Lectures

2009: Spring Programme

5 February	1st Annual General Meeting and Open Evening
5 March	The Ravenscar Group as a model for North Sea Oilfields	Dr Steve Livera, Shell UK
9 April	If only rocks could talk: preserving our geological heritage	Dr Kate Ravilious, Freelance Science Journalist
5 May	Plate Tectonics: the UK jigsaw	Prof. Pete Rawson, University of Hull & Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College, London

2009: Summer Field Programme

13 June	Spikers Hill (Jurassic coral reefs etc) and glacial features	Peter Robinson
11 July	Whitby Museum (provisional) and Lias shales
8 August	The Flamborough Chalk	Pete Rawson
12 September	Star Carr	John Hudson

2009: Autumn Programme

8 October	Tectonics, rivers and landscape evolution	Prof. Lynne Frostick, University of Hull
5 November	Glacial evolution of the Vale of York	Dr Tony Cooper, British Geological Survey
3 December	Glaciation in geological time – including 'snowball Earth'	Rotunda Geology Group members

2010: Spring Programme

4 February	2nd Annual General Meeting and Open Evening
4 March	Management of pollution from abandoned metal mines in the UK	Dr Will Mayes, University of Hull
1 April	Geology of the Yorkshire Coast
6 May	Fuelling the future	Paul Wood, formerly Shell UK

2010: Summer Field Programme

6 June	Dalbyology. Natural history fun day in Dalby Forest
12 June	South Bay Scarborough – dinosaur footprints and fossil plants	John Hudson & Stuart Swann
17 June	Fossil Festival (17-20 June). Scarborough Museums’ Trust with the Natural History Museum. To include Castle Hill trail launch
3 July	Pleistocene of Bridlington Bay	Derek Gobbett
14 August	The Flamborough Chalk	Pete Rawson
4 September	The Cleveland Dyke – joint meeting with Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society	John Hudson & Chris Hall

2010: Autumn Programme

7 October	The Earth after us – man’s legacy in the rocks	Dr Jan Zalasiewicz, University of Leicester
4 November	Establishing Shell’s new technology centre in India	Dr Bob Frith, Shell UK
2 December	Evolution	Dr Sue Hull, University of Hull, John Hudson & Prof. Pete Rawson, University of Hull & Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College, London

2011: Spring Programme

3 February	3rd Annual General Meeting and Open Evening
3 March	Which came first, the dinosaur or the egg? Dinosaur eggs from a Chinese perspective	Dr Martin Whyte, University of Sheffield
7 April	The animals that David Attenborough forgot: the natural history of fossil and living bryozoans	Dr Paul Taylor, Natural History Museum
5 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas

2011: Summer Field Programme

4 June	Cayton Bay area	Pete Rawson
2 July	Yorkshire Wolds	Derek Gobbett
6 August	Cleveland Dyke (joint meeting with Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society)	John Hudson & Chris Hall
3 September	Runswick Bay	Pete Robinson

2011: Autumn Programme

3 October	The end Permian mass extinction – death by fire	Prof. Paul Wignall, University of Leeds
6 October	3D modelling of the North York Moors and surrounding areas	Dr Phillip Wilby, British Geological Survey
1 December	Topic chosen by membership RGG members

2012: Spring Programme

2 February	4th Annual General Meeting and Open Evening
1 March	Greening the Sahara: stalagmites, isotopes and mankind’s route out of Africa	Dr Michael Rogerson, University of Hull
5 April	The last glacial cycle in lowland England – the Devensian Stage of the Late Pleistocene	Prof. Phil Gibbard, University of Cambridge
3 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas - RGG field leaders

2012: Summer Field Programme

9 June	Roseberry Topping (joint meeting with Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society)	Chris Hall
7 July	Yorkshire Wolds	Derek Gobbett
4 August	Robin Hood’s Bay	Peter Rawson & Peter Robinson
8 September	Cloughton and Hayburn Wykes	Steve Livera

2012: Autumn Programme

4 October	Fossil monster hunters: Mary Anning and Thomas Hawking	Prof Hugh Torrens, University of Keele
1 November	The Zechstein Sea and its potash deposits	Tristan Pottas, York Potash & Paul Wood, Scientifically Write & Rotunda Geology Group
6 December	Talks from the three galleries of the Rotunda Museum, courtesy of the Scarborough Museums Trust	Will Watts, University of Hull & Prof. Pete Rawson, University of Hull & Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College, London
6 December	Key Figures in the Development of the Rotunda Museum and the Geology of the Yorkshire Coast	Peter Robinson

2013: Spring Programme

7 February	5th Annual General Meeting and Open Evening
2 March	Recent research on the Yorkshire coast
4 April	Gas fields of the Cleveland Basin	John Dewar & Edwin Bowles, Third Energy (ex Viking Gas)
2 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas - RGG field leaders
6 July	Significant Glacial and Post-glacial phenomena in north-east Yorkshire.	Peter C. Robinson with Brian Walker, Forest District Advisor & Brian Hicks, Forest District Ecologist

