Geology for Global Development

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.

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 see it promoted throughout the event of >11,000 people last year! (Poster Credit: EG ...[Read More]

European Geosciences Union – General Assembly 2014 (Part 3)

A couple of weeks ago we outlined the ways in which we will be participating in the EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna next week.  We’re currently asking a few of the GfGD team who are attending to give us an outline of the sessions that caught their eye and to tell us more about their roles at the event. Yesterday Jane Robb outlined a number of sessions, and today it is the turn of ...[Read More]

European Geosciences Union – General Assembly 2014 (Part 2)

A couple of weeks ago we outlined the ways in which we will be participating in the EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna next week.  On our blog over the next few days we ask a few of the GfGD team who are attending to give us an outline of the sessions that caught their eye and to tell us more about their roles at the event. Jane Robb (EGU Educational Fellow / GfGD University Groups Resour ...[Read More]

GfGD Committee Updates

Joel Gill, GfGD Founder and Director, writes about recent additions and updates to the GfGD Executive Committee… Over the past few weeks we’ve been adding to and reshaping our Executive Committee, a group of excellent individuals who work with myself to coordinate our range of projects and development. Each member of the committee is in full-time education or work, and as such gives up ...[Read More]