2021 Lectures and Events

Upcoming Lectures in 2022 - open to non-members.  Field Trips are listed in the next page/tab.

Previous Lectures available on Zoom for 30 days from broadcast - emailed to members only.

Wednesday 18 May 7.00pm online only

Biomineralisation - Nature's Bio-Engineering Marvels Clemens V. Ullmann, Lecturer in Palaeontology, Palaeobiology, Biogeochemistry, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter Dr Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann | Camborne School of Mines: <br><h2>Geology and Mining</h2> | University of Exeter In this presentation Clemens will explore the structures and the chemistry of biominerals, materials that have become biological engineering marvels over the last 500 million years of geological time since life first found ways to build shells and other hard tissues. Join Zoom Meeting

https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/93125580238?pwd=ek9hZzliT3lMeUxFc2JaN3BadGIwUT09

Meeting ID: 931 2558 0238

Password: 853437

Dial by your location

+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom

+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom

Wednesday 22 June 7.00pm on zoom

Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK: Benefits and Risks Professor Richard Worden, University of Liverpool, UK Richard Worden - University of Liverpool

In this talk, Richard will explore the reasons we think carbon capture and storage will help cut greenhouse emissions, the potential risks involved linked to earthquake activity and leakage of CO₂.

He will discuss the UK's preferred CCS sites, focusing on the HyNet CCS project, just offshore from Liverpool in the East Irish Sea Basin. (https://hynet.co.uk/)