Professor Melanie Leng is the Director of the Centre of Environmental Geochemistry (a collaboration between the BGS and the University of Nottingham) and a Science Director at the British Geological Survey where she manages the Stable Isotope Facility. You can read more about her research here. The Travelling Geologist asked me to write a blog on the most spectacular fieldwork […]
Scourie Dykes of the Scottish Highlands with Tom Baker
The Lewisian Gneiss Complex of the Scottish highlands is of great historical significance and remains a textbook example of how lower-crustal processes can operate, and of how sound field observations can unravel the geological history of a particularly complex area. However, despite the considerable volume of studies that were conducted in the region during the […]
Lake Ohrid, Macedonia with Jack Lacey
Jack Lacey is a PhD student within the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry and in this first blog for Travelling Geologist he tells us about the Lake Ohrid SCOPSCO project and drilling through over a million years of Mediterranean history. Lake Ohrid is one of the world’s oldest lakes and is renowned for its high degree […]
Mogok, Burmese valley of rubies and sapphires with Mike Searle
Mike is a Professor at Oxford University and has been working along the Alpine-Himalaya mountain chain for the past thirty years. You can read more about his work here. I had been trying to get permission from the Burmese authorities to travel to Mogok in the northern Shan state and the Jade mines of northern Kachin state […]
Hunting for rare earth elements in Malawi with Sam Broom-Fendley
Sam is a PhD student at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. You can find his research profile here and follow him on twitter @s_broom_fendley.