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What landscapes are hidden deep within the Earth?

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As a seismologist at the University of Oxford, she is using seismic waves to image the structures that exist deep within the Earth. “My My research focuses on understanding the structures in the mantle,” she says, “which are products of the dynamic processes occurring in the Earth since its formation.”. teaching/outreach. •

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Modelling mines: how can a new 3D modelling platform make mining more sustainable and be part of the solution to climate change?

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The team behind the Loop project is made up mainly of researchers and developers. Q&A Meet Laurent What do you find rewarding about research in geoscience? Planet sustainability should be at the forefront of future research. Geology, maths, physics, chemistry and biology are all sciences that will be leading this research.

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What's the Role of Space Exploration?

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The scientific research that has been conducted thus far is divided into five mainstream categories.The first category is solar and space physics, which includes the study of the electromagnetic fields in space and its influence on relationship with Earth.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge.

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Farming on permafrost

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Dr Melissa Ward Jones , a permafrost geomorphologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks , USA, has established Permafrost Grown, a research project investigating the interactions between permafrost and agriculture. The most important members of the research team are the farmers themselves. “We

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The Mineral That Shaped Human History

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Salt and human history Interviews with research biogeochemist Robert Stallard, PhD, researching salt history and biogeochemistry in Amazonia. Hesham Najiya and Jason Cole, University of Waterloo Earth Sciences Museum. Salt on a stick experiment Kids Earth Science. How much sodium should I eat per day?

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A rocky revolution: Can virtual 3D models transform the teaching of geology?

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Field of Research : Structural Geology. Field of research : Geophysics. Research project : Creating virtual 3D models of geological features to revolutionise the teaching of geology. Funder : US National Science Foundation (NSF). Terry explains the teaching and research applications of 3D models. ABOUT GEOLOGY.

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