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Join our consortium – de-risking underground thermal energy storage

25/08/2025

BGS is inviting interested parties to investigate how site-scale geological data can be used to optimise thermal storage scheme performance.

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Dr Kathryn Goodenough appointed as honorary professor by the University of Aberdeen

25/08/2025

Dr Goodenough will take up the position within the School of Geosciences with a focus on critical minerals and the energy transition.

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Fieldwork setting up the Abergavenny geomagnetic repeat station BGS © UKRI.
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NERC Tech Forum 2025

Event on 03/06/2025

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Gemini: a new stable isotope tool

21/08/2025

BGS’s Stable Isotope Facility has new mass spectrometer equipment for analysing carbon and oxygen isotopes from carbonates and water.

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Conducting research at the BGS Keyworth laboratories. © Riveen Pehesara Kumanayaka
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Laboratory life: my work experience week at BGS

20/08/2024

Aspiring astrophysicist Riveen Pehesara Kumanayaka shares his experience following an A-level work placement with BGS.

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Quarry at Upper Madeley Farm. Looking NE. Kidderminster Formation at Upper Madeley Farm. Sandstones high in the Kidderminster Formation, Sherwood Sandstone Group. Medium-grained, gently cross-bedded sandstones containing occasional beds of flattened mudstone clasts but devoid of 'Bunter' pebbles. Thin glacial sandy gravel at top of face.
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Funding awarded for study on hydrogen storage potential in the East Midlands

19/08/2024

A new study has been awarded funding to explore the underground hydrogen storage potential in the East Midlands.

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Ms Gillian Martin MSP (right) with Dr Alison Monaghan and Vanessa Starcher of BGS with at the Glasgow Observatory. BGS © UKRI
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Unlocking our geothermal potential: a Scottish Government visit to the Glasgow Observatory

15/08/2024

Gillian Martin MSP visits the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow to learn about geothermal energy and see the research being carried out at the facility.

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A landscape of mountains and depressions
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Extracting formation temperatures from stalagmites 

14/08/2024

BGS’s Andrew Smith explores the karstic depressions of northern Spain in the quest to create a palaeothermometer.

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A dry, hot, flat desert with a lake and white salt flats in the foreground and mountains in the background.
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Responsible extraction in South America’s Lithium Triangle

02/08/2024

A BGS team visited Argentina and Chile to investigate how to extract lithium more responsibly in the face of growing worldwide demand.

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Landslide aftermath. © Timo Volz, Unsplash
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Studying multi-hazards from space

25/07/2024

A new European Space Agency-funded project will study the effect earthquakes have on occurrences of other natural hazards in the long-term.

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Scottish river in low flow. © Paul Glendell
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Warnings for Scottish farmers and distillers as new data indicates climate change may double number of droughts

23/07/2024

The agricultural and distilling sectors could face significant challenges after research finds the number of droughts in Scotland may double in the next 25 years.

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Coastal Erosion at Skipsea on the East Yorkshire Coast. © Matthew J Thomas / iStockphoto
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Spotlight on BGS coastal erosion data

18/07/2024

BGS GeoCoast data can support researchers and practitioners facing coastal erosion adaptation challenges along our coastline.

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