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SGU in focus
The Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) has made media headlines during the past days. This government “expert agency for issues relating to bedrock, soil and groundwater in Sweden” recently changed is director and with the change in directors, there always … Continue reading
It is actually a great feeling …
…. when your PhD student manages to get a paper accepted in Nature. It never happened to me before, but today was the day! Francesco, who had worked so hard on this paper and on the replies to the various … Continue reading
Monsoon film gets attention
Great to see that our latest film Under the Eyes of the Buddha – in White Coats now is a news item on Stockholm University’s Science Faculty’s homepage. Hopefully this will help spreading the film to a wider audience. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian monsoon, Asian monsoon project, Chulalongkorn University, Communicating research, Department of Geological Sciences, Geological Sciences, geology, lake sediments, monsoon history, natural science, science, science career, sediments, Stockholm University, Students, Sweden, Thailand, university
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Under the Eyes of the Buddha – In White Coats
Finally, finally our latest video about the Asian Monsoon Project is finished! This film really took time to finish! But then it is also different from the earlier films. It involves many more people, a specially designed animation, and specially … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian monsoon, Asian monsoon project, Chulalongkorn University, Communicating research, Department of Geological Sciences, Geological Sciences, geology, lake sediments, media, monsoon history, natural science, Plastic Buddha, science, science communication, scientists, sediments, Stockholm University, Students, Sweden, Thailand
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The luxury of a sabbatical
My application for a sabbatical next year has been approved! What a luxury to being able to spend time abroad and to being able to only and entirely concentrate on my research. It is great that Stockholm University provides and … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian monsoon, Asian monsoon project, Chulalongkorn University, Department of Geological Sciences, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Geological Sciences, geology, lake sediments, monsoon history, Myanmar, natural science, science, sediments, Stockholm University, Sweden, Thailand
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Communicating Earth Science
Back to one of my favorite topics – using films to explain earth sciences to a wider audience. Of course there are many great films about different aspects of earth sciences and these have been made with a huge financial … Continue reading
38 years in 22 slides
Here I am back again in freezing cold Vienna attending this year’s EGU conference. Last time I was here was 2007 and much has changed since then. There is for example an EGU app with continuous program updates, registration is … Continue reading
Women in science – no change ever?
In my role as member of an advisory committee for a large research network, I attended a board meeting a few weeks ago. As so often before, I was the only woman present during this two-day meeting, where around 15 … Continue reading
The last Thailand monsoon film is taking shape
Hywel George from PlasticBuddha came over to Stockholm for a day to shoot more sequences for the last and final Thailand film. This film will portray our achievements and the bright future that lies ahead of us and will feature … Continue reading
Department film on Youtube – finally!
The Department film is finally ready and on Youtube! Within only two weeks views have scored 453!! People must be really curious about what is going on at the Department of Geological Sciences at Stockholm University. Curious about who are … Continue reading
Geological Sciences and Media
Jon Buscall’s interview with me about the use of social media to promote Geological Sciences is now online and can be accessed Stockholm University’s page for Master courses. I am happy that Stockholm University’s Communications Office has made this short … Continue reading
Geology and social media
Finally – after several attempts to attract the interest of Stockholm University’s communication office for our film projects, they made a move! Last week they sent Jon Buscall, a media consultant, over to make an interview with me. We talked … Continue reading
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Tagged geology films, media, Stockholm University, Youtube
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Still no snow in sight
We are making preparations to film the last part of our Thailand research. Next week Hywel George from Plastic Buddha Productions will visit and film us unwrapping the Thailand sediment cores, taking samples, and processing these in the laboratory. My … Continue reading
Posted in Asian monsoon, Science and media, Thailand fieldwork and travels, Thoughts and Tales
Tagged Communicating research, Department of Geological Sciences, documentary, Geological Sciences, geology, Iceland, media, natural science, outreach, Plastic Buddha, research, short film, Sweden, video
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Autumn has arrived in Stockholm
The sun is shining, but the air feels cold and crispy, and the leaves are turning red and yellow. Time to dig out a warm coat, gloves, a cap and winter boots; time to stock up on vitamin D to … Continue reading
Wednesday and Thursday – a week later
I really promised myself to write my blogs more regularly, but I just can’t keep my promise. Why can I not keep my promise? Because I have so much work, because the days are too short, because I am engaged … Continue reading
Monday and Tuesday
Filming really still occupies my brain. I am not only planning for the next film and busy finding money to finance it, but I also found myself completely immerged in the section on film books when I visited a book … Continue reading
Filming completed
I am sure that I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that our Department (Geological Sciences at Stockholm University) is currently engaged in a film project together with Plastic Buddha to create a short film illustrating the teaching and … Continue reading
Iceland next!
In two days we will be heading for Iceland, the island of volcanoes and glaciers. It is five or six years since I have last visited Iceland on an excursion with our PhD students. This time I will start with … Continue reading
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Tagged fieldwork, film, Iceland, media, Stockholm University
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Science online
Several interesting discussions and presentations regarding science and journalism, which had been organized during this year’s Science Festival in Göteborg, can currently be viewed on the education channel of Swedish TV. One of the speakers was Alok Jha, science reporter … Continue reading
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Tagged geology, journalists, media, online, science, scientists, video
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Barbara Wohlfarth 