Upcoming Events
Monday 20th January – Van Mildert SCR Book Club
20.00 – Prowse Room
Novel by Rachel Lynch.
Tuesday 21st January – IAS Fellows’ Public Lecture
‘Extreme Floods:Evidence in the Landscape’ by Dr Anna Jones
17.30 – Lecture – Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College.
Extreme river floods frequently leave behind them evidence of their occurrence that is preserved within the landscape for decades to millennia. This evidence forms a natural record of extreme flooding that may be used to supplement the flood records that have been measured at river flow gauging stations or are chronicled in historical documents and by marks on bridges and buildings. The nature of the evidence of extreme floods preserved in a landscape depends on the characteristics of the river system and the climate and can include both landforms and flood deposits. It may record individual extreme flood events, or flood-rich episodes lasting up to several decades, over periods of centuries or millennia. This lecture discusses the evidence for extreme floods found in UK river systems, with a particular focus on rivers in Wales, the techniques required to extract usable information from this evidence and its potential for improving flood hazard assessments and understanding of the linkages between extreme flood occurrence and climate.
Wednesday 22nd January – SCR Buffet Lunch
13.00 – SCR Buffet Lunch, Lakeside Room
Please sign up via the link below by 11.00am Monday 20th January
https://www.dur.ac.uk/van-mildert.college/whats-on/buffet-lunches/
Thursday 23rd January – Burns Night Formal
18.45 – Drinks Reception, Lakeside Room
19.15 – Dinner, Ann Dobson Hall
Sign-up has now closed.
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Monday 27th January – SCR Lecture and Dinner
Speaker: Dr Charlotte Adams, Assistant Professor in Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University.
18.30 – Lecture, Ustinov Room
Speaker – Dr Charlotte Adams
Assistant Professor in Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University
Coal delivered wealth and industrial growth for the UK over several centuries. Today coal is considered a dirty fuel and less is being used to generate electricity. Flooded abandoned coal mines across the UK offer a massive opportunity to supply low carbon heat to former mining areas. Half of UK energy demand is for heat and most is produced by burning gas. Finding low carbon alternatives to heat is essential, to mitigate against climate change and maintain secure energy supplies. Perhaps we can develop the legacy of our abandoned coal mines to meet energy demands of the future.
@BritGeothermal
@CESIenergy
Speaker Biography
Charlotte Adams is Assistant Professor at Durham University. Charlotte has worked in both academia and the renewable energy industry and has undertaken multidisciplinary academic research on decarbonising energy (with a particular emphasis on heat) and water systems since joining Durham University in 2009. Working with abandoned mines, Charlotte has a thorough understanding of the huge geothermal potential of these and other low enthalpy resources in the UK. She manages the BritGeothermal research partnership which is a research collaboration between the universities of Newcastle, Glasgow, Durham and the British Geological Survey. Charlotte is currently collaborating on research into on energy systems integration through the Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) project led by Newcastle University. Under this programme, her work is examining how best to integrate heat into energy low carbon energy systems and has an emphasis on geothermal and other sources of low grade heat and heat networks.
Please note sign up for the dinner has now closed but SCR members and guests are more then welcome to attend the lecture.
Tuesday 28th January – Chinese New Year Formal
18.45 – Drinks Reception, Lakeside Room
19.15 – Dinner, Ann Dobson Hall
To sign up please use the following link – https://www.dur.ac.uk/van-mildert.college/whats-on/chinese-ny/ and sign up closes at 17.00 on Monday 20th January.
Thursday 6th February – Wording Sharing Event – Evening with author Rachel Lynch
18.30 – Talk, Ustinov Room.
19.30 – Drinks Reception, Reception Foyer
20.00 – Dinner, Lakeside Room
Further information to follow.
Talk – Free to All
Dinner – £25 per person (Drinks Reception, Three courses with Coffee, Tea & Mints)
Table Wine – £5 per half bottle and £10 per bottle
To RSVP to the event please email [email protected] by Wednesday 29th January with any specific dietary requirements and wine orders.
Monday 10th February – Van Mildert SCR Book Club
20.00 – Prowse Room
Foody Crime Novel.
Group members to vote for the title from the list below –
1 – The inspector Gamache books set in Canada by Louise Penny
2 – The Montalbano books by the late Andrea Camilleri set in Sicily
3 – Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti novels set in Venice
4 – Bruno Chief of Police series by Martin Walker set in the Perigord region of France.
Please email Kathryn on [email protected] by Friday 7th February with your vote.
Kathryn will choose an appropriate title from the chosen author and provide refreshments.
Wednesday 19th February – SCR Dinner and Talk
Speaker – Gary Bankhead
Underwater Archaeologist & Honorary Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Gary will be talking about his conservation work, finds from the River Wear and his involvement in the Durham River Wear Assemblage Project with Durham University.
More information on the project – http://www.diveintodurham.uk/
Speaker Biography
Gary is an amateur underwater archaeologist, small finds researcher and illustrator. Gary has been a sub-aqua diver for over 25 years and is a qualified BSAC Dive Leader having dived extensively around UK inshore waters and the Egyptian Red Sea, he is also a qualified level 3 water rescue technician. Gary is also an accomplished public speaker, having given over 150 talks, papers and lectures.
As a Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Gary’s current role is to coordinate the wider research of the Durham River Wear Assemblage. As well as his own ongoing small finds research, he continues to work with Durham University students undertaking a MA in Conservation of Archaeological and Museum Objects course to analyse and research artefacts, along with specialists with traditional archaeological skills from finds drawing to comparative analysis and developing typologies.
Gary is also an external specialist for MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) having recently undertaken research on two significant assemblages of sixteenth/seventeenth century lead cloth seals found during MOLA excavations at the Crossrail project (Liverpool Street) and at Tanner Street, Bermondsley.
Event Timings
18.30 Drinks Reception, SCR Foyer
19.00 – Talk, Lakeside Room
20.00 – Dinner, Lakeside Room
Ticket Price – £28 per person
Table Wine – £5 per half bottle and £10 per bottle
To RSVP to the SCR dinner please email [email protected] by Friday 7th February with any specific dietary requirements and wine orders.