scholarly journals Sir (Cyril) James Stubblefield. 6 September 1901 – 23 October 1999

2001 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 453-464
Author(s):  
H.B. Whittington
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
British Geological Survey ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Personal Tribute ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
Insight Into

Cyril James Stubblefield was an internationally renowned palaeontologist who, in his long career in the Geological Survey of Great Britain, rose to become its Director, and who was elected to be the leading geologist in the country as President of the Geological Society of London. A tribute to Sir James Stubblefield–as he became–by Dr M.A. Calver (1981), a colleague and Chief Palaeontologist, Institute of Geological Sciences, celebrated Sir James's 80th birthday and gave a list of his publications. H.E. Wilson's lively history (Wilson 1985) of the 150 years of the British Geological Survey, as the Institute of Geological Sciences was renamed in 1984, has much information on the years spanning Sir James's career. The personal tribute by Dr R. Casey, F.R.S. (Casey 2000), gives a unique insight into service in the Geological Survey during those years. Here I have supplemented the account by Calver, using autobiographical notes compiled by Stubblefield, and the complete bibliography includes publications (additional to those listed by Calver) compiled by Dr P.A. Sabine, formerly Deputy Director of the Institute.

The Sustainability of Geological Mapmaking: The Case of the Geological Survey of Great Britain

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Knell
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
British Geological Survey ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
Utilitarian Value

Henry De la Beche's leadership of the Geological Survey of Great Britain in the second quarter of the nineteenth century led to the establishment of a number of key institutions which ensured the Survey of survival beyond the initial phase of geological mapmaking. Considered as a finite activity serving only to fix on paper the spatial distribution of an unchanging physical resource, geological mapmaking alone was never a secure basis for institutional or disciplinary development. The actions taken by De la Beche in the 1830s and 1840s, at a time when public and politicians alike were suspicious of government-funded science, were echoed 150 years later by successors who served governments with similar doubts about non-commercial scientific activity. Whether buried within an empire of public institutions, illuminated in museum collections which spoke of utilitarian value, or conceptualised as an income-generating database of rare data, the continuation of geological mapmaking in Britain relied upon a relationship to, and relevance for, a wider world of politics and practice. Seen in the long view, the British Geological Survey demonstrates that a nation can only make and re-make geological maps if that activity can be submerged within, or repackaged as, a new strategically-valued socio-economic initiative.

Conditions of Employment and Work Practices in the Early Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oldroyd ◽  
Graham McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Bureaucratic Control ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

This paper provides information about the conditions of employment and concomitant work practices of the early years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. It is chiefly based on a series of pamphlets issued by the successive Survey Directors. These set down the conditions of employment for the organization's staff members, but they also provide insights into the day-to-day workings of the Survey, its gradual enlargement, and its modes of bureaucratic control. They also provide some insight into the ethos of the Survey, and the kind of career and the nature of the work that the organization could offer its staff. Evidence is put forward as to the reason why the series of printed regulations was initiated. The Survey provides a useful early example of the nature and practice of government science, organized according to bureaucratic principles.

Groundwater abstraction across the Indo-Gangetic basin (2010)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabin Archambault
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Groundwater Abstraction ◽  
British Geological Survey ◽  
Full List

This 1 km resolution grid shows the estimated mean annual groundwater abstraction in millimeters across the Indo-Gangetic basin based on data from 2010. Methodology and a full list of data sources used can be found in the peer-reviewed paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2791.epdf?author_access_token=_2Z_fJZxRkSVmgVJ7xHTVdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O07GfIlzqIVm44UgFPb1r62_FUJLao4zkJSzYpv-4gIWJorRXEpgh4iarB8vlRNY_tGV_18CAf2j-_GnADYbdp The raster and a high resolution PDF file are available for download on the website of British Geological Survey (BGS): http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/international/SEAsiaGroundwater/mapsDownload.html Abstraction Groundwater Stress

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