Geology for Global Development

GfGD in the Himalaya (3) – Tweet your questions!

This weekend two of the GfGD National Team will be travelling out to India to take part in a major international event on sustainable resource development in the Himalaya region.

Joining others from around the UK, India and beyond, our focus will be on hazards education. We’ve written earlier this week about the work we’ll be doing and the booklet we have produced.

twitter-iconWe’d like to invite our followers, readers and student geoscientists to engage with this work via Twitter. Send your questions to @Geo_Dev and use the tag #Himalayas14 – we will do our best (if we have access to the internet) to answer as many as possible whilst we are in the field. Questions could be about the work we are doing, the challenges, the geology and hazardscape of the region or the overall experience and lessons to be learnt by ‘western’ geoscientists when undertaking such projects.

After our return we will post questions and slightly longer answers into a blog post, hopefully covering a range of aspects about the trip

Joel is the Founder/Director of Geology for Global Development (@Geo_Dev) an organisation working to support geologists to make a sustainable contribution to the fight against global poverty. He is an interdisciplinary researcher, with a PhD in geography (natural hazards), and research interests in multi-hazard frameworks, disaster risk reduction, rural water projects, and sustainable development. This work has taken him to Chile, China, Guatemala, India, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Joel is currently based at the British Geological Survey, and tweets at @JoelCGill.