Leeds Geological Association


Lecture Programme


Monthly Lecture Programme 2008


Leeds Geological Association - The Leeds Hippo


All our lectures, which are on a Thursday at 7.00p.m., are held in Lecture Theatre No. 9 in the Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre Block (unless otherwise stated). This is on the South Side of the Mathematics / Earth Sciences Building in the University of Leeds. Tea and biscuits are served in the Earth Sciences Common Room after the lecture.

DATE

LECTURE TITLE

SPEAKER

19 - JAN - 08

(Saturday)

Current Post-Graduate Research

Joint meeting with the YGS

Venue: Rupert Beckett Theatre, University of Leeds
Time: 2-5 PM

Jonathon Poulter
Alison Parker
Juric Eggenhuiser
Tom Challands

24 - JAN - 08

Geology and Disease

Prof Gerry Slavin
Formerly of Barts. Hospital
London

21 - FEB - 08

Presentations by Students of the School of Earth and Environment

3rd/4th Year Students
Earth and Environment
University of Leeds

13 - MAR - 08

National
Science
Week

Modelling Ancient Earth Climates

Dr Alan Haywood
Earth and Environment
University of Leeds

17 - APR - 08

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage:
a Strategy to Mitigate Global Warming

Dr Andy Chadwick
British Geological Survey
Keyworth

8 - MAY - 08

Yorkshire
Geology
Month

Environmental Change in Ancient and Modern Desert Systems

Dr Nigel Mountney
Earth and Environment
University of Leeds

16 - OCT - 08

The Palaeontological Association Baldwin Lecture: the Evolution of Vertebrate Ecosystems through the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Prof Mike Benton
Dept of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol

13 - NOV - 08

The Jurassic Ferrar Volcanic System, Antarctica

Dr Dougal Jerram
Dept Geological Sciences
University of Durham

04 - DEC - 08

AGM and Conversazione –
Short Talks and Displays by Members

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Details of previous lecture programmes are available here.