Current events

During the 19th to 22th July 2013 Prague hosted the Spring Meeting of the Foraminifera and Nannofossil groups of the The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS), topic: “The micropalaeontological record of global change: from epicontinental seas to...

A CGS publication „Building and Decorative Stones of Prague and the Central Bohemia Region“ (authored by Barbora Dudíková and Jaroslav Valečka and digitally processed in GIS by Zuzana Krejčí) has been awarded a prestigious award Map of the...

Since March 15, 2013, the web portal of the disbanded organization CGS – Geofond has been put out of operation.The visitors will be redirected from the URL starting http://www.geofond.cz/cz to the Czech version of the CGS website, and from the URL...

The new English version of the on-line application for viewing and searching the Database of Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic has been made public at the end of November 2012. Czech version of this application has been...

President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus with his spouse Livia invited Vladislav Rapprich to a state dinner organnized in honour of His Excelence Sir Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland, and Lady Dorrit Moussaieff in Rudolf Gallery of...

The report Czech Geological Survey Abroad, currently published both in Czech and English version, gives an overview of the most important international activities undertaken by the CGS during the last seven years.

After years of negotiations, the long planned union of the Geofond and the Czech Geological Survey finally has taken place.

Researchers from all over Europe have met in Venice from 9th to 11th May 2011 to present and discuss the state-of-the-art on CO2 geological storage, a key technology for abating CO2 industrial emissions.

Due to the large public interest, the Czech Geological Survey decided to make accessible the Regulation for compilation of the Geological Base Map of the Czech Republic at a scale of 1:25 000 that defines the content and process required for...

Since Saturday May 21st, public with worries watches column and clouds of volcanic ash above the Grímsvötn volcano. Basic characterisic of the most frequently active icelandic volcano is attached.

Geological storage of carbon dioxide is the focus of CGS Europe - a new three-year project under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities.

GIS Day is playing a powerful role in creating geographic awareness throughout our world.GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a...

On Friday, 17 September 2010, a two-day conference, held by the (Ant)ARCTIC Matters initiative, was initiated in the Municipal House in Prague.

The latest Czech Geological Survey Annual Report includes not only usual chapters dealing with various fields of our activity, but wide range of additional information as well.

The Bohemian Massif has always been of interest to both Czech and international specialists because it has exposed one of the most remark-able domains of the Variscan orogen.

After a brief appreciation of scientific work of J.E.

New book from authors Michal Holec a Richard Pokorný offers a list of caves in Ústí n.L.Region with its description. The book was published in czech language.

Published maps are the result of field work on the project of mapping Protected Landscape Area Žďárské vrchy.

This book mediates the unique historical map work from world famous volcanic area to audience of geological and historical interest. This work has still the recent scientific validity.

New publication about the club Cafe Barrande, that connects scientists and their friends in the field of nature sciences. Author is Vladimir Sattran.