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May 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Lake Ohrid borehole hits 568m by Jack Lacey I arrived in Macedonia just over a week ago and travelled to Lake Ohrid in the south west of the Former Yugoslavian Republic… |
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April 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Being an apprentice at NIGL by Dr Jonathan Lewis I began my isotope apprenticeship with NERC Isotopes GeosciencesLaboratory (part of the British Geological Survey) in September 2011… |
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April 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Lake Ohrid deep drilling, first hole success!! by Mel Leng Jack Lacey, a BGS-University of Leicester PhD student, wrote a blog about the Lake Ohrid project project back in March… |
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April 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Final steps of our South Georgia expedition by Mel Leng I am back on board the Polarstern after an amazing few weeks on South Georgia. Today we visited the old whaling station of Grytviken next to the British Antarctic Survey’s research base at King Edward Point… |
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April 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Sightseeing in South Georgia by Melanie Leng II have finally arrived on the Falkland Islands after an epic field trip to South Georgia. We have been dropped off by the Polarstern and this is the final step before we leave for the UK in a few days… |
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April 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - The End of the South Georgia expedition A BGS blog by Melanie Leng: We are almost at the end of our expedition to South Georgia. Worsening weather around the South Sandwich Islands has meant that the Polarstern has had to abandon some of it’s seabed surveying… |
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March 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - My first sight of South Georgia by Melanie Leng A BGS blog by Melanie Leng: After 6 days of sailing on the Polarstern we saw our first glimpse of the island of South Georgia today rising through the fog… |
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March 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Analysis fit for a King - Richard III gets the NIGL treatment On February 4th 2013, the University of Leicester announced that the human remains uncovered beneath a Leicester car park in August last year are ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ those of King Richard III… |
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March 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Preparing for an expedition to South Georgia A BGS blog by Melanie Leng: In a few days I'll be following in the footsteps of James Cook (1775) and Ernest Shackleton (1916) and embarking on an adventure in the South Atlantic. I'm bound for fieldwork on South Georgia, a remote and inhospitable island with no permanent inhabitants, approximately 200km SE of the Falkland Islands… |
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March 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Drilling through 3 million years of Earth’s history in the Mediterranean by PhD student Jack Lacey Meet Jack….a PhD student from University of Leicester looking into 3 million years of the Earths history. His BGS/NIGL sponsored PhD is part of a multi-million dollar campaign to investigate the evolution and climate of Lake Ohrid through the drilling and recovery of a 750 meter-long sediment core. Amazingly that's the length of 90 double decker buses or 37 cricket pitches!! Here Jack introduces the project and explains what he'll be up to over the next few months (and years)… |
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March 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Can clam shells explain the demise of a civilisation? A BGS blog by Melanie Leng: Clam shells used for food, jewellery and in the wall covering of shelters found at the world famous Çatalhöyük UNESCO archaeological site in Central Turkey between 8-9,000 years ago give a unique insight into the demise of a short lived civilisation… |
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WalesOnline (Western Mail) – Evidence of continued climate change for thousands of years – January 2013 As Wales continues to endure freezing temperatures after a year of extreme weather a study by a Welsh university has revealed continued patterns of climate change over the past 12,000 years… Read more: Wales Online |
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January 2013 – BGS GeoBlog - Tiny fossils reveal evidence for climate change and melting of Antarctica A BGS blog by Melanie Leng: The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet is one of the most rapidly warming areas of the planet. This is causing concern as it contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 5m. By analysing the chemistry of microscopic marine algae that lived in the ocean surrounding Antarctica, scientists have created a record of the amount of melting of the ice sheet that stretches back 12,000 years. This window through time has already unlocked hidden patterns in our past climate… |
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January 2013 - News on the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program by Prof Melanie Leng |
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Autumn 2012 – Planet Earth – Adjusting the Atomic Clock
The Autumn 2012 edition of Planet Earth reports on a systematic flaw uncovered in a key assumption of U-Pb dating and how this affects some of the key dates in the history of the Earth. |
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July 2011 – Planet Earth News – Ethiopian lake reveals history of African droughts
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The summer 2011 edition of Planet Earth reports on a new survey of Lake Tana in Ethiopia (the source of the Blue Nile), the study shows that drought may have contributed to the demise of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, around 4 200 years ago.
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