What is the BGS?

BGS staff give advice to many different customers, clients and stakeholders What we do

We provide expert services and impartial advice in all areas of geoscience.
Our client base is drawn from the public and private sectors both in the UK and internationally.


Field work Who we are

As a public sector organisation we are responsible for advising the UK government on all aspects of geoscience
as well as providing impartial geological advice to industry, academia and the public.


Bust of Sir Henry de la Beche Our past

Our history: from 1835 as the Geological Ordnance Survey, under De la Beche,
to the Institute of Geological Sciences, up to the present day as the British Geological Survey.