Welcome

Welcome to the website of the North Staffordshire Group of the Geologists’ Association.

The NSGGA is the regional group of the Geologists’ Association in North Staffordshire.

Lecture meetings are held monthly during the autumn and winter, at 7.30 in the William Smith Building at Keele University.

Field meetings are held at approximately monthly intervals over the spring and summer.
 

GA Awards

The GA has announced that it is introducing three new awards schemes for its members.  The new schemes are designed primarily to attract the highest quality research applications, to encourage new members to join, to raise the profile of geology in all arenas through various kinds of dissemination and to reinforce the GA through acknowledgement of our support in the various outputs generated. 

The new schemes comprise
(1) The GA New Researchers Awards (open to student members)
(2) The GA Research Fund (open to full members)
(3) The GA Meetings Fund (open to all members). 

These complement the existing Curry Fund awards by encouraging research and academic dissemination, thereby extending the range of activities that the GA supports.

More details are available here.

Winter Lecture Series: 2011/12

The winter lecture programme is still being arranged. The following are provisional talks. More details will be published in the October Bulletin

Thursday 13 October 2011: Michael Kelly (Keele University) ‘Cross-Strike Discontinuities: One Small Step...The Development of the Loch Maree Transverse Zone’

Thursday 10 November 2011: Wolverston Cope Memorial Lecture.  Dr David Rothery (Open University) Mercury – new views of the Sun’s innermost planet

Thursday 8 December 2011: Christmas Social with geology quiz and talk on ‘Gold and the Klondike’ by Peter Floyd

Thursday 12 January 2012: Dr Michael Montenari (Keele University) "Ediacara: The evolution of Earth's first complex Life"

Thursday 9 February 2012: To be confirmed

Thursday 8 March 2012: Chairman’s Address: David Osborn. The Statfjord field.
 

Summer Field Series: 2012

The field programme will be announced in Spring 2012

Please Note:
Each person attending field meetings does so on the understanding that they attend at their own risk. The NSGGA has public liability insurance through a GA insurance policy that also carries limited personal accident cover for members attending meetings or field trips. Non-members pay £2 to cover temporary membership giving them insurance cover.

A field fee of £2 per head is normally charged for members and non-members to cover leader’s expenses.