Call for new members and Chair to join the NERC facilities steering committees

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) underpins its commitment to excellence in environmental research with the provision of access to high quality facilities. BGS manages a subset of the NERC facilities on behalf of NERC and relies on advice from the science community to manage and govern the facilities and ensure that they support high-quality science.

We are looking for new members to join NERC’s facilities steering committees over the next four years. The four facilities within this call are:

• Geophysical Equipment Facility (GEF)
• Ion Microprobe Facility (IMF)
• National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF)
• NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF)

GEF is particularly interested in recruiting new committee members in the following areas:

• electromagnetics
• a technological expert in the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
• seismology
• terrestrial laser scanners

NEOF are particularly interested in recruiting new Committee members in the following areas:

• proteomics and metabolomics
• population genomics
• plant population genomics or plant metagenomics

NERC is also looking to recruit a new Chair for NEIF Panel A (Radiocarbon), to be appointed in 2025. We welcome applications from all qualified applicants, but applications are particularly encouraged from traditionally under-represented groups in STEM.

Expressions of interest must be submitted by the deadline of 17:00 on 14 March 2025.

More details: NERC Steering Committee membership call — British Geological Survey