BGS's Hugh Barron attended this ceremony where he talked to the Princess Royal about geothermal energy under Balmoral! http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/docs/GeographerRoyalForScotlandAnnouncement.pdf
ICDP have provided US$ 1M funding for a new drilling project on the Paleogene marine record from coastal Tanzania, project TOPIC (Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring).