Geo Education

Master’s Meltdown or New Dawn?

The future of Master’s training in energy geoscience in the UK. Is there a strategy to attract and train new geoscientists and engineers, or are we sleepwalking into a looming…

Big Questions and Challenges in Geoscience

What are the big questions that geoscientists can study and contribute to science, technology, economy and policy? During 2019–2020 I undertook a survey of the most important questions in geoscience…

Geoscientists for the Energy Transition

The importance of geoscience research and training and how it will help us to decarbonize. The industrial revolution was initially fueled by coal and the subsequent development of modern society…

Big Data and Post-Graduate Training in Upstream Oil & Gas

The future for subsurface analysis and graduate training: a call to universities to respond and adapt to industry needs. Upstream Oil & Gas: Big Data and Post-Graduate Training Today’s upstream…

A Simple Guide to Seismic Horizon Interpretation

2D and 3D seismic data are major sources of information in the oil and gas industry, as well as for geothermal energy activities, carbon sequestration in geological reservoirs and offshore…

From Outcrop Geology to Seismic… and Back!

Making new geoscientists better aware of seismic interpretation pitfalls through proper modeling of seismic images. When I started studying geophysics, the teacher introducing seismic arrived one day with colored pencils…

Evolving the Future Workforce in Oil and Gas

A virtual internship for students and early career professionals in the exploration of oil and gas resources, where everybody contributes and everybody learns. Allen Bertagne guiding the team from Perugia…

Geological Basin Classification

Basin classification based on tectonic settings provides a framework not only for understanding the genesis and evolution of petroleum basins and their sedimentary fill but also process-based analogs for the…

Using Cloud Technologies in Geosciences

How can cloud technologies help me as a geoscientist? Here we offer a demystifying guide and provide the answers to some of your questions. Within geoscience, the technical workflow is…

Increasing the Understanding of Coding in Oil and Gas

As we move into the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence, it is increasingly important that geoscientists gain a better understanding of coding and how it can be used…

Creating Excitement in the Geosciences

At G-Camp teachers learn about geology through a very diverse and eye-opening field experience, returning to their classrooms eager to share their new-found knowledge and create excitement in the geosciences…

Virtual Reality Geology Field Trips

Bringing world-class geological field locations into the classroom using virtual reality technology. ‘The best geologist is the one who has seen the most rocks’ is a mantra often repeated to…