Prior Years' Monthly Meetings
Monthly Meeting Programme 2023-2024
All meetings were held in person except where noted otherwise in bold.
28th September. Angus Miller. Geological basics.
5th October. Gillian Pickup. Geological Storage of CO2.
2nd November. Simeon Brown. The History of Onshore Oil Exploration in Scotland and Northern England.
7th December. Christmas meeting.
4th January. Zoom talk from Alison Tymon. Geological sites in the Scottish Borders and Midlothian.
1st February. Aled Owen. Slate - it's culture and heritage.
7th March. Rachel Paul. The Cononish gold mine.
4th April. Tom Challands. Movement of early fish from sea to land (Palaeontology).
Monthly Meeting Programme 2022-2023
All meetings were held in person except where noted otherwise in bold.
22nd September. Angus Miller. Introduction to local geology and how to read a geological map.
6th October. Emily Brown. Agates and the NMS agate collections.
3rd November. Michael Cheeseburgh. The age of the Earth from Aristotle to Claire Patterson.
1st December. Christmas with cakes and a quiz; members' short talks.
5th January. Zoom talk by Keith Milne, NWH GeoPark. 'The Moine Thrust'.
2nd February. John Taylor. Scottish Geology Trust Festival with a focus on Angus Old Red Sandstone conglomerates.
2nd March. Alan McKirdy. Author of two new books - 'James Hutton' and 'Landscapes in Stone'.
30th March. Robert Gatliff. Plans for Siccar Point and an interpretation centre at Cockburnspath.
Monthly Meeting Program 2021-2022
All meetings were held on-line via Zoom except for the January and March meetings.
2nd September. Rob Butler. Discussion of video about mapping the Sheer Zone.
7th October. Hannah Mather. A Quaternary Eye on Scotland; A Walker's Guide to Glacial Landscapes.
4th November. Katie Strang. The Paleontological and Industrial History of the Forth.
2nd December. Kate Gallagher and Rob Askew. Icelandic Volcanoes.
6th January (on-site meeting). Angus Miller. Geology Shapes Scotland, and What We Should Do About It.
3rd February. James Westland. Mull Rocks.
3rd March (on-site meeting). Eimear Deady. Critical Raw Materials for the Energy Transition.
7th April. Presentations of self-led walks; Ian Roy. LIDAR; Angus Miller. Faulting between Calton Hill and Arthur's Seat
Monthly Meeting Programme 2020-2021
All meetings were held on-line via Zoom.
10th September. Brent MacGregor. Geosail expedition in the Western Isles.
8th October. Greg Funston. Walking with Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Behaviour in Extinct Animals.
5th November. Craig Scott. The Christchurch Earthquake.
3rd December. Members' reports on:
- photos from 2012 trip to Iceland)
- Visual Rock Inspiration for Tapestry
- photos from Gribun Mill on Mull
- reading of Edwin Morgan's poem 'Slate'
- pebble quiz
- Rock-inspired Handprinted Artworks
7th January. Colin MacFadyen. Skye Nature Conservation Order: An effort to conserve globally significant fossil resources of high collector value in a remote location.
4th February. Members' reports on:
- Residential trip to Arran
- Sea, Coal and Pooh, Marie Stopes Geological Career
- The Cliffs of Fundy Geopark in Nova Scotia
- The Acasta Gneiss: The Oldest Rock in the World
4th March. Peter Del Strother. History of Cement and the Romans.
1st April. Hermione Cockburn. Discovering the Deep: Charles Wyville Thompson and Scotland's Deep Sea Heritage.
6th May. Members' reports on local trips:
- Cramond Island
- Castle Building Stones
6th June. Members' report: Two Glens, Roy and Tilt.
1st July. Members' reports on Eyemouth trip.
Monthly Meeting Programme 2019-2020
12th September. Angus Miller. Deep time. An introduction.
3rd October. David Millward. Rock plants for a geologist.
7th November. Alan Smith. James Croll: The Scottish scientist who first explained the cause of ice ages.
5th December. Christmas meeting. Geocakes and Geo Quiz. Jenny's Gems and Clare's Pottery.
9th January. Doug McDougal. The 1870's Challenger expedition to explore the world's oceans: Geological discoveries and other wonders.
6th February. Phil Stone. Greywacke, graptolites and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.
5th March. Report back from participants about our trips to Blencathra, Lake District and to the Black Isle.
2nd April. Craig Scott. The Christchurch Earthquake.