Appeal for donations - could you support the work of the
Society?EGS Council have worked hard over the last year to control expenditure
and try to ensure that we do not eat into our financial reserves to pay for on-going
activities. This has meant that occasionally we have not been able to do everything
we would like to do.  In
particular, there are two initiatives that we think EGS members would feel worthy
of greater support; therefore we are inviting members to consider making additional
financial donations (which can also be gift-aided if you are a UK taxpayer!).
Every
year we receive many applications for Fieldwork Grants from the Clough
and Mykura Funds, and we usually give several grants amounting to a few hundred
pounds, from the income generated by these funds. However, demand exceeds the
amount of money available, and we would like to offer more support to worthwhile
fieldwork projects, many of which are undertaken by young geologists just starting
out on their careers. We have in the last year organised a project to give
free Rock Boxes to Scottish Schools. These boxes contain 16 hand specimens
of typical Scottish rocks, plus bags of mini-specimens allowing pupils to carry
out hands-on experiments in small groups. Teachers greatly appreciate access to
these boxes which are now enabling teaching about Scotland's geology to take place
within the new Curriculum for Excellence. So far in 2011, 75 boxes have been distributed,
mostly through generous sponsorship by Senergy, an energy services company based
in Aberdeenshire. Each box costs £50, and we would like to continue to offer
them to schools for free. Could you help by giving a donation - perhaps in lieu
of a present this Christmas? If you would like to make a donation please
contact Bob Morley, our treasurer, for further information (contact
details).
Society Awards 2011-2012Clough Medal The
Clough Medal 2011 will be awarded to Ben Harte in recognition of his outstanding
and long record of research into the fundamental processes of metamorphism and
the behaviour of the mantle, based on observations made in Scotland and world-wide. Fieldwork
Grants The Society is pleased to continue to attract many good quality applications
for fieldwork grants from the Clough and Mykura Funds. This year we are disbursing
grants of £230 each to support fieldwork in Scotland and overseas. These
grants will go to:
Elizabeth Derbyshire, XRD of Cr-spinel crystals
Rachael
Ellen, Fractured basalt fieldwork in Faroes
Gemma Kerr, Mapping of Loch Maree
Group. Brief reports of fieldwork that has benefited from EGS funding in recent
years can be found here. The deadline for Nominations
2012 Clough Medal and Clough Memorial Award, and Fieldwork Grant Applications
to support geological field work at home or abroad is 31 January 2012 - further
details.
Online access to the Scottish Journal of GeologyThe
Scottish Journal of Geology is now online as part of the Lyell Collection. Abstracts
are available for free for anyone, and EGS members can access the full content
of the journal, including back issues, for free. This involves a one-off, free
subscription activation where you select a user name and password. Note that this
access is available to all Ordinary, Life, Honorary, Distinguished and Corresponding
Fellows; but not to Senior Fellows, Family Fellows, or Associate Fellows (Junior
or Glasgow). Glasgow Associates can get access via the Geological Society of Glasgow. 1)
Go to the subscription activation page (www.lyellcollection.org/cgi/activate/ibasic)
and enter your subscriber ID number. This is your four-digit EGS member number
prefixed with the letters EGS. e.g, if you are EGS member 79, your Subscriber
ID is EGS0079. You can find your EGS member number from the address label of a
recent SJG mailing, or you can contact Angus Miller or Christine Thompson - see
contact details. 2) You will then need to
select a username and password which you will use to login and view the journal.
Once you've completed the subscription activation, you will be able to access
the SJG site here sjg.lyellcollection.org
or using the link from the main Lyell Collection webpage here www.lyellcollection.org/.
Annual
SubscriptionAnnual subscriptions are due on 1st October at the following
rates:
Ordinary Fellows £20.00
Family Fellows £10.00; thus
Joint Fellowship becomes £30.00
Senior Fellows and Glasgow Associates
£10.00
Junior Associates £4.00 Please send cheques payable
to “Edinburgh Geological Society” to the Membership Secretary, Christine
Thompson, 85 Grange Loan, Edinburgh EH9 2ED. Members who pay by Standing
Order should ensure that their Bank is making payment at the correct rate, following
the subscription increases which came into force on 1st October 2005. Please act
as soon as possible in order to avoid errors and extra work for the Treasurer
and the Membership Secretary. Those who do not already pay by Standing Order may
like to take this opportunity to start using this method of payment. If in doubt
about your current membership status and payment arrangement, please contact the
Membership Secretary (see Contact details). |
Other organisations -
events of interest
University of Liverpool
Earth
and Ocean Sciences HERDMAN SYMPOSIUM18th February 2012
GEOSCIENCE
FRONTIERS 3 Prof Jon Gluyas (Durham) ‘Carbon dioxide: friend or foe? – Storage,
sequestration and utilisation’.
Dr Bryan Lovell (Cambridge) ‘A pulse in the
planet: hot blobs in the mantle and yo-yo tectonics’.
Prof John McCloskey
(Ulster) ‘Evolution of stress on the Sunda megathrust, West Sumatra: Implications
for future earthquakes and tsunamis’.
Dr Clive Oppenheimer (Cambridge) ‘Mount
Erebus: an exceptional volcano laboratory in Antarctica’.
Dr Richard Shaw (British
Geological Survey) ‘The disposal of radioactive waste – a geological perspective’.
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz (Leicester) ‘Exploring the Anthropocene’. The Herdman
Society is the undergraduate society of the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department
at Liverpool University; William Herdman was the founder and benefactor for the
original Department of Geology. The full programme with abstracts, times,
location of the Sherrington Lecture Theatre and ticket charge will be circulated
in December. The charge to non-students will, subject to sponsorship, probably
be ~£10, which includes programme, buffet lunch, tea/coffee and wine reception.
Persons interested in attending should contact Helen Kokelaar, e-mail: herdman@liverpool.ac.uk
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