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Land With Beach Waves

Climate and Ecology: Off the Rails

15 - 16 September 2025 09:00 - 17:00 | Hybrid, The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG,

15 - 16 September 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | Hybrid, The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG,

This hybrid conference will serve as a platform for geoscientists, researchers and industry professionals to come together to discuss the impact climate change is having upon the environment and how society can mitigate the changes.

This conference follows our series of regional events that took place around the UK, starting in Plymouth on 2 October 2024. Regional events were co-hosted by the Society and the various host institutions and features a topical research seminar by a local expert in their field, followed by a panel discussion. Topics of discussion ranged from climate impacts upon the world's oceans, to those on land and in our atmosphere. 

2 October 

University of Plymouth - Professor Gerd Masselink 

Impact of sea-level rise on atoll islands – is drowning the inevitable outcome?

https://youtu.be/b5I8iUQ-2RA

25 November

University of Aberystwyth - Professor Sarah Davies

Climate change, sea level and storminess in Wales – a palaeoenvironmental perspective

4 December

University of Liverpool - Dr Rob Duller

How do sedimentary layers record information about past climate change?

16 January

University of Glasgow - Dr John MacDonald

Anthropogenic Geomaterials: what are they, and how do they impact climate and ecology?

20 February

Durham University - Dr Caroline Clason

Exploring the importance of glaciers for water, food, and energy security

12 March

University of Birmingham - Dr Shan Huang

Complex climate change impact on biodiversity dynamics in space and time

15 - 16 September

The Geological Society - TBC

Organisers

The Climate & Ecology Science theme is led by Dr Stephen Grimes from the University of Plymouth.

Registration for the final meeting at Burlington House will open in 2025. If you are interested in potentially sponsoring this event, please contact: sponsorship@geolsoc.org.uk.