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

25/02/2026

New members are needed to join the committees over the next four years.

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Your views wanted – developing a ‘Geothermal energy subsurface data portfolio’

24/02/2026

BGS is aiming to support the growth of the sector by providing the best-available, location-specific geothermal and ground source heat information as an accessible product or service.

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Primary science teacher CPD sessions

Event on 04/03/2026

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BGS blogs

MARC Conference 2025: highlighting the importance of conferences to PhD students

16/02/2026

BGS and University of Nottingham PhD student Paulina Baranowska shares her experience presenting her research on nuclear forensics at her first international conference.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Wildlife and biodiversity gains at BGS

27/09/2021

Our rewilding scheme is already encouraging more diverse fauna onto our Keyworth site.

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