Walk through the old centre of Leiden, Netherlands, a city whose anatomy theatres and botanical gardens once drew students from Copenhagen to Edinburgh,...
Why do we choose the fields that we do? Like many geoscientists, I was drawn in by a love of the outdoors, and a drive to better understand the landscapes...
For more than half a century, geochemists have wrestled with an uncomfortable problem. Earth appears to be missing some of its lead. Not literally, of...
Engineering geology has traditionally been framed around a simple and powerful premise: if we understand the ground well enough, we can design safely....
In the early 1980s, in a shop window in the Northam Road antiques quarter of Southampton, I spotted a beautiful glass bell filled with coloured sands forming...
To help de-risk renewable energy infrastructure and potential sites of energy storage, characterise underground nuclear storage facilities and proposed...
When the founders of the Geological Society of London hit on the idea of setting up a museum to serve as a research tool for experienced geologists and...
“Can we stop the car for some fresh air please?” I was beginning to suspect I might be pregnant… My husband, Des Clark, pulled in by the next...
