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The Lyell Meeting is an annual flagship event for UK palaeontology.
The 2018 Lyell Meeting provided a platform to assess the current stratigraphic and geochemical records of environmental change during mass extinction events and the role of atmospheric climate modelling in understanding the causes of the crises.
The Lyell Meeting 2017 meeting lifted the lid on the exciting field of sedimentary geobiology as we collectively work towards a new paradigm of microbial sedimentology.
This meeting looked at the role of mudrocks in providing an ideal medium for understanding life throughout geological time. It also focused on Earth surface processes, particularly in periods of extreme environmental change.
This meeting brought together geologists, marine biologists and ecologists, palaeontologists and geomicrobiologists to highlight recent achievements in our understanding of chemosynthetic ecosystems, past and present.
The Cambrian Explosion - understanding Earth systems at the origin of modern ecosystems. This meeting focused on complex feedback processes within Earth systems, as well as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition.
This meeting showcased some of the science which is being undertaken in large scale projects, which are playing an increasingly important role in palaeontological research.