De La Beche
One of the oldest and most active departmental societies at Imperial, promoting social academia and arousing your curiosity about all things geological since 1914. The De La Beche offers an insight into this fascinating subject in a relaxed setting. All undergrads, postgrads and lecturers welcome.
Fieldtrips
Fieldtrips are the best and most hotly anticipated events organised by the DLB. We load up a mini-bus with excited students, a couple of post-grads and one top-notch lecturer and head off to places of great natural beauty all over the UK to sample the best geology our country has to offer. Recent destinations include the Isle of Wight, Lake District and Pyrenees. A day in the field is followed by an evening sampling the local nightlife (even if that's just the local pub).
Talks
We organise two evening talks a term. Lecturers or PhD students from outside and within the department give fascinating lectures about up-and-coming topics in geology or about their own current research. This year the talks ranged from 3D fossil reconstruction to collecting meteorites in Antarctica. Drinks and nibbles follow.
Annual Symposium
A long-standing tradition; we invite 6 top geologists from across the country to take part in a full day of presentations. This event is very popular, not just because of the quality our speakers, but because we provide free lunch and an evening drinks reception, all topped off with a celebratory dinner at a local South Kensington hotel. Symposium 2010 was called “Controversy and Creativity: Groundbreaking Geoscience”.