TCD Association – Cambridge Branch – Autumn Event 2018
This year's annual TCDACB Autumn Event will take place on Saturday 6th October at Selwyn College, Cambridge and will feature a talk by Mairead Rutherford, Palynologist at Oxford Archaeology North in Lancaster, on "The Beauty of Small Things: Pollen from the Past".
12 noon – Drinks Reception in the College Bar (cash bar)
12.45 – Lunch in the New Senior Common Room
13.45 – AGM of the TCDACB in the Chadwick Room
14.15 – Talk by Mairead Rutherford in the Chadwick Room, followed by questions
Tickets are £35.00 per person, which includes a 2-course meal and tea/coffee (drinks available at the cash bar). Guests are welcome; full-time students and post-grads will receive a £10 discount.
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About our Speaker, Mairead Rutherford
Having studied Natural Sciences at TCD from ’78 to ’82, and obtained a Masters in Palynology from Sheffield in the following year, Mairead went on to work at TCD for 5 years in the Applied Geology Unit, before moving to the BP Research Centre in Sunbury-on-Thames and then, after 5 years, she spent 15 years as Research Fellow in the Dept. Of Geography/Archaeology at Durham University. Since 2010 she has been Palynologist at Oxford Archaeology North in Lancaster.
The applications of the study of palynology are diverse and include:
• biostratigraphy – of significant value in the oil industry
• vegetation changes – useful for determining former environments, applied in archaeology
• sea level change – of importance in understanding past and predicting possible future changes
Mairead's presentation aims to recount a series of personal tales from palaeoecology, where the application of pollen (or more correctly, palynology) has been used to provide information across aspects of geology, geomorphology and archaeology, from the sands of Yemen to the banks of the River Eden (near Carlisle).