Thursday 22nd January - (lecture) "The rising waters" by Prof. Lynne Frostick of Hull University and President of the Geological Society (of London) about climate change and flooding. Click here for the abstract .

Thursday 12th February - The Lynden Emery Memorial Lecture - "The Speeton Clay" by Prof. Pete Rawson. Introduced by Mike Horne. Click here for the abstracts .

Friday 13th February - Microscopy Evening (members only)

Friday 13th March - Microscopy Evening (members only)

Thursday 19th March - Annual General Meeting and evening lecture by Will Watts of the Rorunda Museum Trust - 'Rotunda, the William Smith Museum of Geology, its history and redevelopment'.

Friday 24th April - Microscopy Evening (members only)

Saturday 25th April - Rock, Mineral and Fossil Roadshow at the Treasure House in Beverley. Free admission; you can bring specimens in for identification by the "experts" (sorry no valuations). Open to the public from 11 am to 3 pm. Displays by members of the Kingston Lapidary Society and Hull Geological Society.

Sunday 26th April - Rifle Butts Spring Clean and social event. Booking appreciated.

Sunday 3rd May - Threshfield (public field meeting) led by Ian and Mary Heppenstall. Part of Yorkshire Geology Month. Meet in front of the University of Hull on Cottingham Road at 8 am or Shirethorns Threshfield Quarry NGR SD980635 at 10 am for a 10-30 departure. Wear warm clothing and walking boots, do not wear shorts. The walk lasts 5 1/2 hours. Moderately strenuous, some steep slopes and stiles and slippery in places. The parish of Threshfield has within its boundary a number of mineral resources. Starting with a quarry once worked for Magnesian Limestone we proceed along the line of the North Craven Fault to a calcium carbonate quarry with a draw kiln nearby and then to some old lead workings. Some stone buildings are passed en route. We then cross Threshfield Moor where peat and sandstone were once worked, finally looking at some old coal workings before returning to the start point.

Friday 15th May - Microscopy Evening (members only)

Saturday 30th May 2009 - "Fossil Fossick at Hornsea" (public field meeting) led by Stuart Jones. Part of Yorkshire Geology Month. The aim of the trip is to look at the variety of rocks and fossils brought by the Ice Age. Meet at 2 pm at the car park at the south end of South Marine Drive. Booking is appreciated but not required. Bring suitable outdoor clothing and footwear for the prevailing weather conditions. Keep away from the cliffs unless you are wearing a hard hat. Safety spectacles must be worn if you bring a hammer. There are some steep steps down to the pebbly beach. Families are welcome; young geologists must be accompanied by an adult.

Saturday 6th June - afternoon boat trip to view that Chalk Contortions at Old Dor, Flamborough. POSTPONED

Friday 19th June - Microscopy Evening (members only)

Saturday 4th July - Welton-le-Wold SSSI, Lincolnshire (field meeting) led by John Aram.

Saturday 11th July - (field meeting) Cayton Bay led by Barrie Heaton.

Sunday 19th July - rearranged afternoon boat trip to view that Chalk Contortions at Old Dor, Flamborough. (booking required - please contact the Secretary a.s.a.p. if you are interested; costs ten pounds ).

Friday 24th July - Microscopy Evening (members only)

Sunday 26th July - Flamborough Research field visit led by Ian Heppenstall and Mike Horne

Saturday 29th August - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum. Organised by Stuart Jones. Open to the public from 11 am until 3 pm. There will be displays of rocks and fossils by members of the Hull Geological Society. We will try to identify any finds brought along and give advice on collecting and curating. Sorry, no valuations. Disabled access is very good and families are most welcome. Admission to the Roadshow is free, but there may be a charge for visiting the Museum.

Sunday September 6th - (field meeting) the Quaternary geology of Dane's Dyke and South Landing led by Ian Heppenstall and Mike Horne.

September (date to be confirmed) - field meeting to the Bays of the Flamborough Headland, led by Mike Horne.

Saturday 24th October - Joint meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society and the Geography Department of Hull University on "The Last Glacial Maximum", organised by Mike Rogerson and Paul Hildreth. Speakers are: Dick Mol (Natural History Museum Rotterdam), Ian Heppenstall (Hull Geological Society) Jane Bunting (University of Hull) and Wishart Mitchell (University of Durham). Click here for the abstracts

Sunday 25th October - joint field meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society.

Devember 2009 - Members' Evening.

Thursday 21st January 2010 (date to be confirmed)- lecture by Peter Hoare and Rodger Connell.

Thursday 18th February 2010 - (lecture) Angela Kelham of Hull University on 'An investigation into the behaviour of benthic foraminifera during post-mortem transport'.

There is no charge for Non-members attending our meetings (unless otherwise stated), but you are welcome to make a donation to Society funds.

click here for a poster which you can print and display

click here for a membership application form

click here for more details of the field meetings, news about geology in our region and other events.

Click here for our news archive and the recent history of the Society

Click here for a list of articles published in Humberside Geologist and a price list

Further information about the Society.

Leaflet for special meetings (word document)

Poster for special meetings

Geology classes in Hull

Event form for meeting organisers

The Hull Geological Society is affiliated to the The Geologists' Association and the The Yorkshire Geological Society . Members are invited to attend the meetings of those societies.