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Wednesday, 27 January 2016

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EGU Photo Contest 2016 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-01-27 13:00:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

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If you are pre-registered for the 2016 General Assembly (Vienna, 17 – 22 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! The seventh annual EGU photo competition opens on 1 February. Up until 1 March, every participant pre-registered for the General Assembly can submit up three original photos and one moving image on any broad theme related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Shortlisted photos will [...]

DTTG Workshop 2017 

The Lost Geologist [2015-11-29 02:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (260 visits) info

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It passed my attention but now I noticed the first announcement for the next and 7th international DTTG (German-Austrian-Swiss Clay Group) Workshop on qualitative and quantitative analysis of clays and clay minerals to be held in at the University of Greiswald, February 20th to 27th 2017. Georg Grathoff and Lawrence Warr will be the organisers, whom I met at several occasions and they are

Geology-themed walks - Corsham Walking Festival 

Geology in the West Country [2015-02-24 18:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (262 visits) info

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Corsham Walking Festival 12th-14th JuneThe Walking Festival has two specific short Geological walks, led by Elizabeth Devon, one in Corsham and one in Box, looking at how the buildings in Corsham have been shaped by the beautiful stone quarried in the area, and how Box’s landscape reveals much about the geology that has shaped it.In addition, stone features large on the agenda for the walks;  there are walks on Saturday and Sunday where an underground quarry explorer and guide, Martin [...]

EGU Photo Contest 2015 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-01-28 13:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info

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If you are pre-registered for the 2015 General Assembly (Vienna, 12 – 17 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! The sixth annual EGU photo competition opens on 1 February. Up until 1 March, every participant pre-registered for the General Assembly can submit up three original photos and one moving image on any broad theme related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Shortlisted photos [...]

A sensitive subject 

James’ Empty Blog [2014-05-12 21:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info

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I know I said previously that I wasn't keen on participating in a ClimateDialogue on climate sensitivity, but the organisers recently repeated their invitation with a rather more interesting and relevant (IMO) group of participants. So this time I agreed to take part (it's also timed less inconveniently, though last week I was busy so my initial comments on the other blogs are rather brief).

The Bloggers of Goldschmidt 2013 

GeoSphere [2013-08-23 15:58:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
It isn’t long until the start of the annual V.M. Goldschmidt conference, the main international meeting for geochemists to share and discuss ideas. This year’s meeting in Florence, Italy, is set to be one of the largest yet with over 4000 abstracts submitted. The European Association of Geochemistry and the organisers of this 23rd Goldschmidt

Festival of Geology GA Photographic Competition 

Geology in the West Country [2010-10-15 16:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (10 visits) info
A great opportunity for imaginative photography!Geology is all around us impacting on our daily life. It's in our shopping baskets, our homes, our streets as well as mountains and volcanoes, beaches and quarries.Send us your favourite photographs (up to 3) on any geological topic taken within the last year.These will be put on display at the Festival of Geology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT on 6 November 2010 from 10.30 - 4.30.First Prize £100, Second Prize £50, [...]

Want to see a specimen with a Scanning Electron Microscope? 

Earth Learning Idea [2010-04-09 18:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (4 visits) info
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'Send us your sample' - you can send your sample and have it scanned by a powerful desktop SEM. This service is FREE and the organisers think it is a good way for teachers to take a proactive approach to teaching science. You can send anything - - soil (as in photo), fossil, dead insect, broken iPhone - - - . You can view reports of work the organisers have done here.Since this campaign

Carnivorous, worm-like amphibians invade London: 'The Secret World of Naked Snakes', part I 

Tetrapod Zoology [2009-12-10 14:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (5 visits) info
On Monday 7th December the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) hosted the one-off event 'The Secret World of Naked Snakes' (part of the ZSL's 'communicating science' series): a whole meeting devoted entirely to those bizarre, poorly known, limbless, worm-like amphibians, the caecilians. The meeting was attended by over 100 people, which really isn't bad going, especially when some of the organisers expressed fears that the event would only be attended by (to quote David Gower) "A handful of [...]

Festival to screen Taiji dolphin-slaughter film 

James’ Empty Blog [2009-09-17 11:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (10 visits) info
After much deliberation, the organisers of next month's Tokyo International Film Festival have belatedly agreed to to screen "The Cove", a film about the Taiji dolphin slaughter.Apparently it's going to be shown in a sealed-off area, hidden from public view by tarpaulins:No, I jest. The real solution is much more Japanese. The film is being shown, but no-one is going to be told when or where
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