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Join our consortium – de-risking underground thermal energy storage

25/08/2025

BGS is inviting interested parties to investigate how site-scale geological data can be used to optimise thermal storage scheme performance.

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Dr Kathryn Goodenough appointed as honorary professor by the University of Aberdeen

25/08/2025

Dr Goodenough will take up the position within the School of Geosciences with a focus on critical minerals and the energy transition.

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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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Climate change and urbanisation set to threaten quality of drinking water

16/04/2020

Much of the world’s population faces a threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water.

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Scientists report drop in Earth’s movement amid coronavirus lockdown

09/04/2020

A study in Brussels reported a drop in ambient seismic noise after the coronavirus lockdown started.

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BGS Virtual Open Day 2020
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Inside BGS — virtual Open Days

Event from 14/10/2020 to 17/10/2020

In October 2020 BGS held a series of mini virtual open days with talks, tours, interactive workshops and social media takeovers. We have saved some of this content so you can enjoy it later.

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The map gives an indication of the landslides currently reported and entered in the National Landslide Database following Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis to date.
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Landslides triggered by Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis in the UK

21/02/2020

On Sunday 9 February 2020, Storm Ciara hit the UK with very high winds and intense rainfall causing widespread disruption and flooding.

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