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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...

February 2007

Editorial

Happy on the shelf

Ted Nield on the joys of the flat

 

Free and open?

Nick Rogers (Publications Secretary) ponders Open Access publishing

 

Geonews

Ithaca theory gains support

Ted Nield on the latest geological findings to test the "Odysseus Unbound" theory

 

Mars water and impacts "recent"

Emily Baldwin on photo comparison exercises that seem to show recent flows on the Red Planet

 

Features

Shale of the Century

Ted Nield asks whether Estonian oil shales are a dead duck that's about to fly...

 

A changed Mars

Joe McCall presents a personal view from the floor of the 2006 William Smith Meeting

 

Opinion

GEOTECH - shape of things to come?

George Reeves on the future of the vocational masters

 

Reviews - February 2007

Reviews by Ian Inglis and Geoffrey Glasby

 

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Volume 17 No 2 February 2007
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