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Simon Harris, GCG Webmaster and Collections Conservation and Digitisation Manager at British Geological Survey, Keyworth UK As part of an ongoing drive to ensure Geological Curator is the best journal it can be for people working with geoscience collections, we have put large amounts of work into indexing past editions[…]
The Geological Curators Group has teamed up with The Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP) to host a one day conference online, Uniting Earth Science Collections, on 1st December 2022. The GCG’s AGM will take place between the two sessions. For further information and details on how to register, please[…]
By Lu Allington-Jones, GCG Journal Editor and Senior Conservator at the Natural History Museum, London UK, and Simon Harris, GCG Webmaster and Collections Conservation and Digitisation Manager at British Geological Survey, Keyworth UK We are very proud to announce that the back catalogue of papers published in the Geological Curator[…]
The Natural History Museum London, Turing Institute, and University College London, are co-hosting the inaugural AI for the Natural Sciences on the 3rd November 2022. “The symposium is an opportunity to explore AI-related challenges related to biodiversity and natural science collections, bringing together some of the major research groups working[…]
Written by Roy Starkey, Mineralogist and Author Down to Earth – Exploring Ireland‘s Geology is a new permanent exhibition which opened at the Collins Barracks site in September 2021. I was last in Dublin for the GCG AGM in November 2017. On that occasion we were able to visit the[…] Check out the latest posts on our blog at the links below
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