Programme of Events

The Black Country Geological Society’s indoor meetings are now held at The Lamp Tavern. The room is on the top floor and there is a lift. The address of The Lamp Tavern is 16 High Street, Dudley, DY1 1QT.

Unless otherwise stated, the indoor and Zoom meetings will normally open at 7.30 and lectures commence at 8.00.

Those wishing to attend field or geoconservation meetings please contact our Field Secretary (email address on the Contacts page).

Any non-members wishing to attend our virtual meetings should contact our Meetings Secretary for instructions (email address on the Contacts page).

Other contact details are also available on our Contact us page.

Updated 31 August 2026.

Members please check your email for any last minute changes.

Recordings of some of our virtual talks can be found on our YouTube channel.

Events in September–October 2026

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31 August

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21 September(1 event)


21 September

Monday 21 September (Indoor Meeting): 'Scanning, HBIM and AI adoption : An opportunity for the Black Country Global Geopark'. Speaker: Andrew Stott (Head of Knowledge Transfer at the University of Wolverhampton).
This talk will explore the benefits and practical challenges associated with established and emerging reality-capture technologies, including LiDAR, virtual tours and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) surveys. It will demonstrate how the National Brownfield Institute (NBI) has integrated these technologies into new Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) workflows. The presentation will also consider how innovations such as artificial intelligence and Gaussian splatting could enhance the creation of detailed, accessible digital twins, opening new opportunities for recording, interpreting and communicating geological and cultural heritage across the geosciences sector and within Global Geoparks like the Black Country.
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19 October

Monday 19 October (Indoor Meeting): 'The Ediacaran Biota of Charnwood Forest: the behind the scenes story'. Speaker: Dr. Mike Howe (Chief Curator and Head of the National Geological Repository at the British Geological Survey). There are several speakers talking on the results of the work and the implications for the origins of multicellular organisms, but I believe that original discovery of the fossils around 1849 and their subsequent erroneous discrediting, plus the pivotal role played by a local society – Section C, LLPS (Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society) – in reinvigorating Ediacaran research in the UK, makes an equally interesting story.
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November

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