Earth Sciences

This Friday, May 31st, the Rock Room will play host to a special one off pop-up exhibition staged by the Graduate Sculpture students from the Slade School of Fine Art. 

Melting curves of alkali metals from first principles calculations.

A 4-year studentship is available in the UCL Earth Sciences Department to work with Professor Dario Alfè on a computer simulation project to calculate the melting curves of potassium and other alkali metals as function of pressure. The project will require the application of both electronic structure techniques and classical molecular dynamics simulations to compute the free energies of solid and liquid phases. Alternative approaches to the calculation of melting properties will be employed.

A second edition of Planetary Geology: An Introduction book will be published by Dunedin Academic Press at the end of June 2013

It is with great sadness that we report that our talented friend and colleague, Dr Katharine Giles, died in a road traffic accident while cycling to work on the morning of Monday 8th April. 

On March 4th 2013, the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) launched their new landmark book “Carbon in Earth” at the US National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC.

Microscopic ocean plankton called coccolithophores are providing clues about the impact of climate change both now and many millions of years ago.

The Rock Room will be hosting a special one-off pop-up exhibition between 12.30 – 3pm on Friday, March 1^st, curated by UCL and Birkbeck PhD students from the Centre for Planetary Sciences.

Congratulations to Earth Sciences Team Greenough which made it through to the semi-finals of the BP Ultimate Field Trip competition.

The dramatic recent decline in Arctic sea-ice cover is illustrated in new data from Europe's Cryosat mission combined with data from NASA ICESat mission.

It is with a profound sense of shock and deep sadness that we report the death of our friend and colleague, Seymour Laxon, aged 49, following an accident on New Year’s Day.