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Bruce Yardley appointed Chief Geologist

Bruce Yardley (Leeds University) has been appointed Chief Geologist by The Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Chartership news

Chartership Officer Bill Gaskarth reports on a projected new logo for use by CGeols, advice on applications and company training schemes

Climate Change Statement Addendum

The Society has published an addendum to 'Climate Change: Evidence from the Geological Record' (November 2010) taking account of new research

Cracking up in Lincolnshire

Oliver Pritchard, Stephen Hallett, and Timothy Farewell consider the role of soil science in maintaining the British 'evolved road'

Critical metals

Kathryn Goodenough* on a Society-sponsored hunt for the rare metals that underpin new technologies

Déja vu all over again

As Nina Morgan Discovers, the debate over HS2 is nothing new...

Done proud

Ted Nield hails the new refurbished Council Room as evidence that the Society is growing up

Earth Science Week 2014

Fellows - renew, vote for Council, and volunteer for Earth Science Week 2014!  Also - who is honoured in the Society's Awards and Medals 2014.

Fookes celebrated

Peter Fookes (Imperial College, London) celebrated at Society event in honour of Engineering Group Working Parties and their reports

Geology - poor relation?

When are University Earth Science departments going to shed their outmoded obsession with maths, physics and chemistry?

Nancy Tupholme

Nancy Tupholme, Librarian of the Society and the Royal Society, has died, reports Wendy Cawthorne.

Power, splendour and high camp

Ted Nield reviews the refurbishment of the Council Room, Burlington House

The Sir Archibald Geikie Archive at Haslemere Educational Museum

You can help the Haslemere Educational Museum to identify subjects in Sir Archibald Geikie's amazing field notebook sketches, writes John Betterton.

Top bananas

Who are the top 100 UK practising scientists?  The Science Council knows...

January 2010

Editorial

Leap of faith

Ted Nield explores the implications of a recent court ruling

 

Who's the who?

John Cope thinks anonymous refereeing ought to be banned

 

People

Smith, Noble and the Hackness connection

John and Jennifer Powell uncover a fascinating historical connection

 

Under the volcano

Ian Donnelly pays tribute to volcanologist and Etna veteran, John Murray

 

Vandals wha hae wi' samples fled

John MacFadyen urges adherence to the GA code

 

Geonews

The nearly bird

by Ian Randall

 

In Brief

by Joe McCall

 

Opinion

Two New Reviews

by Ian Sims and Ken Bailey

 

1984 and all that

Rick Brassington urges the Society to relinquish "doublethink"

 

Features

Online Special

Haiti Struck by Massive Earthquake

First earthquake to affect Haiti for over 200 years