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River Clyde, Glasgow. © Glasgow Life, Paul Watt Photography
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UK bidding to host the International Geological Congress 2028

18/03/2024

BGS has partnered with the Geological Society of London and the Scottish Geology Trust to develop a bid to host the 38th International Geological Congress in Glasgow in 2028.

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BGS staff sampling a chalk spring for microplastics in 2024. BGS © UKRI.
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BGS to lead a new research project on microplastic occurrence in springs

06/03/2024

BGS has been awarded a two-year research project to undertake the first assessment of microplastic occurrence in springs in the UK.

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BGS Open Day 2024

Event on 08/06/2024

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Rebecca Mumpansha, a GSD librarian, with the sales stock of geological maps. © Rachel Talbot. 
BGS blogs

Unlocking key mineral archives at the Zambian Geological Survey Department 

23/02/2024

Rachel Talbot recounts a recent visit by BGS Records staff to the Zambian Geological Survey Department, to assist in critical mineral data management.

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BGS blogs
Secure your digital datasets — by letting a data centre look after them!

10/12/2021

Mark Fellgett discusses why data centres should be the de facto option for the storage of geoscience data.  

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The field teams collecting soils in west Kenya.
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Geochemical predictive mapping in western Kenya

05/12/2021

To mark World Soil Day, Olivier Humphrey highlights the soil-related activities of the BGS Inorganic Geochemistry Facility and its partners in western Kenya.

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River Tone at sunset
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Evaluating contamination in sediment, waters and fish from two contrasting catchments in England

02/12/2021

Calum Ramage's PhD project sets out to assess the impacts of pesticides and trace metals on British rivers.

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Edd Lewis presenting at the Annual AGS Conference
BGS blogs
A new suite of AGS file utilities and public API

24/11/2021

BGS has released an online AGS file utilities tool validator.

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Stuck in the mud: the long-term accumulation and dispersal of microplastics across urban catchments

18/11/2021

Investigating how salt marshes store and interact with plastics and explaining the key processes that control their accumulation and release.

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3D electrical resistivity image
BGS blogs
Can geophysics help feed people in a changing climate?

09/11/2021

Conservation agriculture and electrical resistivity tomography could help combat the factors affecting food security in southern Africa.

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Henllan Bridge on River Tivey
BGS blogs
Climate and geology: considering future potential for river scour

05/11/2021

A trial BGS data product takes the temporal component of potential future increased amount and intensity of rainfall on river scour into account.

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Digital preservation at BGS
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Byte by byte: developing our digital preservation capability

04/11/2021

A brief timeline of the digital preservation journey at BGS and NGDC.

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