Northumbria OUGS Newsletter Available to OUGS members on our website ougs.org

Date change - now 5 April!

Extra! Extra! Talk on Icy Moons at Walton Hall 5 March by Dr Mark Fox-Powell, Senior Astrobiology Lecturer at the OU. 19h30 for 20h00 Use the Gass Building entrance by the Rock Garden. Contact Pauline Kirtley [email protected] if you wish to attend.

NorthWest Branch February Newsletter is out Remember all our branch newsletters are available to OUGS Members in the Members area of our website ougs.org The newsetter archive is open to all.

West Midlands Branch AGM - Sun 22 Feb - all welcome! Details and live links at ougs.org/events/popup...

South-East Branch AGM & Talks - Sat 21 Feb - All Welcome! Details and links at ougs.org/events/popup... @everyone

Severnside Branch AGM & Lecture, Sat 21 Feb - all welcome Details and live links at ougs.org/events/popup... and in the flyer sent to Severnside Branch Members

Saturday Feb 7th 10h - 16h, at OU Campus, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. All welcome - talks and Branch AGM - members and non-members! - morning talk about pioneering women in geology and palaeontology - afternoon looking at rock thin sections by microscope. For contacts go to ougs.org/events/popup...

OUGS is affiliated to OpenSU. Second round of rule revisions now open: your chance to share your comments or submit any additional ideas relating to the way we run Open SU. Have your say and submit any new ideas you have relating to our articles and bye-laws on our website: oustudents.co/46k4OZ0

I hear the day went well. What an amazing building too!

Zoom lecture -Chalk Downland - Monday 2nd Feb 19h00 Here is the link to full details and the contact ougs.org/events/popup...

Tipping points, AGMs and OUGS The OUGS is run by members, for members: your branch won't run itself! AGMs are when you can help to plan the coming year so make sure you go along and get involved. Many hands make light work! ougs.org/events/

East Anglia OUGS January Newsletter and AGM notice Available to all members in our website members area ougs.org The AGM and Day of Talks at the end of February sounds good! Three lectures to enjoy

Walton Hall OUGS 1st newsletter of the year All our recent branch NLs are available in the Members Area of our website ougs.org and back numbers are fully available to anyone.

@ougeolsoc.bsky.social #OUGS Members - did you miss the Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture last week? The recording is now on our YouTube channel in the Members Area. See ougs.org/news/1444/ou...

OUGS branch AGMs coming soon... Run by OU students and ex-students for the benefit of OU students past and present. Go along to your branch AGM, find out about their plans for the coming year! See below for next meetings, go to ougs.org/events/ for more events, live links to full details/contacts.

Interested in Volcanoes? Don't forget the Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture Wednesday evening! Not too late to register ougs.org/gbml/ Email [email protected] to register ougs.org/events/popup... @everyone

Still time to register - Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture Wednesday 14 Jan ougs.org/gbml/ Email [email protected] to register ougs.org/events/popup...

Still time to register - Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture Wednesday 14 Jan ougs.org/gbml/ Email [email protected] to register ougs.org/events/popup...

Nene Tees OUGS latest Newsletter is available All Branch newsletters are in the Members Area of our website ougs.org

Severnside Branch newsletter is out All OUGS Branch Newsletters are available in the members area of our website ougs.org

Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture - Wed Jan 14th 19h GMT Zoom ougs.org/gbml/ Email [email protected] to register ougs.org/events/popup...

He's a good friend of #OUGS!

North West Branch OUGS - December Newsletter out All our branch newsletters are available to OUGS members on our website ougs.org

Mainland Europe OUGS Branch Newsletter out... Including details of their AGM weekend in Strasbourg. It will be in the Members Area of our website ougs.org shortly

Another Branch AGM to note - West Midlands 22 Feb Do reserve the date and get along to support your Branch committee if you possibly can! See ougs.org/events/

Membership reminder - renewals due end December - Don't forget to pay your annual sub! - If you pay by Standing Order, check it is the right amount - Want to add someone to your membership? See below and ougs.org for Membership types and fees Our Membership Secretary is all ready and waiting.....

