Earth Science Week 2023 (8th-14th October) is an exciting opportunity to celebrate the theme “Geoscience Innovating for Earth and People”. During Earth Science Week, organisations around the globe host events that encourage people to connect with the world around them and, in line with the theme, think about the way geoscience influences our world and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Science communication
Storytelling Masterclass: Tips from a poet on how to improve your writing
By Beki Hooper Beki Hooper is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Her poems have appeared in two anthologies and multiple international literary magazines. She often writes on themes of nature, mortality and psychology. She is also a scientist, and holds a doctorate in corvid cognition. You can follow her on Twitter @BekiHooper. “Don’t tell me … Continue reading
Tackling issues of underrepresentation in the geosciences
The ENGIE conference was an important space for conversations to take place about progress on gender equality in the geosciences. Continue reading
Advancing science as a global public good: An International Science Council meeting of European members
On the 13th October 2022, the International Science Council (ISC) held its meeting of the European members, co-hosted by the Royal Society and British Academy. Continue reading
Monitoring Mt Etna: an eruptive internship
This guest post is written by Josh Brown, about his two months interning at the Etna Volcano Observatory in Sicily. Continue reading
Fire of Love: a volcanic romance
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. Continue reading
The outcome of COP26 – what does it mean for geoscience?
Flo Bullough and Megan O’Donnell share their reflections on the second week of international negotiations at the 26th UN Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. The second week of the long-awaited 2021 UN climate conference has culminated in the announcement of the Glasgow Climate Pact. This international agreement strengthens global ambitions to mitigate the … Continue reading
Earth Science Week 2021!
e the amazing ways in which the geoscience community are working to bring geology into the wider world through innovative outreach projects. Continue reading
Melting ice sheets & the mystery of rapid historical sea level rise
Towards the end of the Last Glacial Period, 14,650 years ago, one of the most rapid sea-level rises of recent geological time occurred… Continue reading
Earth Science, Systems and Society: a new journal from GSL
The Geological Society of London (GSL) is proud to announce the launch of our first fully open access journal, Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES3), for 2021. ES3 will publish timely and topical research of high importance across the breadth of the geosciences with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary geoscience and the pivotal role it … Continue reading