Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 29 April - 1 May

[Lyme Regis Fossil Festival]

Hi all,

I hope no one will mind me giving a plug to this alternative to the royal wedding... The Festival is run by the Lyme Regis Development Trust, a non-profit community development trust. Our long-term plan is to build a Jurassic Coast Studies Centre to encourage the study of natural history here on the coast - Natural History Museum will be main partners, along with Jurassic Coast team.

The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival takes place 29 April - 1 May. In addition to a huge free Grand Marquee on the beach (35 scientists from the Natural History Museum, plus other organisations and institutions - open 10am - 5pm each day), there are guided fossil walks, 18 great fossil and natural history talks and a Fossil Fair (29 April - 2 May). Loads of hands-on art and science for the whole family, and you can visit the National Oceanography Centre's RV Callista too, moored in Cobb Harbour.

Speakers for the Fossil Talks include the NHM's Chris Stringer, Andy Fleet, Martin Munt, Jerry Hoaker (you may all know his real name, which does net get past the auto censor!), and Phil Rainbow, Portsmouth Uni's David Martill, British Antarctic Survey's Hilary Blagborough, National Oceanography Centre's Simon Boxall, National Museum of Wales's Tom Sharpe, Plymouth Marine Institute's Sarah Gall, Sir Crispin Tickell, Bristol Dinosaur Project's Ed Drewitt, freelance fossil preparator Scott Moore-Fay (former NHM), UCL's Jeremy Young, Jurassic Coast's Richard Edmonds, Royal Holloway's Sam Bennett, and University of Bristol's Mike Benton. Talks are £1.

Titles and details of the talks are here: www.fossilfestival.com click on Programme click on talks

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There are also some fossil talks at the Lyme Regis Museum, from Chris Andrew, Stephen Locke, Chris Paul and Tom Sharpe.

See the whole programme and book walks and talks here:

www.fossilfestival.com

Edited April 21, 2011 by Lyme Regis Fossil Festival

[Nandomas]

Thanks to post. I didn't know about this Fossil Festival. I will add the event to my fossil site.

[Terry Dactyll]

Thanks for the reminder...

[Ava]

Hi

Whats this about the jurassic coast sudy centre, Has the funding been given for the proper site? Did the trial go ok? I'm a palaeo graduate from pompey uni will there be any jobs going?

[Lyme Regis Fossil Festival]

Hi Ava,

The Lyme Regis Development Trust have signed an MOU with the Natural History Museum, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site team and Field Studies Council to work together to establish the centre, and a site has been agree on the edge of Lyme. They've just written a prospectus and the fundraising begins, but as the South West Regional Development Agency has been abolished a key source of support and potential funding is now gone. Once established it will provide some good year-round jobs in this employment black spot but can't yet say when that will be!

Cheers,

Kimberly

Hi

Whats this about the jurassic coast sudy centre, Has the funding been given for the proper site? Did the trial go ok? I'm a palaeo graduate from pompey uni will there be any jobs going?