EGU Guest blogger

GeoEd: How do we make climate predictions – An idea for an outreach activity

Mirjam Glessmer November 27, 2015

Icebergs . Credit: Caroline Schmidt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This month’s GeoEd post is brought to you by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer. Mirjam is a physical oceanographer, who during her PhD at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany, became more and more interested in understanding how people learn and hence did a Masters of Higher Education in parallel to her PhD. During her PostDoc at the University of Bergen, Norway, she became involved in teaching both university courses, teac ...[Read More]

Mars Rocks – introducing a citizen science project

Jessica Wardlaw November 25, 2015

Coverage of Martian imagery being used by the iMars project: found at www.i-mars.eu

GeoLog followers will remember our previous report on Citizen Geoscience: the exciting possibilities it presents for the acquisition of data, whilst cautioning against the exploitation of volunteered labour. This blog presents a Citizen Science platform that goes beyond data collection to analysis, specifically for geological changes in remote sensing imagery of Mars. Jessica Wardlaw, a Postdoctor ...[Read More]

Cruising the Mediterranean: a first-hand account of a month at sea – Part 2

Western Mediterranean summer oceanographic cruises researcher blog October 21, 2015

Map of the locations sampled during the cruise in the Western Mediterranean.

This week we feature the second instalment in this series, which follows the adventures of Simona Aracri, a PhD student at University of Southampton, and her colleagues. as they spent a month aboard a research vessel, cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Simona and the team of scientists aboard the boat documented their experiences via a blog. This time we discover that chemists are always kept busy on ...[Read More]

Cruising the Mediterranean: a first-hand account of a month at sea – Part 1

Western Mediterranean summer oceanographic cruises researcher blog October 14, 2015

Map of the locations sampled during the cruise in the Western Mediterranean.

Simona Aracri, a PhD student at University of Southampton, spent a month aboard the research vessel, R/V Minerva Uno, cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Simona and the team of scientists aboard the boat documented their experiences via blog. Over the coming weeks we’ll feature a few of the posts the team shared over the one month voyage: you can expect to find out what life aboard a large research ve ...[Read More]