Programme

Our programme for 2020

Details are added here as soon as meetings are arranged and confirmed.

All indoor meetings in 2020 will be held at 7.30 pm in the Main University Building, Park Place, Cardiff University CF10 3AT. Please look for the signs in the main entrance hall to direct you to the right lecture room.

 Indoor Meetings 2020

Date	Title	Speaker
Wednesday 15 January	Members' Evening	CNS members’ short illustrated talks.
Wednesday 29 January	Welsh Mineral Classics A look at Wales' rich geological diversity	Tom Cotterell
Tuesday 18 February	Harold Augustus Hyde (1892-1973): a pioneering palynologist Dr Harold Augustus Hyde was appointed Keeper of Botany at the National Museum of Wales in 1922, a post he held until his retirement in 1962. He published extensively on the Welsh flora, but his most important work was considered to be on aeropalynology (airborne pollen and spores). Hyde became the 63rd President of the Cardiff Naturalists Society in 1935. In the Reverton Lecture Theatre, University Main Building.	Dr Heather Pardoe
Thursday 27 February (*)	Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre This is a joint meeting with the Cardiff Group of the Wildlife Trust South and West Wales. Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main University Building, Cardiff University, Park Place	Laura Evans
Wednesday 4 March	The Mount Elgon Tree Growing Project Maria will talk about her 2 months spent on the Welsh Government’s International Learning Opportunities Programme with the Mount Elgon Tree Growing Project in Mblale, Uganda, which is twinned with Pontypridd.  In Room 1.25, Main University Building.	Maria Golightly
Monday 9 March	Student Bursary Evening  1st speaker = biosciences prize award winner (to be announced) 2nd speaker = Dan Rouse: A tale of bird conservation in Wales In the Small Chemistry Lecture Theatre, University Main Building.	TBC Dan Rouse
Wednesday 18 March	Crayfish Oliver Brown of Natural Resources Wales will talk about the importance of native crayfish to freshwater ecosystems and the successful reintroduction of white-clawed crayfish into rivers in mid-Wales. In Beverton Lecture Theatre, University Main Building.	Oliver Brown