Melanie Leng
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Melanie Leng
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Chief Scientist/British Geological Survey/Professor University of Nottingham
Congratulations to Sir Keith O’Nions on his retirement as Chair of the British Geological Survey Board, thanks for your 8 years of service…

Keith was presented by Karen Hanghøj with a garnet laser engraved by Matthew Horstwood in the NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
BGS stakeholder event, held in the Churchill Rooms, House of Commons. BGS show cased Geology for:
National Resilience, Decarbonisation &
Economic Growth
Thanks to all our stakeholders and James Naish MP for Rushcliffe, Rupert LEWIS Deputy EC NERC & Karen Hanghøj Director BGS for opening comments
July 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Lovely to see the cinnabar moth caterpillar feeding on the ragwort at BGS. The moth is named after the red mineral cinnabar because of the red patches on its predominantly black wings.
July 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
An excellent visit from our incoming British Geological Survey Board Chair Paul Monks including a tour of the the National Geological Repository (NGR) - the largest collection of geoscience samples in the UK.

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June 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Wild flower season Heriot-Watt University / British Geological Survey Scotland office (Lyell Center) 🐝
June 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Wild flower season British Geological Survey Keyworth 🌸🌺🌻🌼
June 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
June 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Micronutrient Action Policy Support (MAPS)
Thanks Andy Bean for your work (with Louise Ander and others) on the co-created web-hosted tool to estimate micronutrient deficiencies and explore pathways to improve nutrition across Africa
@britgeosurvey.bsky.social
@uonresearch.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Congratulations NERC on 60 yrs of leadership in environmental science. In celebration NERC published its new 10-year vision, launched at the Royal Society.
The Forward Look for Environment Science www.ukri.org/publications...
June 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Congratulations to Emrys Phillips (retired British Geological Survey) on his contribution to a text book on Micromorphology published by the QRA 📖
May 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Made it! Vienna - Frankfurt - Brussels - London - Nottingham #EGU25
May 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Made it to Frankfurt, back to grey…
May 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Last metro across the Danube till next year #EGU25
May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
At the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) isotope labs today learning about their GloWALL network (Global WAter Analysis Laboratory Network)
Thanks to Jhenelle Williams for the tour!
April 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Another glorious day @egu.eu #EGU25
April 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A couple of great mass spec companies we work with here at #EGU25
Sercon and Elemtex (catch them in the exhibitors hall this week)
April 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Angela’s talk today at #EGU25 on the palaeoecology of wolves 👏👏👏 @angelalamb.bsky.social @britgeosurvey.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trains, buses, metros… travelling overland to #EGU2025
Nottingham, London, Paris, Zurich, Otztsl, Vienna…
April 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It’s arrived! Our new Elementar isoprime precisION with iso DUAL INLET and iso MULTI PREP - aka Gemini (the bright twin stars representing its dual purpose)… for extremely high precision water d18O and micro carbonate d18O and d13C analysis…🐚🦪🐣💦🌊💧
March 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Dr Saurav Dutta of British Antarctic Survey is working with us this week sampling shells for oxygen isotopes to look at millions of years of temperature change in the Southern Ocean @sauravdutta.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fairwell to our lovely friend and colleague Diksha Bista - off to Boston College to head their isotope labs. Our loss and their gain! Good luck Diksha, hope to see you soon 💐💐💐
British Geological Survey
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Geological valentine 🩶🐚
February 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Another litter picking lunchtime, 200 litres collected in 40 minutes with my @britgeosurvey.bsky.social
colleagues 🚮
February 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Part 3 of creating wood chip paths around the British Geological Survey pond at lunchtime … we did it! Finished laying wood chip on the paths for staff and insects.🦟
January 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Happy retirement to our OCS colleague John Barnard (electrician) after more than 2 decades at British Geological Survey. Over 150 colleagues turned out to wish him fair well (and a few tears were shead) 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
January 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM