Herdman Symposium
The Herdman Symposium is run annually by the Herdman Earth Sciences Society and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. It has been held every year since 1973. The Herdman Earth Sciences Society is the student geology society at the University of Liverpool. Founded in 1918, it is one of the oldest such societies in the UK.
Sponsors
It would not be possible to hold the Herdman Symposium without the generous support of our sponsors.
Cover credits
The climate stripes used on the cover, headers and footers of this brochure are the work of Prof. Ed Hawkins. They are the climate stripes for Liverpool using 1850-2023 data, generated as part of his #showyourstripes project. The project can be viewed at showyourstripes.info.
“The Holocene has ended. The Garden of Eden is no more. We have changed the world so much that scientists say we are in a new geological age: the Anthropocene, the age
Sir David Attenborough
of humans.”
Itinerary
- 9:50 Introduction – Prof. Peter Burgess (Professor of Sedimentary Geology, University of Liverpool), Asriel Wilde (President of the Herdman Society), Jennifer Mackie (Herdman Symposium Secretary)
- 10:10 Prof. Mark Maslin (University College London) – How humans caused the Anthropocene
- 11:00 Dr. Karen Hanghøj (British Geological Survey) – Perspectives on the energy transition: It starts with a rock
- 11:50 Break
- 12:10 Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey) – How geological records from Antarctica can provide context for current and future ice sheet changes
- 13:00 Lunch
- 13:50 Prof. Babette Hoogakker (Herriot-Watt University) – Ocean oxygenation and climate tipping points
- 14:40 Prof. Chris Jackson (WSP) – The geological disposal of nuclear waste: Why, how and where?
- 15:30 Break
- 15:50 Prof. Richard Worden (University of Liverpool) – Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
- 16:40 Closing remarks
- 17:00 Drinks reception: Pen Factory, 13 Hope Street
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