Farewell Susan And Welcome Clare
As 2022 draws to a close, it is with mixed emotions that we announce that much-loved and long-serving Chair, Susan Brown, is stepping down at the end of this year, and our new Chair, Clare Byrne steps up from January of next year. Susan is well known to many current and former Rockwatchers and has inspired an entire generation of children, young people and families to the joys of geology. For avid field trippers, Susan has been the...
Happy National Fossil Day!
Happy National Fossil Day! Here’s a recent fossil sent in by Rockwatcher, Ronnie for identification which is likely to be a part of a bivalve shell, Trigonia costata, named by chemist and palaeontologist James Parkinson whose name lives on in Parkinson’s disease. It is a species that appeared first in the Toarcian Stage (end of the Early Jurassic), but persisted into the Middle Jurassic – which is probably the age of...
Join the GA’s October Lecture Online
Older Rockwatchers may be interested in joining The Geologists’ Association October lecture which takes place online via Zoom on Friday October 7 at 18.00pm. This month’s topic will be on The Rise and Fall of the last British Ice-Sheet by Professor Chris Clark, Chair of Geoscience at the University of Sheffield. This lecture is via Zoom and is expected to last until around 9.30pm. The Zoom link will be emailed to you...
Rockstars Competition Entries are in!
There are an exciting two days ahead of judging this year’s Rockstars Young Geologists’ Competition entries. With the deadline now passed, we’re looking forward to being amazed by what our young geologists love about geodiversity. Judges will be meeting at Rockwatch HQ at Burlington House in London today and tomorrow to decide on this year’s winners. We’ll be announcing winners very soon and then...
Book the next Rockwatch Field Trip to West Sussex on 10 September 2022
We have another double whammy for you! Join us on the next Rockwatch field trip to West Sussex for a spot of Building Stones Geodetective work at Earnley Church, followed by a fossil hunt on Bracklesham beach. The field trip is from 1.30pm til 5.30pm on Saturday 10 September. The trip with be led by Rockwatch Ambassador David Bone. Check out the details and complete the booking form today! Book...
Rockwatch to Join in International Geodiversity Day Celebrations
Rockwatch is delighted to announce that it will be joining in with this year’s International Geodiversity Day on Thursday 6th October 2022. Geodiversity Day, which was announced at the UNESCO at the 41st General Conference in 2021, will be a worldwide celebration to promote all the many aspects of geodiversity and will take the place of this year’s GA Festival of Geology which usually runs in November every year. The Day...