A science blog that brings you closer to the world of geology! Featuring the "A Day in the GeoLife" guest blog series from geoscientists around the world.
NAME: Céline Heuzé CURRENT TITLE: VINNOVA (Sweden’s innovation agency) Marie Curie research fellow, or post-doc simply AREA OF EXPERTISE: Polar oceanography, abyssal circulation YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 4 years in research EDUCATION: PhD in physical oceanography from the University of East Anglia (United…
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NAME: David McNamara CURRENT TITLE: Structural Geologist AREA OF EXPERTISE: Energy and Tectonics Research YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 6 years post-PhD EDUCATION: Undergraduate degree from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and PhD from University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. What’s your job like?…
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NAME: Paolo Viscardi CURRENT TITLE: Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology, University College, London, United Kingdom AREA OF EXPERTISE: Palaeontology, zoology, biomechanics YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 15+ EDUCATION: I studied biology and geology as a Joint Honours BSc at the…
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NAME: Homero Paltan CURRENT TITLE: PhD Candidate in Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Topic of research: ‘Rivers and Hydrology in Cold Regions: Sensitivity to Climate Change’ AREAS OF INTEREST: River dynamics, water sources and climate change;…
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NAME: Joshua Larsen CURRENT TITLE: I am a lecturer in hydrology at the University of Queensland, Australia. AREA OF EXPERTISE: Hydrology YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 2+ EDUCATION: I originally studied geology before doing a PhD in hydrology, both at the University of…
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NAME: Zoe McKellar CURRENT TITLE: PhD Researcher in Geology. AREA OF EXPERTISE: Main research interests are structural geology and sedimentology, tectonostratigraphy, basin evolution and provenance. YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 5 EDUCATION: Honors BSc in Geology and Petroleum Geology. Just finished the…
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NAME: Nathan Magnall CURRENT TITLE: PhD student AREA OF EXPERTISE: Volcanology, specifically effusive rhyolite and basaltic eruptions YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 1 year as a PhD student EDUCATION: I attained a Geology MESci (undergraduate and Master’s) from the University of Liverpool, United…
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NAME: Debanjan Guha Roy CURRENT TITLE: Reservoir Geomechanics Ph.D student at the IITB-Monash Research Academy, a joint venture between the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India and Monash University, Australia. AREA OF EXPERTISE: Hydraulic fracturing, numerical modeling, rock…
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NAME: Shaun Harrigan CURRENT TITLE: PhD Student AREA OF EXPERTISE: Hydroclimatology [I study what drives changes in hydrological extremes (floods and droughts), from climate change to human alterations within catchments]. YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 5 (two years as a research assistant…
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