Past Monthly Meetings

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Programme of Meetings 2010

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
8 January	Janet Catchpole FGS Member	Antarctica
12 February	Dr Nick Walker Imperial College	Mega-floods, lakes, and climate change on Mars?
19 March	Dr Howard Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway College	The Palaeontological Association Baldwin Lecture Carboniferous coal forests
9 April	Dr Fred Witham Bristol University	The Santorini supervolcano
14 May	Janet Catchpole Member FGS	Antarctica
11 June	Dr Donny Hutton Consultant	Geology of Theron Mountains, Antarctica
Saturday 26 June *40th Anniversary Celebration event*	Dr Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway Prof. Susan Marriot, Univ. of Bedfordshire Prof. Malcolm Hart, Univ. of Plymouth	Quaternary climate change and fossil mammals: evolution, environment and extinction Late Silurian and early Devonian climates as revealed by the Old Red Sandstone of South Wales Was the Cretaceous greenhouse world always so warm?
9 July	Alan Witts - Member FGS Edward Finch - Member FGS	Geology and the N Wales narrow gauge railways Nodules amongst other things!
14 August	No meeting	-
10 September	Dr Michael Ridd Consultant	Geology of SE Asia & Thailand
8 October	John Pearce Sussex Mineral & Lapidary Society	30 years of mineral collecting
Sunday 31 October	Society's Annual Lunch	The Frensham Pond Hotel
12 November	Dr Danielle Schreve Royal Holloway College	Can we clone a mammoth?
10 December	Dr Lesley Dunlop University of Northumbria	Diversity in stone: Regional geology and links to building style

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Programme of Meetings 2009

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
9 Jan	AGM, followed by: John Williams, Member FGS	London's building stones - a historical perspective
13 February	Diana Smith Open University	Flint
13 March	Dr Duncan Pirrie Helford Geoscience LLP	Forensic geoscience - the role of geology in serious crime investigation
17 April Note: 3rd Friday of month	Dr Hazel Rymer Open University	Low cost volcano monitoring
8 May	Dr Paddy Regan University of Surrey	The science of Polonium-210
12 June	Dr Alun Lewis Royal Holloway College	Perils of science journalism
10 July	-	Members evening and presentations
14 August	No meeting	-
11 September	Dr Ian Watkinson Royal Holloway College	Shear & seismicity in Sulawesi and Seram
9 October	James Ford Consultant	Reading's brick making & chalk mining hazards
November 1	Society's Annual Lunch	The Bridge, Frensham
13 November	Dr Julian Murton University of Sussex	Ice age England
11 December	Dr Paul Olver Consultant	The Star of Bethlehem

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Programme of Meetings 2008

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
11 Jan	AGM, followed by: Liz Ashton, Member FGS	New Zealand on the edge
8 February	Dr John Cosgrove Imperial College	Tectonic evolution of Zagros mountains in Iran
14 March	Dr Dave Martill Portsmouth University	The Crato fossil beds of Brazil
11 April	Dr T Chapman	Geology of the deep water areas around Borneo
9 May	Dr Dennis Bates	Graptolites
13 June	Brian Marker	Geological perspective of waste management
11 July	-	Members evening and presentations
8 August	No meeting	-
12 September	Dr Ruth Siddall University College, London	Geology of paintings
10 October	Diana Clements Natural History Museum	Geology of London
26 October	Society's Annual Lunch	The Bridge, Frensham
14 November	Andrew Fleet Natural History Museum	Diamonds through time
12 December	Prof. Peter Worsley University of Reading	Charles Darwin - A glacial geologist

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Programme of Meetings 2007

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
12 Jan	AGM, followed by: Dr George Darling, BGS	Geothermal exploration in East African rift valley
9 February	Prof. John Clemens Kingston University	Boring old granites
9 March	Prof. Richard Fortey Natural History Museum	Trilobites
13 April	Dr Geoff Batt Royal Holloway College	Taking the pulse of a dynamic Earth through thermochronology
11 May	Dr Hilary Downes Birkbeck College	A field trip to the mantle
8 June	Dr Chris Duffin Streatham & Clapham High School	Richard Owen and fossil vertebrates
13 July	Janet Catchpole Member FGS	Geological highlights of New Zealand
10 August	No meeting	-
14 September	John Gahan Member FGS	Global warming or just hot air?
12 October	Dr Reimer Seltmann Natural History Museum	Gold giants of the Great Silk Road
October 28	Society's Annual Lunch	Farnham House Hotel 12.00 for 1.00pm
9 November	Dr Steve Hirons Birkbeck College	From mud wrestling to metamorphism
14 December	Dr Padddy Regan University of Surrey	Making gold - nulear alchemyy

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Programme of Meetings 2006

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
13 Jan	AGM, followed by: John Williams, FGS & Nat. Hist. Museum	Geological field trip to Malta
10 February	John Gahan Farnham Geological Society	Geology of the Weald
10 March	Dr Chris Duffin Streatham & Clapham High School	William Buckland - 1st Professor of geology
14 April	Dr Rod Wild	Dating Surrey's ancient buildings through dendrochronology
12 May	Darren Naish School of Earth Sciences, University of Portsmouth	The amazing all-new Wealden dinosaurs
9 June	Dr Richard Ghail Imperial Colloge	Really remote sensing - unveiling the geology of Titan
14 July	Members' evening	-
11 August	No meeting	-
8 September	John Gahan Farnham Geological Society	Pioneer geologists - 1600 to 1900
13 October	John Gahan Farnham Geological Society	Contemporary inspirational geologists
October 27	Society's Annual Dinner
10 November	Dr David Waltham, Royal Holloway College	Why is the moon so big?
8 December	John Price FGS & The Farnham Astronomical Society	Comets, their impacts on geology

