Current Programme

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Club members exploring Coastal Rocks on Eyre Peninsula

2026 Programme (updated on 30 Nov 2025)
Date Activity Topic/Theme Speaker/Leader  
5 Feb Meeting Giant Caves of the Nullabor Plain Ian Lewis, FGC / Environment and Water  
22 Feb Half-day workshop The secret life of crystals and minerals (Updated repeat of 2025 workshop) Frances Williams, FGC / Earth Sciences, AU  
5 March Meeting How do you move 6000 minerals? Dr Kieran Meaney South Australian Museum  
29 Mar Excursion From Magpie Creek to Sturt Gorge; the onset of the Sturtian glaciation Colin Conor, FGC  
2 April Meeting Lusi: the largest mud volcano disaster in the world David Grybowski, FGC  
*2/3 May Weekend excursion Still on a bender at Morgan Mike Burrell,FGC / SA Museum  
7 May Meeting Student seminar: Out of Africa, the Paralana Fault and Snowball Earth Kira Otterbach, Alastair Bowie, Nicko Wyndham. Earth Sciences, AU  
31 May Excursion A fossil waterfall and ancient reed beds in Ambers Gully Dr Laurence Campbell FGC/ Flinders University  
4 June Brian Daily Memorial Lecture Inspiring young geological minds: two decades of teaching at Pichi Richi Assoc. Prof. Ros King Earth Sciences, AU  
*21 June Excursion Rocks that made South Australia, a stroll along North Terrace Peter Briggs, FGC  
2 July Meeting From matching coastlines to moving plates: a scientific detective story Frances Williams, FGC / Earth Sciences, AU  
26 July Half -day workshop Mawson’s treasures in the Mawson Building Jayden Squire, FGC / Earth Sciences, AU  
6 Aug Meeting Stone, sand, and silence: a decade among the tombs of Luxor Brenan Dew, South Australian Museum  
*Date TBA Extra excursion River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) Project Sevan Simonian (T2D Project) and Mike Burrell  
30 Aug Excursion Field River, Glenthorne Park, and Howchin’s famous anticline Pat James, FGC / Earth Sciences, AU  
3 Sept Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture TBA TBA  
*12–19 Sept Long excursion Exploring Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges and Arkaroola Peter Briggs, FGC  
1 Oct Meeting Extinct megafauna of the La Brea Tar Pits Paul Curnow, FGC / Adelaide Planetarium, AU  
26   Oct Excursion Kingston Park to Marino: a world-famous geological section Frances Williams and Stuart Auld, FGC  
5 Nov AGM and Members’ Night TBA    
13 Nov Annual Dinner TBA    
28 Nov Picnic TBA    
         
  Meetings are held in the Mawson Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus, and commence at 7.00 pm unless otherwise announced in the monthly Bulletin.
*Note that these excursions are not on the traditional last Sunday of the month. In one case not even on a Sunday! This is on account of needing to liaise with other organisations or individuals.