Scotland rocks - a tartan tour of planet earth
Many of the fundamental ideas that underpin our current understanding of how planet Earth works come from the work of Scottish scientists. This talk will explore and celebrate this tartan contribution to modern Earth Science, and examine how many of the contemporary challenges facing society in the 21st century also root into Scotland's industrious past.
Friday 26th February 2016, 6.30pm
Greenwood Academy, Irvine
Speaker: Professor Iain Stewart, University of Plymouth and BBC presenter
Iain Stewart is an Earth scientist and broadcaster who specialises in recent geological change. After a studying Geography and Geology at Strathclyde University (1986), and completing a PhD in earthquake geology at Bristol University (1990), he taught Earth Science at Brunel University until 2002. He then left to develop public geoscience projects, and in the last decade or so has presented major television series for the BBC on the nature, history and state of the planet. Among these are ‘Earth: the power of the planet’, ‘Earth: the climate wars’, ‘How Earth made us’, ‘How to grow a planet’, ‘Volcano live’, and ‘Rise of the continents’ His latest BBC series, ‘Planet Oil’ aired in 2015.
Iain is currently President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Earth Science Teachers Association, and in the 2013 Birthday Honours List he was recognised for his work on public engagement in geoscience with an MBE.
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