Geological
Society
RIGS Volunteer Group
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The Volunteer Group welcomes anyone interested in any aspect of local geology and conservation. The group has evening meetings every month, and also gets involved in occasional work parties and other events.
The Geology of Holyrood Park - information for the Polish Community in Edinburgh and visitors from Poland
Joanna Weintritt, originally from Poland, is a member of the RIGS Volunteer Group. She has started a project to create Polish-language resources to tell people about the geology of Edinburgh ... which even considering the wide range of activities that RIGS groups get up to across the UK, must be unique!
Her first publication covers Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat, and is available online at http://www.szkocja.net/artykuly/art.aspx?id=2109 or as a pdf file.
Well done Joanna, we look forward to more. But not too fast, as keen members of the group are reported to be checking your spelling which may take some time!
RIGS Volunteer Group Programme 2007-8
Please consider being involved in one or more of these events. They are a way of learning more about the local geology and helping the RIGS aims of promoting geology and geoconservation. Further details will be circulated of each event beforehand.
Wednesday 9th January
Wednesday
6th February
Wednesday 5th March
Wednesday 2nd April
Wednesday 7th
May
These will be held in the Common Room at British Geological Survey, Murchison
House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA at 7.30 p.m.
Sat
10 May 11.00 - 3.00 Hailes Quarry Park Fun Day, The Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace
Trust
Sun 18 May 11.00 - 4.00 Newhailes Fair the Environment Fair 2008, at
the National Trust for Scotland's Newhailes Estate in Musselburgh
Sun 27 July
10.00 Hopetoun House Environment Village at Hopetoun Summer Fair 2008, on the
West Lawn of Hopetoun House, South Queensferry
Sun 10 August 10.00 Vogrie
Festival, Vogrie Country Park
Sun 7 Sept 10.00 West Lothian Environmental
Fair Almond Valley Heritage Centre, Livingston Mill
Sun 14 Sept 12.00-4.00
Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange
Sat 27 Sept 10.00 British Geological
Survey Open Day
The Lothian & Borders RIGS Group plans to hold a stall at many of these Fairs.
For further information, or to be added to the RIGS Group email list and kept up-to-date with RIGS activities, please contact David McAdam - see the Society Contacts page for details.