The Cork Geological Association will be holding a lecture via Zoom on 29th January at 7.30pm when they are delighted to host Dr. Iwan Stӧssel (University of Zurich) discoverer of the Valentia Island tetrapod trackway. Title of lecture: “Steps in Time - Discovering the Irish Tetrapod Trackway”. The discovery of a Devonian tetrapod trackway on […]
The first webinar in the 2025 Northern Ireland Geothermal Webinar Series is taking place on the 30th of January between 15:00 and 16:00. Cornelia Steiner from GeoSphere Austria will introduce the new interactive Geothermal Atlas for Vienna, Austria. This tool showcases the potential for shallow geothermal systems, by illustrating resources and possible limitations for the […]
The annual Burdon Lecture will be on Tuesday 4th February 2025 at 6pm (with tea & coffee from 5:30pm) at the Arup office, 50 Ringsend Road, Dublin 4. The lecture is entitled “Challenges and experience of hydrogeology in the World's largest refugee camp: Kutupalong, Bangladesh” and will be given by Clodagh Gillen, a member of […]
Live talk (no Zoom) 5th February – Dr Mike Simms – Time tbc. Larmor Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen's University, Belfast. There will be a reminder closer to the time or check relevant websites –https://belfastgeologists.org/index.php/events/lectures/ (where there are details of many other upcoming events) and https://irishastro.org/
The IGA will be holding a lecture, via Zoom, on Wednesday 5th February @ 7pm. It will be given by Dr. Richard Unitt (UCC; Copper Coast Geopark) on "Minerals of Ireland – New Discoveries and New Technology". More details will follow presently or email info@geology.ie. This will be a joint event with Cork Geological Association […]
The European Federation of Geologists (EFG), as a partner of the TRIPGIFT Erasmus+ project, announces its Final Conference: ‘Training pupils on geosciences through Virtual Field Trips’ on 11 February 2025 in Greece. The conference will be also live-streamed on YouTube, allowing participants to attend online. During this event, EFG External Relations Officer Pavlos Tyrologou will […]
Please see flyer here for this term's Earth Science seminars. Bernard Owusu – DIAS & UCD Prithwijit Chakraborti – UCD & iCRAG All the Wednesday lunchtime seminars will be given in person at UCD, followed by tea/coffee of notoriously variable quality (high highs, but very low lows), reliably nourishing biscuits, and a chance to connect […]
To mark 10 years of iCRAG, the Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences, a research showcase, “iCRAG@10: Evolving for a Changing World”, will be held in O’Reilly Hall, UCD, Dublin, Thursday February 13th, 2025 at 9:00am. \ More details about this event and a link to register now can be found at this Eventbrite link […]
The National University of Ireland Society of Economic Geologists Student Chapter will be holding a workshop on “Critical Mineral Deposits: Case Studies of volcanogenic and supergene deposits” on Monday 17th February 2025. The workshop will be held as a hybrid event, in-person at the O’Brien Centre for Science UCD and via Zoom. There is more […]
The Belfast Geologists Society next talk will be on Monday, 17th February at 7pm on Zoom only. It will be given by Dr. Norman Moles, University of Brighton (formerly Queen’s University Belfast). The topic is: “New’ geology in the western Mourne Mountains – the Trainor’s Rocks gritstone-conglomerate”. More information on this and other events can […]