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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.

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Wild grasses and pond with a path and the old Broad Marsh in the background.
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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.

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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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Hungry like a wolf: new insights from old bones housed in the BGS museum collections

18/01/2024

BGS scientists are studying the diets of ancient British wolves and how they adapted to changing environments.

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The Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation contributes to the chemistry of overlying soils in Culver Down on the Isle of Wight. BGS © UKRI.
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How BGS is helping the farming sector of Great Britain 

17/01/2024

New legislation concerning soil management and technology in modern farming has led to an increase in enquiries about BGS’s Soil Parent Material Model.

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The Codleteth Burn catchment with its outlet fan system and recent debris flow deposits near Talla Linfoots. BGS © UKRI.
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Moving stones: faults, slopes and sediments

12/01/2024

Fractured rock along faults affects sediment movement on slopes with implications for the design of infrastructure.

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Chris Bengt, PhD Student, in Stable Isotope Lab, Keyworth. BGS © UKRI.
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Understanding nutrients in tropical rainforests 

11/01/2024

Christopher Bengt talks about carrying out research for his PhD amongst the rainforests and volcanoes of the Philippines.

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Gold mining activities (milled ore washing and sluicing) and community drinking water downslope of ASGM activities. © Maureene Auma Ondayo. 
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Linking geochemistry and health in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Kakamega-Vihiga gold belt, Kenya  

09/01/2024

PhD candidate Maureene Auma Ondayo is investigating major and trace element exposure in the environment in Kenya, aiming to reduce exposure of humans to toxic chemicals.

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Team UK at the International Geography Olympiad. Source: Jo Bayham & Jen Lomas
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The Geography Olympiad: Bandung, Indonesia

22/12/2023

School student Dion Thompson joined Team UK at this year’s International Geology Olympiad in Indonesia. We hear from Dion’s mentor Anna Hicks, before Dion reports on the Olympiad itself.

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Mineral specimen of linarite, Leadhills, Lanarkshire. BGS © UKRI.
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CMIC: critical minerals research review

21/12/2023

Matthew Reeves of Innovate UK provides an overview of the Critical Minerals Strategy, which sets out how the UK will go about securing its supply of critical minerals.

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Charlotte Hopkins working in the National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF). BGS © UKRI.
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My role as a stable isotope research assistant 

19/12/2023

Charlotte Hipkiss has recently taken up a new position in the National Environmental Isotope Facility at BGS and gives us a little insight into her new position.

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