Geoconservation Day: Dudley's Erratic Boulders in the Illey Valley. TBC -
Saturday 14 January 2023 (Geoconservation Day): Dudley's Erratic Boulders in the Illey Valley. TBC - details to follow.
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Saturday 14 January 2023 (Geoconservation Day): Dudley's Erratic Boulders in the Illey Valley. TBC - details to follow.
Monday 16 January 2023 (Indoor Meeting): 'Jurassic Gems of the Yorkshire Coast'. Speaker: Liam Herringshaw. Liam is a palaeontologist, based in York. His PhD at the University of Birmingham (2004) was on the rare and problematical fossils of the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, based primarily on museum specimens from Dudley. He has been a researcher at the universities of Aberdeen, Newfoundland, Durham and York, before becoming Lecturer in Geology at the University of Hull. Since 2020, he has been working with Yorkshire schools and museums, and is Director of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival. The talk will explore some favourite spots on the Yorkshire Coast, from Runswick Bay to Filey Brigg, told through the fossils and sedimentary rocks found there.
Saturday 4 February (Geoconservation Day): Wren's Nest. Directed by the reserve wardens. Meet at 10.30 at the Warden's office, at the end of Fossil View (the road into the new housing estate, site of the former Mons Hill College). Parking along Fossil View. The day will involve scrub clearance. Bring gloves, stout footwear and packed lunch. Wardens will provide tools, hard hats if necessary and a hot drink. Finish around 2.30.
Monday 20 February (Indoor Meeting): Please note change of talk. 'The early Anthropocene: our lifetimes'. Speaker: Ian Fairchild (Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham and Chair, H&W EHT). Ian is a member of the Working Group on the Anthropocene, a sub-group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (part of the International Commission on Stratigraphy). We are grateful to Prof. Fairchild for stepping in at short notice.