This year’s William Smith Medal – named for the man responsible for the first geological map of a nation – is presented to Dr Michael de Freitas, Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Continue reading
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Earth Science Week 2016: 8th – 16th October
A 9 day long celebration of the geology all around us in the UK and Ireland, Earth Science Week is an opportunity for museums and other outreach organisations to highlight their collections, for geologists to engage with new audiences, and for the public to explore the geology around them. Continue reading
2016 Awards – Susan Brantley, Wollaston Medallist
In two week’s time, the Society will be holding our annual Awards Ceremony, at which we will present the 2016 medals and prizes. (See below for details of how to come along!) This year, our highest honour, the Wollaston Medal – named for William Hyde Wollaston – is awarded to Susan Brantley of Penn State … Continue reading
The UK’s geological museums and collections
Everyone has heard of the Natural History Museum – but did you know there are more than 250 geological collections across the UK? Continue reading
The Water Book
‘We’ve built our entire world around water. Our temperature scale, our bodies. Water shapes our continents, flows through our oceans and rivers, creates atmosphere and weather – this one substance does all of that. And we’ve got to a point where we’re so used to it, we ignore it.’ Alok Jha has written about a … Continue reading
Quick fire quiz – the answers!
Earlier this week, we posted the quick fire quiz round from last week’s National Schools Geology Challenge – click on ‘continue reading’ to view the results! Continue reading
Schools Geology Challenge – the quick fire quiz!
Those of us who follow our twitter account will know that we held the national finals of the Schools Geology Challenge at Burlington House last week – culminating in the infamous quiz round! As the school teams fought it out, in competition with their teachers and the finalists of the Early Careers Competition, we joined … Continue reading
The mystery of Brunaspis enigmatica and the Great Crisis Stratum
‘What would a palaeontologist of the far future do if he, she (or indeed, it) came upon technofossils, the petrified artefacts of a long-extinct civilization?’ Continue reading
Dinner with a dinosaur – farewell Dippy, and thanks for the inspiration
A guest post from Exploration Geoscientist Ben Kilhams, Communications Officer of our Petroleum Group… Everyone loves a good dinosaur. For many, their first fossil discovery or interaction with a museum exhibit instils a lifelong passion for understanding the history and mysteries of our planet. But one particular dinosaur (or at least a skeletal replica) has … Continue reading
Election Results 2016
The votes are in, and we’re delighted to welcome seven new members to the Council of the Geological Society! It was a record year for both candidates and turnout- 17 candidates put themselves forward for election, and a total of 1,718 votes were cast. The seven candidates who received the most votes will go forward … Continue reading
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