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Programme of Meetings 2005

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
14 January	AGM, followed by: Prof. Eddie Bromhead, Kingston University	Landslide & landslide dams in the Venetian pre-alps
February 11	Mike Coates Chief Warden, RSPB Surrey Heath	The RSPB Farnham Heath project
March 11	Dr Roger Suthren University of Derby	Geology and wine in Southern France
April 8	John L Morton Author of 'Strata'	William Smith, the father of English geology
May 13	Prof. Richard Moody Kingston University	Oil-bearing strata of Northern Libya
June 10	Dr Paul Craddock British Museum, London	Early mining & extractive metallurgy
July 8	Society members	Members' evening
August 13	No meeting
September 9	John Atkinson Portsmouth Water Company	Water supply with regard to Cretaceous strata
October 14	Dr Rex Taylor School of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Southampton	Volcanoes & volcanic processes along the Izu-Bonin arc, Japan
Nov 4	Society's Annual Dinner
November 11	Dr Christopher Green Royal Holloway College	Reconstructing Quaternary rivers
December 9	Dr Chris Elders Royal Holloway College	Active Faults and the tsunami threat in SE Asia

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Programme of Meetings 2004

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
January 9	AGM, followed by: John Price, Astronomical Assn.	The anthropic cosmological principle
February 13	Dr David Norbury CL Associates, Wokingham	Failures in engineering geology
March 12	Prof Dorrik Stow University of Southampton	Into the abyss; oil resources for the 21st Century
April 9	Dr Michael Kucera Royal Holloway College	Deep sea sediments: archive of climate change and plankton evolution
May 14	Prof Michael Tooley University of Durham	Predicting sea-level changes
June 11	Prof Cindy Ebinger Royal Holloway College	The East African rift: how to break a continent
July 9	Society members	Members' evening
August 13	No meeting
September 10	Prof. Richard Selley Imperial College	The geology of British vineyards
October 8	Andrew Davis Mott McDonald (Consultants)	Geological aspects of the A3 Hindhead scheme
November 12	Dr Steve Toothill Farnham Geological Society	A view of geology through seismic data
December 10	Dr Ian Jarvis Kingston University	20 Ma of disasters - do deep sea muds hold the key?

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Programme of Meetings 2003

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
January 10	AGM, followed by: Dr John Linse, The Astronomical Assn.	The sun - our nearest star
February 14	Dr Richard Fox, Richard Fox & Associates	Landfill & waste disposal
March 7	Prof Richard Moody, Kingston University	Petroleum geology of North Africa
April 11	Dr Chris Edlers, Royal Holloway College	Understanding the North Sea using 3-D seismic data
May 9	Dr Adrian Rundle, Geological Society	Introduction to microfossils
June 13	Kevin Attree, Surrey University	Meteorites, their origins & significance
July 11	Society members	Members' evening
September 12	Prof. Roy White, Birkbeck College	Geophysics without equations
October 10	Dr Derek Rust, Brunel University	Palaeoseismology of the 'Big bend' of the San Andreas fault
October 17	Society Dinner	Farnham House Hotel
November 14	Dr Alan Jobbings	My 50 years in gemmology
December 12	Dr Tony Hall	The granites of Cornwall

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Programme of Meetings 2002

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
January 11	AGM, followed by: Dr A Rundle, Nat. History Museum	Fish otoliths
February 8	Chris Jones Natural, History Museum	Kaleidoscope of colours - minerals under the microscope
March 8	Dr David Mattey, Royal Holloway College	Lasers, lakes and caves
April 12	Dr Tony Barber, Royal Holloway College	Mud volcanoes, shale diapers & melanges
May 10	Prof. J D Mather, Royal Holloway College	Radioactive waste disposal
June 14	Dr Hillary Downes, Birkbeck College	A field trip to the mantle
July 12	Society members	Members' evening
September 13	Richard Butler, Consultant	Caen stone - its history & use
October 11	John Cooper, Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton	Amber - a window on the past
October 18	Society Dinner	Farnham House Hotel
November 8	Paul Sowan	The Reigate stone problem
December 13	David Bone, The Geological Association	Hunting the shark - search for medieval building stone

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Programme of Meetings 2001

Date	Speaker	Title of lecture
January 19	AGM, followed by: Dr Paul Davis	A geological surprise
February 9	Dr David Brook, DETR	Did the earth move for you?
March 9	Prof John Potter	The geology of Anglo-Saxon churches
April 13	Ann Fereday	Across the Sahara in a Landrover
May 11	Prof M A Menzies, Royal Holloway College	Magmatism & mountain building: Red Sea & Gulf of Aden
June 8	Dr Tim Chapman, Murphy Petroleum Ltd.	Evolution of the Hog's Back structure
July 13		Members' evening
September 14	Dr Ian Jarvis, Kingston Univ	Life and death in the chalk sea
October 12	Dr Iain Stewart, Brunel University	Mediterranean earthquakes; past, present and future
October 26	Society dinner	Farnham House Hotel
November 9	Dr Tony Hall	Volcanoes of the Bay of Naples
December 14	Roger Birch, Colliers College, Horsham	Vulcanology of Tenerife

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