First, many apologies for deciding to shut down the YGS website for
several days as a precaution when we came under a heavy unauthorised
access attack, presumably by international hackers trying to take over the
site for spamming.
In consultation with our excellent web server providers we agreed
to shut down access to the site for a time, both to repulse the raider,
and also to make sure that any virus or Trojan that the attacker might
have tried to place on the YGS web would not be distributed to our members
and many other users.
I am glad to be able to assure everyone that during the shut-down very
thorough checks were made by both me and our web service security experts
of all our systems plus the PC I mainly use to manage the site, but
nothing untoward was found. I have of course also changed and strengthened
all system access and PC passwords in case these had been compromised.
The website is now up and running again at:
http://www.yorksgeolsoc.org.uk
with all the latest details of the Society's activities, including
Yorkshire Geology Month, May 2013, which is being launched with our
exciting Yorkshire Rocks and Minerals Day in Wakefield this coming
Saturday, 27th April, which will offer something for everyone. (Please
brin along your faqmily and friends!)
You will find a summary of the day below, and full details, including
Abstracts of the main papers, on the YGS website.
Patrick Boylan
(Web Editor and President)
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Saturday 27th April, 10-30am to 5pm: Yorkshire Rocks and Minerals Day for
all the family at the National Coal Mining Museum, Caphouse Colliery,
Wakefield
Short Talks in the Education Area: 10.30 - 1.30pm
10.30: When hippos swam in Yorkshire rivers - Patrick Boylan
11.05: An East African exploraton safari: John Holt
11.40: Potash - the Yorkshire mineral - Noel Worley
12.15: Scunthorpe - the town that ironstone built - Paul Hildreth
12.50: 3D visualisation - how geologists see under the ground (by the
British Geological Survey)
Short Geological Walks to the Hope Mine Rock Exposure, 10.30 and 12.00:
Leaders Ken Dorning and Andy Howard
Underground tours of Caphouse Colliery
10.30 and 12.30: Underground walks into the Drift Mine. These walks will
be longer and more arduous that the 11am tourist tour as it includes a
long and steep walk up the drift; however there is plenty of geological
interest to see
11.00: a tourist tour which incluses a geological display, geared
especially for children
All underground tours to be booked ON THE DAY at the Museum Reception Desk
All day: 10.30am to 4.30pm: Displays in the Hope section of the Conference
Centre. Those promised include:
Frodingham Ironstone, manned by Scunthorpe Museum staff
Mineral specimens - David Hill
Chalk fossils - Paul Hildreth
Local coal-mining artefacts - Roger Lynch
Afternoon, 1.45pm - 4.50pm: joint meeting on "Geology and Mineral
Resources of Yorkshire - Revisited": Yorkshire Geological Society, West
Yorkshire Geological Trust Day, Northern Mines Research Society, Leeds
Geological Association and Geology Group of the Sorby Natural History
Society:
13.30 - 13.40: Yorkshire Geological Society business - Patrick Boylan
(President)
13.40 - 14.40: John Goodchild (Wakefield): "For Science, patronage and
self-interest: the West Riding coal masters and the establishment of the
Geological and Polytechnic Society of th West Riding" - illustrated with
original documents
14.40 - 15.15: Andrew Bloodworth (British Geological Survey): "With
England's own coal: the past, present and future of coal in Britain"
15.15 - 15.40: Coffee Break (free refreshments) around exhibition area
15.40 - 16.15: Peter Woods (Potash Industry Consultant): Historical
development and future of the potash industry
16.15 - 16.50: John Peate (Hanson Aggregates): "Present and future working
for aggregates and quarrying in northern England"
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