Shell London Lectures 2009

The Geological Society of London was again delighted to host the 2009 Shell London Lecture Series. These monthly public lectures were all held at the Geological Society's Piccadilly apartments. A full programme is listed below.

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Programme of talks

Thursday 15 January - Rivers, floods and environmental change - Lynne Frostick, University of Hull

Wednesday 11 February - Scelidosaurus the Dorset dinosaur - Tim Ewin, Natural History Museum

Wednesday 11 March - The Arctic 50 million years ago: a window into our future warm world - Jane Francis, University of Leeds

Wednesday 1 April - Fuelling the Future: Energy Questions Driving a New Geoscience - Dirk Smit, Shell

Wednesday 13 May - Tracking time of the earth and solar system  - Randy Parrish, BGS

Wednesday 10 June - The life and death of coral reefs (Darwin lecture) - Rachel Wood, University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 9 September - The fossil record since Darwin - Richard Fortey, Natural History Museum

Wednesday 7 October - Perturbing plankton in the sea: past and future - Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford

Wednesday 11 November - Mountains in the sea - Tony Watts, University of Oxford

Wednesday 9 December - The sameness of rocks, the uniqueness of earth history, and what all that means for hydrocarbon exploration - Bruce Levell, Shell

The presentations from the 2008 Shell Lecture Series are also available to view online.