The first dinosaur to be named was Megalosaurus in 1824, but it took another 18 years for Sir Richard Owen, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to suggest re-grouping the handful of antidiluvian beasts so far discovered into a single tribe of giant reptiles. Since then, dinosaurs have established … Continue reading
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MOOCs – what are they and why should we bother?
Massive Online Open Courses are clearly the political flavour of the month – but should geoscientists get involved? The brainchild of two Artificial Intelligence academics at Stanford, who responded to massive demand for their courses by uploading them open access to the web, ‘MOOCs’ have been variously hailed as a revolution in Higher Education, a … Continue reading
Part two: Problems in the field
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 part 1 of his blog here. Novice geologists participating in introductory level field work are … Continue reading
Turning smart phones into student smart phones
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 perfect match. Both are about location. Both are becoming increasingly accessible, as smart phones become … Continue reading
High five-asaurus
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? We’d love to hear from you! Continue reading
Murchison’s Peacetime Map of Siluria
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 waters, plants began to grow on Avalonia. It was the dawn of the age of … Continue reading
Earth Science Week 2012 – Palaeocast
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 look at one of the ways scientists can take their research out of the lab, … Continue reading
Earth Science Week 2012 – mapping the future
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 librarian Paul discusses a fascinating career path you might not have thought of… Continue reading
The heat beneath our feet
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, but underground it’s a different story. Yesterday, scientists from the British Geological Survey explained the … Continue reading
If a rover breaks down on another planet, does anyone hear it?
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 on its way to its first region, Glenelg, 400 metres east of its landing spot. … Continue reading
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