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Training Courses

Endorsed Training Courses

The following training courses have been endorsed by the Geological Society. All endorsed courses are available to Fellows with a 10% discount on the normal registration fee (unless the course is free or the fee is negligible). Please see the events calendar or the organisers’ website for information on course dates, venues and fees.
Course organisers can find out more about the endorsement scheme.

Atkins Ltd

  • CLEA UK
  • Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment
  • Toxicology
  • Introduction to Human Health Risk Assessment
  • Application of Quantitative Risk Assessment

British Geological Survey (www.bgs.ac.uk/training/home.html)

  • Lowland Britain: Quaternary Field Mapping
  • Geological Field Surveying
  • Mapping Deformed Terraines
  • Upland Britian: Quaternary Mapping & Glacial Sedimentology

Decommissioning & Environmental Remediation Centre / UHI Millennium Institute

  • Public and Political Aspects of Nuclear Decommissioning

ESI Ltd (www.esinternational.com)

  • Borehole and Aquifer Test Interpretation
  • Practical Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Modelling 
  • Groundwater Risk Assessment of Contaminated Land 
  • Making Sense of Data from Contaminated Land 
  • Applying the Environment Agency’s Remedial Targets Methodology
  • An Introduction to Contaminated Land Risk Assessment
  • Human Health Risk Assessment of Contaminated Land
  • Introduction to ArcGIS for Environmental Professionals
  • Geostatistics for Contaminated Land

First Steps Ltd (www.firststeps.eu.com)

  • Field Mapping in Stratified Rock
  • Lab Testing to BS 1377:1990
  • Sample Collection, Preparation and Storage for MCERTS Testing of Contaminated Soils
  • A Professional School in Ground Engineering at the BRE (available by appointment – see the First Steps website for more information)
  • Developing Geological Knowledge for CGeol Status (available by appointment – see the First Steps website for more information)
  • Writing and Interpreting BH Logs
  • Learning Platform for Geotechnical Engineers
  • An Introduction to Sampling and In-Site Testing Techniques
  • Understanding Geophysical Investigations of Brownfield and Contaminated Sites
  • Improve your Productivity Dealing with Data and Documents Efficiently
  • An Introduction to Microsoft Excel Level 1: Beginners
  • An Introduction to Microsoft Excel Level 2: Intermediate
  • An Introduction to Microsoft Excel Level 3: Advanced
  • Interpreting Geological Maps and BH Logs for Writing Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Reports
  • Physical Hydrogeology for Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineers
  • Engineering Description of Soil and Rock
  • Eurocode 7 – A Time for Change 
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Understanding Groundwater Levels
  • Introduction to Soil Mechanica
  • Digital Data for Engineering
  • Understanding Contaminated Land & Groundwater Pollution

Fugro Engineering Services Ltd

  • Cone Penetration Testing
  • Geophysical and Geo-environmental Geophysics
Gemcom Software Europe Ltd
  • GEMS Foundation & Geological Modelling
GeoTest Laboratories Ltd
  • Description of Soils to Eurocodes & BS5930
  • Description of Rock to Eurocodes & BS5930
  • Introduction to Geotechnical Laboratory Testing
  • Introduction to Chemical Laboratory Testing
  • Introduction to Environmental Risk Assessment
  • Management of Contaminated Land

Land Quality Management Ltd (http://www.lqm.co.uk)

  • Introduction to the Management of Land Contamination (one-day)
  • Introduction to Contaminated Land Management: A series of 5 courses for local authorities and consultants
  • Further Skills in Contaminated Land: A Series of 1 day courses
  • CLEA-UK Uses, Limitations and Alternatives: A Hands-on Course
  • An Introduction to Ecological Risk Assessment for Land Contamination: A 2 day course
  • Human Health Risk Assessment of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
  • Advanced Human Health Risk Assessment: A 1 day course

Natural History Museum

  • The Stratigraphy & Properties of the London Clay and Harwich Formations
  • The Stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group of SE England

NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory

  • Short Course on U-Th-Pb Geochronology

Open University (www.open.ac.uk/cpd )

  • Online CPD courses (see the Open University website for more information):
  • Managing Performance through People
  • Effective Leadership Skills
  • Managing Organisational Performance

University of Portsmouth (www.port.ac.uk/sees)

  • Introduction to Geological Remote Sensing and GIS
  • Engineering Characterisation of Soil and Rock
  • Introduction to Geology and Basic Field Geology

Symmons Madge Associates (www.symmonsmadge.co.uk/)

  • Choosing and Interpreting Soil Tests
  • Site Investigation
Zetica Ltd
  • Unexploded Bomb Detection & Awareness
The Geological Society also endorses CPD events. Seminars, lectures and conferences organised by the following organisations have received Geological Society endorsement:
  • GSL Engineering Group
  • GSL South West Regional Group
  • GSL Southern Wales Regional Group
  • GSL Thames Valley Regional Group
  • University of Sheffield
See the events calendar for upcoming endorsed CPD events.

Other Training Providers

The following organisations provide training courses relevant to geoscientists. Please note: the list below is supplied for information only and should not be taken to imply approval or endorsement of those listed by the Geological Society.
Construction industry courses
Other mining courses
Training courses for professionals across the civil engineering, geomatics and geoscience fields.
The PESGB provides training courses relevant to the hydrocarbon sector.

  • Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education (PEICE) (www.peice.com/)

Petroleum industry courses, including ‘Geology for non geologists’.
Engineering courses (owned by the Institution of Civil Engineers).

‘Geology for non-geologists’ courses

For more information contact Dr Tony Grindrod; emails to tonygrindrod@f2s.com, telephone 07815 104421 or PEICE as listed above.
In Astronomy, Earth Sciences & Geology, and the Natural World.