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Science policy in Parliament: Voice of the Future 2024
As the national forum of debate and development of cutting-edge Earth science, The Geological Society has a special responsibility to communicate geoscience and its importance to the Government, the...
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Chat GPT, gender bias, and the geosciences
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence by computer systems, including learning, reasoning, and self-correction. It’s use in everyday life is becoming more prevalent, from...
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Geology vs. climate change
What can geological sciences contribute towards the challenge of decarbonisation? The 2019 Bryan Lovell Meeting at The Geological Society of London aimed to define the role of geological sciences in...
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ZEISS-GSL Scholarship winners announced
We’re delighted to announce the two winners of the first ever ZEISS-GSL Scholarship, awarded for innovative microscopy in Earth science related projects. The two recipients, who each receive £4000...
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Adventures in cross border geology: talking to your neighbours
Image c. Ben Kilhams A guest post from the Petroleum Group’s Ben Kilhams on the recent ‘Mesozoic Resource Potential in the Southern Permian Basin’ conference… Sharing ideas is the bedrock of a good...
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The 2016 Lyell meeting – Palaeoinformatics
c. Ulrike Hoff, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø/Dan Sykes, NHM The Geological Society’s 2016 Lyell Meeting, which takes place on 9 March, will look at palaeoninformatics – the information...
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Hardstoft – Britain’s First Oilfield
When we think of UK oil and gas, we probably think first of the North Sea – but the origins of the UK’s oil industry are in some unexpected places…. Next week, our Petroleum Group and History of...
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British Science Festival 2014: Operation Stonehenge
Part of the LBI ArchPro survey team at Stonehenge (from left: Nico Neubauer, Thomas Zitz, Wolfgang Neubauer, Klaus Löcker, Erich Nau, Immo Trinks).© LBI ArchPro, Geert Verhoeven One of our nominated...
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Oil and Gas in the Arctic
Gerard Mercator’s map of the North Pole, 1606. In the second of our Climate Week blogs, we look at the controversial issue of exploring the Arctic for oil and gas resources. The Arctic has fascinated...
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Dinosaur pop quiz
We’re pretty excited about our British Science Festival event next week, ‘Stranger than fiction? Dinosaurs, Monsters and Myths‘. Not only are we hearing from two palaeontologists, Dr Phil Manning and...
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Dinosaurs, monsters and myths
Megalosaurus skeleton, World Museum Liverpool, England. Found in southern England The first dinosaur to be named was Megalosaurus in 1824, but it took another 18 years for Sir Richard Owen, at a...
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MOOCs – what are they and why should we bother?
Massive Online Open Courses are clearly the political flavour of the month – but should geoscientists get involved? The brainchild of two Artificial Intelligence academics at Stanford, who responded...
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Part two: Problems in the field
Part two of a guest blog from Layik Hama at the University of Leeds. Layik is undertaking a research project on finding techniques that will lead to the development of an app for use in the field. You...
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Turning smart phones into student smart phones
A guest blog from Layik Hama, University of Leeds ‘I would say that what makes smartphones smart, in large measure, is their sense of location’ Michael T Jones – Google Earth/Maps Smart phones and...
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High five-asaurus
A big high five to us and @KEGS_Geography for being our 5,000th twitter follower. To join in, hop along to @geolsoc and say hello. Or, if you’re really keen, why not have a go at writing us a blog...
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Murchison’s Peacetime Map of Siluria
Murchison’s Silurian Map Sir Roderick Impey Murchison spent much of the early 1830s stomping round Wales and the West Midlands immersed in an oceanic world of metre-long sea scorpions. A world which...
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Earth Science Week 2012 – Palaeocast
There’s a huge range of career options for Earth scientists, from academia to communications. All week, in honour of Earth Science Week, we’ve been featuring geologists who have taken their careers in...
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Earth Science Week 2012 – mapping the future
All week, we’re exploring some of the more unusual directions a career in Earth sciences can take you. We’ve been as far as the Philippines, but for today’s profile we don’t even need to leave the...
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The heat beneath our feet
We were expecting chilly weather here in northern Scotland, but so far the sun has been shining on the British Science Festival in Aberdeen! We don’t think of Scotland -or the UK for that matter -as a...
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If a rover breaks down on another planet, does anyone hear it?
Curiosity succesfully landed on Mars over three weeks ago (Earth time), and has since sent us back this HD video of its spectacular plummet – including a not so graceful landing of the jettisoned heat...
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