This blog is written by Rick Saville, a geotechnical engineer who has worked in consultancy in the UK for over ten years. Rick is passionate about his home county of…
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What is the future of the oil and gas sector?
This editorial is co-written by the Geoscience for the Future team. We are very grateful to scientists from both within and outside of the oil and gas sector for their…
The unspoken inequity in the race to Net Zero
This blog is written by Jen Roberts, the newest member of the Geoscience for the Future Team. Jen is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. Her work…
From PhD to Policy: how my geoscience degree led to translating science for decision makers
This blog is written by Louisa Brotherson, a PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool. Louisa’s research brings together laboratory experiments and seismology to better understand earthquakes. Wanting to experience…
Nuclear Forensics: Reading Nuclear Fingerprints
This blog is written by Vera Uushona, a radiation physicist at the National Radiation Protection Authority of Namibia. Vera studied radiation science at the Centre of Applied Radiation Science and…
Secrets of the Springs
This blog is written by Heike Wanke, a hydrogeologist at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Heike researches water in drylands like Namibia. Nature’s lifelines Springs have been…
Fossils for the Future
This blog is written by Liam Herringshaw. After 15 years as a university palaeontologist, Liam quit his lectureship in the middle of a pandemic to become Director of the Yorkshire…
5 reasons why studying Geoscience can help save the planet
This blog is written by the editor of Geoscience for the Future, Natasha Dowey. Natasha is a lecturer in Geoscience at Sheffield Hallam University, where she teaches students how the…
Tracking a trail of plastic pollution
This blog post is written by Mike Clare, Ian Kane and Elda Miramontes. Mike is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre (UK) who measures deep-sea currents to find out…
How to experiment with the most dangerous flows in the world
This blog is written by Pete Rowley, a volcanologist who pours sand down chutes to see what it does. Sometimes he’s allowed out to play with real volcanoes. A churning…