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Bruce Yardley appointed Chief Geologist

Bruce Yardley (Leeds University) has been appointed Chief Geologist by The Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Chartership news

Chartership Officer Bill Gaskarth reports on a projected new logo for use by CGeols, advice on applications and company training schemes

Climate Change Statement Addendum

The Society has published an addendum to 'Climate Change: Evidence from the Geological Record' (November 2010) taking account of new research

Cracking up in Lincolnshire

Oliver Pritchard, Stephen Hallett, and Timothy Farewell consider the role of soil science in maintaining the British 'evolved road'

Critical metals

Kathryn Goodenough* on a Society-sponsored hunt for the rare metals that underpin new technologies

Déja vu all over again

As Nina Morgan Discovers, the debate over HS2 is nothing new...

Done proud

Ted Nield hails the new refurbished Council Room as evidence that the Society is growing up

Earth Science Week 2014

Fellows - renew, vote for Council, and volunteer for Earth Science Week 2014!  Also - who is honoured in the Society's Awards and Medals 2014.

Fookes celebrated

Peter Fookes (Imperial College, London) celebrated at Society event in honour of Engineering Group Working Parties and their reports

Geology - poor relation?

When are University Earth Science departments going to shed their outmoded obsession with maths, physics and chemistry?

Nancy Tupholme

Nancy Tupholme, Librarian of the Society and the Royal Society, has died, reports Wendy Cawthorne.

Power, splendour and high camp

Ted Nield reviews the refurbishment of the Council Room, Burlington House

The Sir Archibald Geikie Archive at Haslemere Educational Museum

You can help the Haslemere Educational Museum to identify subjects in Sir Archibald Geikie's amazing field notebook sketches, writes John Betterton.

Top bananas

Who are the top 100 UK practising scientists?  The Science Council knows...

March 2020

Editorial

That's a wrap!

The plastic wrap is history, writes Sarah Day

 

Society News

Elections to Council

Read who's standing for the 2020/2021 Council Elections

 

Opinion

Time to shine the light

Dennison, D., Time to shine the light. Geoscien...

 

Features

Heat from the Ground

Is Ground Source Heat the answer to reducing UK carbon emissions from heating? 

 

Geonews

Debris-covered glaciers and related lakes: understanding the challenges

Adina Racoviteanu, Lindsey Nicholson and Neil Glasser report from a 2019 Geological Society meeting

 

People

Geology from the Train

Nina Morgan celebrates the advantages of going 'on line'

 

Books & Arts

World of Geology: Travels to Rocky Places

A picture is worth a thousand words, as they sa...

 

The Rocks of Wales: Their Story

Wales, although small, is renowned for its dive...

 

Obituaries

David McCann (1938-2019)

Talented geophysicist and enthusiastic supporte...