A series of twelve free public lectures for a general audience on geological raw materials and geological hazards in an Irish context.

25 September – Building stone: the changing face of Dublin (Patrick Wyse Jackson)

2 October – Quarrying: extraction for construction (Ian Sanders)

9 October – Pyrite: an expansive legacy? (Robbie Goodhue)

16 October – Earthquakes: natural and man-made (Chris Nicholas)

23 October – Tsunamis: wild wave power in Ireland? (Robin Edwards)

30 October – Radioactivity: blight or benefit? (Balz Kamber)

6 November – Radon: roots, risks and remediation (Quentin Crowley)

13 November – Groundwater: on managing a liquid asset (Catherine Coxon)

20 November – Metals: 3,500 years of mining in Ireland (George Sevastopulo)

27 November – Fossil fuels: Ireland’s coal, oil and natural gas (Geoff Clayton)

4 December – Fracking: fact and friction (David Chew)

11 December – Volcanoes: ash, aerosols and our airspace (Emma Tomlinson)

Date, time and place

Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m., starting Tuesday, 25 September 2012 in room 4, Museum Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. In addition a one-day practical workshop on rocks, minerals and fossils will take place in the Museum Building on a Saturday during November. A fee will be charged for attending the workshop.

How to apply

Just turn up on the evening. Directions to the venue and any late changes to the programme will be posted on the website: http://www.tcd.ie/Geology. Register for the workshop at any of the preceding lectures or by email to isanders@tcd.ie