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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...

May 2020

Editorial

The Great Outdoors

Sarah Day is missing the outside world 

 

Opinion

Why Geopoetry?

Geology is too important to be left to geologists, says Patrick Corbett

 

Society News

Society News

Election results and more

 

Features

Ammonites, Anoxia and Time

Kevin Page on how ammonites are helping us understand the TOAE

 

Online Special

Why Geopoetry?

Patrick Corbett explores the links between poetry and geology, ahead of Geopoetry 2020

 

Geonews

Geology from home

Clive Mitchell's tips for working from home

 

On the Moors with Ted Hughes and Ovid

Mike Stephenson recounts a recent geology walk

 

Books & Arts

Deep Sea Mining

The title of this book is something of a misnom...

 

Extinction: A Very Short Introduction

Hardly a week goes by without a reminder on the...

 

Tales from the Himalaya: Religion, Science, Politics, Society

This excellent book is about people and peoples...

 

The Moon: A History for the Future

Reviewed by Les Hopper

 

Cowen's History of Life: Sixth Edition

Designed primarily as a textbook for undergradu...

 

People

Polymath Extraordinaire

Nina Morgan explores the lesser known side of John Ruskin

 

Obituaries

Iain Ashworth Williamson 1931-2019

Highly sought after geological consultant with ...

 

Alastair Charles Lumsden (1937-2019)

Engineering geologist par excellence, whose wit...