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GeoTalk: Beate Humberset

November 5, 2014
GeoTalk: Beate Humberset
Beate and her colleagues during a PhD training course in Kananaskis, Canada. Aurora are seen in the background of this photo.

In this edition of Geotalk, the regular feature were we highlight the work and achievements of early career researchers, we are talking to Beate Humberset, the winner of the Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award for the Solar- Terrestrial Sciences Division (ST) in 2013. In addition, Beate is the Young Scientist Representative for the ST Division so we will also touch upon her responsibilities in ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Meet Anna Rabitti, winner of I’m a Geoscientist, Get me out of here!

August 22, 2014

Earlier this year we ran the first ever I’m a Geoscientist, Get me out of here! event, an online chat-based game show in which school kids vote for their favourite geoscience communicators. In this week’s GeoTalk, Sara Mynott  talks to Anna Rabitti, an oceanography PhD student and winner of this year’s I’m a Geoscientist…   First, for those who haven’t been following I’m a Geoscientist, can y ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Matthew Agius on how online communication can help identify earthquake impact

August 8, 2014

In this edition of GeoTalk, we’re talking to Matthew Agius, a seismologist from the University of Malta and the Young Scientist Representative for the EGU’s Seismology Division. Matthew gave an enlightening talk during the EGU General Assembly on how communication on online platforms such as Facebook can help scientists assess the effect of earthquakes. Here he shares his findings and what wonders ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Want a record of historical floods? Ask the taxman

May 7, 2014

Extreme weather events, like catastrophic floods, are the malicious exclamation points of Earth’s chaotic and variable climate system; they arrive without warning and extract huge costs, both economic and humanitarian, from the communities they strike. Evidence suggests the frequency and severity of these events may be on the rise in a changing climate, but scientists struggle to place modern even ...[Read More]