11 May 2010 |
GCG Workshop: Digital imaging for geological collections:
British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham
Meeting Fee: £15, to include tea & coffee and a buffet lunch.
Please note that the workshop will be limited to approximately 12 participants to ensure everyone gets plenty of hands-on experience. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If there is sufficient demand, a second course may be run.
More details and a booking form are available HERE.
Please send your completed booking form and payment (cheques payable to the Geological Curator's Group) to Dr Mike Howe, Chief Curator, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham. NG12 5GG.
Timetable for Tuesday 11th May
09:00 – 09:30: Registration & Coffee
09:30 – 10:45: Practical specimen photography, including basic photo theory. Working in small groups with BGS digital SLR cameras and copy stands. Core store. [Paul Witney]
10:45 – 11:00: Coffee & biscuits
11:00 – 12:00: Practical specimen photography (continued).
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 14:30: Using Photoshop type image manipulation software, for e.g. colour cast, cleaning up, re-sizing. J037 [Paul Witney]
14:30 – 15:30: Image databases, including:
- Metadata requirements (locality, identifications, etc.) [Tim McCormick]
- Overview of available products [Tim McCormick]
- Practical demonstration of the BGS system – AssetBank – also known as GeoScenic – see (http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewHome). [Gill Nixon] J037 Training Room.
15:30 – 16:00: Tea & discussion
16:00: Departure
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28 June - 3 July 2010 |
GCG Seminar: Symposium on collecting, curation and conservation of palaeontological collections
Third International Palaeontological Congress; The Natural History Museum and Imperial College, London.
This GCG seminar will take place within the third meeting of the IPC which is being held at Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, London. IPC is a major international meeting held once every 4 years under the auspices of the International Palaeontological Association. The meeting provides a showcase for all that is exciting and new in the fields of palaeontology and palaeobiology.
IPC3 in 2010 is hosted by the Palaeontological Association and partner organizations. The full meeting programme will comprise field trips, plenary lectures, workshops, contrinuted talks and posters and thematic symposia. A conference dinner will be held in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum.
For more information, go to the website: http://www.ipc3.org
Please contact: Dr Sarah Long
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD
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23-24 July 2010 |
GCG Seminar: 200 years of West Country Sea Dragons
Strode Theatre, Street, Somerset
Following on from the highly successful PalAss review seminar 'Sea Dragons of Avalon', GCG have teamed up with three of the meeting organisers to run a similar event to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Hawkins, the eccentric collector of Street and Lyme Regis marine reptiles.
It is anticipated that the meeting will take place on Friday 23 July 2010 followed by a field excursion on Saturday 24 July to visit some of the modern Lias quarries in the Street area.
The meeting will focus on Thomas Hawkins, his collections, legacy and modern collecting. Topics will include current locations and state of Hawkins's specimens, including issues of acquisition, mounting methods and conservation, as well as restoration/forgery. We will investigate Hawkins's life and work, his contemporaries, and Hawkins's (metaphorical) heirs - the modern collectors, preparators and curators, as well as site conservation.
Please contact: Dr Leslie Noe
Curator of Natural Science, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B47XG
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Late September 2010 |
GCG Workshop and Seminar Jointly with SVPCA and SPPC
Cambridge
More details to follow
Please contact: Lyall Anderson
Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB23EQ
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October 2010 |
GCG Study Visit to the Field Museum, Chicago
There is a proposal for a visit to the Field Museum in Chicago. More details to follow but it would help us to gauge interest...
Please contact: Helen Fothergill with expressions of interest
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devol, PL48AJ
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7-8 December 2010 |
GCG Seminar and AGM
Ulster Museum, Belfast
This meeting will include an opportunity to explore the Ulster Museum; closed and emptied in September 2006, and reopening in October 2009 with state of the art displays throughout.
More details of programme to follow
Please contact: Helen Fothergill
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devol, PL48AJ
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