December 2009

Editorial

• Juvenestus sumus   - What has happened to the Lord of Misrule?  Ted Nield evokes the memory of a yuletide tradition that is sadly dying out in the Academy
• Broad Church - Revd. Dr Mark Betson FGS, Diocesan Environment Office for Chichester, explores some common ground between the Church of England and geoscience.

People

• Distant Thunder - Xmas marks the spot.  Nina Morgan recounts a rude awakening on Christmas Day
• Poster Children - Dawne Riddle reports on the Anglo American Environmental Geochemistry Poster Competition result
• The Collector - Jessica Shepherd marks the beginning of the St Aubyn Colection's nationwide tour by examining the secret life of a great collector
• Christmas reader offer!

Geonews

• GEOMETRY course - a new teaching borehole array is being created by Newcastle University hydrogeologists, reports Adler deWind.
• SIlverpit - "not impact crater", votes a Petroleum Group Debate.  Dawne Riddle reports.

 

Reviews

• Two new reviews - by David Nowell and Rob Strachan

Features

• Stromatolites - great survivors under threat.  Ken McNamara investigates the slime that ruled the Earth for billions of years

Society at Large

• Nominations to Honorary Fellowship

Letters

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