Meeting summaries
Please see the links below for summaries of past Geological Society Discussion Group meetings.
- September 2024: Critical Metals for the Energy Transition - Discussion introduced by Jeff Townsend, founder of The Critical Metals Association
- April 2024: Volcanoes - Discussion introduced by Clive Oppenheimer, Professor of Volcanology in the Dept of Geography at Cambridge
- March 2024: The Anthropocene - Discussion introduced by Dr Simon Turner, Senior Research Associate, Dept of Geography, UCL and Secretary of the Anthropocene Working Group
- March 2024: Bicentenary of The Geological Society Club – the final 50 years from 1974 to 2024
- September 2023: Coastal Hazards, Climate Change and Geo-Resilience by Roger Moore, Professor Emeritus of Applied Geomorphology, University of Sussex and Global Principal of Geoscience and Engineering Geology at Jacobs UK
- May 2023: Climate change variations across the globe, introduced by Professor Dame Jane Francis,
Director of the British Antarctic Survey - May 2023: History of The Geological Society
- April 2023: The Future of the Geological Society, Chief Executive of GSL, Simon Thompson
- February 2023: Building the world’s first sustainable magnet metal supply chain by Paul Atherley, Founding Director, Pensana
- October 2022: Geothermal energy from mines water
- September 2022: Critical Metals - The Future of Lithium Extraction in the UK by Roderick Smith, Chairman, British Lithium
- April 2022: Critical Metals: Geology of the REE, supply chains & mineral processing by Kathryn Goodenough
- February 2022: The future of the Society with Ruth Allington
- September 2021: The future of the oil industry with Jonathan Craig
- June 2021: Mars2020 Mission
- April 2021: Stac Fada impact deposit. Ken Amor
- February 2021: How does glacial erosion control tectonics in mountain belts?, Dr Matt Fox
- October 2020: The future of the Society, Mike Daly
- September 2020: How, on Earth, did life begin?, Max Coleman
- February 2020: Deep continental subduction, Anna Bidgood
- September 2019: Critically stressed Earth, Jonathan Turner
- June 2019: Deep carbon, Adrian Jones
- April 2019: Albert Memorial, John Cosgrove
- June 2018: Masonry repairs, Adrian Paye