Bursary awards for £6,000 each have been allocated to three students about to begin accredited geology courses in British universities.

The lucky recipients were Jordan McDonald, who is following geology MSci at Imperial College, James Brock following engineering geology and geotechnics at the University of Portsmouth, and Tom Morgan following exploration and resource geology at Cardiff University.

A further award of £2,000 was made to Meyrick Williams, who has already done a BSc geology degree in Cardiff and after a gap year of extensive world travel is returning to do a masters degree in geotechnics.

Also present at the presentation ceremony were two former bursary awardees - Owain Lavis and Gethin Baker. Both are now following a masters degree in Geology at Cardiff University.

Owain did fieldwork in Arran in Scotland for geological mapping, whereas Gethin returned with the university to Pembrokeshire for fieldwork, where he was able to help show fellow students the rich geology of the local area.

Dr. Andrew Armour, the founder of the Trust, commented that it was good to see such able and talented young people going into geological careers which would remain vital to the society and economy in future, particularly as resources became more scarce.

The presentation ended with a viewing of the newly installed seismometer at Pembroke School.

A similar seismometer is also in place in Tasker Milward School and both were provided by the Trust.

These link to the national seismometer network and will allow schools to participate in live, real time earthquake detection.