As noted on Monday we are delighted to have our national team involved in a number of sessions at the EGU General Assembly 2014 in Vienna, Austria. Today we outline a number of other sessions that may interest our readers… please do look at the full list, as we can’t profile every session on here! Remember – …[Read More]
Retired blogs
A Year in Review
As of October 1st I have been a part of the now 1 year old EGU blog network for a year. I was honoured to be one of the original three network bloggers and looking back this had been a great year of geology blogging. Since we started the network has now grown from three …[Read More]
GfGD at the EGU General Assembly 2014
Following the success of our own conference last month and the great opportunities we have had to get involved in the EGU over the past couple of years, we are delighted to be involved in a number of sessions at the 2014 General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. Collaborating with other partners and convenors, these sessions will give …[Read More]
Supervisor profile #3: Dr Matt Watson
Dr Matt Watson Senior Lecturer in Natural Hazards PhD (2000) “Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Volcanic Plumes” 1) The Twitter challenge: Describe your PhD in 140 characters (if you can remember it) I used ground- and satellite-based data to quantify volcanic emissions in order to look at volcanic plumbing systems and plume …[Read More]
SVP Day 3
OK, day 3, still alive. The first session this morning was on saurischians dinosaurs, the major group that includes sauropods and theropods. My supervisor, Phil Mannion, was the first talk I was awake enough for (*cough*), and gave us a run-through of sauropods from the infamous Late Jurassic (~150 million years old) Tendaguru formation from …[Read More]
GfGD Fundraising Calendars
Those of you at our recent GfGD Conference will have had the opportunity to get your hands on one of our lovely GfGD fundraising calendars. The great news is that we have some of these left and so are able to give you the opportunity to get one (or more) – making perfect Christmas presents …[Read More]
SVP Day 2
So again, I missed most of the morning, spending it in the UK Embassy getting an emergency passport. Unfortunately, this means most of the Romer Session, where early-career (thanks Phil for correction) students present for an award, was missed. Obviously, with the lack of Wi-Fi and live-tweeting, the session might as well have been conducted …[Read More]
Do you think that’s air you’re breathing?
Air pollution has been a major issue in our atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution, with the smoke emanating from the many factories leading to smog settling over our cities and countryside. The author Johanna Schonpenhauer remarked in 1830 that Manchester was: Dark and smoky from the coal vapours, it resembles a huge forge or workshop. …[Read More]
Friday Photo (103): Sustainable Building Resources
Used oil canisters form the framework for a wall in Ladakh. Where resources are scarce and often imported, people find creative ways to make use of existing resources. (c) Geology for Global Development 2013
SVP Day 1
So after definitely not losing my passport, I managed to make it into one of the sessions for the first day at SVP, the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology’s annual meeting over in Los Angeles. The session was on the impacts of ontogeny, or growth and development on our understanding of dinosaur relationships and biology. The …[Read More]