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Breaking Ground on the new Scottish Headquarters of the British Geological Survey
On the 21st January 2015 a ground breaking ceremony heralded the start of the £20m Lyell Centre at Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh Campus. The Centre will be the Scottish headquarters for the British Geological Survey (BGS) as well as a major joint BGS/Heriot-Watt University research centre for geological, petroleum and marine sciences.
Chancellor announces £31m for subsurface research
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne last week announced that the Government will allocate £31 million of funding to create world-class subsurface research test centres through the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Science briefings
FAQs about BGS research for journalists and policy makers
Current activities
Infomatics, data management, records and archives
- Happy World GIS Day 2014
- Discovering Malawi's spatial data
- The Legacy of Piltdown Man – dead but not buried
- Random variables and poetry
- Random variables: directions, turtles and rocks
- Communicating uncertainty
Health
Geohazards and Risks
- Searching for Tsunamis in the Aleutians
- Aurora Borealis goes (Geo) Social
- Secrets of Ascension
- Eruptions on Ascension Island
- myVolcano erupts online
- Rift Volcanism
- The geomagnetic storm that wasn’t....
- Something’s happening to Magnetic North in Great Britain in 2014
- Sinkhole in the middle of the M2: February 2014
- Have Volcanic Super-Eruptions Impacted on the Course of Human History?
Marine Geoscience
- Wet Rocks and European-wide Ripples
- Counting success in the Baltic Sea
- Land beneath the waves
- Estimating the risk to the UK from landslide tsunamis
- Cold-water corals in the canyons off southwest England
- Good Vibrations
Geology, landscape, natural resources
- Happy as a hog in chalk
- The A-Team: Protecting Northern Ireland's Rocks
- Ghosts, ghouls and disappearing pools
- White Ribbons and Morris Dancing on the Jurassic Coast
- Tales from the underground
- Scotland's ‘400-year-old’ glacier
Groundwater
Minerals and waste
- An unscrupulous woolly investigation: a look at the more unusual work at BGS
- Diamond light
- The search for soil carbon
- Sun, Sand and Sabkhas
Climate
- Caves and climate change
- Health check reveals how glacier is declining due to warming climate
- Imaging inside a glacier; clues to a changing climate?
- One of our ecological footprints
- BRITICE-CHRONO — improving ice sheet forecasting in a warming world, to predict sea-level rise
Staff introductions
- Rachel Bell – a tenacious hydrogeologist
- Rob Ward - a Groundwater Guru
- Caroline Graham - a rock (star) physicist
- Tim Kearsey - a curious sedimentologist
- Keith Ambrose - a geology champion
- Peter Hobbs – a pioneering engineer
- Stephanie Zihms – an inventive experimenter
- Leanne Hughes – a modern mapper
PhD/MSc Students
- South Georgia and ancient algal blooms by Rowan Dejardin
- Hidden hunger in Malawi by Edward Joy
- Isotopes add to ‘Anthropocene’ debate by Jonathan Dean
- Paper pride by Jack Lacey
- Food security in Malaysia... by Diriba Kumssa
- The Ohrid Sequel: Cheshire Mere by Jack Lacey
- BUFI Science Festival
- Spring into Iceland by Erica Dewell
- Ancient Climate Secrets by Jonathan Dean
Collaborations
- Lunar Mission One - Drilling on the Moon
- Using carbon isotopes to study Lake Baikal
- Laser scanning the Hell-Fire Caves
- Life above the subduction zone
- Taking the pulse of Himalayan glaciers
- Teaching earthquake hazard in India
- The Future is Africa
- New powerful mass spectrometer
Events
- Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Awards for Geospatial Excellence
- The Quaternary Research Associations 50th Anniversary Conference
- Colours, Shapes & Science of Iceland
- Geochemical processes during CO2 storage meeting
