This week we had a school forum with a member of our Senior Management Team who told us that we shouldn’t be trying to get more PhD students because the financial return on them was poor. Focus on commercialisation and contract work, it brings in more money. And I thought I worked in a Uni!

Best encapsulated by the Irish driller would turned to me on a rig site and said “ Fuck! Fuckin fuckers fuckin fucked! And I knew exactly what he went, an entire sentence comprised of just one word! Perfect

The dialogue is stolen from this lady - her account Is great, you’ll love it
www.instagram.com/loewhaley?ig...

I wasn’t suggesting doing a geology degree just because it’s fun and interesting, rather if you want to do a non vocational degree, geology is a good choice because it’s fun and interesting

That’s simply not true, career options in Civil
Engineering, sub-surface waste disposal, hydro geology (ground water), mineral and critical mineral exploration etc. It’s also a great “general” degree and it’s fun and interesting

Wait until they start offshore mining!

They have said that pretty much every year since it was closed - wish it was true

A man walking across a beach surrounded by sunny hills with an abandoned whaling station in the background.

Interested in #Volcanoes and #drones?
I will be taking about the virtual geoscience work that Atle Rotevatn and I did in Antarctica early this year, supported by Hurtigruten Expeditions
Talks #AGS tonight at 6.30
Thursday 18th at 6.30 for TechFest

Excellent couple of days at the SEPM parasequence conference in my second home of eastern Utah - great rocks, great discussion and great people.

Welsh was the Celtic language spoken across the U.K. before the Saxon and Normans came in - bloody immigrants!