2013: Summer Field Programme

2 June	Dalbyology
8 June	Rosedale – Geology and Industrial Archaeology (joint meeting with Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society)	Chris Hall with Peter Rawson & Steve Livera
10 August	The Lower Jurassic from Staithes to Port Mulgrave	Paul Wignall
7 September	The Middle Jurassic at Cloughton and Hayburn Wykes	Steve Livera

2013: Autumn Programme

3 October	Limestone deposition: cycles, sea-level and the sun	Prof. Maurice Tucker, University of Bristol
7 November	Rebuilding terrestrial ecosystems after the end Devonian mass extinction: insights from the TW:eed Project	Prof. Sarah Davies, University of Leicester
5 December	Landslides and subsidence: engineering geology in an age of austerity	David Shilston, President of the Geological Society & Patron of the Rotunda Museum

2014: Spring Programme

6 February	6th Annual General Meeting and Open Evening
6 March	Applied structural geology and faults from the hydrocarbon Industry	Prof. Rob Knipe, Director, Rock Deformation Research & Emeritus Prof. of Structural Geology, University of Leeds

2014: Spring

3 April	The Bowland Shales – their oil and gas prospects. Will Britain realise their potential?	Dr Nick Riley, Consultant Geologist & Director at Carboniferous Ltd
1 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas - RGG field leaders

2014: Summer Field Programme

7 June	Lower Jurassic Geology and Archaeology in Cleveland	Chris Hall/Pete Rawson/Steve Livera
5 July	Jurassic “Gems” of the Hambleton and Howardian Hills	John Powell & Jon Ford (BGS)
2 August	Cornelian Bay – Stratigraphy, Sediments and Structure	Steve Livera/Stuart Swann/Paul Wood/Peter Rawson
13 September	Buried Valleys and Glaciation Timing at Flamborough Head	Rodger Connell

2014: Autumn Programme

9 October	Ancient Plants and Swamps of the Yorkshire Jurassic	Dr Chris Hill, previously British Museum of Natural History
6 November	Understanding hazardous volcanic flows	Dr Rebecca Williams, University of Hull
4 December	Members’ evening.

2015: Spring Programme

5 February	Open Evening and AGM
5 March	An abrupt and severe Middle Permian mass extinction in high palaeolatitudes (Spitsbergen and Siberia)	Dr David Bond, University of Hull
9 April	Exotic rocks and fossils from NE Arabia, glimpses of a former Permian ocean	Dr Alan Heward, formerly Shell
7 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas - RGG field leaders

2015: Summer Field Programme

30 May	What can we learn from the Chalk of the Wolds?	Derek Gobbett
5 July	Of Fossils and Fracking (Saltwick Bay and Whitby East)	Liam Herringshaw, University of Durham
1 August	Filey Bay: the Speeton Clay, Chalk and glacial tills	Pete Rawson
5 September	Jurassic Plants and Ores at Hasty Bank and Cold Moor	Chris Hill with Steve Livera

2015: Autumn Programme

8 October	Geology in the defence of the accused	Dr Chris Jeans, University of Cambridge
31 October	The Yorkshire Geological Society’s William Smith Map Bicentenary Meeting
12 November	The early Toarcian (Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event: untangling global and regional signals	Dr Rob Newton, University of Leeds
10 December	Members’ evening

2016: Spring Programme

4 February	Open Evening and AGM
3 March	Miners, gardeners, engineers: How burrowing creatures changed the world	Dr. Liam Herringshaw, University of Hull
7 April	How long does it take to build mountains? Metamorphism of the Caledonides	Dr. Anna Bird, University of Hull
5 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas	RGG field leaders

2016: Summer Field Programme

4 June	Mining Geology around Goathland and Grosmont	Denis Goldring, Chris Twigg, Carl Thomas and Steve Livera
2 July	Local Geology Sites for Conservation	Peter Robinson, Pete Rawson and Steve Livera
6 August	After the ice age. De-glacial environments at Barmston and the late glacial - Holocene mere sediments at Skipsea Withow	Rodger Connell
3 September	Chalk of Selwicks Bay and North Landing	Pete Rawson

2016: Autumn Programme

13 October	Chalk cliffs of the Yorkshire Coast: onshore analogues for offshore windfarms and reservoirs in the North Sea.	Professor Rory Mortimer, ChalkRock Ltd
3 November	North Yorkshire’s Sleeping Giant: shale gas	Fred Hughes, Third Energy
8 December	Members’ Evening

2017: Spring Programme

2 February	Open Evening and AGM - bring along your specimens, photos and queries
2 March	Abrupt climate changes and rapid sea level rise: coming out of the last ice age.	Dr Ruza Ivanovic (University of Leeds)
6 April	Exceptional Fossil Preservation of the Cambrian Explosion in North Greenland.	Katie Strang (Scarborough Museums Trust)
4 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas	RGG field leaders

