In 2018, I was awarded £250 as part of the British Geophysical Association (BGA) outreach fund to help support my prison education project, Think Like A Scientist. This blog post describes what I did with the award!
BGA outreach fund 2019
Delving into the Earth’s deep interior: the future of plate tectonics? (5 min read)
The theory of plate tectonics has been in the mainstream of science thinking for the past 50 years. At such a milestone it is appropriate to see how far things have come and indeed what is still left to discover.
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Delving into the Earth’s deep interior: the future of plate tectonics?
The theory of plate tectonics has been in the mainstream of science thinking for the past 50 years. At such a milestone it is appropriate to see how far things have come and indeed what is still left to discover. Our planet is yet to reveal all it’s secrets… especially regarding the Earth deep below the surface.
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EGAATA-3: MANTLE CONVECTION WEBSITE FOR TEACHING
Here is the third ‘Excellent Geophysics Articles As Teaching Aids’ (EGAATA) post. The point of these posts is to highlight excellent articles that could be a basis for teaching a section on the chosen topic.
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Invited Talk: 7th Nov 2017
I’ll be heading to the University of Aberdeen‘s School of Geosciences on the 6th and 7th November to give a departmental seminar and to hold discussions on numerical modelling.
Invited talk: 28th Sept 2017
In September 2017, I had the pleasure of visiting The Centre of Earth Evolution and Dynamics at the University of Oslo in Norway.
EGAATA-2: THE BRINGING TOGETHER (AND BREAKING APART) OF OUR CONTINENTS
Here is the second ‘Excellent Geophysics Articles As Teaching Aids’ (EGAATA) post. The point of these posts is to highlight excellent articles that could be a basis for teaching a section on the chosen topic.
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EGAATA-1: ‘blobs’ of material at the core-mantle boundary
Here is the first ‘Excellent Geophysics Articles As Teaching Aids’ (EGAATA) post. The point of these posts is to highlight excellent articles that could be a basis for teaching a section on the chosen topic.
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Excellent Geophysics Articles As Teaching Aids: Series
I will be doing a series of posts highlighting excellent (recent) geophysics articles that I feel could be used as a starting point for teaching current theories on topics in the field.
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Plate tectonics: new findings fill out the 50-year-old theory that explains Earth’s landmasses
Philip Heron, University of Toronto
Fifty years ago, there was a seismic shift away from the longstanding belief that Earth’s continents were permanently stationary.
Phil Heron 