Resources from past events organised by the SPRG Group can be found below. If there is an event you would like details for, or questions about any past meeting resources that we can make available, please email us.
Careers in Earth Science
Date: 23 March 2013
Speaker: Tony Konlon, Department of Earth and Enviromental Sciences
The SPRG Group hosted this lecture as part of Climate Week (www...
How will the geosciences contribute to achieving a sustainable energy supply in the 21st Century and beyond?
Throughout human history energy supply has been a defining factor in the level of development a society has been able to achieve. Wood and grasses provided the first fuels – the control of fire possibly being one of the first steps onto the ladder of society, enabling the smelting o...
Howard Lee FGS recently sold himself down the river with a bunch of adolescents. It was a learning experience on both sides...
Geoscientist 21.1 February 2011
It’s probably on the “bucket list” of every geologist (even a lapsed one like me). So when the opportunity came to raft down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, I jumped at it. But there was a catch. I ...
Ted Nield ponders peer review
Geoscientist 17.8 August 2007
In the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris hangs one of Rembrandt's more unusual canvases. Self-portrait in Oriental Attire is a rare example of the artist standing – and closely resembling my late Aunt Agnes on her way to chapel. It is also remarkable for a rather preoccupied foreground poodle.
X-ray investigations of this pain...
Northern England
P Stone, D Millward, B Young, J W Merritt, S M Clarke, M McCormac and D J D Lawrence
Published by: The British Geological Survey
Publication date: 2010
ISBN: 978-085272652-5
List price: £18.00 (25% academic discount)
304 pp
www.bgs.ac.uk
This is the latest edition in the long-running British Regional Geology Series, originally designed to complement the r...
Yorkshire Geology
Paul Ensom
Published by: The Dovecote Press
Publication date: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-904-34964-8
List price: £22.50
192 pp
www.dovecotepress.com
Yorkshire is England’s largest county and, in its varied and often magnificent scenery, displays a matching range of exposed strata, from early Ordovician to the present. There have been several distinguished and still ...
Geoscientist 21.04 May 2011
As our feature this month neatly illustrates, sources of energy – especially new or unfamiliar ones – can also become sources of endless angst in an age that takes power for granted and is unaware of the far greater evil that is not having enough of it.
Thus, one could be forgiven for thinking that the main news story in recent months has not been the...
Paleoclimates
Thomas M. Cronin
Published by: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14494-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-231-51636-5 (ebook)
List price: £61.75
441 pp
www.cup.columbia.edu
In the months since the publication of the University of East Anglia CRU emails, there has been renewed debate about whether humankind is responsible for ostensible globa...
Ted Nield reflects on the need for scientific comment – no matter what.
Geoscientist 17.11 November 2007
The bright sun was extinguish’d and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went – and came, and brought no day…
So wrote Lord Byron in his p...
The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee published its report on shale gas last night, concluding that fears over the safety of shale gas exploration in the UK are largely unfounded.
24 May 2011
‘There has been a lot of hot air recently about the dangers of shale gas drilling’ said Committee Chair Tim Yeo.
‘Our inquiry found no evidence to support the...