Free public lecture on Stromboli Volcano - 17th October 6pm

Thursday 17 October at 6 pm

Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, BS8 1RJ

Free entry, booking not required

http://bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/inaugural/2013/mader.html

ABSTRACT:
Stromboli volcano (Italy) belongs to a class of volcanoes that explode frequently against a background of substantial continuous gas emissions. The explosions are spectacular and the continuous gas emissions have a significant effect on the Earth’s atmosphere. This lecture will consider the processes involved that allow these two modes of behaviour (explosions and gas emissions) to co-exist. In particular, I will show how we can combine results from laboratory flow experiments and computer models with field observations and petrological and textural data from rock samples to advance our understanding of this style of eruptive behaviour.

Free public lecture - 8th January

Mapping of Volcanic Terrains across the Solar System

Dr Ellen Stofan

Olympus Mons, Mars. Standing at 22km high (three times the height of Earth's own Mt Everest), it is the tallest volcano in the Solar System. Photo credit: European Space Agency

Venue: @Bristol (Anchor Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5DB - view map)
Date: 8th January,  18.30 - 19.30

Location: Rosalind Franklin Room, At-Bristol

Admission: Free, lecture suitable over 12s - booking necessary (Book Online
Or phone 0845 4586499 [Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm excluding Bank Holidays])

Many planets and moons of our solar system show evidence of volcanic eruptions. 

The early missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus and Mercury were truly missions of discovery, with great debates in the scientific community on the roles of impacts and volcanic eruptions in shaping their surfaces.

Join Dr. Ellen Stofan to discuss how these alien volcanic features are mapped and interpreted with knowledge and techniques developed from studies of volcanoes on Earth. A perfect way to celebrate BBC Stargazing Live.

This is a free lecture and is supported by the University of Bristol.

Original article: http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/1647.html

Public lecture at the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol - 13th March

WEGA - the West of England group of the Geologists' Association

Medical origins of the Geological Society

Dr Cherry Lewis - Bristol University

Tuesday 13th March - 7.30pm

Cherry Lewis' interests lie in the history of geology and she has published a popular science book on the history of dating the age of the Earth entitled: 'The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth'. Cherry’s talk will cover the origins of the Geological Society of London, which was founded on 13 November 1807 – the oldest such society in the world. Founding members include James Parkinson (1755-1824) who gave his name to Parkinson's Disease.

Public lecture - Friday 10th Feb - Wills Memorial Building

"Our solar system is a blend of the effluvia from many stellar explosions. By making high precision isotope ratio measurements on different meteorites we have been able to fingerprint the source of the most recently added material. We identify a supernova component from a massive star, which is in keeping with a longstanding hypothesis for triggered nebula collapse and subsequent planetary
growth."