The first Bryan Lovell Meeting is an opportunity to think about how our science feeds into hazard management and understanding, and how geoscience can be part of the solution to many of these issues. Continue reading
Tag Archives: geography
The 2016 Geoscience Education Academy
A guest post from Lucy Jackson, who attended the 2016 Geoscience Education Academy as a student representative. As someone keenly interested in Geology, the Geoscience Education Academy seemed like a perfect opportunity to develop my knowledge of the subject outside of my school studies. Therefore, when I was offered a place as a student assistant, I … Continue reading
Challenging myself – Geoscience Education Academy 2015
I had heard about it a few times, but didn’t apply. The offer seemed to be too good to be true – four days in London learning about geoscience, with everything paid for – surely not? Continue reading
The Water Book
‘We’ve built our entire world around water. Our temperature scale, our bodies. Water shapes our continents, flows through our oceans and rivers, creates atmosphere and weather – this one substance does all of that. And we’ve got to a point where we’re so used to it, we ignore it.’ Alok Jha has written about a … Continue reading
New Year, New…Epoch?
Happy new year, blog readers! While the rest of us are working on making, breaking and conveniently overlooking newly made resolutions, some in the geological community are focusing on a more fundamental resolution. It’s a subject which has been under discussion for several years, and the topic of countless meetings, articles and debates. Now, the … Continue reading
Door twenty two
Today’s geosite in Shrophsire features arguably the most varied 100 square kilometres of geology in the world… Continue reading
Door twenty one
Throughout the advent season, we’ve been counting down with images submitted to our 100 Great Geosites photo competition. Today’s photographs are all of a geosite whose name is an Anglicisation the Gaelic Creag a’ Chnocain – meaning ‘crag of the small hill’. Continue reading
Door seventeen
Today’s #geoadvent site is not only an important economic geological site, but was the location for a training day for our Publishing House staff! Continue reading
Door 16
Today’s #geoadvent features a destination popular with geologists and tourists alike – and one which has provided inspiration for musicians, poets, artists and writers for many years… Continue reading
Door fifteen
The #geoadvent continues, with more images entered into the 2015 100 Great Geosites photography competition… Continue reading
