BGS in the media Jul 2012

Search crews have discovered the body of a 22-year-old Derbyshire woman following a landslide in Dorset. The incident, which took place at the Freshwater Beach holiday park in Dorset, has been described by police as a 'tragic accident'...A report from the British Geological Survey has shown that the landslide that killed Charlotte Blackman from Heanor in Derbyshire was caused by a number of factors, including the recent wet weather.

There were fears last night for the life of a young woman trapped by a landslide on a Dorset beach that sent an estimated 400 tons of rock and mud crashing down on to the sand below... The British Geological Survey echoed this warning last night, saying holidaymakers and day trippers should avoid sitting or walking at the base of potentially unstable cliffs.

One East Lothian resident was counting his lucky stars this week after witnessing a rare stellar treat...A space weather alert issued by the British Geological Survey last Friday predicted that a solar flare the previous evening would result in increased geomagnetic activity, with an increased chance of seeing aurora displays at lower than normal latitudes.

Celebrations have been held to mark 100 years since the establishment of Inverarish on Raasay, a small island off Skye. The village was built for iron ore miners, and the community grew around its original 64 terraced houses... Photographs held in the British Geological Survey's archive show PoWs on giant mechanical mining machines, while under armed guard.

Two projects investigating the use of robot submarines to map and monitor the seas around the United Kingdom - collecting data that will inform future government policy on the protection of the marine environment - have received £720,000 in funding... It is led by NOC in partnership with British Geological Survey (BGS) and Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS).

Scientists are taking a trip back to the Byzantine Empire to examine whether future climate change could increase the chances of a pandemic such as the bubonic plague... The team at Plymouth will work with colleagues at Nottingham and Birmingham Universities, as well as the NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory at the British Geological Survey, over the next 20 months.

Volcanologists are among science's most adventurous researchers, travelling to some of the planet's more remote places to try to better understand one of nature's most powerful and destructive forces - the volcano... What was originally intended to be a career break developed into her dream career. After getting a bachelors degree in geology from Durham University, she recently completed a PhD at Bristol University, aged 47... She now works for the British Geological Survey.