President’s Day and AGM 2011
| Organised by: | Main Geological Society events |
| Date: | 8 June 2011 |
| 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 8 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 were invited to give a short talk on their subject, and the Awards Ceremony was followed by presentations by the Lyell, Murchison, William Smith and Wollaston medallists (presentations are available to view below).
AGM Agenda
- Apologies
- Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 2 June 2010
- Appointment of Scrutineers for the ballots for Council and Officers
- Ballot for Council
- Annual Report and Accounts for 2010
- President’s Report
- Secretaries’ Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Comments from Fellows
- Formal acceptance of the Annual Report and Accounts for 2010 and approval of the Budget for 2011
- Fellowship subscriptions for 2012
- 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
Presentations
The talks given on the afternoon of President's Day 2011 are available to watch by clicking on the speaker's names below:
Christopher Paola (Lyell Medal)
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics and St Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
"Small worlds: what laboratory-scale experiments can tell us about sedimentary basins and the stratigraphic record"
E Bruce Watson (Murchison Medal)
Institute Professor, Experimental Geochemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The Pros and Cons of Equilibrium"
Stuart Haszeldine (William Smith Medal)
Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, University of Edinburgh
"Geological storage of CO2 and radioactive waste: liability or giant green-business?"
Stephen Sparks CBE (Wollaston Medal)
Professor of Geology, University of Bristol
"Global volcanic risk"
Bryan Lovell (Presidential Address)
You can also view all of our winners collecting their awards in the awards ceremony:
View the awards ceremony
The abstracts of the talks from each medallist are available to download below:
- Download the abstracts (.pdf112 Kb)