Join Professor Colin Campbell, Chief Executive, The James Hutton Institute while he traces James Hutton’s life and intellectual development. James Hutton, physician, chemist, farmer and natural philosopher, is best known as the founder of modern geology that is the basis of the “Deep Time” of our Earth. Yet his contribution reaches far beyond the rocks […]
Three hundred years ago, during the Scottish Enlightenment, James Hutton transformed how we understand the Earth. At a time when many believed the planet was only a few thousand years old, he proposed that landscapes are shaped gradually over deep time by processes still observable today. This daytime symposium at the Royal Society of Edinburgh […]
How can James Hutton’s approach to understanding Earth inform the decisions we make about its future today? Three hundred years on from the birth of James Hutton, how can his approach to understanding Earth inform the decisions we make about its future? Join renowned Professor Iain Stewart FRSE and expert panellists in this evening exploration […]
This illustrated talk will briefly outline the evolution of cave exploration in Britain, then present a survey of Scotland's rich natural heritage of underground spaces which, although they occur in many different types of rock, will be focussed principally on inland limestone cave systems. Future potential will also be discussed. Speaker: Alan Jeffreys founded Scotland's […]
This illustrated talk will look at various scientific approaches and techniques applied to caves and the deposits they contain, looking for clues as to their formation and past history of changing climates and environments. What do we look for? How do we identify significant changes and how can we date them? Speaker: Dr Tim Lawson […]
Explore our relationship with stones, geology, and deep time, in this creative writing workshop. During this session we will tap into the long history of stones, and the ways in which we are interconnected; from the ancient stone circles and cairns that hold our histories, to the stories we carve into standing stones. We will […]