Join Rockwatch and the British Geological Survey and others at Keyworth from 10am-4pm, Sat 17 March 2012 for some hands-on science!

This fantastic event is free of charge but booking is essential. Complete the booking form or book online now!

Geology Today Minerals and Fossils Explained 2012 Online Event, 5th – 16th of March 2012.

This is a first! An Online Event giving you the means to access articles written by experts on major groups of fossils and minerals, and of engaging in online discussions with the Editor-in-Chief of Geology Today, Professor Peter Doyle, and other experts who will present the series.

Go to the Event website to find out more and register: http://geologytoday.wordpress.com/

NATURE’S TREASURES 4
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Saturday 3 March 2012
10:00 am — 4:30 pm
An event for anyone with an interest in minerals and gemstones. Students from schools and universities are particularly encouraged to attend. The day will include a programme of short talks as well as a number of displays and demonstrations.

Find out more >

Geofest 2011

Join in the fun at Geofest on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 October at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. See poster for further details.

Flesh and Bones

Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 October. Free event making a lifelike Scelidosaurus at the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre. Places are limited, booking advised. See poster for further details.

Festival of Geology

This year's Festival of Geology is taking place from 10.30am-4.30pm on Saturday 5 November at UCL in London. Find out more about this FREE event.

Geology Walks in London

Unique evening geology walks around London on 8 and 22 September. Find out more.

Your chance to be a Rockstar

By entering our Rockstar and Young Writer competition you could win some fantastic prizes and a great day out with your family. Find out more.

Red Rocks Jamboree

Walks, talks and more at Sidmouth Museum from 10.30am-3.30pm on Wednesday 17th August. See poster for details.

What do you think of Wren's Nest?

You may have heard that we have a project running at Wrens Nest known as Ripples Through Time. We are trying to innovate the interpretation available at the site and online resources. This will feature sculpture, panels and downloadable material for mobile phones etc. As part of this we are trying to capture peoples thoughts and memories about the site that so many of us have come to know.

Anything at all is welcome, comment or poem, script or picture from the past. To help guide this perhaps you could you tell me in no more than a sentence...

• What was your first encounter with the Wrens Nest?
• What is the most amazing thing you know about the Wrens Nest?
• If there was one thing that you would like to know more about for the Wrens Nest what would it be?
• If you could wish anything for the future of the Wrens Nest, what would it be?
• If you don't like the questions and would rather tell me something else about the Wrens Nest then feel free. We really want to capture what this place means to people.

Please help and or pass on to anyone that you feel might have anything to say about the Wrens Nest through time!

Please contact us by no later than 24th July 2011.

Thanks,
Graham Worton

Keeper of Geology & Manager
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery
Tel: 01384 815575
email:graham.worton@dudley.gov.uk
or visit the website

9th Annual Rockwatch Residential Field Trip to the Jurassic World Heritage Coast of Dorset and East Devon.

Please note slight date change due to circumstances beyond our control.
The trip will now run from Tuesday 26 July – Saturday 30 July 2011. Book now with the Rockwatch office.

Fieldtrip to 'Olympics' Quarry - 10 April 2011
Join us for a special field trip to the spectacular Torr Quarry, Somerset. Much of the Olympics project uses stone from this quarry with its Carboniferous age rocks overlain uncomformably by Jurassic oolitic limestones. Details from the Rockwatch office. Registration £5 per family is essential.

The Grant Museum at UCL is Reopening on 15 March 2011 in time for Science Week! Their wonderful new home is in UCL Rockerfeller Building. See website for further details.

Family Day 19 March 10am-4pm at BGS, Keyworth.

9th Annual Rockwatch Residential Field Trip to the Jurassic World Heritage Coast of Dorset and East Devon.

Please note slight date change due to circumstances beyond our control.
The trip will now run from Tuesday 26 July – Saturday 30 July 2011. Book now with the Rockwatch office.

Fun with Rocks and Fossils
Saturday 22nd January 2011
10.30am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm - 4.00pm.

See poster for details.

Fossil Roadshow ‘Extinction!’
Saturday 5 February 10am - 4pm
At Museum of Canterbury, Stour Street, Canterbury CT1 2NR.

Discover evidence of extinct species from Kent’s distant past and why they disappeared. These included dinosaurs, mammoths, giant sharks, long necked plesiosaurs and ammonites. Meet local experts, have your fossil finds identified and join the T. Rex Dino Dig!

Roadshow admission: Adults £2, children £1, and an additional £2 charge for the Dino Dig.

9th Annual Rockwatch Residential Field Trip to the Jurassic World Heritage Coast of Dorset and East Devon.

Please note slight date change due to circumstances beyond our control.
The trip will now run from Tuesday 26 July – Saturday 30 July 2011. Book now with the Rockwatch office.

