Date: 16 November 2016
Location: Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Convenors: Edward Rose; Judy Ehlen
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Tickets (including sandwich lunch):
- £35 Members (HOGG / EGGS / Geological Society of London / Geologists’ Association)
- £40 Non-Members
The Programme
09.05-09.25 REGISTRATION
09.25-09.30 Ted Rose
Introduction
09.30-10.00 John Mather (Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Water supplies to maritime and coastal defences: a story of risk and innovation
10.00-10.30 Tony Brook (West Sussex Geological Society, UK)
Response to the Napoleonic threat of invasion in 1804: canals, coastal forts and cartography of southeast England
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-11.30 Danny Harrelson (Engineer Research Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, USA)
Geologic influence of the Great River Raft on the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War
11.30-12.00 Peter Doyle (Visiting Professor of Geology, University College London, UK)
Geology and military mining: Gallipoli and the Western Front, 1915-1918
12.00-12.30 Dierk Willig (Head of Geology, Hydrology & Geophysics, Bundeswehr Geoinformation Centre, Germany)
German militarymining and military geology on the Eastern Front in the Great War
12.30-13.30 LUNCH BREAK (to include HOGG AGM) sandwich lunch provided in Lower Library
13.30-14.00 Ted Rose (Honorary Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Quarrying Companies Royal Engineers: a geology-related innovation stimulated by World War
14.00-14.30 Hermann Häusler (Professor of Geosciences, University of Vienna & Colonel, Reserve Army, Austria)
The northern Atlantic Wall: German engineering geology work in Norway during World War II
14.30-15.00 Florian Malm (Bundeswehr Geoinformation Centre, Germany)
One hundred years of cross-country mobility prediction for military purposes
15.00-15.30 Paul Nathanail (Professor of Engineering Geology, University of Nottingham, UK)
The impact of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment (M.E.X.E.) approach to terrain evaluation
15.30-16.00 TEA
16.00-16.30 Eddie Bromhead (retired Professor of Engineering Geology, University of Kingston, UK)
The landslip-damaged Roman era fort at Lympne, Kent
16.30-17.00 Deodato Tapete (British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK)
Coastal processes that have led to the loss of sites of British military heritage
17.00-17.30 Sandy Mackay (ALYSJ joint venture, Doha, Qatar)
Engineering geological considerations for the ‘Old’ Beacon Railway Tunnel, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: a route denied to the invading Japanese in World War II
17.30-17.35 Concluding remarks