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Geodynamics

edited by Lucía Pérez-Díaz

Lucía is a technical specialist in geodynamics at Halliburton, UK, and an associate researcher at the University of Oxford. Her current research revolves around understanding the feedbacks between mantle activity, plate-scale processes and surface observations and developing improved quantitative plate modelling techniques. She is part of the GD blog team as editor. Lucía tweets under @DrPerezDiaz.

Journey to the centre of the manuscript

July 1, 2020
Journey to the centre of the manuscript
Storytelling_Geoscience by L. Perez Diaz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

During the working day, Matthew Kemp is a seismology PhD student at the University of Oxford. In his spare time, however, he writes and performs musicals about science as part of the duo Geologise Theatre, using stories to explain complex scientific concepts to a variety of audiences – from dinosaur extinction to climate change. In this week’s post, he discusses how classical story-tel ...[Read More]

#Black In Geoscience

June 10, 2020
#Black In Geoscience
The artwork above can be requested for non-profit use by clicking here. Branded items (100% proceeds are donated to charity) are available here. 

The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news – harrowing stories about the police killing black people. Racial inequalities and discrimination go far beyond current events. In science in general, and in the geosciences in particular, little progress has been made regarding diversity over the past few decades. This is both the result of deep-seated institutional racism  (sometimes refe ...[Read More]