This blog is written by Charlie Bristow. Charlie is a professor of sedimentology at Birkbeck, University of London. Being a sedimentologist involves wading through mud, scrambling up sand dunes, and…
Blogs
Virtual Geoscience: an opportunity for improved accessibility?
This editorial is written by Natasha Dowey, the creator of the Geoscience for the Future website. Writing this was a nice change from the pile of essay marking she has…
Women’s Bodies and Field Geoscience: Thoughts of a Zaftig Geologist
This blog is written by Sara Beroff. Sara is an amateur gender equity activist, a novice power lifter and a professional dog petter. She practices geology for an environmental consulting…
How bacteria from a past greenhouse world can help to predict Earth’s future climate
This blog is written by Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester. After studying Chemistry at the University of Bristol, Emily decided to move into Geoscience,…
Responsible Raw Materials Conference 2020
This blog is written by Sarah Gordon and Rose Clarke. Sarah is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Satarla. She has worked in several fields including risk & assurance, safety,…
Earthquakes and their Faults: Engineers of our Environment
This blog is written by Zoë Mildon, a lecturer in Earth Sciences at the University of Plymouth. She has worked on earthquakes and geological hazards across the world, including Italy,…
Landslides: why do they happen and what can we do about them?
This blog is written by Anika Braun, a lecturer in engineering geology at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Anika studied Georesources Management and gained a PhD at RWTH Aachen University, Germany,…
Mining: the foundation of our low-carbon future
This blog was written by Rebecca Paisley, Project Geologist at Cornish Lithium Ltd. Rebecca is a volcanologist turned exploration geologist who is passionate about promoting women in geoscience and STEM…
Bringing Storytelling to Volcano Science
This blog is written by Ailsa Naismith. Ailsa studies active volcanoes for a living in a Gothic tower at Bristol university. She thinks volcanoes are a single, vibrant thread in…
The Surprising Science of Slag
This blog is written by John Macdonald, a lecturer in geology and environmental geoscience at the University of Glasgow. Outside geoscience, he plays the bagpipes and raquet sports (not at…