Tag Archives: technology

Part two: Problems in the field

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Part two of a guest blog from Layik Hama at the University of Leeds. Layik is undertaking a research project on finding techniques that will lead to the development of an app for use in the field. You can read … Continue reading →

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Turning smart phones into student smart phones

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

A guest blog from Layik Hama, University of Leeds ‘I would say that what makes smartphones smart, in large measure, is their sense of location’ Michael T Jones – Google Earth/Maps Smart phones and geoscience fieldwork ought to be a … Continue reading →

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High five-asaurus

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

A big high five to us and @KEGS_Geography for being our 5,000th twitter follower. To join in, hop along to @geolsoc and say hello. Or, if you’re really keen, why not have a go at writing us a blog post? … Continue reading →

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Murchison’s Peacetime Map of Siluria

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison spent much of the early 1830s stomping round Wales and the West Midlands immersed in an oceanic world of metre-long sea scorpions. A world which later gave rise to both leeches and creatures with backbones.  Above the … Continue reading →

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Earth Science Week 2012 – Palaeocast

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

There’s a huge range of career options for Earth scientists, from academia to communications. All week, in honour of Earth Science Week, we’ve been featuring geologists who have taken their careers in more unusual directions. In our final blog, we … Continue reading →

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Earth Science Week 2012 – mapping the future

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

All week, we’re exploring some of the more unusual directions a career in Earth sciences can take you. We’ve been as far as the Philippines, but for today’s profile we don’t even need to leave the building, as our map … Continue reading →

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The heat beneath our feet

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

We were expecting chilly weather here in northern Scotland, but so far the sun has been shining on the British Science Festival in Aberdeen! We don’t think of Scotland -or the UK for that matter -as a particularly warm place, … Continue reading →

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If a rover breaks down on another planet, does anyone hear it?

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Curiosity succesfully landed on Mars over three weeks ago (Earth time), and has since sent us back this HD video of its spectacular plummet – including a not so graceful landing of the jettisoned heat shield: Now, the rover is … Continue reading →

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Driving Curiosity

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

How do you drive a rover on Mars? The latest rover to land on Mars, Curiosity, represents a huge leap forward in technology for exploring the planet. At 875 kilograms and ten feet long, it is about twice as long … Continue reading →

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Something wiki this way comes…

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

What are the most visited websites in the world? To answer this question, many of us will refer to Wikipedia. While the site hasn’t quite achieved the stratospheric heights of Facebook and Google, it is rarely out of the top … Continue reading →

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