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Collaborative Effort to Build 3D Geological Map GeoscientistThe Fellowship magazine of The Geological Society of London | www.geolsoc.org.uk | Volume 23 No 3 | April 2013 READ GEOLSOC BLOG!] [geolsoc.wordpress.com OPEN ACCESS Society publishing adapts to survive ART OF THE MATTER Jeanine Breaker on an ‘art research’ project SO SOLID CREW Collaborative effort to build 3D geological map CONTENTS GEOSCIENTIST IN THIS ISSUE APRIL 2013 FEATURES 16 ‘ART RESEARCHER’ OR ‘EXOTIC PET’? Artist Jeanine Breaker reflects on her residency at the British Geological Survey REGULARS 05 WELCOME Ted Nield on the quiet man, the shelf stacker and the raspberry 06 SOCIETY NEWS What your Society is doing at home and abroad, in London and the regions 10 COVER FEATURE: FROM 2D TO 3D 09 SOAPBOX Bruce Yardley reflects on the many and Surveys team up with ESI International diverse approaches to scientific advice to create a 3D geological map 21 LETTERS We welcome your thoughts 22 BOOK & ARTS An exhibition and three books reviewed by Douglas Palmer Tom Berry and Steve Rowlatt 24 PEOPLE Geoscientists in the news and on the move 26 OBITUARY Two distinguished Fellows remembered 27 CALENDAR Society activities this month 29 CROSSWORD Win a special publication of your choice ONLINE SPECIALS n IF YOU DON’T CATCH IT OR GROW IT Mark Tyrer and Kevin Murphy raise the curtain on the Minerals for life 16 22 (M4L) conference, Edinburgh APRIL 2013 03 04 APRIL 2013 ~ EDITOR’S COMMENT GEOSCIENTIST GIANT’S CAUSEWAY IS NORTHERN IRELAND’S MOST FAMOUS GEOLOGICAL FEATURE. SOON, IT MAY HAVE ANOTHER - A FULLY INTEGRATED 3D GEOLOGICAL MAP Cover image: Horia Bogdan Shutterstock.com ~ STACKED, NOT SHELVED y some odd coincidence of history, Geoscientist is the T 01727 893 894 Fellowship magazine of F 01727 893 895 the answer to last month’s crossword the Geological Society E enquiries@centuryone clue at 26 Down was – ‘IDS’, the of London publishing.ltd.uk W www.centuryone ‘Quiet Man’, former Tory leader and The Geological Society, publishing.ltd.uk lately, Secretary of State for Work and Burlington House, Piccadilly, Pensions. He had not been quiet on London W1J 0BG ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE T +44 (0)20 7434 9944 Jonathan Knight the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday 17 F +44 (0)20 7439 8975 T 01727 739 193 BFebruary. Defending the Government’s ‘Back to E [email protected] E jonathan@centuryone (Not for Editorial) publishing.ltd.uk Work’ Scheme, which was successfully challenged in court by Cat Reilly, a geology graduate of Publishing House ART EDITOR The Geological Society Heena Gudka Birmingham University, he said: “The next time Publishing House, Unit 7, somebody goes in – those smart people who say Brassmill Enterprise Centre, DESIGN & PRODUCTION Brassmill Lane, Bath Sarah Astington there’s something wrong with this – they go into BA1 3JN their supermarket and ask themselves...when they T 01225 445046 PRINTED BY can’t find the food they want... who is more F 01225 442836 Century One Publishing Ltd. important? Them, the geologist or the person who Library Copyright stacked the shelves”? (The ‘this’, incidentally, T +44 (0)20 7432 0999 The Geological Society of F +44 (0)20 7439 3470 London is a Registered Charity, meaning ‘being forced to work unpaid at E [email protected] number 210161. Poundland’. Sticks & Stones, p.21) ISSN (print) 0961-5628 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ISSN (online) 2045-1784 Many of you took offence at IDS’s remark, and Professor Peter Styles FGS the Society responded with a statement pointing The Geological Society of London out that geologists were not ‘above’ shelf- stacking EDITOR accepts no responsibility for the Dr Ted Nield NUJ FGS views expressed in any article in – indeed, without us not only would there be little E [email protected] this publication. All views expressed, except where food (fuel, fertilizers) but no shelves to stack, either. explicitly stated otherwise, A twitterfest of political knockabout ensued, as EDITORIAL BOARD represent those of the author, and Dr Sue Bowler FGS not The Geological Society of well as headlines about geologists ‘erupting’. As Mr Steve Branch FGS London. All rights reserved. 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The unerring of London by 2012 (11 issues) to institutions ability to detect an interest is one where the mental Century One Publishing and non-members is £108 (UK) Alban Row, 27–31 Verulam or £124 / US$247 (Rest of World). shelves are stacked well in politicians’ favour. Road, St Albans, Herts, © 2013 The Geological Society AL3 4DG of London DR TED NIELD EDITOR APRIL 2013 05 GEOSCIENTIST SOCIETY NEWS SOCIETYNEWS OPEN ACCESS The Society cannot ignore changes In such cases publication will be provide universities with block grants Below: The Society’s to the established scientific publishing is a under licence terms allowing the re- to be managed centrally to cover publishing model, say Neal Marriott mainstay of its use of all or part of the article (subject APCs. The intention is that, over finances. How can and Jonathan Turner*. it survive and to appropriate attribution), even on a time, these grants will fund an It is almost 350 years since the first prosper in a world commercial basis. increasing proportion of papers scientific journals were published – the of Open Access? With ‘Green OA’, no charge is arising from Research-Council- Philosophical Transactions of the made and the publisher continues to funded research, and that the Royal Society and the Journal des charge subscribers for access to the number of Gold OA articles will Sçavans - in 1665. Since then, published article. However, in this rise. Authors who are unsuccessful scholarly publishers have flourished case, the author may deposit a in securing a share of the funds and the value of peer-reviewed version of their paper in an online available for ‘Gold’ OA will be publication in the sciences has been repository after an agreed embargo required to follow the ‘Green’ firmly established. period has passed. The repository OA route. Throughout this time the business may be operated by their institution, For the Geological Society, model that has supported the vibrant or focused on a specific subject area. Open Access presents both an journal-publishing world has remained There are those, of course, who opportunity and a serious challenge. largely the same. Authors submit make a different case and argue There is the opportunity to enhance articles to preferred journals; strongly for the continuation of the our attractiveness to authors, publishers review, edit, process, print, subscription model; but whichever librarians and readers, and to form sell and distribute it, largely via view you side with – and there are new relationships with the research subscriptions.
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