Giant iceberg behaviour impacts regional biogeochemical cycling in the Southern Ocean - Communications Earth & Environment Icebergs shape Southern Ocean productivity by triggering blooms through micronutrient delivery and sustaining biomass via deep nutrient resupply, as revealed by silicon isotope, hydrographic, meltwate...

The impact of giant iceberg melting on Southern Ocean productivity…
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A picture of Dorontina undertaking solvent treatment in the Geomicrobiology lab. She is in fully PPE and is looking towards the camera. Her hands are holding a small pot.

Industrial placements at BGS for undergraduate students give real-life experience of working in laboratories and learning different analytical techniques.

Here, Dorontina Domi tells us about her industrial placement in BGS' stable isotope facility:
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Happy International Geologist’s Day to all #geologists and #geochemists ! May your expeditions run smoothly and with great success & your experiments savely!
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PhD adventures in the Philippines: coring around Lake Bulusan  - British Geological Survey Chris Bengt’s two-week field trip to Bulusan Volcano Natural Park in the Philippines to collect lake sediment cores, fresh soil and water samples.

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Esthwaite Water: applying novel approaches to understand lake-water nutrient pollution - British Geological Survey Geology fieldwork in the Lake District, applying a novel stable isotope method for tracing phosphorus sources.

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Hole-y c*@p! How bat excrement is sculpting Borneo’s hidden caves - British Geological Survey Scientific observations suggest that ammonia released into the cave air by the microbial decay of bat and bird guano adsorbs onto water droplets on the passage walls and stalagmites.

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MARC Conference 2025: highlighting the importance of conferences to PhD students - British Geological Survey BGS and University of Nottingham PhD student Paulina Baranowska shares her experience presenting her research on nuclear forensics at her first international conference.

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PhD adventures in Copenhagen, Denmark: revealing past recovery processes of tropical forest systems through ancient environmental DNA  - British Geological Survey PhD student Chris Bengt visited the University of Copenhagen to carry out very delicate extraction of aeDNA from lake-sediment cores, in the hopes of unlocking the secrets of past volcanic eruptions.

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Had an excellent time attending UKAS 2026 in Bristol this past week. Heard a lot about new isotope work within archaeological science and presented some of my modelling work. Looking forward to the next meeting in 2028!
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Large limestone boulder with a weathered surface and an ivy-covered tree on top. A figure wearing a red jacket is standing on the boulder for scale. The boulder is taller than she is.

At last...new paper with Kathryn Adamson, @glaciologytim.bsky.social, Phil Hughes, and Derek Fabel and Delia Gheorgiu at @isotopesuk.bsky.social - thanks, everyone! 36Cl dates from the Irish Midlands, plus some geomorphology to complicate things. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

Many thanks to all participants in the Radiocarbon Short Course this week. Many excellent discussions had, and great to see so many people so enthusiastic about radiocarbon! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

This EA-IRMS has filled the space. It runs 'mega-fast' batches increasing throughput, and our tech Gary loves it! It's able to combust organic samples, measure C and N stable isotopes and collect CO2 in our collection system for 14C dating. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

NEIF @isotopesuk.bsky.social are recruiting new members for the NEIF Strategy Group and three Steering Committees (Radiocarbon (Panel A), Life Sciences (Panel B) and Geology & Environment (Panel C)). We are also recruiting for a Chair for Panel A – Radiocarbon. See www.bgs.ac.uk/download/ner...

New paper!

New paper!

@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social student Jessica Ratcliff, who is supported by a NEIF grant to date materials from these caves, reporting on her work with local partners to protect this wonderful environment

Three nodes of NEIF (Bristol, BGS and Oxford) are at the UK Archaeological Science conference. Great to see so many isotope and organic residue talks and posters! @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone-built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more det...

New Open Access Paper! We present the site of Al Uyaynah, Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Saudi Arabia, excavated by my former PhD student Dr. Khalid Alasmari. New set of C14 dates, thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social funding

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Are you UK based and need funding for radiocarbon dating? Spring has sprung, which means it is time for the next deadline for NEIF applications! Please get in contact asap to discuss your project. Deadline 25th March; www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Looking forward to Monday and filling this space! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

Currently writing up the results of new radiocarbon dating from this amazing Neolithic monument, Le Déhus, on the Channel Islands. With thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social and @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social for funding radiocarbon dating.

Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

Stood in the Cretaceous looking at the first grasses on Earth (British Geological Survey) geological walkway…

In 1955 the third (?) mass spectrometer in the world (maybe for geochronology?) was purchased by Oxford University for the determination of the oldest rocks… at the grand price of £10,000. Apparently the determination will have “no immediate practical application” but it was beautiful…

The University of Nottingham has appointed BGS’s senior isotope research geochemist, Angela Lamb, as an honorary professor. As part of her role, Angela will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching alongside facilitating collaborative research programmes between BGS and the University.

Premio Miglior pubblicazione GGM 2025 Benvenuto nel sito ufficiale della Società Geologica Italiana, fondata a Bologna il 29 Settembre 1881, la più antica e rappresentativa associazione scientifica italiana nel campo delle geoscienze.

Congratulations to NEIF researcher, Francesco Putzolu, whose Economic Geology paper 'Origin of the Jadar Volcano-Sedimentary Li-B Deposit, Serbia' has been awarded the prize for the best Mineral Deposits paper from Young Researchers by the Italian Geological Society: www.socgeol.it/N6807/premio...

So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

Frontiers | The abundance, diversity, and assemblage structure of the macrobenthos at the South Georgia shelf methane seeps A quarter of all marine methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is estimated to be hosted in Southern Ocean sediments. Climate change-induced ocean warming and ice...

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