Recent research published in the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology provides insight into the destruction caused by ground movements at Pissouri Cyrpus Continue reading
Category Archives: Features
#PlateTecStories: Shifting theory at the Royal Institution
A guest blog from The Royal Institution about the ways in which the Ri have communicated the science and importance of plate tectonics through time. Continue reading
The Cheshire Energy Research Field Site
Just as during the space age astronomers wanted to create the Jodrell Bank Observatory to discover some of the secrets of the universe, 70 years later geoscientists want to create an observatory that can look into our own planet to discover new solutions for global problems. Continue reading
A Blog 400 Million Years in the Making
A guest blog from geologist and science communicator Haydon Mort. Continue reading
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Fiann Smithwick, scientific adviser and part of the fossil excavation team for the BBC 1 documentary ‘Attenborough and the Sea Dragon’, speaks to us about his experiences working on a natural history documentary with Sir David Attenborough, his fossil hunting and his PhD topic of fossil colour… Continue reading
A geologist’s holiday – the 2017 Aegean earthquake
As tremors continue in the Aegean, the British Geological Survey’s Debbie Rayner recounts her experience of a magnitude 6.6 earthquake which struck during a family holiday on Kos earlier this year… Continue reading
The future of plate tectonics research: The International Ocean Discovery Program
A guest post from Dr Lloyd White, Lecturer in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia, who is currently on board the JOIDES Resolution research vessel as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program. Continue reading
The Country That Shook: Nepal two years after the earthquake
A guest post from artist Sophie Maliphant about her project to raise money for Nepal following the devastating 2015 earthquake. Continue reading
The Lochranza Field Studies Centre
A guest post from Stuart Blake, Director of the Locharanza Centre, on the survival of the Locharanza Field Studies Centre Continue reading
To fry or to freeze?
Professor Bill McGuire explains some of the geological effects of climate change, following his recent London Lecture at the Geological Society Continue reading
