outreach

Into the world of Girls into Geoscience: inspiring the future generation of female geoscientists

Sarah Boulton, Jodie Fisher and edited by Constanza Rodriguez Piceda April 2, 2025

Girls into Geoscience is an outreach initiative run by University of Plymouth since 2014 (credit: the authors).

“Girls into Geoscience” is a UK-based outreach initiative aiming at encouraging female (and female identifying and non-binary) to pursue a career in Geosciences. I had the pleasure to interview the founders of this initiative, Prof. Sarah Boulton and Dr. Jodie Fisher, and discuss about their experiences, how the landscape of student recruitment has changed over the years and the challe ...[Read More]

Earth Science Outreach in a Virtual World

Amy Edgington and edited by Kiran Chotalia August 11, 2021

Figure 1: Amy filmed videos, short experiments, and workshops whilst students were learning from home.

Outreach is a fundamental part of science, aiming to inspire and attract the next generation of scientists. Amy Edgington from the Department of Earth Sciences at University College London gives us a glimpse behind the curtain of the GeoBus programme, a free mobile outreach programme that brings interactive Earth Science workshops into the classroom. This week, Amy tells us how the GeoBus had to ...[Read More]

Join the EGU GD social media team!

Anna Gülcher July 21, 2021

Join our enthusiastic team of social media managers! We are looking for new people who are interested in joining an enthusiastic team of young researchers to help manage the EGU Geodynamics social media platforms (Facebook and/or Twitter) for the new academic year. This is an excellent opportunity for early-career researchers to expand their scientific circle while working within the EGU G ...[Read More]

The Sassy Scientist – Video Versatility

The Sassy Scientist May 14, 2021

Lis has been studying, investigating, deconvoluting, cross-correlating, referencing, inverting, plotting, database searching … and whatnot. With just a few synapses still firing at all cylinders and demonstrating an uninterrupted dispense of productivity, she wonders: Should I start my own (geodynamics…?) online video channel? Dear Lis, Why not? Everyone’s not working properly anyways in this day- ...[Read More]