News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would like to add, advertise on GCG’s News from the Sector, or write a blog for GCG, please get in touch at blog@geocollections.org Conferences and Events GCG 53rd Winter Seminar … More News from the Sector – August 2026
Posted on by geocurators Written by Meghan Jenkinson, Programme Coordinator Assistant for The Geological Curators Group and PhD Student (2022/23), NERC Panorama DTP, The University of Leeds The second instalment of the now seemingly biannual Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology was held between the 15 – 18th June 2026 in the beautiful historic Luxembourg City. Hosted by Ben … More The Second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology, Luxembourg 2026
News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would like to add, advertise on GCG’s News from the Sector, or write a blog for GCG, please get in touch at blog@geocollections.org Conferences and Events GCG 53rd Winter Seminar … More News from the Sector – July 2026
Posted on by geocurators Written by Cinzia Ragni, Coprolite editor for GCG It is perhaps one of the most fascinating paradoxes I have encountered in my professional life: that the story of a young English fossil hunter, who spent her days searching along the windswept cliffs of the Jurassic Coast, could resonate so deeply in a country … More Fossil Huntresses: How Mary Anning Captured Switzerland
News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would like to add, advertise on GCG’s News from the Sector, or write a blog for GCG, please get in touch at blog@geocollections.org Exhibitions NOW OPEN – 34: The critical … More News from the Sector – June 2026
News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would like to add, advertise on GCG’s News from the Sector, or write a blog for GCG, please get in touch at blog@geocollections.org Putting Collections to Work Forgotten fossil helps … More News from the Sector – May 2026
Posted on by geocurators Written by Dr Emily Swaby, Earth Collections Assistant (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) and Communications Coordinator for GCG The 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) took place between the 12th – 15th November last year, in Birmingham, UK. Organised by the University of Birmingham and held in the International Convention Centre (ICC) in the city centre, the event brought together 1,200 … More From Conference to Collections: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 Annual Meeting
News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would like to add, advertise on GCG’s News from the Sector, or write a blog for GCG, please get in touch at blog@geocollections.org Funding News GCG Launches New Small Grants … More News from the Sector – April 2026
Posted on by geocurators Written by Cindy Howells, Curator of Palaeontology at National Museum of Wales and Membership Officer of the Geological Collections Group. As many of us are aware, geology as a serious science is under threat from many directions despite attracting more attention than ever before on social media. Universities and museums are suffering funding cuts and staff losses, student courses are … More Report of a recent meeting held in Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Cardiff
Posted on by geocurators Written by Dr Hazel McGoff h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk Associate Professor in Environmental Science. Member of the Geological Collections Group. What sort of collections do you look after? I look after the University of Reading’s collection of minerals and rocks, hand specimens and thin sections as well as many of the fossils. The University is celebrating the centenary … More Six Questions for a Geology Collections Curator – Geological Collections at the University of Reading
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