Rockwatch at Manchester Museum, Manchester M13 9PL on Saturday 11 December, 11.00 am - 4.00pm

Join Rockwatch and Jurassic experts for a Jurassic Experience - make your own Jurassic dioramas; discover amazing things about dinosaurs; hands on Jurassic fossils; live link with Dr Phil Manning Manchester's dinosuar expert in America and much, much more. More information on www.museum.manchester.ac.uk

Nature's Treasures 3 Sunday 12 December 2010 10.00am - 4.00pm. NHM, London.

Talks, displays and demonstrations for anyone interested in minerals and gemstones. Download the flyer for more details or visit the Mineral Society website.

Book via the Rockwatch office.

An event organised by: Gem-A The Gemmological Association of Great Britain
The Minerological Society
The Russell Society
Rockwatch
in association with the Natural History Museum.

Festival of Geology
Sat 6 November 2010 10.30am — 4.30pm. UCL, London.
Free Entrance!

Lots of activities for all ages, geological talks and photography competition, plus many geological exhibitors.

See flyer for more details or visit The GA website.

23 August 2010 - ROCKSTAR COMPETITION
Hurry - you still just have time to enter and become a Rockstar in 2010!

Under 16s - entries can be anything related to geology – art, craft, puzzles, fieldtrip reports, word games, photographs, film or computer presentations – but must have something to do with dinosaurs, rocks or fossils.

Or if you’re 16 – 19 enter the Young Writer Competition. Every entry receives a prize but the winners get top prizes plus a trip with their families to London for the prize-giving.

Because of the summer holiday we have extended the closing date until September 7th but you’ll have to move fast. See the entry form and more details.

17 July 2010 - CD - fantastic buy!
The Purbeck Limestone Group. Virtual geology field trips to Purbeck limestone quarries in South Dorset. CD available from: Alan Holiday, 7, Whitecross Drive, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 9PA. Price £5 inc. p&p.

This CD is a “must” for anyone visiting the Isle of Purbeck. There are a number of virtual field trips to the Purbeck limestone quarries in south Dorset. Aimed at diverse interest groups, ranging from teachers of “A” level geology and geography to students and any groups or individuals who wish to know about the geology of this area. It will satisfy the curiosity of anyone interested in the development of landscape, people, culture and uses of local natural resources. I hope that it will also enable users to recognise how geodiversity underpins biodiversity and to develop a recognition of the importance of the world beneath our feet to our everyday lives.

Research was funded by HLF and the project was undertaken in partnership with Dorset’s Important Geological Sites Group (DIGS). Get your copy now!

17 July 2010 - Issue 55 Rockwatch Magazine
The latest issue of the Rockwatch Magazine is now available. See a preview of this issue.

23 June 2010 - Extra field trip by popular request!
Cotswold Water Park
Sunday 18th July 10.30 – 3.00
Hunt for Jurassic and Ice Age fossils
at Coln Gravel Gloucestershire.

Hurry, hurry, hurry – a few places left for
Fossil collecting trip to Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Saturday 7th August 11.30 – 4.00

A Volcano Experience and Fossil Collecting
Somerset Earth Science Centre
Stoke St. Michael, near Bath.
Tuesday 10th August

£5 registration fee for these trips.
Book through the Rockwatch office.

7 June 2010 - Rockstars 2010 Competition
Let your imagination get to work! Be inspired to be creative about geology by entering this year's Rockstars Competition.

7 June 2010 - Summer Event programme
Check out the latest event programme.

9 January 2010 - Winter / Spring 2010 events
Check out the latest events programme for this Winter and Spring.

4 October 2009 - Festival of Geology is on Saturday 31st October from 10.30 - 4.30pm at University College London, with The Geologists' Association, Rockwatch and the British Geological Survey. Lots of exhibits and activities. All welcome to this free event. www.geologistsassociation.org.uk or phone 0207 4349298 for more details

25 July 2009 - Summer and Autumn events 2009
There are lots more events to keep you busy over the summer holidays and beyond. See the events pages for full details!

15 June 2009 - Rockstar Competition 2009
Will you be a Rockstar 2009 or Rockwriter of the Year? Fabulous prizes and a great day out for winners and their families. Check out the Competition details now!

14 June 2009 - Summer of Chalk
Join Rockwatch, Essex Wildlife Trust and GeoEssex for a Summer of Chalk on Saturday 20th June from 10.00 a.m. Chafford Gorges Nature Park, Chafford Hundred, Grays, Thurrock, RM16 7RG. Activities for all ages. For further details call 01375 484 016. No need to book, just turn up.

2 June 2009 - Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
Calling all those who took out a Rockwatch membership at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival during the weekend of 23rd/24th May: please contact the Rockwatch office by email or post with your name and contact details.

