January 2009

Editorial

• Peace on Earth - Ted Nield has a Christmas message.  Sciences gain political influence when they find ways of killing people
• Geoscience for wonks - Katharine Royse and Diarmad Campbell wonder if we are doing enough to ensure geoscience reaches policymakers

 

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan: A bright spark - geology's Mr Whitegoods
• Friends reunited - an update from the St Aubyn Project

 

Geonews

• Surveying the future - The BGS publishes its Forward Strategy - by John Ludden, Executive Director  
• News in Brief - Joe McCall ponders Titan, metallic helium and Cretaceous dinosaurs

 

Society at Large

• Shell London Lectures
• Online migration - Publisher Neal Marriott on the biggest contemporary trend in scholarly publishing
• Society Research Funds - how to apply

Reviews

• Three book reviews - by Duncan Woodcock, Wishart Mitchell and John Reynolds

Opinion

• Whither BGS?  Martin Culshaw and Mick Lee fear for the future of the Survey

Features

• Growth of the soil - Brownfield site soil can be engineered so as to help mitigate climate change.
• Whatever remains - Laurance Donnelly reflects on the progress of Forensic Geoscience since his first articles on the subject in Geoscientist 6 years ago.  Interview and report by Sarah Day

 

Letters

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