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TERRASCOPE out in the school of Montchoisy
Monday 11th of February 2019, our Terrascope animators were in a mission to teach some elements of Geology of the Geneva region to 6 years old children. Huge success for the kids who have been fascinated by the (real) gold flakes they extracted with a classic gold pan like good old gold diggers!
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Luca Paolillo recipient of the ELSTE-A. Lombard and the Swiss Geological Society Prize for best MSc thesis
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Nick Greber recipient of the 2018 Niggli Medal
Congratulations to Nick for being awarded the Niggli medal for 2018 in recognition of his outstanding work on the evolution of the Earth’s crust. Nick received the medal during the award ceremony at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Bern on November 30, 2018.
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Luca Caricchi nominated member of the Young Academy of Europe
Prof. Luca Caricchi has been nominated member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE). Members are nominated for their outstanding scientific excellence as recognised by peers, leadership capacity, scientific independence, and ability to collaborate with international partners. The YAE mission is to pr…
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Oliver Higgins won the best speed talk award at SEG2018
Oliver Higgins, now doctoral candidate in the Volcanology-Petrology Group, obtained last September the award to the best "speed talk" at the 2018 Meeting of the Society of Economic Geologists, in Keystone, Colorado. In his 5 minute talk, he achieved to highlight in a clear way the results of his …
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AV短视频 Biogeochemist Nominated a Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science, Biogeochemical Dynamics
Congratulations to Dr. Vera Slaveykova, a professor in Environmental biogeochemistry and ecotoxicology at the Department F.A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences and the Institute for Environmental Sciences for her nomination as a Specialty Chief Editor of the newly launched Biogeochemical…
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Meeting with the Mexico - Central American delegation
The CERG-C team has met on Tuesday 25 September 2018 a delegation of academics and practitioners working in the field of risk reduction from Mexican and Central American institutions affiliated with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to explore new forms of collaborations and joi…
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New collaboration between UNIGE and INGEMMET
The group of Physical Volcanology and Geological Risk of the Department of Earth Sciences, AV短视频, led by Prof Costanza Bonadonna has started a collaboration with the volcanic observatory INGEMMET of Arequipa (Peru) including a training in Arequipa on the characterization of explosive …
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Global warming: worrying lessons from the past
56 million years ago, the Earth experienced an exceptional episode of global warming. In a very short time on a geological scale, within 10 to 20’000 years, the average temperature increased by 5 to 8 degrees, only returning to its original level a few hundred thousand years later. Based on the anal…
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Best Poster Award for Camille Thomas
Camille Thomas, SNF postdoctoral fellow at the Limnogeology/Geomicrobiology Group, received last week the Best Poster Award for Early Career Scientists at the 20th International Sedimentological Congress in Quebec, Canada. Congratulations Camille!
