Some other sites which may interest you

National organisations for the amateur and professional:

The Geologists Association

The Geological Society

Some neighbouring societies:

East Herts Geology Club

Bedfordshire & Luton Geology Group

Bucks Earth Heritage Group

More links...

The following meetings are planned during 2010

Meetings usually take place on Thursdays at the Verulamium Museum, St. Michaels, 
St. Albans, and start at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted.

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Date

Speaker

Title

7  January

CANCELLED

Dr Phil Hopley 
(University College London)
 Talk moved to 6 May

“Caves, climate change and human evolution in South Africa”

4 February

Bernard O’Connor 
(Friends of Sedgwick Museum)

“Hertfordshire’s 19th century fossil industry”

4 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

8 April
8 pm

Prof. Tim Atkinson 
(University College London)
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture: 
“Radioactive particles in seabed sediments off Scotland – a legacy of Britain’s nuclear  industry”

6  May

Dr Phil Hopley 
(University College London)
“Caves, climate change and human evolution in South Africa”
10 June Prof. Rory Mortimore 
(Brighton University)

“The lost Chalks of Scotland”

8 July Dr Jan Zalaseiwicz 
(Leicester University)

“The Anthropocene”

Saturday 
7 August
 3:30 pm
Puddingstone Pow-wow!
Joint event with 
East Herts Geology Club 
Talks, wine, bring & share food, and members' specimens, photos and slides
For full programme (pdf) click here

7 October

Dr Peter Skelton 
(Open University)
“Charles Darwin and the tree of life”

4 November

Prof. G. Slavin 
(St Bartholomew’s London)
“Geology and disease”

2 December

Dr James Ford 
(Peter Brett Associates, Reading)

“Historical brick, tile and pottery making in Reading and associated chalk mining”


Visitors are welcome to attend meetings, subject to a small charge.