Herdman Symposium 2017
9:00am - 5:00pm /
Saturday 25th February 2017
/ Venue: Lecture Theatre A Central Teaching Hub
Type: Symposium /
Category: Department
- 01517950619
- Jamie
- Admission: Reduced Rate Cost - £10.00 Description - (Students (non-members), Alumni of the Herdman Society, University Staff and LGS Members) Special Rate Cost - £5.00 Description - A Level Students Standard Rate Cost - £15.00
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This year the talks promise a fantastic insight into contemporary advances in the Earth Sciences.
This year the speakers will be:
• Dr Guillem Anglada (QMUL)- Proxima b, Planets around Red Dwarfs and the search for life beyond the Solar System
• Dr Hugh Tuffen (Lancaster)- Rhyolitic Magma on the Move
• Dr Kate Hendry (Bristol) - The Beauty and usefulness of Sponges to reconstruct Ocean chemistry
• Prof Sarah Davies (Leicester) – The rise of a new Terrestrial Ecosystem in the early Carboniferous
• Prof Stuart Haszeldine (Edinburgh)- Fossil fuels, and the use of Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK
• Dr Marian Holness (Cambridge) Seeing, not looking: Petrographic decoding of mafic rocks
Registration from 9.30am. Talks from 10.00am. (Wine reception from 5pm)
Ticket Price (£15.00): includes Talks, Abstracts, Refreshments, Buffet Lunch and Wine Reception
Reductions for students, members of the Herdman Society, Liverpool Geological Society and School/ College groups.
This online payment site is for registrants who are not currently attending Liverpool University. Current undergraduate members of the Herdman Society should register in the Department.
Herdman?– Sir William Herdman was the founder and benefactor the Department of Geology at the University of Liverpool. The Herdman Society is the undergraduate society for the Earth Sciences at the University. The Jane Herdman Laboratories were named for William’s wife and the George Herdman Chair of Geology established in memory of their son who died in World War 1.
This year the speakers will be:
• Dr Guillem Anglada (QMUL)- Proxima b, Planets around Red Dwarfs and the search for life beyond the Solar System
• Dr Hugh Tuffen (Lancaster)- Rhyolitic Magma on the Move
• Dr Kate Hendry (Bristol) - The Beauty and usefulness of Sponges to reconstruct Ocean chemistry
• Prof Sarah Davies (Leicester) – The rise of a new Terrestrial Ecosystem in the early Carboniferous
• Prof Stuart Haszeldine (Edinburgh)- Fossil fuels, and the use of Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK
• Dr Marian Holness (Cambridge) Seeing, not looking: Petrographic decoding of mafic rocks
Registration from 9.30am. Talks from 10.00am. (Wine reception from 5pm)
Ticket Price (£15.00): includes Talks, Abstracts, Refreshments, Buffet Lunch and Wine Reception
Reductions for students, members of the Herdman Society, Liverpool Geological Society and School/ College groups.
This online payment site is for registrants who are not currently attending Liverpool University. Current undergraduate members of the Herdman Society should register in the Department.
Herdman?– Sir William Herdman was the founder and benefactor the Department of Geology at the University of Liverpool. The Herdman Society is the undergraduate society for the Earth Sciences at the University. The Jane Herdman Laboratories were named for William’s wife and the George Herdman Chair of Geology established in memory of their son who died in World War 1.