The General Assembly is almost here. Presentations are complete, posters are printed, bags are packed and all you need to do is get to the conference… The Austria Center Vienna (ACV), the Assembly venue, is not far from the city centre and can easily be reached from the airport and central train station. You can get there via the U1, the red line in the underground map below: The ACV is located ne ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
Friday Photo (125) – EGU 2013
As I’m sure you will have noticed from the past couple of days of posts – we are getting very excited about the EGU General Assembly this year, starting on Sunday evening and running throughout next week. Here are a few photographs from last years event: The EGU kindly host our blog – great to see it promoted throughout the event of >11,000 people last year! (Poster Credit: EG ...[Read More]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
From landfill to jet fuel: the plastic panacea?
Last week British Airways announced that the world’s first sustainable aviation fuel plant will be built in Thurrock, Essex. The airline claims that 575,000 tonnes of plastic waste, otherwise destined for landfill or incineration, will be converted into 120,000 tonnes of liquid fuel each year. According to BA, that’s enough to power the annual flights from London City Airport, twice over. The conc ...[Read More]
GeoSphere
Modelling the Vadose Zone…What fun!
Sometimes our projects take stage and unexpected turns down pathways that we have no experience in whatsoever. My project on the input of Fukushima iodine-129 into groundwater has taken one of those turns. This is not a bad thing, but it is a time consuming one, as these deviations often are. However, instead of bemoaning my new lot in life as modeller of the unsaturated (vadose) zone, I thought I ...[Read More]
GeoLog
GeoTalk: Steven Smith on fossil faults and fantastic faulting
This week in GeoTalk, we’re talking to Steven Smith, a Lecturer from the University of Otago. Steven takes us on an Earth-shaking journey, explaining how ancient faults reveal what’s happening under the Earth’s surface and delving into the future of fault zone research. First, could you introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you are currently working on? Last September I started as a L ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
European Geosciences Union – General Assembly 2014 (Part 3)
A couple of weeks ago we outlined the ways in which we will be participating in the EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna next week. We’re currently asking a few of the GfGD team who are attending to give us an outline of the sessions that caught their eye and to tell us more about their roles at the event. Yesterday Jane Robb outlined a number of sessions, and today it is the turn of ...[Read More]
Geology Jenga
Looking forward to EGU 2014
This time next week EGU 2014 I’ll be looking at a sea of posters and enjoying workshops, splinter sessions and talks galore and I literally can’t wait! You may have noticed (and we apologise), Dan and I haven’t been so good at updating Geology Jenga with regular posts. We have both made the transition into the deepest and darkest depths of thesis writing and it really is an all-consuming thing. Th ...[Read More]
GeoLog
Blogs and social media at the Assembly – tune in to the conference action
Blogging GeoLog will be updated regularly throughout the General Assembly, highlighting some of the meeting’s most interesting sessions, workshops and lectures, as well as featuring interviews with scientists attending the Assembly. Writers from the EGU Blog Network will also be posting about interesting research and sessions during the Assembly, so you can catch up on any sessions you’ve missed a ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
European Geosciences Union – General Assembly 2014 (Part 2)
A couple of weeks ago we outlined the ways in which we will be participating in the EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna next week. On our blog over the next few days we ask a few of the GfGD team who are attending to give us an outline of the sessions that caught their eye and to tell us more about their roles at the event. Jane Robb (EGU Educational Fellow / GfGD University Groups Resour ...[Read More]
Green Tea and Velociraptors
Every time you publish behind a paywall, a kitten dies.
“Every day, people are denied access to something they have a right to.” That’s the opening line from a new appeal from students Joe McArthur and David Carroll. Open Access describes a form of publication of research where articles are made instantly available for free, and with unlimited reusability rights, as long as the source is attributed. There are many pseudo-open access & ...[Read More]