- Speaker: Ian Enlander (Belfast Geologists Society)
- Tuesday April 8th 2025
- 6.00pm- 6.30pm AGM
- 6.30-7.00pm Tea/Coffee
- 7.00pm ‘An Alaskan Adventure’ by Ian Enlander
- Venue: Methodist College Belfast
An Alaskan adventure: the geology and wildlife of coastal Alaska
The geology of Alaska is, put simply, incredibly complex. Few other areas of the world have a major and many minor subduction zones as well as a spreading centre and active strike – slip (transform) faults in a relatively small area.
Ian spent a month, both land and boat based, in British Columbia and Alaska, experiencing the amazing landscapes that this active geology has produced. With 100 million seabirds (and lots of other wildlife), this was one of the clearest examples I have seen of the interrelationship between geology and wildlife.
It is also, unfortunately, one of the places where the impacts of human driven climate change have had very dramatic impacts with the largest documented wildlife mortality event in the modern era.
Find out more about this astonishing adventure.
