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September 2019

Editorial

Halt the decline

Amy Whitchurch on declining student numbers, initiatives to reverse the trend & changing times ahead

 

Society News

News from the Society

What your Society is doing at home and abroad

 

Accreditation assessed

Bruce Yardley and colleagues discuss the Society’s Accreditation Scheme

 

Promoting engagement in geoscience education

Amy Ball and Rose Want report on the latest activities from the Education Department

 

Opinion

Petroleum geoscientists…wanted!

John Warburton on the need for a new generation of geoscientists

 

Features

Revamping doctoral training for a decarbonised future

John Underhill on the role of doctoral training in addressing 21st Century challenges

 

Earth science education: The current state of play

Dan Boatright and colleagues urge the community to make geology more visible on the curriculum

 

Geonews

Resourcing a sustainable future

Jen Roberts & Anthea Lacchia report on efforts to tackle sustainable resourcing

 

People

Distant Thunder: Turning the tide

Nina Morgan on the rocky road to gender equality

 

People News

An update on GeoWeek & more

 

Books & Arts

The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science

2019 is the bicentenary of a quintessentially B...

 

The X Club: Power & Authority in Victorian Science

It is amusing to ponder whether the X Club, a d...

 

Derbyshire Blue John

The late Trevor Ford, had a well-earned reputat...

 

Obituaries

Derick Leonard Helm 1949-2017

Sociable, quick-witted with a cheeky sense of h...

 

Peter Marriott Barber 1950-2018

Well-known petroleum geologist and sequence str...