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Geology for Global Development

Guest Blog: Christopher and Logan cycle Britain’s Water for Burkina Faso’s Water

December 11, 2014
Guest Blog: Christopher and Logan cycle Britain’s Water for Burkina Faso’s Water

Yesterday we shared a blog written by Christopher Barry (University of Birmingham), outlining previous work in Burkina Faso with the charity ‘Friends in Action’. Christopher and Logan Mills (University of Warwick) are cycling 270 km from Bristol to Birmingham on the 12th and 13th December, in aid of ‘Friends in Action’, and here write about their latest contribution to this ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Connecting Earth scientists and school students – Apply to take part in I’m a Geoscientist!

December 10, 2014
Connecting Earth scientists and school students – Apply to take part in I’m a Geoscientist!

What and when Imagine a talent show where contestants get voted off depending on their skills in their area of choice. Then imagine that this talent show is populated by scientists with school students voting them off based on the scientist’s ability to communicate their research well. This is the basis of a recent EGU educational initiative that launched earlier in 2014, and that will return in 2 ...[Read More]

Geology for Global Development

Guest Blog: Water of Life Project – Safe Drinking Water in Burkina Faso

December 10, 2014
Guest Blog: Water of Life Project – Safe Drinking Water in Burkina Faso

Christopher Barry was the winner of our Blog Competition in 2012, with this article on safe drinking water in Burkina Faso. Christopher was privileged to be able to visit Burkina Faso prior to writing this, a very rural country where a great number of people are dependent on drilled wells with hand pumps for clean water. In Ouagadougou he met Mark Collier, where they talked at length about hydroge ...[Read More]

SM
Seismology

New EGU Seismology Division president

December 10, 2014

The EGU division presidents for 2015-2017 have been elected. The new Seismology Division (SM) president is Paul Martin Mai. We will learn more about Paul Martin in a future post. Till then, congratulations to Paul Martin Mai! All Division presidents will be inaugurated during the EGU plenary meeting on 13 April 2015 in Vienna, Austria, with the term lasting for two years from inauguration. To see ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

My drone summer – Johnny Ryan

December 9, 2014
My drone summer – Johnny Ryan

In the summer of 2014, our group at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge decided to pursue an ambitious but exciting field campaign in West Greenland. The aim was to survey Store Glacier once a day using a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (see photo above for a view from the UAV on its way back from a mission with Store Glacier, West Greenland in the background). The UAV ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: An ancient landscape and the never setting sun.

December 8, 2014
Imaggeo on Mondays: An ancient landscape and the never setting sun.

This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays image is brought to you by Florian Heinlein, a meteorologist by training now working on his PhD modelling water transport in agricultural plants. This image was taken even before he started his bachelor’s degree and studying the Earth’s atmosphere and climate change was still a pipeline dream. This picture was taken during a holiday trip through the Baltics in July 2 ...[Read More]

Green Tea and Velociraptors

Minerals and the search for life on Mars

December 8, 2014

This was originally posted on James Lewis’ personal blog at:  http://marsblogger.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/minerals-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/ (Re-posted with permission) Understanding if life could ever have existed on Mars is one of the most challenging scientific questions facing us in the 21st Century. We know that the Martian surface at present is an arid environment bombarded with ...[Read More]

Geology for Global Development

#EGU15 – Some Sessions of Interest (1) – Education, Communication and Ethics

December 8, 2014

We’re expecting a strong GfGD presence again at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in 2015. We note below a number of relevant sessions that our readers may like to get involved with. Deadline for abstracts is 7th January 2015. NH9.4/EOS19 **Natural Hazards Education, Communications and Policy-Practice Interface** This session addresses how we communicate and educate students, t ...[Read More]

Four Degrees

Geology and the Autumn Statement

December 5, 2014
Geology and the Autumn Statement

So George Osborne donned the ceremonial red briefcase on wednesday and took to the helm in the House of Commons (rather inconsiderately while I was in Brussels and couldn’t follow the news…) to deliver the Autumn Statement, one of the two statements that the HM Treasury makes each year to Parliament upon publication of economic forecasts (the other being the Budget which is normally an ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoEd: Citizen Geoscience

December 5, 2014
GeoEd: Citizen Geoscience

In this month’s GeoEd column, Sam Illingworth tells us about the growing use of Citizen Science within research as a means of acquiring data. Whilst the practice is novel and offers exciting opportunities as to volumes of data collected Sam highlights the importance of appropriately crediting the work of the willing volunteers. Citizen Science is a phrase that is currently de rigour in scientific ...[Read More]