The publication Alberta Beneath Our Feet has won the Association of Earth Science Editors Award for Outstanding Publication.

This past summer, a group of politicians and government geologists from Russia, came to Alberta to visit Alberta Geological Survey to gain an understanding of the policies and regulations of drillcore collection and storage.

The thick Ardley Coal Zone in west-central Alberta is being reviewed for CBM production potential and possibly injecting CO2 into the coals to 'geologically capture CO2.

The Discovery Channel's Daily Planet team visited Alberta to film stories on two separate Alberta Geological Survey initiatives: The Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project and the Diamond Potential of Alberta.

A new groundwater mapping program has been launched at AGS. In partnership with Alberta Environment, this program will fill the need for modern mapping and groundwater inventory information in Alberta.

The Neale Medal, named after the legendary geologist E.R. Ward Neale, is awarded by the Geological Association of Canada to an individual for sustained outstanding efforts in sharing earth science knowledge with Canadians.

Alberta entered Canada's modern era of diamond exploration in the 1990s, when diamond exploration companies discovered three separate areas of kimberlitic rocks in northern Alberta.

The understanding of the bedrock topography, buried bedrock valleys and channels, drift thickness and glacial aquifers in the surface-mineable and in situ-recovery oil sands north of Fort McMurray has be updated.

As of April 2, 2207, the Base of Groundwater Protection information is now available at the legal subdivision level through a web tool.

Recently, a surficial mapping web page was added to the AGS website. You are greeted with a map showing generalized surficial mapping coverage for Alberta. By clicking any of the NTS tiles, you can download surficial maps and reports for that area.