Virtual Festival of Geology on 7 November
The Virtual Festival of Geology is up and running! We now have the titles for our lectures and the speakers are experts in their fields. You may think you’re too young to find them interesting, but you may be surprised! The topics are fascinating – and if you aren’t interested your parents may be! We’ve got: The Day the Dinosaurs Died by Professor Philip Manning, University of Manchester Above and Beyond:...
Rockstar Competiton!
A perfect time to work on your entry to our Rockstar Competition! This is a past entry to inspire you – a wood ammonite! Your entry can be anything to do with geology – rocks, fossils or minerals. How about a dinosaur picture, a record of your past fossil finds, a story, a film, a snakes and ladders game with dinosaurs and sink holes! Whatever you like, but it needs geological content that is accurate. The judges will...
Geologists’ Association Calendar 2020
The Geologists’ Association Calendar is available and has wonderful photographs for every month. Buy your calendar now. Just £5.00 plus postage from the Geologists’ Association website.
Calling all Poets! Enter the Hugh Miller Writing Competition
The Hugh Miller Writing competition is named after one of Scotland’s most endearing geologists. He was one of Scotland’s greatest nature writers and the competition aims to honour Hugh Miller’s legacy by inspiring new, original prose and poetry on the theme of Scotland’s geoheritage. Young people under 25 are being encouraged to enter – so Rockwatcher’s, here you go! We all know how talented...
Fieldtrip to Scotland for Older Rockwatchers – May 2021
Calling all Rockwatchers over 14! Are you up for a geological adventure in May 2021. Rockwatch is having a fieldtrip to the north of Scotland. We are heading to the Inverness area, staying at a hostel in Ancheninver . We’ll be exploring the geology of that area, visiting Knockan Crag and looking at sites in the North West Scotland Geopark. The trip is for 4 nights with food and transport from Inverness included. It’s a...