The Ussher Society

The Ussher Society, named after the geologist W.A.E. Ussher, was founded in 1962 and promotes research into all aspects of the the geology and geomorphology of South-West England, primarily through its annual conference and journal. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in geoscience within the region.

The Society holds an annual conference, including field excursions, in early January at various venues around the region. Other occasional field excursions are organised throughout the year.

The Ussher Society 51st Annual Conference will be held at the Tregenna Castle Hotel, St. Ives, Cornwall, 2^nd – 5^th January, 2013. This 3-day conference for earth and environmental scientists working in south-west England and related areas comprises two days of presentations plus field excursions. The presentation days will be Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of January – oral and/or poster presentations will be welcomed in all areas of geology, geomorphology, engineering geology and environmental geology, relating to South-west England.

The Society also publishes an annual double refereed journal Geoscience in South-West England whose multidisciplinary content includes geology, geomorphology, historical geology and a wide range of applied geology. We can offer authors rapid turnaround of accepted manuscripts (publication <6 months of submission in most cases), free use of colour (where necessary) and author pdf copies that you are welcome to place on your own or institutional webpages. Our archive of back issues represents the most comprehensive single source of geoscience research in the region and related areas during the last 50 years. Content for 1962-2004, plus abstracts of the forerunner Conference of geologists and geomorphologists working in the south-west of England (1958-61), is freely available to download. If you wish to access content published within the last five years, then you must join the Society.

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