The Winter Programme 2019-2020

2019

Wednesday October 2nd
Kieran Blacker (University of Leicester) Wind turbines and woolly mammoths: the past, present and future of Dogger Bank.

Wednesday October 16th
Dr Nigel Woodcock (University of Cambridge) Fissures along faults: formation, fill, and importance.

Wednesday October 30th
Dr Dave Unwin (University of Leicester) Skinning the pterosaur.

Wednesday November 13th
Dr Katherine Daniels (British Geological Survey, Keyworth) Low permeability rocks, and their use as barriers to flow in the subsurface.

Wednesday November 27th
Dr Mark Barron (British Geological Survey, Keyworth) Carrara marble - the world's finest decorative stone.

Wednesday December 11th
Christmas Meeting
Held in the New Walk Museum, Leicester

2020

Wednesday January 15th

Dr Kirsty Edgar (University of Birmingham) Hothouse climates

Monday January 27th
Joint Lecture with the Parent Body, New Walk Museum, Leicester
Professor Robert White FRS (Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge) Fire and fury in Iceland: tracking molten rock from deep within the Earth to eruption at the surface

Wednesday January 29th

Professor Aftab Khan HBM (University of Leicester) Geophysics, Leicester and I

Wednesday February 12th

Members’ Evening, New Walk Museum, Leicester

Wednesday February 26th

Professor Jens Zinke (University of Leicester) Climate records from corals

Wednesday March 11th

Dr Eva Marquis(University of Leicester) Fertile ground for mobile phones

Wednesday March 25th

Annual General Meeting and Chairman's Address