Events & Courses

President’s Day at Burlington House on 6 June 2018 began with the Annual General Meeting at 11.00am 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. The medallists' talks can be watched below.

Lyell medallist

Julian Dowdeswell, Director, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

A view from the sea: the marine-geophysical signature of past ice sheets

Murchison medallist

Janne Blichert-Toft, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS and Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

The ever enigmatic early Earth seen from the perspective of Nd-Hf-W isotope systematics in komatiites

William Smith medallist

Peter Dolan, Co-Founder Director, Ikon Science Limited

Squeezing Value from Seismic Data
or
Many bangs bounce back,
To deliver bucks from form
Fabric and fluids

Wollaston medallist

Terry Plank, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

At the Speed of Volcanic Eruptions