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![Gold mining activities (milled ore washing and sluicing) and community drinking water downslope of ASGM activities. © Maureene Auma Ondayo.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/gold-mining-activities-sluicing-p1038343-960x645.webp)
Linking geochemistry and health in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Kakamega-Vihiga gold belt, Kenya
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.
![Charlotte Hopkins working in the National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF). BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_3959.webp)
My role as a stable isotope research assistant
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.
![Glastonbury Tor rises above the low-lying wetlands of the Somerset Levels, one of the sample areas for the new research. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/P769823.jpg)
New method developed to identify wetland inhabitants
BGS-led research has helped develop a method to identify ancient human and animal wetland inhabitants.
![Five students stand behind a sign for the British Geological Survey](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Students-BGS-sign-960x640.jpg)
Nurturing early career scientists: 20 years of undergraduate industrial placements at BGS
Michael Watts, BGS Head of Inorganic Chemistry, and previous placement students reflect on their experiences working at BGS’s Inorganic Geochemistry Facility over the past 20 years.
![20230725_152425](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20230725_152425.jpg)
Midlands Innovation TALENT placement at BGS
Jodie Brown revisits her time at BGS’s Stable Isotope Facility as part of the Midlands Innovation TALENT project, which aims to increase the status of technicians.
![The coast on the surface of the river is covered with a pellicle of blue-green algae](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/iStock-1272284836-960x640.jpg)
How does public water use influence the amount of phosphorus in the environment?
New research looks at how phosphorus accumulates in public water systems in the USA.
![Four-hundred-year-old bear paw bone (metapodial) showing where it has been sampled for isotopes and ancient DNA analysis. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/7CB62E87-0791-4727-AB91-7B67BD71C5E3.jpg)
Exploring animal diets in Shakespeare’s London
The ‘Box office bears’ project aims to understand more about the bears that were once a common sight in England. Prof Hannah O’Regan and Dr Lizzie Wright from the University of Nottingham explain what the project entails.
![Cattle grazing in green grass with a saltwater creek running between the animals.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cattle-grazing-saltmarshes.jpg)
When did the cows come home?
PhD student David Osborne is exploring Bronze Age animal husbandry using isotopes and X-rays.