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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.

GfGD in the Himalaya (2) – Hazards Booklet

Many of you may remember that earlier this year we advertised an opportunity to help put together a small booklet on natural hazards relevant to the Himalaya. The book was to have a focus on disaster risk reduction and landslides (the earthquake section being written by the BGS School Seismology Programme). Here is the finished …[Read More]

GfGD in the Himalaya (1) – Project Overview

This time next week, GfGD will be participating in a major international event and conference focused on sustainable resource development in the Himalaya. The event, composed of a conference, fieldtrips and educational project will examine aspects relating to water resources, environmental change, disaster risk reduction, geotourism, renewable energy and natural resource management. Background Our contribution to …[Read More]

Reminder: 2nd Annual Conference (19 Sept 2014)

A quick reminder about a date that you should all put in your calendars…  Following the success of our first National Conference in October 2013, we are very pleased to announce that Friday 19th September 2014 has now been booked for our next conference… On Friday 19th September we hope to again gather over 150 young geoscientists …[Read More]

Blog Break

Due to widespread commitments in other areas of our work – we’ll be taking a two-week break from regular blogging (although may publish occasional articles). You can find a wide range of articles in our archives, and will be back publishing new articles from the week beginning 26th May.

GfGD at EGU 2014 – Splinter Meeting Reminder

If you are currently at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, why not come and say hello to the GfGD team TOMORROW (Thursday 1st May 10:30-12:00) in Room R10. (Please feel free to copy and share this image via Twitter/Facebook)

Friday Photo (125) – EGU 2013

As I’m sure you will have noticed from the past couple of days of posts – we are getting very excited about the EGU General Assembly this year, starting on Sunday evening and running throughout next week. Here are a few photographs from last years event: The EGU kindly host our blog – great to …[Read More]