Hull Geological Society
What a ghastly year it has been! The country went into
lockdown just after our AGM in March 2020 and we had to cancel all our indoor
meetings and roadshows. I have really missed your company and hope we return to
having actual lectures and Club Nights sometime soon! At least the rocks will
still be there for our fieldwork!
I have tried to create some
alternative events:- Thirteen virtual Club Nights on Facebook with up to 20
members taking part in each one; a Zoom Club Night which was “attended” by six
members (that didn’t really work);
and
six Zoom talks which were “attended” by up to 75 members and guests. I thank
John Connor, Paul Hildreth, Patrick Boylan, and David Hill for contributing to
the Zoom Talks. I do appreciate that not all members can participate in our
on-line activities but then not all members are able to attend our evening
lectures at the University in a normal year.
We have had twelve field
meetings, with numbers restricted to six or two people, including one for the 15th
Yorkshire Geology Month.
I
thank Mary Howard and Graham Kings for organising and co-leading three of those.
I have added several pages to
the Society website. There are five new peer-reviewed papers in
Humberside Geologist Online
(including two by Dennis Haughey and
Graham Kings about the Bisat Project) and five
unfinished works by the late Derek Gobbett. To link
with a project I have started at the University there are new pages about
Holderness erratics, along with more archive articles
from the Yorkshire Boulder Committee and the
East Riding Boulder Committee.
The Committee decided to waive the annual subscription
for the year for continuing members because we were not able to run our normal
programme of events. On behalf of the Committee I thank the members who have
sent donations towards our funds.
I thank the Committee for their help in running the
Society this year; in particular Rodger Connell who is standing down as Vice
President.
Mike Horne. March 2021
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