President’s Day and AGM 2010
| Organised by: | Main Geological Society events |
| Date: | 2 June 2010 |
| Event Type: | AGM/OGM/SGM, Lecture, Social Event |
| Venue: | The Geological Society (Burlington House) |
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President’s Day at Burlington House on 2 June began with the Annual General Meeting at 11am followed by a buffet lunch with the award winners. As in previous years, the recipients of the major medals gave a short talk on their subject, and the Awards Ceremony was followed by presentations by the Wollaston, Lyell, Murchison and William Smith medallists (the talks are available to view below).
AGM Agenda
- Apologies
- Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 3 June 2009
- Appointment of Scrutineers for the ballots for Council and Officers
- Ballot for Council
- Annual Report and Accounts for 2009
- President’s Report
- Secretaries’ Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Comments from Fellows
- Formal acceptance of the Annual Report and Accounts for 2009 and approval of the Budget for 2010
- Fellowship subscriptions for 2011
- Deaths
- Report of Scrutineers on the ballot for Council
- Ballot for Officers
- Appointment of Auditors
- Report of Scrutineers on the ballot for Officers
- Election of new Fellows
- Any other business
- Provisional date of next Annual General Meeting
The talks given on the afternoon of President's Day 2010 are available to watch by clicking on the speaker's names below:
Speakers
Prof William F Ruddiman (Lyell Medal) 'New Support for the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis'
Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Prof Randall Parrish (Murchison Medal)
'Exploring the earth system, grain by grain, with a map, hand lens and mass spectrometer'
Head of NERC’s Isotope Geosciences Laboratory
Dr Henry W Posamentier (William Smith Medal)
'Exploring the subsurface – applications of integrated seismic stratigraphic and geomorphologic analyses from the deep abyss to the alluvial plain'
Senior Consultant Geologist, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, Texas
Prof Richard H Sibson (Wollaston Medal)
'Coupled Fluid and Fault Activity Near the Base of the Seismogenic Zone (How Faults Get Loded)'
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology, University of Otago, New Zealand
Lynne Frostick (Presidential Address)
You can also view all of our winners collecting their awards in the awards ceremony:
View the awards ceremony
To view the abstracts of the talks from each medallist, please click on the PDF below:
- Download the abstracts (.pdf150 Kb)