Due to ongoing safety considerations and restrictions on participant numbers, our AGM will now be held as a stand-alone online event. The President’s Address, Medal and Award presentations and President’s Dinner will now be held as a separate themed event in 2021.

We are delighted to announce that Paul Wignall, Professor of Palaeoenvironments at the University of Leeds, has accepted our President’s invitation to take on the role of Chief Editor for the PYGS with effect from our December 2020 AGM.

Our latest Circular 630 for September 2020 is available for download, including more news and articles on Yorkshire Geology in The Time of Coronavirus

We hope you are enjoying our refreshed YGS website! To celebrate, we have launched some new online content including Virtual Field Trips and Guides and a new Geology Online page

During the Covid-19 lockdown, the University of Newcastle tasked their first-year Earth Science students to produce some field guides to classic geological localities in the Northumberland National Park and adjacent areas. The University awarded a prize of 2 years’ student membership of YGS to the best project, which we are pleased to feature on our website.

‘earth2earth’ is a newly launched UK-wide geoscience seminar series that aims to engage the UK Geosciences community with inspiring science from internationally leading researchers.