Joel Gill (GfGD Director) and Rosalie Tostevin (GfGD Blog Manager) will be attending Europe’s largest Earth Science conference, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2013. The conference runs from the 7th-13th April and is based in Vienna. Joel will be giving a talk about GfGD (details below), as well as presenting his own research on …[Read More]
Retired blogs
Panic mode, initiated?
It’s been 6 months now, and a while since I updated y’all with what it’s like in the world of a PhD-palaeontologist. In case you missed it, my intention was to open up PhD life and research a bit to expose what it’s like beyond the simple production of research papers. Which is probably a …[Read More]
Friday Photo (72): Geologists in the Field – South African Canyon
Two undergraduates walk through a canyon in the Karoo, South Africa. The bedrock is a glacial diamictite formed during the Gondwana glaciation. (c) Geology for Global Development 2013
It’s rainin’ isotopes…
This post is kind of a continuation of Laura Roberts excellent guest post on the Solar Storms and the Earth’s Magnetic field. However, this is a bit of a different spin on it. I am not writing about what get’s kept out, but rather what slips by the shield and gets in. Of course, I am …[Read More]
GfGD-CAFOD Placements – Successful Candidates
A while ago we advertised the opportunity to undertake a placement, organised by GfGD, with the international NGO CAFOD. These one week placements are designed to give geoscience students a preliminary, but important, insight into the development sector. They allow students to consider the role that geology already plays, and ways in which it could …[Read More]
Photo of the Week #27 – Someone’s had a few too many
The photo of the week came to me this morning on my walk to school. Yes, it is now warm enough in Ottawa to comfortably walk to school! All the melting ice and the slight smell of spring and undergrad panic in the air got me thinking about permafrost degradation and nights out during my …[Read More]
Interview: Jeannie Scott on Sharing Your Research
Jeannie Scott did her PhD at the University of Oxford on the Santiago volcano in Guatemala. She made some interesting findings, and has spent time translating her research into a format that is accessible to people with no scientific background. She also explains what her research findings mean for the people that live and work …[Read More]
Slicing up dinosaur embryos. For science.
Birds are living, breathing, tweeting dinosaurs. That is scientific knowledge backed up by overwhelming evidence, but the evidence basis for it grows strong all the time. We know that they are related from a host of morphological evidence from the last 150 million years or so. Our understanding of the origins of feathers and flight …[Read More]
World Water Day
Tim Middleton is GfGD’s Advocacy Development Officer, working to ensure GfGD’s voice is heard in relevant discussions, and helping geoscience students to understand the important role of effective advocacy work. Today, the 22nd March, is World Water Day. This is a day when the general public are encouraged to show their support for water-related issues …[Read More]
Fly, my pretties, fly!
The origin of bird flight is one of the greatest stories evolution has ever told us in the history of life on this planet. To imagine how organisms that once ran around on the ground have descendants that soar through the skies is truly phenomenal, and represents a truly great leap in increasing the awesomeness …[Read More]