GfGD will be bringing some of the latest research to you from Europe’s biggest Earth Science conference, the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013. Joel Gill (Director) and Rosalie Tostevin (Blog Manager) will be out in Vienna listening to talks and reporting back via the blog. The schedule for EGU is jam packed, and here we highlight just a few of the key sessions: Monday ...[Read More]
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Geology Photo of the Week #28
Happy April Fools/Easter everyone! I know that I am a day late, but yesterday was a holiday in Canada. Spring is also in the air, not today actually since it is -7 currently, but we have no more snow, and we had a few nice days over the Easter weekend. It is therefore appropriate for the photo of the week to be something eggy. This photo is of a fragment of Pleistocene age emu egg shell that was f ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
EGU: GfGD at the EGU General Assembly 2013
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 interacting hazards. Rosalie will be atte ...[Read More]
Green Tea and Velociraptors
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 good thing, as I don’t have any papers out yet. Setting the cultural default wit ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
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
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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 speaking about cosmic rays and the wonderfully useful isotopes they produce that rain down upon us. Yes ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
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 be further integrated to ensure effective and sus ...[Read More]
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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 undergrad. An odd combination of thoughts, I grant you. Well, what do these two very separate things have in com ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
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 close to the volcano. Jeannie has produced both a poster and a booklet ...[Read More]
Green Tea and Velociraptors
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 are developing too – each new finding is a piece that slots ...[Read More]