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

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Subject: [Jhi] Visit/seminar of Prof Iain Stewart on Monday Nov 6 
Date: Monday, October 30, 2017 15:00 GMT 
From: Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir <vala at hi.is> 
To: jhi at hi.is 
 
 
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