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Precipitating a crisis?
Hosepipe bans are becoming a familiar feature of summer, and with claims that 2012 could see ‘the worst drought in 30 years’, they are here again. Well timed, then, that the theme of a recent...
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Something wiki this way comes…
What are the most visited websites in the world? To answer this question, many of us will refer to Wikipedia. While the site hasn’t quite achieved the stratospheric heights of Facebook and Google, it...
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Driving Curiosity
First 360 colour panorama from the Curiosity rover. Copyright: NASA How do you drive a rover on Mars? The latest rover to land on Mars, Curiosity, represents a huge leap forward in technology for...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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