Events & Courses

The Geological Society of London was delighted to again host the Shell London Lecture Series throughout 2011. These monthly public lectures were all held at the Geological Society's Piccadilly apartments in Burlington House. A full programme is listed below.

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Programme of talks

• 19 January - Icelandic volcanoes, interactions between volcanoes, ice and atmosphere
  Speaker: Thor Thordarsen (Edinburgh University)
• 16 February - Challenged by carbon: Geologists, the oil industry and climate change
  Speaker: Bryan Lovell (GSL President)
• 16 March - A mole in London: Tunnelling beneath the city for major transport and infrastructure projects
  Speaker: Rory Mortimore (Brighton University) 
• 20 April - The Anthropocene: Living in a new age
  Speaker: Jan Zalasiewicz (Leicester University)
• 18 May - Tethyan Carbonates - Linking tropical seas and crashing plates to some of the largest oil and gas fields in the world
  Speaker: Keith Gerdes (Shell)
• 15 June - Coal, Climate Change, and Carbon Capture and Storage
  Speaker: Mike Stephenson (British Geological Survey)
• 21 September - Paleogene Climate Conundrums
  Speaker: Tom Dunkley Jones (Imperial College London)
• 19 October - Earth's atmosphere trapped in ice: 800,000 years of climate change
  Speaker: Eric Wolff (British Antartic Survey)
• 16 November - New hydrocarbon development challenges and the impact on production geosciences
  Speaker: Hans Goeyenbier (Shell)
• 14 December - Mineral deposits and their global strategic supply
  Speaker: Andrew Mackenzie (BHP Billiton)