How do you tell between different dinosaurs, when you don’t have any dinosaurs? Trace fossils, like footprints, are ghosts of dinosaurs past, remnants of life entombed within the rocks. Palaeontologists and ichnologists (scientists who study trace fossils, not fish) often used to get confused by the question of matching a dinosaur track to its maker. Dinosaur tracks are known from multiple localit ...[Read More]
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Geology for Global Development
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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Guest Post: Solar Storms and the Earth’s Protective Shield – Laura Roberts Artal
I am a PhD student at the University of Liverpool Geomagnetism Laboratory. My current research project is the palaeomagentic study of 3.5-3.2 billion year old rocks from South Africa. The aim of my research is to improve our understanding of the long term evolution of the Earth and the surface conditions under which the first forms of life originated through using palaeomagnetic records. The rock ...[Read More]
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Networking Opportunities at the 2013 General Assembly
With over 10,000 scientists all in one place, there are ample opportunities to meet other researchers in the Earth, planetary and space sciences, make friends, connections and start new collaborations. Here’s a sample of some of the great networking opportunities at the General Assembly this year: The Earth Science Women’s Network (Sunday 7 April, 12:15 – 15:30) The Earth Science Women’ ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
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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Short courses at the 2013 General Assembly
There are 14 short courses at the EGU General Assembly 2013. Short courses are great opportunities to learn about a subject or further your knowledge in a particular area. The short courses at this year’s General Assembly are listed below. SC1 Short Course: Tipping Points in the Geosciences (also listed as NP1.5) SC2 Short Course: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis (also listed as NP1.6) SC3 Sh ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
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]
GeoSphere
Geology Photo of the Week #25
The photo for this week is something a bit different. It is a piece from my personal collection that was self collected. Ok, full disclosure, my dad actually found it, but I was over on another rock pile in the quarry and finding jack at the time…so it is self collected….I did help extract it after he found it. I should also mention that they were repaired and enhanced by a professiona ...[Read More]
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Imaggeo on Mondays: Metamorphosis
This fold is part of the metamorphic core of the Pyrenees. The shear zone is almost vertical, producing a small parasitic fold (a smaller fold within a larger one), which looks almost as if it continues into the sky. The metamorphic sediments are about 500 million years old and have been deformed several times, most recently during the alpine orogeny. The alpine orogeny was period of extensive mou ...[Read More]
Geology for Global Development
Women and Natural Hazards
“Women and children first” went the call from the deck of the titanic. And then of course Jack sacrificed his own life to save Rose, who was afloat on what admittedly looked like a raft with more than enough space for two. Chivalrous though this picture is, the reality is very different – in most disasters women seem to suffer a disproportionate number of injuries and deaths. Mos ...[Read More]