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Programme of Indoor Meetings 2011 - 2012
Wednesday 12 October 2011 - Fossil Molecules - chemistry as a tool for palaeontology
Talks commence at 7pm. Refreshments from 6pmWhodungit? Coprolite chemistry reveals diet, digestive processes and digestive tract microbes of extinct animals - Dr. Fiona Gill, University of Leeds
Dead in the Water: an Investigation into Eocene Fish Mass Mortality Events - Dr. Jo Hellawell, University of Bonn
Meeting notes are available for download as an Adobe pdf file
Saturday 12 November 2011 - The Broadhurst Lectures: The Coal Measures
Rates of Sedimentation in the Namurian and Westphalian: A Review - Dr. Derek Brumhead MBE, Manchester Geological AssociationCoal Depositional Environments and Effects on Mining in Northern England - Dr. Paul Guion, Honorary Fellow, University of Derby
The Rise and Fall of the Coal Forests - Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, Royal Holloway, University of London
Brymbo Fossil Forest: Fossils from the Brymbo Steelworks Site - Dr Jacqui Malpas, Association of Welsh RIGS Groups
Opencast uncovers the Past - Alan Davies, formerly Curator, Lancashire Mining Museum
Coal-Mining in Lancashire, the Photographic Record - Alan Davies, formerly Curator, Lancashire Mining Museum
Meeting notes are available as Word document or Adobe pdf files
Saturday 10 December 2011 at 13:30 - A Look at the Triassic
Triassic Cheshire: An Overview - Fred Owen, Manchester Geological AssociationThe Alderley Edge Mines - Nigel Dibben, Derbyshire Caving Club
Chirotherium and the Triassic Environment - Dr Geoff Tresise, National Museums, Liverpool
Meeting notes are available as Word document or Adobe pdf files
Saturday 14 January 2012 at 13:30 - The Fossil Hunters
Mary Anning (1799-1847) and Thomas Hawkins (1810-1889): two very different 'monster' fossil hunters - Professor Hugh Torrens, University of KeeleJames Powrie - Bob Davidson, University of Aberdeen
James Frederick Jackson (1894-1966): boy genius and extraordinary geologist - Dr. Cindy Howells, National Museum of Wales
Meeting notes are available as Word document or Adobe pdf files