2017: Summer Field Programme

10 June	Sewerby Chalk and Glacial Deposits	Prof. Pete Rawson (University of Hull and UCL)
8 July	Alum and Cementstone north of Sandsend	Simon Chapman (joint meeting with CMHS and SAHS)
12 August	Wrack Hills or Yons Nab Lower/Middle Jurassic	Dr Steve Livera (formerly Shell)
9 September	Ravenscar or Burniston Lower-Middle Jurassic	Dr Liam Herringshaw (University of Hull)

2017: Autumn Programme

5 October	Minerals and Microscopes; the Make-up of Meteorites	Dr Tony Kearsley (formerly Natural History Museum)
2 November	From Wollaston and Brora to Brae: Understanding your oilfield or the search for an analogue	Dr Rodger Connell (University of Hull)
7 December	Members’ Evening

2018: Spring Programme

1 February	Open Evening and AGM - bring along your specimens, photos and queries
1 March	Palaeogene volcanism in the British Isles: recent advances and current thinking	Dr Brian Bell (University of Glasgow)
5 April	A tribe of jobbing ditchers	Dr Ted Nield (Geological Society of London)
3 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas	RGG field leaders

2018: Summer Field Programme

30 June	Deepgrove Wyke to Keldhowe Steel – Toarcian stratigraphy and sedimentology	Dr Tim Burnhill and John Hodgson
4 August	Whitby West to Sandsend – Faults, Jurassic rivers, and glacial geology	Dr Tim Burnhill
1 September	South Landing/Skipsea or Mappleton: Pleistocene glacial geology	Rodger Connell (University of Hull)
29 September	Scalby Ness – Middle Jurassic fluvial meanders	Dr Steve Livera

2018: Autumn Programme

4 October	Passive Margins in 2018 a view from the Alps	Professor Rod Graham (Imperial College, London)
1 November	Sirius Minerals, building a sustainable deep mine	Asher Haynes, Project Geologist, Sirius Minerals
6 December	Members’ Evening

2019: Spring Programme

7 February	Open Evening and AGM - bring along your specimens, photos and queries
7 March	Women in Geology	Paul Hildreth, President of the Yorkshire Geological Society
4 April	(Jurassic) life after (Triassic) death	Professor David Bond, Hull University
2 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas	RGG field leaders

2019: Summer Field Programme

8 June	Reighton Gap, Filey Bay. Lower Cretaceous Speeton Clay and Chalk	Pete Rawson
6 July	Danby Head, Trough House and Great Fryup Head. Eller Beck Formation	Steve Livera
3 August	Staithes. Staithes Sandstone, Cleveland Ironstone and Whitby Mudstone Formations	John Hodgson
7 September	Geology of the Hole of Horcum	Tim Burnhill

2019: Autumn Programme

3 October	Insights into the rates and nature of long-term erosion of the North Yorkshire coast from cosmogenic radionuclide exposure dating	Dr Swirad, Durham University
7 November	Exploring for Helium	Professor John Gluyas, Durham University
5 December	Members’ Evening

2020: Spring Programme

13 February	Open Evening and AGM - bring along your specimens, photos and queries
5 March	Lake Pickering – some new insights	Dr Laura Eddey, alumni Sheffield University
2 April	POSTPONED - Exploring Morocco's palaeontological riches	Mick Oates (formerly British Gas)
7 May	Geological setting of field excursion areas	RGG field leaders

2020: Summer Field Programme

6 June	Grosmont and Goathland	Steve Livera
11 June	Cloughton Wyke – Hundale Point	John Hodgson/Tim Burnhill
1 August	Lake Pickering	Laura Eddey
5 September	Curious cobbles and pretty pebbles – Robin Hood’s Bay	John Hodgson/Tim Burnhill

2020: Autumn Programme

1 October	The Geology of Boulby Mine, from Potash to Polyhalite	Peter Edey, Boulby Mine
5 November	The structural evolution of Flamborough Head	Eddie Dempsey, Hull University
3 December	Members’ Evening

2022: Spring Programme

3 March	Microfossils and applied high-resolution stratigraphy	Tim Burnhill
7 April	Young & Bird (1822): Local geology and the 6 Days of Creation	Pete Rawson
5 May	Fieldtrip information - summer 2022	Various

2022: Summer Field Programme

12 June	York Earth Walk	Liam Herringshaw
16 July	Cayton bay and Yons nab	John Hodgson
14 August	Filey Brigg – The Big Brigg GeoBlitz!	Liam Herringshaw
3 September	Commondale & Castleton	Steve Livera

2022: Autumn Programme

6 October TBC TBC
3 November TBC TBC
1 December Members' Evening