Colleagues
A report on the recent Tectonic Studies Group (UK) Annual Meeting.
The TSG annual meeting, held in Leeds this year, was organised by Rob
Butler, Martin Casey, Geoff Lloyd and Andy McCaig and enjoyed by 130
attendees from mainly UK and Europe. 2 ½ days of lectures and posters
on a range of structural and tectonics research in progress themes were
presented with an emphasis, as always, on post-graduates presenting
their work for the first time and on new, breaking research by more
established workers. The meeting was followed by a well-attended field-
excursion to the Craven fault system at Ingleton led by Jack Soper.
A number of prizes were awarded. The Ramsay Medal, awarded to best
publication arising from postgraduate research, went to Taixu Bai
(Stanford University) for his 2000 Journal of Structural Geology paper,
‘Fracture spacing in layered rocks: a new explanation based on stress
transition’. The Dave Johnston Prize went to Alaistair Haddow
(Birmingham) for his outstanding undergraduate mapping of Northern
Arran. The best postgraduate talk at the meeting was by Janine Sleight
(Durham) on ‘Micro to regional scale fracture characteristics from the
Møre Trøndelag Fault Complex, Central Norway’ and the best
postgraduate poster by Young-Seog Kim (Southampton) on ‘Models for
the evolution of damage patterns around strike-slip faults’.
The meeting was successful and thanks to the organisers for the amount
of effort they put into it. Numbers attending do appear, however, to have
been on the slide recently. They topped 300 only a few years ago. If this
meeting is to remain viable then we need to ensure that numbers do not
drop any further. Next year, the Meeting will be at Leicester from 7th-9th
January 2002 so please consider attending and presenting your latest
work. Postgraduate attendees this year were very positive on their
overall experience. They liked the opportunity to present their first talk at
a meeting that was somewhat less daunting than an AGU, GSA or a EUG
and were very encouraged by the level of feedback they received.
On behalf of the TSG committee, I’d be interested in any comments you
might have on the future health and vitality of this meeting, either
privately to my email address below, or to the whole list if you prefer.
Thanks, Ken
Ken McCaffrey
Secretary to Tectonic Studies Group
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Durham,
Durham, DH1 3LE
Tel 0191 374 2523
Fax 0191 374 2510
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TSG webpage http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/
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