Club Meetings, Workshops and
Field Trips
The Club holds regular, monthly meetings featuring a wide range of topics and formats. Meetings generally last for ca. 2 hours and consist of some combination of short talks by members, videos, geological news flashes, introductions to geological concepts or techniques, displays of specimens/photos etc, structured or open discussions.
Meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of each month and take place in the Waimea Rooms at the Richmond A&P Grounds.
We also run occasional field excursions and workshops, and invited lectures. Field trips and workshops are usually held at the weekend and a car pool operates, starting at Warring Carpark, Richmond. Invited lectures are arranged according to the speaker's availability.
For information on past field trips and to see geologists at work, click here.
Meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of each month and take place in the Waimea Rooms at the Richmond A&P Grounds.
We also run occasional field excursions and workshops, and invited lectures. Field trips and workshops are usually held at the weekend and a car pool operates, starting at Warring Carpark, Richmond. Invited lectures are arranged according to the speaker's availability.
For information on past field trips and to see geologists at work, click here.
Upcoming Events
(subject to confirmation - dates, where given, are provisional)
Club Meeting: Travellers Tales
Short talks, discussion and displays
Thursday March 20th
Field Trip to Lee Valley
Fossicking and limestone quarry visit
Sunday March 30th
Club Meeting: Video Night
Virtual field trips to sites you'd wish you'd been to
Thursday April 17th
Workshop: Working Bee on Club Collection
Identifying, recording, photographing and researching rock and mineral specimens
Saturday April 12th
Club Meeting: Topic to be announced
(Including Special General Meeting on the Future of the Club)
Thursday, May 15th
Field Trip and Geological Walk at Highfield Farm
(jointly with Waimea Walking Group)
Sunday May 25th
Club Meeting: Mineral identification
Thursday 19th June
Field trip: Clarke River
Sunday `22nd June
Club Meeting: Topic to be announced
Thursday 17th July
Workshop on Granite
To be confirmed
Sunday 20th July
Club Meeting
Topic to be announced
Thursday 21st August
Field Trip: Granite
Date to be confirmed
August
Club Meeting with Invited talk by Chris Hollis
To be confirmed
September
Field Trip to Speargrass, St Arnaud
Rocks, faults and landforms
September
Club Meeting with invited talk by Anne Grassham
Antarctica
Thursday October 16th
Field Trip
Topic. to be announced
Sunday October 19th
Club Meeting
(including AGM and invited speaker)
Thursday 20th November
Weekend Field Trip
Golden Bay or West Coast
Sat/Sun 22nd-23rd November