Latest Earth Sciences Newsletter Spring 2021

Although Covid-related restrictions on our working practices continue, the Department is poised to return to something approaching normality. We are formulating our plans for how we will teach in October, with a strong likelihood that face-to-face sessions (with nearly normal population densities) will be allowed in our teaching labs. Such sessions will focus on those practical and field skills that students have missed over the past year. Moreover, we continue to innovate, with the introduction this year of new modules on “Origin of life and exobiology” and “Numerical modelling of mantle dynamics”, as well as plans to increase the options and flexibility available in our MSc in Geophysical Hazards from October 2022.