Programme for 2025

Events marked with a map are field trips. Day Field Trips are nearly always held on a Sunday.

All lectures start at 7.15pm. Meetings are a hybrid of in person meetings at Plas Dolerw Newtown and via Zoom (link supplied to members prior to the meetings)

Date Event
January 15th

AGM

February 19th

Guest Speaker - Cindy Howells: Welsh Dinosaurs

March 19th

Guest speaker - Professor Cynthia Burek: Geoforensic Case Study: Otzi Ice Man

April 16th

Guest Speaker- David James: Some Structural and Mineralogical Problems in the Corris Slate Belt

April 27th

Field Trip

Tuesday May 20th

Guest Speaker - James Cresswell: The Geology of Antarctica: a personal journey **Note this is a Tuesday meeting**

May 25th

Field Trip

June 18th

Bill Bagley: Brecciation types and sources

June 22 nd

field trip

July 16th

Evening Field Trip

August 20th

Dr Geoff Steel: The Geology of Islay and Jura

September 12-15th

summer Weekend

September 17th

Dr Chris Simpson: Introduction to Guernsey Geology

October 15th

Tony Thorp: The evolution of eyes and opsins - Pushing origins back in time

November 19th

Member’s Evening