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May 2020
Geopark Geotour (May 2020) – Rescheduled to 1st – 7th May 2021
Expert tuition by Geopark staff will help you to interpret the geology of this wild and remote highland landscape. The area has the lowest population density in Europe and exhibits unique geodiversity and biodiversity. As home of the oldest rocks in Europe, the first identified thrust fault and with evidence of the earliest life; the North West Highlands Geopark really is the “Cradle of Geology”. £260 per person including transport, early bird discount of 10% for bookings made by February…
Find out more »Sense of Place, Coigach and Assynt
Online Workshop - Friday 29th May If you live in Coigach or Assynt, GET INVOLVED, CLICK HERE Full details and times are on Countryscape's website (click the link above). For a summary, read on. What do you love about Coigach and Assynt? Let’s talk about ‘Sense of Place’ in Coigach and in Assynt. ‘Sense of place’ is the term used to describe the emotions and experiences we associate with places. It’s how places make us feel. A sense of place is…
Find out more »September 2020
Geopark Geotour (September 2020)
Expert tuition by Geopark staff will help you to interpret the geology of this wild and remote highland landscape. The area has the lowest population density in Europe and exhibits unique geodiversity and biodiversity. As home of the oldest rocks in Europe, the first identified thrust fault and with evidence of the earliest life; the North West Highlands Geopark really is the “Cradle of Geology”. £260 per person including transport, early bird discount of 10% for bookings made by June…
Find out more »Highlands Controversy Geotour
The Highlands Controversy tour follows the pioneering geologists of the 19th century in their attempts to unravel the geological history of the northwest highlands.
Find out more »October 2020
AGM 2019/20
Annual General Meeting 2019/20 Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the North West Highlands Geopark Ltd will take place at 13:00 on Saturday 17th of October. This will be held virtually by Zoom video conference. Register here. Outline Agenda AGM business Updates from the Team Trustee/Director elections 'Geoconservation on the World Stage' - a talk from Professor Mike Benton, Bristol University. Full agenda and papers to follow shortly Do you live in the North West Highlands…
Find out more »Geoconservation on the World Stage
A talk by Professor Mike Benton To follow the North West Highlands Geopark Ltd Annual General Meeting "Geoparks depend on careful assessment and justification of their geological importance at both regional and international scale, and Mike Benton will talk about these themes. The scientific justification has been core to assumptions behind conservation in the UK since 1949, and this allows educationists, but also lawyers, to be clear about why a particular site has to be conserved - a claim can…
Find out more »February 2021
On the dawn of the Cambrian explosion of life: The Scottish fossil evidence
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…
Find out more »March 2021
How the mountains of Foinaven and Arkle inspired geological understanding of the Alps and Himalayas
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
Find out more »Trees, Climate and the Act of Union
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…
Find out more »April 2021
The Creag nan Uamh Bone Caves : Past Excavations and Present Context
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…
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