2 June 2009- Spring - Summer 2009 Events
Check out the events section for the latest list of unmissable events!

7 March 2009 - Earth Rocks Issue Magazine
Details of the Special "Earth Rocks" Issue (number 50) of the Rochwatch magazine are now available.

15 February 2009 - Weymouth Guide (external link)
A Geological Walk Around Weymouth, written by Alan Holiday is a super little booklet for anyone planning a trip to the area.

3 February 2009 - Fossil fun for all the family
By popular demand, Rockwatch will be back at British Geological Survey (BGS) near Nottingham from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 14 March 2009. Further details.

23 December 2008 - Winter 2008 - Spring 2009 Events
Check out the events section for the latest list of unmissable events!

Special Issue Rockwatch Magazine
Special "Earth Rocks" issue of the magazine, celebrating 200 years of extraordinary geological discoveries. Read all about them in the Rockwatch magazine, available to non-members from Rockwatch at the GA, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0DU, price £1.50 inc. p&p.

3 November 2008 - The 12th Annual Robert Grant Lecture: Mary Anning: “The greatest fossilist the world ever knew” by Prof. Hugh Torrens
JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building
Wednesday 12 Nov 2008 at 4:30pm

Despite the fact that she was an uneducated, working-class woman from Devon, Mary Anning (1799-1847) broke through the male-dominated field of geology to become one of the most important fossil collectors ever.

She discovered the first ever plesiosaurs, the first British pterosaurs and several amazing ichthyosaurs but she was rarely given the credit. A religious Nonconformist, who published nothing and travelled little, her life is difficult for historians to study but proves to be fascinating.

This lecture explores all of these problems, and outlines Anning’s extraordinary achievements. Her work as a "merely commercial" collector of fossils opens up the complex debate about who is
amateur and who professional.

Professor Hugh Torrens, former President of the British Society for the History of Science and the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences is the leading expert on Anning’s life, and has published over 200 books, articles and papers.

This lecture is run in partnership with the CEE.
Following the lecture, join us for a free glass of wine in a private view of the Museum. This event is free and there is no need to book. All are welcome.

Learning and Access Manager
Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
Darwin Building
Department of Biology
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT
Tel:(+44) 020 7679 2647 (Internal ext. 32647)
Fax:(+44) 020 7679 7096
Email: j.ashby@ucl.ac.uk
www.grant.museum.ucl.ac.uk

23 October 2008 - Festival of Geology
Saturday 1st November - join Rockwatch and others for a day of fun and activities in the Discovery Room at the Festival of Geology at University College London. See the Geologists' Association web site for further details about the Festival of Geology.

31 July 2008 - Summer and Autumn Events
Check out the events section for the latest list of unmissable events!

29 July 2008 - Don’t miss your chance to become a Rockstar!!
2008 competition details on the web site. Entries are already coming in to the Rockwatch office – make sure yours comes in too! Summer holidays are the prefect time for finalising your entry.

29 July 2008 - New Rockwatch Magazine
Whet your appetites with a taste of the latest issue Rockwatch Magazine!

27 June 2008 - Geology Antiques Roadshow
For all Rockwatchers: Join the fun with The South Wales Geologists' Association who will be running an "Antiques Road Show" at the Penarth Festival, in the Kymin Centre, Penarth, on 5th and 6th July. This is your chance to get all your rocks and fossils identified by the experts.

9 April 2008 - Latest News about Rockwatch Events
Still a few places available for:

• Weekend Field trip to the Durham area, Friday 30 to Saturday 31 May
• South Wales weekend field trip, Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 June
• Week long field trip to the Dinosaur Coast of Yorkshire, Monday 4 August to Friday 8 August

08 April 2008 - Rockstars and Young Writer 2008
Checkout the tips and entry form for this year's competition. Don't miss your chance to be a Rockstar or Young Writer!

08 April 2008 - New Rockwatch Magaine
Issue 48 of the Rockwatch Magazine is available for our members. Checkout the contents list to whet your appetites!

06 April 2008 - New Summer Events listing
Checkout our latest events listings for the summer - pop the dates in your diary and sign up now to avoid disappointment!

11 February 2008 - Geology in Museums Factcard
Rockwatch have produced a handy factcard featuring details about geological collections in museums across the United Kingdom. Download it and this little gem is yours to keep! (PDF document file size 287KB)

20 January 2008 - BBC Recommends Rockwatch!
We're delighted that the BBC has featured the Rockwatch web site as a recommended geology web site. Quite an accolade! See the BBC web site for details.

For more details look on the Rockwatch Events pages or phone/email the Rockwatch Office 0207 7345398 rockwatchatga@btinternet.com

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