Gewin: Inclusivity in Geoscience

Gewin: Inclusivity in Geoscience

Writing for Nature, Virginia Gewin (@VirginiaGewin) profiles geoscientists who are leading grassroots efforts to make their field more welcoming to researchers who have long been excluded from this area of science. Recent surveys have revealed that discrimination,...
Rosen: Measuring Earth’s Tiny Movements

Rosen: Measuring Earth’s Tiny Movements

In Science, Julia Rosen (@1JuliaRosen) shows us how a technique called interferometric synthetic aperture radar, or InSAR, can use satellite data to detect movements of just a few millimeters across a wide swath of the earth’s crust. Rosen takes us on a tour of this...

Merrick: Saving the Planet, Making Us Rich

Tim Merrick of the Idaho U.S. Geological Survey makes a big pitch for geoscience in a 5-minute Ignite talk that lives on in an online video. Tim’s enthusiasm for the environment, earth science, and the Pacific Northwest—specifically Boise—is scientifically sound and...