Earth Science and Engineering

What is our current understanding of greenhouse gas emissions released during the production of natural gas? How can we reduce these emissions? Dr Paul Balcombe discusses the context for the Sustainable Gas Institute's first White Paper.

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic delivers her inaugural lecture on computationally modelling soils under extreme conditions to overcome our key geotechnical engineering challenges.

This is the first annual lecture by the Sustainable Gas Institute from Dr David Allen, a chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin. Title: 'Increased Natural Gas Production, Methane Emissions and Change, A US Perspective'.

Pentastomids, which live inside vertebrates, have been around for much longer than their hosts – so how did they live before? Dr Mark Sutton explains the latest findings. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 June 2015)

Naomi Jordan explains what newly found fossils tell us about the creatures that dominated in the Ordovician period, 480 million years ago. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 13 May 2015)

Dr Joanna Morgan is part of an international team that will drill into the seabed off the coast of Mexico to take samples from the crater of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast)

Dr Richard Ghail and Dr Philippa Mason make the case for further exploration of Venus and outline their plans for a new mission. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 December 2014)

Dr James Hammond tells us about a recent trip to a volcano in North Korea which was responsible for one of the largest eruptions in the last 2000 years. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 5 February 2014)

James Hammond and Stepan Lucyszyn spent a week in Westminster as part of the Royal Society’s pairing scheme. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 15 January 2014)

Dr Matthew Genge explains how astronomers monitor the sky for objects like the Chelyabinsk meteor that could collide with Earth. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 11 December 2013)