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What is HOT in UK Geophysics: The BGA, Postgraduate Research in Progress...
Last week I attended the BGA 2013 Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting, hosted by Cambridge University. I’ve got to admit, it is one of my favourite conferences; the presenters are exclusively...
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10 Minute Interview – Promoting Earthquake Education amongst Persian Communities
During the summer I took part in a fantastic public engagement activity, I’m a Scientist, Get me Out of Here! It’s an X-factor style competition where school students get to meet and interact with...
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A round-up of some newsworthy geomagnetism stories
Happy New Year to you all! We’ve had a long Christmas break at Geology Jenga, but we are back! For 2014 we’ve got some really interesting 10 minute interviews lined up, as well as the continuation of...
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Geology makes a difference to Society
The Geological Society of London have just today released a great report highlighting how geology contributes to our society. All too often the impression is that all geologists do is study rocks....
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The Earth’s protective shield
Credit: Wikimedia Commons,Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI I came across this video, which very clearly explains how the Earth’s magnetic field protects us from Solar Storms. It then goes on to explain...
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Seismologists must leave their comfort zone: A Guest post by Steve Hicks
Scientists studying earthquakes should be prepared to put themselves forward to reduce the risk of earthquake damage. This was one conclusion from a meeting of scientists and engineers in London last...
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A foreseeable, yet surprising earthquake?
On Wednesday morning I woke up to a flurry of activity on my twitter feed: there had been a large earthquake in northern Chile. I followed up some of the tweets and realised that there had also been...
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10 Minute Interview – Live from EGU 2014
Today I had the great pleasure of interviewing Cindy Mora-Stock. It was a great success as I was finally able to put a face to the twitter handle that I’ve been following almost from my first days on...
View ArticleAn Andy Warhol Moment for Liverpool’s Geomagnetism Group – dating the...
This week, my PhD supervisor, Andy Biggin, had a paper out in Nature. The findings of this new research point towards the Earth’s inner core being older than we’d previously thought. Recent estimates,...
View ArticleThe coolest way to visualise how planets work
It’s not always easy visualising the complex processes which operate on planet Earth. Even more difficult, at least for me, is explaining them to others. That’s why I’m always on the look out for tools...
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