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 for a one-day event, exploring further the role of geoscience ...[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.
#EGU2014: Cleaning with Coffee
We’re drinking an enormous amount of coffee in Vienna this week, but the residues at the bottom of the cafetière usually end up in the bin. Kalliopo Fotopoulou, from the University of Patras in Greece, has found a way to transform that residue into something far more useful. Baking coffee residues in an oven changes them into a carbon rich “biochar”, which can be added to soils t ...[Read More]
#EGU2014: Bright Sparks in Dirty Thunderclouds
Lightning bolts formed in dirty thunderclouds could help geologists to detect explosive volcanic eruptions. Volcanic lightning is very poorly understood, but Corrado Cimarelli, from the University of München, has been able to reproduce the phenomena in his laboratory. Volcanic lightning is broadly similar to lightning in thunderclouds, but the addition of ash makes the process more complex. Volcan ...[Read More]