazine. 11. CIRCULAR 978 page 3 of this issue for ideas on how you can help us. Please tell your 15. Jurassic Churches Part 2 friends, colleagues and students about The Geologists’ 17. Rockwatch News us and be creative - we have recently Association 18. Rift Valley Tour had one person taking out membership for someone as a birthday present! The Association, founded in 1858, exists to 20. NSGGA Talk foster the progress and diffusion of the sci- 20. Dinner Notice While Rockwatch continues to do a ence of geology, and to encourage great job in enthusing children about research and the development of new 21. Darwin - Welsh Rock Star the wonderful world of geology and its methods. It holds meetings for the reading 22.Local Groups at the relevance to our daily lives, we need to of papers and the delivery of lectures, attract more student and adult mem- organises museum demonstrations, pub- Festival of Geology bers into the GA. There are lots of lishes Proceedings and Guides, and con- things to benefit from and enjoy, from ducts field meetings. our lectures and fieldtrips to our publi- Annual Subscriptions for 2009 are £40.00, cations and various grants. It is only Associates £30.00, Joint Members £58.00, through maintaining a healthy member- Students £18.00. Advertising Rates ship that the GA can continue to be an For forms of Proposal for Membership and Full Page £360 Half Page £190 active and passionate supporter of geol- further information, apply to the Executive Quarter Page £100 ogy for all. Secretary, The Geologists’ Association, Other sizes by arrangement. On the subject of geology for all, I was Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J delighted to see industry and amateur 0DU. ADVERTISEMENTS geology coming together on 6th E-mail [email protected] While precautions are taken to ensure the February, when Eni UK Ltd chose the GA Telephone 020 7434 9298 validity of advertisements the Association to host their 2008 Eni Challenge Award, Fax 020 7287 0280 is not responsible for the items offered, for see page 10. Eni have offered their Website: http://www.geologistsassocia- any loss arising or for their compliance with award for over a decade as a way of tion.org.uk regulations. promoting amateur geology in the UK, particularly in the fields of conservation, President: Danielle Schreve © The Geologists’ Association. interpretation or field education. This All rights reserved. No part of this publi- year's worthy joint winners were the Executive Secretary: Sarah cation may be reproduced, stored in a Forest Of Dean Local History Society, for Stafford retrieval system or transmitted, in any "GEOMAP", an exciting project involving form or by means, without the prior per- the construction of a large-scale geo- mission in writing of the author and the logical map of the Forest of Dean using Geologists’ Association. the local rocks, and the Cumberland Geological Society, for their new book "Exploring Lakeland Rocks and LAST Copy dates for the Landscapes". It is enormously gratify- Circular & Magazine ing to see these inspiring projects recognised and rewarded in such a way. March Issue January 14th Cover picture: June Issue April 22nd September Issue July 22nd December Issue October 21st A view of Charlton Quarry at a Danielle Schreve GA Field Trip in 1913 Items should be submitted as soon as possi- - see page 8 for report. ble and not targeted on these dates. We wel- come contributions from Members and others. Closing dates for applications to the Curry Fund for 2009: May 20 2009 2 GA Magazine of the Geologists’ Association Vol. 8, No. 1, 2009 mag29.qxd 20/02/2009 15:29 Page 3 THE ASSOCIATION Report from Council and that Prof. Dick Selley should be Architecture". This is a fascinating pho- approached for 2010. tographic archive of changes to our Please respond to the box below. environment as natural resources are This report covers the last two meet- exploited for human benefit. Our hope ings of Council - December and John Crocker is that there will be a number of public February. All agreed that the Festival of General Secretary exhibitions of this work later in the Geology was amost successful event year. The Geologists' Association was and everyone involved with the organi- awarded £4,130 for publication of its sation was to be congratulated. forthcoming Field Guide on the Suggested modifications for future Annual Dinner - see page 20 Dalradian. Festivals were considered. As reported A decision on the application from elsewhere, Rockwatch had a very suc- University College Museums & Collections for its micropalaeontology cessful meeting at Burlington House for Curry Fund Report which they were congratulated. collection update, was deferred until There is an on-going report on the March, pending supplementary infor- Disposal of Radioactive Waste that At its last meeting of 2008, the Curry mation, as was the application from Council is monitoring with Profs. Fund Committee received eight new Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark for Cosgrove and Howarth in the lead. applications and considered a number an Earth Science Education Field Guide. Council continually considers the of matters arising from previous meet- The application from Herefordshire & web-site and there was considerable ings. Six of these were funded and two Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust, discussion on how it should be devel- were deferred until the next meeting, deferred from the September meeting oped and kept up-to-date. It was pending supplementary information. was funded with a grant of £1,920 for agreed that Sarah, in the office, should The Dorking Museum was awarded signage of the Geopark Way long dis- buy the program ‘Dreamweaver’ so that £2000 towards the cost of information tance footpath. NEWRIGS, also held she is able to alter and update the panels updating existing information to over from the September meeting, website. Links between Local Groups go in the new build museum, with its received a grant of £446.50 for geolog- and the GA need to be reorganised, anticipated opening in December 2010. ical bookmarks. The final leaflet (4/4) with the current web address of the GA Friends of Lyme Regis Museum were "Rocks on the Shore of Newquay" was incorporated. How one archives a granted £3,400 towards their new web received by the committee and the final changing feature like the web site was site development. £685 was awarded to payment of £525 was made to Central raised and needs considering for the the Dorset Geologists' Association Wales RIGS for the last leaflet of the future. Group (DGAG) for a booklet on a series. The recruitment of new members is "Geological Walk around Weymouth". As ever, an interesting and varied col- always under consideration. It was The Quaternary Research Association lection of applications, yet again illus- decided that we should approach the was awarded £800 to facilitate a ses- trating how important the GA's Curry membership for assistance, hence the sion at its annual meeting in Oxford in Fund is, providing support and funding block below. A variety of ideas were January. Encouraging the mix of geolo- for geological information at all levels, discussed and will be implemented over gy, landscape and photography, Richard for dissemination to the wider public. Chivers was granted £700 towards the the coming year. Susan Brown It was agreed that there should be a cost of development of his project Lecture to commemorate Bob Stoneley "Textures of Time: Landscape and Curry Fund Secretary THE GA NEEDS YOU! We are aiming to increase our membership by up to 10% We are planning to do this through a mixture of promotional and publicity activities We have limited funds, so we’re looking to you, our members, to support the campaign If you can help the GA by : Suggesting ideas for promotion Writing press releases or promotional copy Suggesting items to update our website Organising an event Putting up a poster at work, or taking one to your local library Giving admin help please contact Sarah at the GA office And please all: Bring your friends Tell your colleagues Spread the word! GA Magazine of the Geologists’ Association Vol.
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