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Meeting Programme for 2024-25
Our lecture meetings are usually held in the North Barn of the West Blatchington Windmill, Holmes Avenue in Hove and start at 7:30 with doors open at 7:00. Some meetings for 2024-25 will be held online using Zoom during the wintery months of December and January. This is firstly a cautious approach, and secondly, it allows us to continue to seek speakers from further afield than our usual reach, broadening our geological subject areas too. So, I hope you will enjoy our programme and bear with us as we adjust our arrangements to suit conditions. We will review these arrangements each year.
I would be grateful if members can arrive in good time to take their seats. Tea and coffee will be available free of charge before and after the meetings. Guests are very welcome. Please remember to sign the Register Book. Our lectures last for about an hour and there is always time for a good question and answer session afterwards. We usually close the building around 9.30pm. This year the Members’ Evening in December and AGM in March will also be held at the Windmill because the Booth Museum is not available.
Details of connecting with our presentations by Zoom will be circulated by email before each meeting.
John Cooper Chairman
2 October
Dr Lorna Linch, University of Brighton
From raising the global sea level to threatening billions with water shortages - here is why you should care about ice sheets and glaciers.
6 November
Professor Rory Mortimore Inaugural Presidential address
Full-circle - From the South Downs to the North Atlantic via the North Sea and Inner Hebrides: developing Cretaceous geology.
4 December - by Zoom - details circulated by email beforehand
Tom Sharpe, Edinburgh. (Ex National Museum of Wales)
Mary Anning (1799-1847) - Fossil Woman.
18 December
BHGS Christmas Conglomerate at the Windmill
Bring along festive food and drink as well as anything of geological interest for presentation to the group.
8 January - by Zoom details circulated by email beforehand.
Alexandra M. Sweeney, Durham University
The Heat Beneath Our Feet: modelling groundwater flow and heat transfer in abandoned coal mines for mine water geothermal energy.
5 February
Debby Matthews, Lewes
Stones and Bones: Gideon Mantell's many finds and the stories they could tell of Sussex long ago.
Part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of the dinosaur Iguanodon
5 March
Tony Cross, Hampshire Museums Service (retired)
Aspects of the Geology of the Hampshire Basin.
19 March
Annual General Meeting and Members' Evening at
West Blatchington Windmill.
2 April
To be confirmed.