July 16, 2024 Dinosaur and fossil hunts, Summer 2024 Join palaeontologist Fossiliam for some family-friendly fossil-finding fun in York and North Yorkshire this summer! Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Teaching
July 4, 2024 York Guildhall’s ancient seafloors On the first Wednesday of each month, for York’s Hidden History, I lead a Guilded Tour of medieval York. The walk takes an hour, and we start and finish outside York Guildhall, but if there aren’t any events on, we might sneak a peek inside. As a geologist, one of the things I particularly like about the Guildhall is that... Categories Outreach/Teaching
March 30, 2024 Stegosaurs of Whitby Leading a family fossil hunt at Whitby, I walked my group onto East Scar, beneath Whitby Abbey. The rocks in the foreshore and lower part of the cliffs here are Early Jurassic marine shales. The dark grey layers, peppered with hard, pale lumps, belong to the Whitby Mudstone Formation. The hard pale lumps are limestone nodules (concretions) that grew around... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Research/Teaching
October 19, 2023 The BEACH at Redcar Palace What did you miss if you didn’t come to our first BEACH (Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage) event at Redcar Palace? Oh, not much. Only MONSTER MOLLUSCS, MICROSCOPIC MOUNTAINS, and MAGNIFICENT MYTH-MAKING! Monster molluscs After a quick introduction at the Palace, we all headed out onto Redcar Rocks, to see what remarkable things we might find. Seven year-old Oliver was the... Categories Outreach/Research/Teaching
October 10, 2023 BEACH The Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage Project This autumn, thanks to funding from the UK Science Festivals Network ‘Making Connections‘ scheme, The Rock Showman and Fossiliam are leading BEACH: The Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage Project. Through a series of free events, the BEACH aims to bring together local communities, researchers and artists to explore the amazing Earth history of Redcar &... Categories Outreach/Research/Teaching
September 5, 2023 Fossils & Palaeoenvironments This November – on Saturday 11th and 18th – I am teaching a two-part online course for the University of York Centre for Lifelong Learning. Fossils & Palaeoenvironments will explain what fossils are, how we’ve worked this out, and how we use fossils to understand ancient environments. Saturday 11th November will be the Fossils day, introducing fossils, palaeontological techniques, and... Categories Outreach/Teaching
February 9, 2023 Fossiliam’s upcoming events – 2023 If you’re looking for a fossil-, rock- or natural history-related activity in Yorkshire in 2023, I might be able to help, as I run fossil-, rock- and natural history-related activities in Yorkshire. My current calendar of events is as follows: Sunday, April 9th – Runswick BayI’ll be leading a Natural Wonders fossil hunt at Runswick Bay from 11.30am to 1.30pm... Categories Outreach/Teaching
January 14, 2023 Embrace the grey fear Wild winter walks on the north-east coast of England? Absolutely! I parked at the western end of Redcar beach. Majuba, it was windy! Coatham’s sand dunes were frantically migrating south. The offshore wind turbines looked certain to take off. Those small-dog-walkers who’d foolishly unleashed their hounds watched them saltate off to Saltburn. The sun was shining, though, and perhaps all... Categories #StratumYoung/Outreach/Teaching
December 30, 2022 My ’22 Top Ten – 1. Quicksand Number one in my Top Ten of 2022 is the first thing of note I did in the year, but Emma Gibson’s Quicksand is also number 1 because it was my favourite project of the year. It marked the first time I was employed as a museum consultant, the first time I worked with a professional artist, and the first... Categories Media/Outreach/Teaching
December 28, 2022 My ’22 Top Ten – 3. Earth Club “Pupils are happy and well cared for. They attend a range of different activities, such as girls’ football, yoga and the Earth club.” Categories #StratumYoung/Outreach/Teaching
