Building Stones of Belfast with Shirley Grey, Dr. Joanne Curran and others. A walk around the centre of Belfast looking at the range of natural building stone. Sunday 13th April. More details available by emailing: Ian Enlander at belfastgeologists@live.co.uk
Reminder - IAH (Irish Group) 2025 Conference – takes place on the 15th and 16th April 2025 in the Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore. Co. Offaly. This year the theme will be “Groundwater and Geotechnics”. This conference will feature themed sessions covering key topics such as hydro-geotechnical site characterisation, groundwater flooding, sustainable groundwater management on infrastructure […]
Please see flyer here for this term's Earth Science seminars. Derya Gürer – Heidelberg University “Carbonate Veins in Basalts: Tracing the Timing and Conditions of LIP Emplacement and Carbonation” 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 […]
Please see flyer here for this term's Earth Science seminars. Renée Tamblyn – University of Bern “In situ Lu-Hf LA-ICP-MS/MS geochronology: applications and outlook” 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 […]
The fourth webinar in the 2025 Northern Ireland Geothermal Webinar Series takes place on Thursday 24th April between 16:00 and 17:00. Katherine Deeming, PhD researcher at University of Strathclyde will talk about "Mapping Minewater and Heat: A Spatial Analysis of the Co-location of Minewater Thermal Resources with Future Heat Demand in Scotland". Register via this […]
A GGA fieldtrip to the south-eastern Burren (Mullach Mór) takes place on Saturday 26th April, 2025 (10am to about 4 pm). Meet at Gortlecka crossroads at 10 am (52.9967981N, 9.0373889W; parking immediately to S of crossroads). Please note: car parking is limited so please take a lift if at all possible, to reduce the number […]
The Geotechnical Society, co-hosting with the IGI, will hold their Spring Seminar and AGM on Tuesday 13th May which will include talks from Dr John C. Cripps, University of Sheffield and Dr Róisín Buckley, Glasgow University (see draft poster here). Dr Cripps will give the 23rd Glossop Lecture, entitled “Mud to Rock and Back” while […]
The Annual IAEG Conference will be held on the 15th and 16th May in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Copper: The Green Metal”. Call for Papers: If you have a paper or know someone who could contribute to the Conference, please get in touch via secretary@iaeg.ie. IAEG would […]
Belfast Geologists Society - their final talk of the 2024/2025 lecture series will be held next Monday, 19th May 2025 as a hybrid event, both in-person (at QUB Geography Dept, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast) and on Zoom. The lecture is the 2025 Harold Wilson Memorial Lecture and is entitled “The mining heritage of County Antrim and […]
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Lecture – Tuesday 20th May 2025 at 6pm in the Haughton Lecture Theatre in the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin. The talk is titled: "CO2 Storage Resource Management System – Application and Learnings from World’s First Booking" and will be delivered by Dr Paul Lyford. Paul is the Reserves […]