Three days down, three more to go. #SummerScience British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Cambridge Earth Sciences

Looking for a postdoctoral position in global seismology in a year or so? I'm happy to discuss potential projects and help with fellowship applications to come to Cambridge. (This is likely true for many people, so do reach out to people you would like to work with!)

Drop-in today for the first in our 'Meet the Earth Scientist' family activities, every Wednesday throughout the summer holidays, 10am-1pm. Today, join Dr Elsa Amsellem Elsa Dora, of the Department of Earth Sciences Cambridge Earth Sciences Cambridge University to investigate meteorites! 🌠

🚨Post-Doc Alert!🚨 3-year Post-Doc Research Associate in 4D-#STEM at Cambridge University with🌍Cambridge Earth Sciences🔬EXCITE2! 📅 Deadline: Aug 7, 2024 🔗 Apply: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47428/ 📩 Contact: [email protected] #EarthSciences #MaterialsScience #EXCITE2 #ElectronMicroscopy

How and why do continental plates deform in weird and wonderful ways, creating mountain belts and earthquakes in some regions?🌍🗻Tune in to this podcast from the geosociety, featuring our professor of #tectonics, Alex Copley. speakingofgeoscience.org/2024/07/22/geo…

Drop in for family fun this Wednesday, 10am-1pm. Meet Megan Malpas, a scientist from the Department of Earth Sciences Cambridge Earth Sciences who researches the atmosphere in the Arctic. Explore cloud formation, make your own cloud, and discover what it’s like to work in the Arctic. 🌨️

Want to know what Alex Liu, Brennan O’Connell and William McMahon have been up to on their global hunt for Ediacaran #fossils? 🔎 You can read Brennan’s latest team update over on our blog. #sedimentology blog.esc.cam.ac.uk/paleo-environm…

Huge congratulations to Klara Widrig who recently passed her PhD viva with flying colours! *Dr* Klara Widrig will be off to the Smithsonian to begin a postdoc working in the Division of Birds—woohoo! She is a most deserving recipient of the coveted Rhea of Honour (pictured).

Drop in today for our 'Meet the Earth Scientist' family activity,10am-1pm. Join Peter Methley Peter Methley of the Department of Earth Sciences Cambridge Earth Sciences, Cambridge University and get stuck in to some ocean Chemistry experiments! 🧪 🐚🌊 #SummerAtTheMuseums

Our brand-new exhibition, Breaking New Ground, opens tomorrow. With a focus on the University of Cambridge, we are celebrating the women, past and present, of Earth Sciences. ⛏️(1/4)

A team of Cambridge geoscientists are onboard the IMPULSE, taking the pulse of the Icelandic Mantle Plume🛳️🌋 Aisling Dunn Philippa Slay and Callum Pearman are spending 38 days in the North Atlantic! The international research expedition is led by College of Life and Environmental Sciences.

🥳 Open Cambridge starts today! Enjoy 10 days of free events across Cambridge including the chance to see inside Trinity Library The Parker Library Cambridge Earth Sciences @WestCamHub, as well as some brilliant local organisations. Plan your #OpenCambridge now 👇 opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/events?utm_cam…

Ed Tipper, PhD student Al Knight and part III students Gio and Zara have recently embarked on an expedition to Melamchi, northeast of Kathmandu to investigate chemical weathering and rain analysis in Nepal. They'll be documenting their journey on Instagram @theweatherisnepaling!

Throwback to our The Sutton Trust Summer School last month! We had a fantastic week hosting ten sixth form students from all over the UK. Luke Franks (a recent graduate of our degree and ambassador for the week) sums-up the week’s activities on our blog. blog.esc.cam.ac.uk/new-kids-on-th…

First paper from my Newton Fellowship published 🥳 Royal Society Publishing Describing tactile structures in the beaks of penguins and albatrosses - unknown foraging strategy in seabirds, or remnants of distant past? with Steve Portugal Susan Cunningham Dr Alex Bond Field Palaeobiology Research Group 🔗below

New discovery by Cambridge Earth Sciences team: Seabirds have highly sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to help them find food. How can this help conservation efforts? Tap to find out 👇 cam.ac.uk/stories/seabir…