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BGS artificial ground data: what do you need from a geological survey?
28/08/2025
BGS is seeking user feedback on artificial ground data: how you use it, what information you consider, and what we can do to improve our offering.

New research published on brownfield land
27/08/2025
National Brownfield Forum research on the interactions of policies affecting the planning and development of brownfield land has been published.

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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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.

A new suite of AGS file utilities and public API
24/11/2021
BGS has released an online AGS file utilities tool validator.

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.

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.

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.

Byte by byte: developing our digital preservation capability
04/11/2021
A brief timeline of the digital preservation journey at BGS and NGDC.

Foundations for a future net zero city?
01/11/2021
The space beneath our cities can play a vital role in supporting climate resilient urban spaces.

Phosphorus in caves: a new methodological development being pioneered at Poole’s Cavern with the help of BGS
30/09/2021
Alistair Morgan is exploring how phosphorous enters cave systems and if stalagmites could be used to unravel past temperatures.