Geology for Global Development

#EGU16: Geoscience and the Sustainable Development Goals

Dr Joel C. Gill April 18, 2016 EGU, EGU16, Sustainable Development Goals 1 Comment

At #EGU16? On Thursday we’ll be partnering with Parsquake and academics from the University of Tübingen to host an interactive, public splinter meeting on “Geoscience and the Sustainable Development Goals“!

We’ll be posting resources from the meeting on our website after the event.

By Dr Joel C. Gill

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.

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JANET FEBISOLA ADEYEMI May 2, 2016, 9:11 pm

Nice to have an insight into what you are doing.Iam a geologist and graduate of engineering from Loughborough university of technology.I founded an NGO in Nigeria called Women in Mining in Nigeria.I live in Houston for some months in the year

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Geology for Global Development (GfGD) is a UK-based organisation, founded by Joel Gill, working to support young geologists to make an effective contribution to international development. Through this blog we’ll be sharing articles, discussions, photographs and news about our work - all relating to the application of geology to the fight against global poverty. Many of the blogs we publish are written by guest authors, allowing young geoscientists from around the world to have their say. Do get in touch if you’d like to contribute.