Lecture Programme

All lectures except the ones on 3 April 2025 will be in-person presentations. The venue for the in-person lectures from September to March will be Lecture Theatre A (Room 407) in the Boyd Orr Building; the venue for the May Members’ Night has still to be confirmed. The 3 April event will be a Zoom event, consisting of two lectures, to join at home. All lectures will start at 7:00 pm.

12 September 2024
Greenland Research Group, University of St Andrews
Greenland mapping project

10 October 2024
Professor Stuart Haszeldine, University of Edinburgh
Climate and carbon – control or catastrophe?

14 November 2024
Associate Professor Heather Stewart, Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Centre
“The abyss gazes also into you”: exploring the deepest oceans

12 December 2024
Dr Paige dePolo, Liverpool John Moores University
The taphonomy of a pantodont-rich assemblage from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

9 January 2025
Luisa Hendry, @scottishgeologist
Rocking the digital world: promoting geology through social media and why it’s important

6 February 2025
Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds
Species loss, community collapse and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction

13 March 2025
David Webster
The geology of Colonsay

3 April 2025
Zoom presentations by students who recently received grants from the society:

Kiara Brooksby, Camborne School of Mines, Exeter University
Paragenetic evolution of tin-dominated lode systems in the Pool Mining District, Cornwall

Ella Davis, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
Tectonic transport directions and timing of metamorphism in the southern part of the Northern Highlands Terrane, Scotland

8 May 2025
Members’ Night