Recordings of lectures given during Session 164 (2021-2022) and later sessions are available on YouTube. The links are given below.
12 October 2023
Professor Jane Evans, British Geological Survey
A boatload of Vikings: isotope evidence from a mass execution in Weymouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUtCfCZxP1o
9 November 2023
Professor Tony Prave, University of St Andrews
Birth of the Dalradian Supergroup and its path through Neoproterozoic Earth history
https://youtu.be/tnsw0mQu0zI
7 December 2023
Professor Craig Storey, University of Portsmouth
The onset of modern plate tectonics
https://youtu.be/nQGFjAl1asY
11 January 2024
Dr Steven Hollis, University of Edinburgh
Closing the Iapetus Ocean: late arc and ophiolite formation in the Grampian Orogeny and implications for UK mineral potential and metal security
https://youtu.be/LeJ_Tg5iPxc
8 February 2024
Toni Galloway, University of St Andrews
Using hotspring systems as analogues to conditions on early Mars
https://youtu.be/JrBoDYrsHfs
14 March 2024
Dr Murray Reid
What lies beneath: the geology of Strathkelvin
https://youtu.be/0pzj05vN88E
28 March 2024
Dr Denver Fowler
Finding dinosaurs in the Judith River Formation, Late Cretaceous, Montana
https://youtu.be/GOZRw2DQdDU
11 April 2024
David Webster
Neoproterozoic glaciation in Scotland: the Port Askaig Formation
https://youtu.be/vRCOgHEt5uo
13 October 2022
Dr Rebecca Paisley, Exploration Geochemist, Cornish Lithium
Lithium in Cornwall: the foundation for a responsible UK battery supply chain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gIMIJL38UY
10 November 2022
Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth
Walking with giants: on the banks of a 130-million-year-old river
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmcpGwVMvbI
8 December 2022
Associate Professor Quentin Crowley, Trinity College, Dublin
Integrating geology into Ireland’s radon map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmeXbwV73m0
12 January 2023
Professor Mark Williams, University of Leicester
The Anthropocene: a planetary scale change to the biosphere; and the future well-being of planet Earth
https://youtu.be/e7zFTtKVikw
The sound quality of this recording is very poor, but the slides are excellent and can be followed. Professor Williams has kindly supplied a pdf of the talk and a link to a very similar talk he did at the recent Palaeontological Association AGM.
Link to the pdf file of the Glasgow talk
Link to the Pal Ass talk
14 October 2021
Professor Mike Searle, University of Oxford
Tectonics and mountain building in the Himalaya
https://youtu.be/csgaui2xXZM
9 December 2021
Dr Neil Clark, Hunterian Museum (Retiring Presidential Address)
Dinosaurs from Muck
https://youtu.be/bbu1KsctvLo
13 January 2021
Dr Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh
Deformed dirt: the deformation caused by glaciers and ice sheets
https://youtu.be/XXxPSTM2tzQ
10 February 2021
Dr Andrew Finlayson, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh
Below the bonnie banks – investigating Loch Lomond’s subaqueous Quaternary landscape
https://youtu.be/6oyTUO_IRCM
10 March 2021
Noel Williams, Lochaber Geopark
Big boulders of Scotland
https://youtu.be/C8fWpPeHdxk
14 April 2021
Professor Colin Ballantyne, University of St Andrews
Landslides, glaciation and the evolution of mountain landscapes during the Quaternary
https://youtu.be/8ALgMJVXUB0
12 May 2021
Members’ night
Matthew Statis
Accessing the sedimentary record of ocean acidification prior to the K/Pg mass extinction
https://youtu.be/vGxsFKOZ15g
Simon Cuthbert
The beast of Linn Park: Arthropleura trail by the White Cart Water
https://youtu.be/BRcqVy61W3s
David Webster (Strathclyde Geoconservation Group)
Glasgow area geological exposures: reconnaissance trips to Campsie Glen, River Kelvin and Overtoun
https://youtu.be/HbopawhoNaA
David Webster (Fossil Grove Trust)
Fossil Grove renovation project
https://youtu.be/b8Ni-AReR7g