On 5 March 2021, the Czech Geological Survey organized the conference Czech-Norwegian Cooperation on CCS, focused on the CO2 capture and storage technology.
Current events
CGS is the main organizer of the online conference titled “Czech-Norwegian Cooperation on CCS”, which will be held on 5 March 2021, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In the overview map on the http://www.geology.cz/extranet-eng/science/earths-crust/3d page, a new conceptual 3D geological model of the Rožná uranium deposit (J.
CzechIndustry, the magazine for Czech industry, trade, transport, and construction, has published an interview with Zdeněk Venera, Director of the Czech Geological Survey (CGS), and Kryštof Verner, Principal Investigator for CGS development...
The Czech Geological Survey was granted the patent PV 2018-357, in force as of 31 December 2020, for processing graphite raw material.
Challenge Fund, within the Czech-UNDP Partnership (CUP) for Sustainable Development Goals between the Czech Development Agency and the United Nations Development Program has supported a project Methodology for the area assessment in terms of debris...
The web page 3D geological modeling on the Czech Geological Survey website has been extended.
English version of the web map application "Interesting geosites of the Czech Republic" currently presents a new layer depicting the Czech national geoparks. It includes an English description and links to English webpages of the geoparks as well.
The Czech Geological Survey published a 1:25,000 scale geological map of the northern part of James Ross Island, located east of the northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. This is the first geological map of this area.
Due to the global epidemiological situation was the traditional Esri UC held virtually during the days 13.-16.7.2020. More than 86,000 registered users had the possibility to attend cca 500 technical workshops and demonstrations of GIS usage.
The canyon of the Coco River, discovered in Nicaragua in 2004 by Czech Geological Survey specialists as part of the Czech Republic‘s foreign development assistance project, historically became the first UNESCO global geopark in Central...
The Czech Geological Survey has added English subtitles to all animations of the geological evolution of selected localities and geological processes, which it publishes on its YouTube account.
A new CGS Databases signpost has been published on the CGS portal.The databases of the CGS Central Data Store (over 90 items) are classified according to geoscience topics.
At the end of the last year, on December 20th, was published an article in a daily newspaper Lidové noviny on studies of deep processes using microdiamonds and other inclusions in the rock-forming minerals.
All employees of the Czech Geological Survey are invited to attend the Adam Kašpar's vernissage Geology in paintings, which will take place on Wednesday, 13th November at 4pm in the Geophysical Institute of Academy of Science, Boční II 1401,...
The 80th anniversary of the Mongolian Geological Survey was celebrated in Ulaanbaatar on October 16–18, 2019.
In frame of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the CGS, a web page about 3D geological models created in the Czech Geological Survey was published.Additionally to general information, the page contains an overview map of selected...
The international meeting of sedimentologists will take place in Prague on 23-25. June 2020. The Czech Geological Survey participates in the organization of the conference, including the preparation of excursions and short courses.
Extended information about quarries and places of use of decorative stones is now available in the map application Interesting geosites.
The layers "Decorative Stones - Quarries" and "Decorative stones - Buildings" have so far displayed only basic...
On 2nd and 3rd July 2019, a Board Meeting and Assembly Meeting of the project GeoERA - Informační platforma was organized by GEUS (The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) at the Neth-ER headquarters in Brussels. 32 experts for...