President’s Day and AGM (2009)

President’s Day began with the Annual General Meeting at 11.00 am followed by a buffet lunch with the award winners. The Awards Ceremony was followed by presentations by the Wollaston, Lyell, Murchison and William Smith medallists (details below). The timetable for President’s Day was as follows:

Timetable

11.00 Annual General Meeting (members only)
12.30 Lunch with the Award winners (members with tickets only)
14.00 Awards Ceremony
15.30 Talks by Lyell, Murchison and William Smith medallists
16.45 Tea
17.15 Talk by Wollaston Medallist
17.45 Presidential Address
18.30-20.00 Drinks reception

 

The talks given on the afternoon of President's Day 2009 are available to watch by clicking on the speaker's names below:
 

Speakers

Paul Hoffman - Wollaston Medal 
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Emeritus, Harvard University
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
(Paul Hoffman was unable to attend due to ill health, and his talk was delivered by Ian Fairchild)

Nick McCave - Lyell Medal 
Emeritus Woodwardian Professsor of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge

David Kohlstedt - Murchison Medal 
Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor & Head
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Minnesota

Michael J. Russell - William Smith Medal 
NASA Senior Research Fellow
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology

Lynne Frostick - Presidential Address