Communicating geology: Time, Uncertainty and Risk

This page is part of the Geology for Society publication.
Geological issues are increasingly prominent in the everyday lives of people across the UK – and professional geoscientists are having to learn to communicate their science better, to enable the wider population to participate in informed debate.
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Case Studies:L'Aquila Earthquake, 6 April 2009
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Volcanoes
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Geoscientist Magazine
- First Bryan Lovell Meeting held - Feb 2017
- Red for Danger: On the importance of design choices in how volcanic hazard maps communicate risk - April 2015
- Crowdsourcing Science: The Potential of ‘Citizen Science’ for Geology - August 2014
- Geoengineering: An Experiment too Far? Peter Hurrell reports on a public dialogue investigating how members of the public formed their ideas about the controversial idea of mitigating climate change by direct intervention. - January 2011
- Bang goes Communication: Sarah Day discovers that when communicating “climate change” science, nothing should be taken for granted - May 2010
GSL Blog
- Adventures in cross border geology: talking to your neighbours - Ben Kilhams, Oct 2016