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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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]
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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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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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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]
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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 and when countries announce speci ...[Read More]
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In the News (March 2013)
A look at some of the issues that have caught my eye in the news recently Deep sea mining: Speculation surrounding the possibility of mining metal rich seafloor nodules has been going on for decades. These nodules grow slowly, so they adsorb high concentrations of metals from seawater, including the increasingly valuable rare earth metals. This resource has not been widely exploited before now bec ...[Read More]
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Guest Blog: Water in Ghana (1) – Introduction
This year, GfGD’s University Group based at Imperial College London will be supporting Imperial Water Brigades, and their Water Brigades project in Ghana. A number of students from the Department for Earth Science and Engineering will be travelling to Ghana in September 2013 to help construct a rainwater harvesting system – and work with local communities who will be using the tank. Ov ...[Read More]
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Friday Photo (71): Geologists in the Field – Dorset
Students in Dorset, taking a close look at some vertical bedding. Send us your favourite photos of geologists at work in the field! Credit: Joel Gill (c) Geology for Global Development 2013
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Guest Blog: Women and Aid
Nikita Kaushal is a postgraduate student in the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Oxford. Here she shares some of the key ideas about the role of women in development discussed during the 2013 OxFID conference. Should Aid and development start with women? Gender inequality cuts across all races and communities. In development circles, women are touted as the magic cure because ...[Read More]