back to top WINTER PROGRAMME 2018-2019 2018 15 OCTOBER 2018 MARS: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (IN 50 MINUTES) Darren F. Mark Professor of Isotope Geochronology & Director of Research Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre CANCELLED Replaced by: SLIEVE GULLION AND CARLINGFORD / THE TYRONE OPHIOLITE Dr Ian Meighan 19 NOVEMBER 2018 IRELAND’S LOST MONSTERS Ireland’s Pleistocene and Holocene mammal fauna Nigel Monaghan Natural History Museum, Dublin 10 DECEMBER 2018 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS Dr Stephen Brusatte University of Edinburgh 2019 21 JANUARY 2019 HAROLD WILSON MEMORIAL LECTURE Supported by Geological Survey Northern Ireland COPPER GIANTS: GEOLOGY, GENESIS AND NEW PATHWAYS TO DISCOVERY Dr Jamie Wilkinson Imperial College, London 18 FEBRUARY 2019 PAST GLOBAL MASS EXTINCTIONS AND THEIR LINK TO LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE VOLCANISM Dr Micha Ruhl Trinity College Dublin 11 MARCH 2019 (Please note change of date!) METEORITES AND THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Dr Ian Sanders Trinity College Dublin 15 APRIL 2019 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Including talk “A VISIT TO CHINA” by Dr Mark Cooper Chief Geologist, Geological Survey of Northern Ireland All other meetings will be in the Lecture Theatre, Ulster Museum, Stranmillis Road, Belfast. All lectures start at 7:30 pm and end at 9:00 pm. Refreshments are available from 7:00 pm unless otherwise stated. All meetings will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Ulster Museum, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, unless otherwise stated. About us Summer prog. Winter prog. Contact us Useful links Home Archive