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2026 BGA Image Competition Open
Enter the BGA (British Geophysical Association) Image Competition and help promote UK geophysics. First and second prizes are £100 and £50, respectively. We are looking for dramatic geophysical fieldwork photos, spectacular images of numerical simulations, stimulating photos of laboratory experiments in progress, or even geophysical…
Read More2025 BGA Image Competition
The British Geophysical Association is delighted to announce that the winners of the 2025 BGA image competition are: 1st: Michael Pisz (University of Bradford) for the “Magnetometer surveys in Westfjords, Iceland” image. 2nd: Sam Mitchinson (University of East Anglia) for the…
Read MoreBullerwell Lecturer 2026
The British Geophysical Association is delighted to announce that the Bullerwell Lecturer for 2026 will be Dr. Ualisson Donardelli Bellon from the University of Edinburgh. Dr Ualisson Donardelli Bellon is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mineral Magnetism at the School of GeoSciences, University of…
Read More2025 Gray-Milne travel bursary for PhD students
The British Geophysical Association (BGA) invites applications for a travel bursary supported by the Gray-Milne Trust. The bursary will provide funding up to a value of £500 to support geophysics-related work, training, and travel. Application closing date: 30 September 2025 at midnight UTC. The…
Read More2024 BGA Image Competition
The British Geophysical Association is delighted to announce that the winners of the 2024 BGA image competition are: 1st: Steve Hicks for his “Taylor Tremors” image . 2nd: Phil Mollicone for the “Jug hustlers, Yukon Delta seismic crew” image. The 2025…
Read MoreUKI-Array
Recently, NERC funded a new seismological equipment pool for use on land, consisting of 3-component Smart Solos and 1-component nodes. This will be held in Cambridge, care of Nick Rawlinson, and will be available for use by our community. We…
Read MoreBullerwell Lecturer 2025
The British Geophysical Association is delighted to announce that the Bullerwell Lecturer for 2025 will be Dr. Susanna Ebmeier from the University of Leeds. Dr. Susanna Ebmeier completed her BSc. Hons. in Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh in 2008, and her D. Phil….
Read MoreWho wants to be a geophysicist?
Members of the BGA committee (Jenny Jenkins, Amy Gilligan and Lidong Bie) published an Astronomy & Geophysics paper with an initial analysis of the results from the BGA Geophysics questionnaire. The paper focusses on three questions: Why aren’t students signing…
Read More2024 Gray-Milne travel bursary for PhD students
The British Geophysical Association (BGA) invites applications for a travel bursary supported by the Gray-Milne Trust. The bursary will provide funding up to a value of £500 to support geophysics-related work, training, and travel. Application closing date: 16 September 2024 at midnight UTC. The…
Read MoreLearning to be accessible
Members of the BGA committee (Jenny Jenkins and Andrew Curtis) and President of PGRiP Organising Committee (Sophia Baker) publish an Astronomy & Geophysics paper describing how the BGA is working to make its meetings and conferences accessible to all through…
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