Events & Courses

Events throughout the year from the Geologists' Association

GA Annual Conference

Portlands Heights Hotel, Isle of Portland Theme: Jurassic Coast 21 - 22 October

Festival of Geology

University College, London - 5 - 6 November

Weekend Field Meeting

South Wales 7 - 8 May

Overseas Field trips

• Cyprus 16 - 23 April
• Lagerstatten of Southern Germany 27 June - 4 July
• Lanzarote 22 - 29 September

Day Field trips

• Lincolnshire Quarries - 13 March
• Lost Gardens Ediacara - 3 April
• Isle of Sheppey - 30 April
• Charnwood Forest - 22 May
• Goring Gap -  11 June - see flyer for more information
• Wren's Nest @ 60 - 18 June
• Canary Wharf Walk pm - 21 June
• Mimms Valley - 10 July 
• Wealden July-  tbc 
• Canterbury - 7 August
• Fossils in the City - 25 September
• Dorset/Devon Weekend - 1-2 October
• Kelvingrove Museum and Museum Resource Centre Tour, Glasgow - 1-3 October
  
• Selsey, W. Sussex - 8 October

• The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains paradox in East Antactica: solved or endearingly enigmatic - Dr Fausto Ferraccioli - 8 January
• A Virtual World of Palaeontology - Dr Imran Rahman - 5 February
• Giant marine reptiles and whales during the Eocene- Oligocene cooling event - Dr Nick Longrich - 11 March
• The Biggest Volcano on Earth -Dr Julie Prytulak - 1 April
• AGM & Presidential Address Foraminifera II Planktonics - The free floating story - Dr Haydon Bailey - May 6
• Cambridge Earth's Climate Evolution - Dr Colin Summerhayes - 3 June
• The Geology and Scenery of Italy: the role of Earthquakes Volcanoes and Tectonic Plates -Dr Lidia Lonergan - 1 July
• Radon, a silent GeoHazard - Dr Anthonio Ferreira - 7 October
• The Evolution of a fold thrust belt an example from the Zagros  Mountains of Iran - Professor John Cosgrove - 2 December

Further information

For more information on all these events please visit the Geologist's Association website.