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We held our annual Lyell Day last week Royal Holloway, inviting impressive speakers who were themselves associated with the Department of Earth Sciences either as a student here before or had been (or are continuing) working here, on a broad range of topics, in the department.

Get a glimpse of our MSc courses with our online tester lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=tkfi1N… Come and discover our department and meet our MSc course leads at the Postgraduate Open Afternoon on Wednesday 12th March: eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgraduate… 13 views · 24 days ago

Pyroclastic deposits from the Quill volcano, Statia RHUL Earth Sciences

Earlier in the year, our Prof Dave Waltham submitted written evidence for the Government Enquiry on Workforce Planning to Deliver Clean, Secure Energy. The Committee has now accepted and published our submission 👇 committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

This week we are celebrating National Careers Week. Let's hear from Nathalie Grassineau, our Departmental Career Lead, who shares with us about several career pathways of Earth Scientists. We also have alumni working on earthquake, volcanology, hydrology… and more!

Quoted in The Telegraph today on the ship collision in the North Sea telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/1…

📢Our seismometer sitting in the foyer of our building @rhulearthsciences Royal Holloway has recorded the strong, magnitude 6.5 #earthquake occurred in the Norwegian Sea near the coast of Jan Mayen, Norway at 02:33 UTC yesterday on March 10, 2025. 🌍😮

Featured in the Evening Standard today ------ standard.co.uk/news/uk/sodium…

Earlier this week our Prof. Richard Ghail presented the work of undergraduate student Eloise Crouch at the international Lunar & Planetary Science conference in Houston, Texas. PhD students Poppy McVann and Connor Knight are also presenting their work this week.

Our PhD student Poppy McVann presenting her research using Chandrayaan-2 radar data to study possible subsurface ice deposits near the South Pole of the Moon, the target for human exploration in NASA's Artemis program.

Article in the New Civil Engineer about our work on #groundwater #flooding in #Staines @rhulea... newcivilengineer.com/latest/staines…

Our Dr Jonny Paul (Jonathan Paul) on the environmental consequences of the recent North Sea tanker collision Royal Holloway RoyalHollowayScience royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-e…

We recently held our second and final applicant visitor day @rhulearthsciences @royalholloway - we get to meet up with our applicants and share with them what we are passionate about in Earth Sciences 🌋🚰⛰️❤️

Earth Day’s 2025 theme is OUR POWER⚡, OUR PLANET🌍, calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy so we can triple clean electricity by 2030 🌊🌋🌿🍃. You can take a little quiz here and test your knowledge as we celebrate Earth Day 2025 today. earthday.org/renewable-ener…

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Our Dr Jonathan Paul (Jonathan Paul) worked with local people in #Staines to draw up a new map of #groundwater flood risk: check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

Our 2nd-yr undergraduates recently went on a field course to the #Cotswolds and the surrounding areas. Highlights include visiting a working quarry site (Meister Masonry), Puzzle Wood in the Forest of Dean (@puzzlewoodfod), and Oxford's Natural History Museum (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) 🫡

Best of luck to all our students sitting exams. You've worked hard through the year and now it's your time to shine. We wish you all the best!

Our 2nd year students are out in Bradgate Park this week, sharpening their mapping skills in preparation for their independent fieldwork this summer.

Royal Holloway earth scientist Dr Ian Watkinson was recently quoted in New Civil Engineer in an article on how insufficient earthquake hazard awareness in Myanmar and Thailand led to building collapses. Read more: ow.ly/weYC50VX9Gy #FocusWeek RHUL Earth Sciences

📢 We are excited to offer the Earth Sciences MSc by Research. To support talented students from underrepresented backgrounds, we’re awarding five scholarships, each worth £3,000. forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/response… More information here: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/… Deadline 1/7/25 at 2359.