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Dr Natasha Dowey
@DrNatashaDowey
Lecturer @SheffHallamUni. Research volcanic hazards & teach importance of sustainable, equitable Geoscience. Creator @GeoForTheFuture. Trustee @Geo_Dev. She/her
Feb 6, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Feeling helpless at the scale of devastation in Turkey and Syria. Thinking of all those impacted.

If you have students who, like my disaster risk reduction class, want to understand what happened today, these links may help 👇

#Geography #TurkeyQuake In these videos (2 parts) Remy Bossu explains that we can't predict earthquakes, what earthquakes are, what aftershocks are, and why the second 7+ quake today was not an aftershock. Also shows tectonic setting of the region:
Sep 29, 2021 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
A story of an epic academic rejection, and the silver linings that can come from failed grants.. 🧵 Back in 2020, the brilliant @VolcanoJenni alerted to me to a notice that soon some UK funding would be made available to tackle the lack of progression of Black, Asian and ethnic minority students into postgraduate research. We discussed it and I started to reach out to people...
Apr 29, 2021 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Today our paper on the shocking lack of racial diversity in UK Geosciences is out @NatureGeosci: 🧵

nature.com/articles/s4156…

@VolcanoJenni @BenFernando2 @GilesPalaeoLab Jacqui Houghton @seis_matters @jurassicg1rl Anya Lawrence @KeelyMills @G_ruber @SLRogersGeol @Volcanologist Poster titled 'racial diversity crisis in UK geosciences', w The analysis shows that Geology, Physical Geography & Environmental Science are the three WORST Physical Science subjects for representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in full-time undergraduate study in UK HE, with poor progression into postgraduate research.
Mar 26, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I work in oil & gas industry. A colleague told me yesterday that her daughter’s primary school teacher had said to her that her mummy is “killing the planet”. Her daughter is 6 years old.

This is not just upsetting, it shows a worrying lack of understanding of Earth resources.. Many companies use Earth’s resources - oil, gas, minerals- to produce items that society needs/wants-from iron & steel, to smartphones,to fertilisers for crops, to medicines, to road surfacing...