OUGS West Midlands branch - December newsletter Now out - and should be on the website shortly. Members can access all branch newsletters - not just those from their own branch!

OUGS Northumbria Branch December Newsletter: Now out, should soon be available on Branch web pages at ougs.org Branch organiser Steve Woodward says: " Please may I ask that you read the first paragraph ASAP. (blue text) . . . you may read the remainder at your leisure! "

Just because a volcano hasn't erupted for 12000 years, doesn't mwan it won't!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Université de Montpellier, France Fully funded position in Mineral Resources and Geosciences Deadline: 19 December 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Postdoc #Geosciences #France #PostdoctoralFellowship #AcademicJobs @umontpellier.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – University of Oslo, Norway Fully funded position in Geosciences Eligibility: PhD in Geosciences or related fields Deadline: 31 December 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Postdoc #Geosciences #Norway #PostdoctoralFellowship #AcademicJobs

Heard of other depts closing or "shrinking by amalgamation" too :(

South East OUGS latest branch newsletter All the OUGS branch newsletters, from across the UK and Mainland Europe too, are available to members on our website ougs.org and you can find our Events Diary there too.

East Anglia Branch - final 2025 newsletter is out and should be available to all members soon in the Members Area of our website. Ougs.org It includes a well illustrated report on the Red Crag/Coralline Crag trip in August

Super new video from Rob Butler, about the area south of the Col de Joly (nr Beaufortain) that we visited with Gilles de Broucker on the OUGS Mainland Europe trip to the French Alps in 2018. Video link youtu.be/8Sklt_qITrI?... And some photos from our trip

Something for the weekend ... the latest Wessex branch NL With some great write ups, including lots about that super symposium in Nancy. - and they would love more branch members to join them on the branch committee!

North West England OUGS Branch newsletter Now ready to read! Remember that all our branch newsletters are available to Members on the website ougs.org

OUGS Severnside Branch Newsletter is out - Reports + photos from exhibition visits. - Branch AGM info - a plea for newsletter articles and field trip facilitators ... see below

We've lost Dugie Ross, truly one of the best people I have ever known. He reported the first Scottish dinosaurs, made the Isle of Skye into Scotland's Dinosaur Island, welcomed so many of us onto his island, into his home and family.

A full day of lectures - Lewes, Sussex - Saturday 29 November For details of talks, speakers, and how to register, see image below

OUGS Scotland newsletter is out! Scotland needs a new Branch Organiser! Stuart Swales has done a great job but now, as OUGS Chair, someone is needed to look after the branch. - What about you? - Or do you know someone who could? Branch newsletters available in the website Members Area ougs.otg

University Challenge applications now open until 2 Nov! A fantastic opportunity for current students to represent the OU on national TV: show how talented our OU Earth and environmental science students are! Keen quizzers please consider applying. www.oustudents.com/get-involved...

This weekend... Two events to look forward to, in Suffolk and Chester (sadly the planned Rochester trip is postponed) For links to details and contacts, and to see what is on further ahead, go to ougs.org/events/ Non-members welcome but do check there's space available and no last minute changes!

The Oxford dinosaur trackway www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc... @dremmanicholls.bsky.social @kirstymedgar.bsky.social

And of course we had a lecture by Professor David Rothery (who knew Ian well) at this year's AGM in Coventry. OUGS Members can find it our website. And as a bonus, here is that "nice young Dr Rothery" on the aforementioned ophiolite some 30+ years ago!

Missed the Open SU Welcome Week event? There's another opportunity on Friday ... The Open University Geological Society in hosting an online Welcome Week event this Friday evening, 3rd October: join Pauline Kirtley and Charles Forrester there and find out what the OUGS can do for you!

Our Open University Geological Society team at the OU Library in Milton Keynes today. Welcoming new students and offering support in Earth &Plannetary science degree pathways. We will be online on Friday evening as well Want to know more? www.oustudents.com/welcome-week... And ougs.org