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‘Three norths’ set to leave England and not return for hundreds of years

12/12/2025

The historic alignment of true, magnetic, and grid north is set to leave England, three years after they combined in the country for the first time since records began.

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Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine Yehor Perelyhin meeting with representatives of the British Geological Survey.
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BGS agrees to establish collaboration framework with Ukrainian government

11/12/2025

The partnership will focus on joint research and data exchange opportunities with Ukrainian colleagues.

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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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Valley and rock islands at Carlops. The telephone poles help emphasise the scale of the valley and serve as a useful analogue for the general spacing of ground-truth sites offshore, which often miss the variability of geological conditions. Offshore valleys formed by meltwater can be up to ten times larger than the one shown here, reaching several hundreds of metres in depth. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs

How the geology on our doorstep can help inform offshore infrastructure design

19/11/2025

BGS is part of a new collaboration using onshore field work to contextualise offshore data and update baseline geological models which can inform the sustainable use of marine resources.

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Patrick Gray Head of Digital Products, Ideation and Enterprise
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BGS welcomes Patrick Gray , Head of Digital Products, Ideation and Enterprise

11/01/2021

Patrick comes with a wealth of data, product and partnership management experience across a variety of commercial markets.

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Robots and autonomous systems, such as drones, have a large range of potential applications. Source: Unsplash / @jeisblack
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BGS joins international research into robotic revolution

08/01/2021

International research illustrates the opportunities and challenges that robots and autonomous systems, could bring for urban biodiversity and ecosystems in the future.

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BGS podcast on Sustainable Development Goals
BGS Podcasts
Sustainable Development Goals with Dr Joel Gill

08/01/2021

Dr Joel Gill discusses the role geoscience plays in achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the ethics of storytelling.

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Dr Alison Monaghan
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Dr Alison Monaghan awarded MBE

30/12/2020

Dr Alison Monaghan has been recognised in the 2021 Queen’s New Year Honours List for her outstanding contribution to geology.

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BGS podcast with Dr Karen Hanghøj
BGS Podcasts
Geoscience and climate change with Karen Hanghøj

17/12/2020

On the first edition of the BGS podcast, Director Dr Karen Hanghøj discusses critical Earth materials, climate change and COP26, due to be held in Glasgow in 2021.

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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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UK Geoenergy Observatories - Glasgow Observatory
BGS news
UK’s new underground observatory open for research

07/12/2020

The UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow, which will give scientists an unprecedented look at the subsurface, holds its virtual opening.

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