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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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Ground Source Heat Pump installation at BGS Keyworth. BGS © UKRI
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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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BGS science teacher CPD sessions - plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes
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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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BGS blogs
Exploding rocks: the UK’s first Selfrag machine

09/03/2021

BGS’s new Selfrag machine is helping to unearth the history of rocks.

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Prees Borehole
BGS blogs
The Prees Borehole and the JET Project

24/02/2021

A recent borehole in Shropshire is unearthing new information about the chronology and environments of the Early Jurassic.

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Microdialysis sampling
BGS blogs
Resolving the unresolved: new insights into soil chemical reactions using microdialysis

15/02/2021

New techniques in soil sampling could be the key to alleviating hidden hunger.

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Volcano model built in Minecraft
BGS blogs
We made a Minecraft volcano!

15/02/2021

Find out how a friend of BGS has been using Minecraft to create educational geological models during lockdown.

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UKGEOS 3D visualisation
BGS blogs
Going underground

04/02/2021

Why the subsurface is vital in delivering a net zero carbon economy.

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Eyjafjallajökull eruption, Iceland May 2010
BGS blogs
A new BGS platform to model volcanic ash in the atmosphere

16/12/2020

BGS has supported the creation of a new modelling platform to aid research workflows around ash dispersion simulation.

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Evidence week 2020 - Data from underground
BGS blogs
Evidence Week 2020

14/12/2020

The UK Geoenergy Observatories team took part in Evidence Week 2020 to talk to parliamentarians about the essential role of geoenergy in the energy mix to meet net zero.

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2007 Folkestone earthquake
BGS blogs
Developing new seismic hazard maps for the UK

30/11/2020

Understanding and quantifying the hazard earthquakes pose to the built environment in the UK.

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