Past Events

A talk by Dr Frankie Dunn on the Scottish fossil evidence at the dawn of the Cambrian explosion of life. Dr Frankie Dunn is a palaeontologist and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Merton College. Frankie’s research focuses on the origin and early evolution of animals and particularly on fossil record of the late Ediacaran Period (approximately 570 – 540 million years ago). The aim of this research is to understand how…

A virtual talk by Rob Butler of Aberdeen University. A journey with the nineteenth century pioneer H.M. Cadell, his fieldwork in Sutherland, the tectonic experiments he made and how they continue to inspire ideas of how the World's great mountain ranges are formed...   To register for the talk click on the button below. Talk on the Mountains of Foinaven and Arkle

A virtual talk by Rob Wilson of St Andrews University. Our climate is changing. Over the coming decades, it is likely that Scotland will get warmer, wetter and stormier. But how much has Scotland warmed in recent decades. How does this current warming compare to the last 1000 years and what were the extreme warm and cold periods during that time?  With the instrumental data providing information only for the last 150 years or so, we must rely on proxies…

A talk by Dr Tim Lawson who researched his PhD (Edinburgh University) on the Quaternary geomorphology of the Assynt area, between 1979-1983. He has published extensively on the glaciation of Assynt and on its caves, including editing three small books. He continued a connection with the area for many years, bringing parties of schoolchildren on annual field trips as a Geography teacher at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. Recently retired, Tim hopes to rekindle his association with the North-West just…

A talk by Keith Milne who will explain how he was inspired by the early geologists as he relates his experiences in the Inchnadamph area in 1974 during a University mapping project. The talk will focus on a particular area south of Ben More Assynt where we see inverted Torridonian sandstone caught up in the Thrust movements. Using the latest Earth visualisations, we can add value to the field measurements and interpretation of such complex structures. Keith Milne completed his PhD…