[Folda] Fwd:?==?utf-8?q? Re:?==?utf-8?q? [Jhi] Visit/seminar of Prof Iain Stewart on Monday Nov 6 at 11 am.

[Siqi Li]

Hi,

here is a talk today: 
>> Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Communicating Contested Geoscience to the Public.

time: 11:00.
location: 3rd floor seminar room.

All the best,
Siqi 

-------- Original Message -------- 
Subject: Re: [Jhi] Visit/seminar of Prof Iain Stewart on Monday Nov 6 at 11 am. 
Date: Sunday, November 5, 2017 09:41 GMT 
From: Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir <vala at hi.is> 
To: jhi at hi.is 
References: <4ab-59f74600-349-188fef40 at 84083375>
 
 
Dear colleagues,

Iain Stewart has a flight to the US at 15:30 tomorrow Monday so we will hold his seminar at 11 in the third floor coffee room.  I will be teaching in the afternoon but not the morning.  Anyone interested in having a chat with him can find him in my office after 9 am.

The title of the talk is:
>> Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Communicating Contested Geoscience to the Public.


See you tomorrow,

Vala

Profile of Iain:
>> Iain is the Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth and is very good at what many scientists are not: communicating Earth Sciences to the public.
>> 
>> His talk is entitled:  ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Communicating Contested Geoscience to the Public’ - and for that I will book the seminar room on the third floor.
>> 
>> Some refer to Iain as Geology´s rock star :)
>> 
>> Here are a short descriptions of Iain, whom some of you may have seen on TV documentaries about Earth Sciences.
>> 
>> https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/iain-stewart <https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/iain-stewart>
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Stewart_(geologist) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Stewart_(geologist)>
>> 
>> Documentaries include: Earth: The Power of the Planet, How to Grow a Planet, Rise of the Continents, Men of Rock, Volcano Live, Journeys Into the Ring of Fire, Journeys From the Centre of the Earth, The Climate Wars, Fracking: The New Energy Rush, Hot Planet, James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Made the Modern World, Making Scotland´s Landscape.
>> 
>> Books include: Journeys From the Centre of the Earth.  Earth - The Power of the Planet, Earth: The Biography, The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes (co-editor), Ancient Earthquakes.  He has also contributed geology to travel guides to Ibiza, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, Indonesia, and Guatemala.
>> 
>> If you have seen one of his documentaries, you will remember him for his wonderful Scottish accent!
>> 
>> Iain was a PhD student when I arrived at the University of Bristol in 1989 so I have known him for a long time and watched him transfer from being a scientist to being a science communicator, whom all of us could learn from.



> On 30 Oct 2017, at 15:33, Siqi Li <sil10 at hi.is> wrote:
> 
> Hi Vala,
> 
> I am interested in his talk. Besides, on behalf of Folda (graduate student union in department of Earth Science), would you like us to introduce the talk to our members? There might be master students who are interested in the topic.
> 
> All the best,
> Siqi
> 
> 
> On Monday, October 30, 2017 15:00 GMT, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir <vala at hi.is> wrote:
> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> Iain Stewart will visit the Department on Monday may 6th.  He will come for coffee in the morning, and since I have to teach from 10-11:40 - if anyone is interested to talk to him, let me know.
>> 
>> Iain is the Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth and is very good at what many scientists are not: communicating Earth Sciences to the public.
>> 
>> His talk is entitled:  ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Communicating Contested Geoscience to the Public’ - and for that I will book the seminar room on the third floor.
>> 
>> Some refer to Iain as Geology´s rock star :)
>> 
>> Here are a short descriptions of Iain, whom some of you may have seen on TV documentaries about Earth Sciences.
>> 
>> https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/iain-stewart <https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/iain-stewart>
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Stewart_(geologist) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Stewart_(geologist)>
>> 
>> Documentaries include: Earth: The Power of the Planet, How to Grow a Planet, Rise of the Continents, Men of Rock, Volcano Live, Journeys Into the Ring of Fire, Journeys From the Centre of the Earth, The Climate Wars, Fracking: The New Energy Rush, Hot Planet, James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Made the Modern World, Making Scotland´s Landscape.
>> 
>> Books include: Journeys From the Centre of the Earth.  Earth - The Power of the Planet, Earth: The Biography, The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes (co-editor), Ancient Earthquakes.  He has also contributed geology to travel guides to Ibiza, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, Indonesia, and Guatemala.
>> 
>> If you have seen one of his documentaries, you will remember him for his wonderful Scottish accent!
>> 
>> Iain was a PhD student when I arrived at the University of Bristol in 1989 so I have known him for a long time and watched him transfer from being a scientist to being a science communicator, whom all of us could learn from.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Vala
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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