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Programme of Indoor Meetings 2019 - 2020Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October 2019Geologists' Association GeoConference Conference to be held at the University of ManchesterConference programme, including field trips, available at the Geologists' Association website Thursday 14 November 2019 at 18:30 - Joint Meeting with Geological Society NW BranchGeology and Geodynamics of the Betic Cordilleras, South East Spain - Prof Ernie RutterDetails here Refreshments available from 18:00 Saturday 23 November 2019 at 13:30 - The Broadhurst Lectures: The AnthropoceneWhat is the Anthropocene, when did it start and what is the material and geochemicalevidence? - Prof Colin Waters, Leicester UniversityClimate in the Anthropocene - Dr Colin Summerhayes, University of Cambridge The Anthropocene biosphere and its implications for the well-being of all organisms on planet Earth - Prof Mark Williams, Leicester University Abstracts Saturday 7 December 2019 at 13:30 - GeotourismGeotourism/Geoconservation in Mainland Spain - Javier Carmona CarrilloLanzarote - A geoconservation island - Prof Cynthia Burek, University of Chester Small is Beautiful - Dave Cropp, Martley GeoVillage Abstracts Saturday 18 January 2020 at 13:30 - Vertebrates: Cambrian to MesozoicThe Cambrian explosion and the first vertebrate skeletons - Dr Duncan Murdock, Oxford University Museum of Natural HistoryMesozoic Mammals of the Inner Hebrides and the Birth of the Modern Ecosystem - Dr Elsa Panciroli, University of Oxford The early evolution of jawed vertebrates: new clues from Mongolia and the Canadian Arctic - Dr Martin Brazeau, Imperial College, London Abstracts Wednesday 12 February 2020 at 19:00 - AGM followed by Presidential AddressLiving in a greenhouse world: what the Cretaceous can tell us about global warming - Professor Cathy Hollis, MGA PresidentAbstract Tuesday 3 March 2020 at 18:30 - Joint Meeting with Manchester Geographical AssociationMeeting cancelled.The speaker is unable to return to the UK in timely fashion due to flight cancellations Meetings are held in the Lecture Theatre in the Williamson Building, University of Manchester, 176 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QQ, unless otherwise stated. Full details of the speakers and their lecture titles will be circulated nearer the times of the meetings. |