Events & Courses

The Geological Society of London was again delighted to host the 2010 Shell London Lecture Series. These monthly public lectures were all held at the Geological Society's Piccadilly apartments.

The presentation from each lecture is available to view online - click on the lecture title below. You must have Windows Media Player 10 or higher installed to view the presentation. Download Windows Media Player now.

Programme of talks

• 13 January - Living with the rising tides
  Speaker: Lynne Frostick (Hull University and President, GSL
• 10 February - Hot prospects in the cold: The new geological map of the Arctic
  Speaker: Marc St-Onge (Canadian Geological Survey) 
• 10 March - Carbon capture and storage: Our only hope to avoid global warming?
  Speaker: Martin Blunt (Imperial College London)
• 14 April - The search for source rocks on Mars
  Speaker: John Grotzinger (Caltech)
• 12 May – Geology and ecology: The evolution of a megaproject on Sakhalin Island
  Speaker: Chris Finlayson (Shell)
• 9 June - The chemistry of the oceans: Past, present & future
  Speaker: Derek Vance (University of Bristol)
• 8 September - A lot of hot air: Degassing and volcanic eruptions
  Speaker: Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)
• 13 October – Impacts
  Speaker: Jay Melosh (Purdue University)
• 10 November – Half empty or half full: How much oil and gas can we recover from our fields?
  Speaker: Rob Kleibergen (Shell)
• 8 December - Geological hazards: How safe is Britain?
  Speaker: Martin Culshaw