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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
Posted in Asian monsoon, Science and media, Thailand fieldwork and travels, Thoughts and Tales
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
Posted in Asian monsoon, Science and media, Thailand fieldwork and travels, Thoughts and Tales
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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More reading suggestions – Neanderthals
One more lecture next week and then no more teaching until the fall semester – except for my two weeks of excursion to Les Eyzies in May. This last and final lecture will be about Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis and … Continue reading
Links, links, links
So much information is now available when it comes to the subject of human evolution! Science blogs, less scientific blogs, online courses, TV programs, books and of course a wealth of science articles. All this diverse information can easily give … Continue reading
Posters and talks at EGU
This year’s participation in the annual meeting of the European Geoscience Union will be tough! All our eight abstracts have been accepted, and this means a lot of work. Of course we still don’t know which of these will be … Continue reading
Posted in Asian monsoon, Thoughts and Tales
Tagged ancient tsunamis, Asian monsoon, Asian monsoon project, Communicating research, crater lakes, Department of Geological Sciences, Geological Sciences, geology, lake sediments, Myanmar, 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
Students and scientific writing – part IV
So where are we now? In my previous blogs I gave suggestions on how to structure the introduction, background and study area chapters. The next step would be to write the methods chapter. A methods chapter is not a laboratory … Continue reading
Students and scientific writing – part III
Most of my scientific writing is in Earth Sciences, and most of my articles have been published in Earth Science journals. The BSc, MSc and PhD students who I had supervised and am currently supervising are Geology or Earth Science … Continue reading
Happy New 2012
Will 2012 really be a happy year? Will it be a year without major catastrophes, without wars, and without tragedies? Very likely it will not. It will probably be a year as all the years before – wars, violations, disasters, … 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
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
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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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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
Back to work
After several weeks of holidays it is time to get back to work. Much needs to be organized and worked up before the new term starts by the end of August: manuscript reviews, revising manuscripts, preparing teaching and many other … Continue reading
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