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Professor Paul Monks CB
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UKRI announce new Chair of the BGS Board

01/05/2025

Prof Paul Monks CB will step into the role later this year.

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World Mineral Production 2019 to 2023. BGS © UKRI.
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Latest mineral production statistics for 2019 to 2023 released

28/04/2025

More than 70 mineral commodities have been captured in the newly published volume of World Mineral Production.

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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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The cliffs at Étretat, showing channelling in the Chalk and well-developed karstic dissolution pipes. BGS © UKRI 2025.
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Geology sans frontières

24/04/2025

Geology doesn’t stop at international borders, so BGS is working with neighbouring geological surveys and research institutes to solve common problems with the geology they share.

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Storrega
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EMODnet data ingestion service

02/06/2018

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) consists of more than 160 organisations that together work on assembling, harmonising and making marine data, products and metadata more available.

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Aurora_Iceland_feature
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Mapping a geomagnetic storm with Raspberry Pi magnetometers

02/06/2018

In September 2017, one of the largest geomagnetic storms of the current solar cycle hit the Earth after a coronal mass ejection left the Sun.

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Sampling groundwater
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Risks from fracking to be studied by top UK research team

02/06/2018

A BGS-led research team is setting out to define the combined environmental and health risks over the whole life cycle of shale gas operations in the UK.

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London
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Community water management for a liveable London

02/06/2018

A research consortium including BGS will collaborate with partners and stakeholders within London to address sustainable management of the city's water within the context of required housing growth and the environment.

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