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President's Day 2016
Organised by:
Geological Society Events
Venue:
The Geological Society, Burlington House
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
President’s Day 2016 at Burlington House was held on 8th June and began with the Annual General Meeting.
As in previous years, the recipients of the major medals were invited to give a short talk on their subject, see talks given below.
Talks by Lyell, Murchison and William Smith medallists
Lyell Medal: John Underhill - Chair of Exploration Geoscience, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.
The need for and increasing role of forensic geosciences and visualisation in accurately characterising the subsurface
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Murchison Medal: Jon Blundy - Professorial Research Fellow in Petrology, University of Bristol.
The mute testimony of volcanic crystals and what we can learn about the build up to eruptions
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William Smith Medal: Michael de Freitas -Distinguished Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College.
A Homage to William Smith: aspects of recent research
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Talk by Wollaston medallist
Susan Brantley - Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University of Department of Earth Sciences.
Exploring the Critical Zone: Where Rocks Meet life
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