Geology for Global Development

GfGD News

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]

European Geosciences Union – General Assembly 2014

Once again Geology for Global Development will have a strong presence at the European Geosciences Union’s General Assembly, in Vienna (27 April – 2 May 2014). This is one of the largest gatherings of geoscientists in the world – with a particularly large group of natural hazard scientists, and groups from hydrology and climate. —- As usual, the Natural Hazards division will ...[Read More]

New GfGD University Groups

Over the past month we’ve been working with students at the University of Durham and Camborne School of Mines (University of Exeter) to establish and launch new GfGD University Groups. These groups will join our existing network of groups, based in Cambridge, Imperial College, Leeds, Leicester, Oxford, Plymouth, Southampton, UCL and Trinity College Dublin. University Groups are an opportunit ...[Read More]

Save The Date – GfGD National Conference 2014

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 for a one-day event, exploring further the role of geoscience within international development. As was the case last year, our conferen ...[Read More]