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Day one of fieldwork on the EGRET project, heading to the Fraser Lakes REE-enriched pegmatites on a float plane from La Ronge.
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Funding awarded to UK/Canadian critical mineral research projects

08/07/2025

BGS is part of a groundbreaking science partnership aiming to improve critical minerals mining and supply chains.

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Abandoned mine plan showing Garscube Colliery pit number 6 for Garibaldi Clayband Ironstone Workings. BGS © UKRI
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Release of over 500 Scottish abandoned-mine plans 

24/06/2025

The historical plans cover non-coal mines that were abandoned pre-1980 and are available through BGS's plans viewer.

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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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ESA-ESRIN
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AI and Earth observation: BGS visits the European Space Agency

02/07/2025

The newest artificial intelligence for earth science: how ESA and NASA are using AI to understand our planet.

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My role as a stable isotope research assistant

11/10/2022

Dr Harvey Pickard gives us an insight into his new role analysing stable isotopes and getting to grips with some of the laboratory equipment at BGS.

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Anglesey lighthouse
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New geological map of offshore Anglesey released

10/10/2022

BGS has released a new fine-scale digital map featuring the seabed geology of offshore Anglesey (Ynys Môn).

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Rhossilli Bay on the Gower, south Wales
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New seabed maps offer a window into the distant past

10/10/2022

BGS has begun publishing a new series of high-resolution offshore geological maps showing the distribution of bedrock and sediments that make up the seabed around our coasts.

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BRITICE-CHRONO team in conversation on board RRS James Cook
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Project findings provide essential insight into the last British–Irish ice sheet

29/09/2022

Understanding more about the north-west European continental shelf and improving forecasting for the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

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Diatom silica under Scanning Electron Microscopy for isotope analysis using MOBiS instrumentation BGS © NERC
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BGS receives funding for new system to analyse oxygen isotopes

26/09/2022

A major upgrade of BGS's research equipment following investment from NERC will help scientists understand historic changes in climate.

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Ducks on water, photo credit: HeikeKampe from Getty Images Signature
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Missing components of nitrogen cycling budgets across the United States

23/09/2022

As a BGS-hosted Lancaster University PhD student, Elizabeth Flint has been working to understand the effects of water supply processes upon macronutrient cycling.

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A white man in a blue jacket standing in front of a grassy plain with snowy mountains in the background. He is smiling broadly and has his arms folded.
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A PhD in Peru: a country of contrasts

23/09/2022

PhD student Tom Gribbin explains his work on water security in the Peruvian ‘water towers’.

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