Rocks 'n' ROL is coming to Prague! The 3rd virtual meeting of IGCP 735, Rocks and the Rise of Ordovician Life: Filling knowledge gaps in the Early Palaeozoic Biodiversification, will be held this autumn in Prague.
Current events
At the end of April, a very intensive study stay of Georgian specialists took place in the Czech Republic as part of the development project "Georgia 2024" supported by the Czech Challenge Fund 2023 program.
The main part of the week-long visit was...
Young scientists from CGS Brno, Petr Jirman and Jakub Vácha, participated in bilateral cooperation with colleagues from Norway.
3D geological models of the former HLW deep repository potential localities EDU-West and Čihadlo are now publicly accessible.
The second series of the international programme PanAfGeo2 (2021–2024) and its section Geoscientific Field Mapping (WPA) has been completed by the last 12th geological mapping training in Africa on the 26th March 2024 under he leadership of...
On April 16–18, 2024, GIS specialists from the Czech Geological Survey held working meetings in Zvornik and Sarajevo with partners from the project Innovation of Geological Information Systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The new official website of the Czech Geological Survey (CGS) in English, which is officially launching today, brings a significant change in content and graphic design.
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) has approved a new Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Aeronian Stage in lower Silurian black shales of the Barrandian area (Hlásná Třebaň, Beroun Disctrict).
Nearly 400 exceptionally well-preserved fossils dating back 470 million years have been discovered in the south of France by a couple of amateurs.
On November 20–21, 2023, a working meeting was held in the CGS meeting room in Kostelní as part of the project "Innovation of Geological Information Systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina." The meeting was attended by senior representatives of the project...
As part of the official visit of Prime Minister Petr Fiala to Ethiopia, a presentation of key Czech development cooperation projects was held on Saturday, November 4th, at the Ministry of Water and Energy in Addis Ababa.The high-level event was...
The Czech Geological Survey has published an updated version of the Geological Map of the Trans-Altai Gobi at a scale of 1:500,000. The map originally published in 2008 was completely sold out.
On 4-6 September 2023, the Kick-off meeting of the project "Innovation of Geological Information Systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina", led by CGS, took place in Bosnian Jajce.
Last week, the first campaign of modern airborne geophysical research was carried out at the reference site of the Staré Ransko ore district within the framework of the international SEMACRET project.
The Czech Geological Survey won the first prize in the category of „Atlases and map sets“ of the 25th edition of the prestigious Map of the Year competition of the Czech Cartographic Society with the map compilation Geology, Soil Environment and...
The UNFC workshop under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade took place at the CGS on April 18 – 20, 2023.The "United Nations Framework Classification of Resources" (UNFC) allows for the classification of primary and secondary mineral...
Several photogrammetric 3D models of fossils from the CGS collections and methodology for creating paleontological models have been created as part of CGS internal project, which focuses on 3D reconstructions and presentations of selected fossil...
On Thursday, February 2, Vít and I set about preparing a detailed overview of this year’s continuation of the CO2-SPICER project. We expected we would complete the overview on Friday, February 3. We will not.
In 2022, a monographic issue of the important British Geological Society of London, Special Publication No. 485 entitled "The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco" was published.This issue is dedicated...
The paper The 23rd International Geological Congress (Prague, 1968) and the Five Warsaw Pact Members Occupation of Czechoslovakia was published in the IUGS journal EPISODES.