The British Geological Survey Shale Gas project
BGS has this week released new web pages and videos which include an abundance of information on shale gas.Shale gas is considered to be a potentially important resource that is tightly bound in...
View ArticleLooking back a year
The new James Hutton Building, BGS Keyworth,that includes a number of energy saving features:photovoltaic cells on the roof, rainwater harvesting for the toiletsand a Micro-CHP (Combined Heat +...
View ArticleBGS Global Geoscience
The BGS works around the world on geoscience projects. These projects involve the application of BGS geological and environmental expertise in developing countries to help create a geological...
View ArticleIntroducing the British Geological Survey’s Environmental Science Centre
The British Geological Survey has existed for more than 175 years and has been based in numerous locations around the UK. Its head office moved out of London in the 1970s and relocated to Keyworth in...
View ArticleCommunicating Uncertainty - how certain are we about being uncertain?
Geology is a science, but not what one would define as an "exact science". While we are increasingly applying mathematical principles to geology, one of the biggest challenges is quantifying how well...
View ArticleA Blog from Down Under
Every four years the geologists from around the world get together in an International Geological Congress (IGC) which was held this year in Brisbane Australia. It's a long haul from the UK, but it's...
View ArticleThe Ice Man Cometh
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has over the past few years undertaken a series of observations related to glaciers in Iceland. In addition to monitoring volcanic processes (such as those from the...
View ArticleA forward look for Earth Sciences (and keeping frogs in a wheelbarrow)
I have just come back from a meeting that BGS organised on behalf of the European Earth Sciences community in Paris. For the first time we managed to get senior scientists from all sectors of the earth...
View ArticleBGS at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco is the largest yearly gathering of geoscientists, ranging from those studying the deep interior of the Earth to the envelopes surrounding...
View ArticleMore News from AGU 2012
Three days into the meeting and there is a lot going on. Some say that there will be more than 20000 people attending this week. The AGU meeting brings together a very broad group of scientists ranging...
View ArticleThe last blog from AGU 2012 (better late than never)!
By Wednesday I was suffering a little from mid week saturation, as there are only a certain number of science presentations that one can take in in a day. Below shows the poster display along with one...
View ArticleA Festive Blog
I started this blog about a year ago and have managed more or less one per month. I had a bet (a plate of oysters) with Sarah Nice from the BGS Communications Team, that no one would bother to read it....
View ArticleBGS in the UAE
BGS completed the second phase of a major mapping contract with the UAE at the end of 2012. This has been a very fruitful collaboration that has led to the production of a complete set of high...
View ArticleLooking Afar in Ethiopia
I am in Ethiopia which is organising the Conference on African Geology this year. I enjoy the country and have several students that I have trained who work here in the University of Addis Ababa. With...
View ArticleMore from Afar......... The 24th Colloquim on African Geology CAG in Addis...
This gathering of geologists to exchange scientific ideas on the geology and related resources in Africa takes place every couple of years. It used to be held in Europe and the concept of this meeting...
View ArticleVisit of The Rt Hon David Willets MP
This afternoon the Rt Hon David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, visited the British Geological Survey to open the National Geological Repository (NGR).The NGR holds over 500Km of drill...
View ArticleBeing recognised, a blog from Russia
I was in Russia this week in order to accept my nomination into the Russian Academy of Sciences (you can translate this website to English using the translate tab at the top of the page) . It is very...
View ArticleA change at the top!
I am pleased to welcome Mike Stephenson as Director of Science and Technology in BGS. He will replace Denis Peach who served as BGS Chief scientist for 6 years; Denis leaves BGS at the end of June...
View ArticleDenis Peach, BGS chief scientist, thespian and hydrogeologist
Denis Peach has been the British Geological Survey's chief scientist since 2007. He took on this role that had not been filled for a few years on the BGS executive. My aim was to reinvigorate the...
View ArticleGeochemical Baseline Sampling
I have just met with our G-BASE (Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment) team before they go off for a 12 weeks sampling campaign. This will be the last concerted sampling effort and then the...
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