Earth Tremors with Rebecca Harrington

Have you ever felt the earth shaking under your feet? For Part II of the Rebecca Trilogy, Professor Rebecca Harrington from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum joined Dr. B for a Gneiss Chat about Earth Tremors. In this episode Rebecca tell us about her research group’s interest in understanding natural and induced earthquakes in different places around […]

Mining a green future with Rebecca Paisley

Over the next three episodes Dr. B is coincidently interviewing three Rebeccas, about fields in geosciences that are completely different from each other. This is the first episode of the Rebecca Trilogy, and for this first piece Dr. B has a Gneiss Chat with Dr Rebecca Paisley, an exploration geochemist from Cornish Lithium in the […]

Hot Rocks (UHT) with Mahyra Tedeschi

Hot, hot, hot, rocks! This episode is going to be a real burn, because we are going to talk about metamorphic rocks that have experienced very high temperature metamorphism, deep in the crust, the so called Ultra High Temperature or UHT conditions. Professor Mahyra Tedeschi from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) explains what […]

Paleomag[ic]netism with Uwe Kirscher and Ross Mitchell

In this episode Dr B will have a double interview with Dr Uwe Kirscher and Prof Ross Mitchell. Well, actually, to be more precise, Ross started the interview as an Associate Professor and finished it as a Full Professor, that was pretty dope! In the first part of the episode, the fun game of Geopardy […]

IsoTOPes with Bryant Ware

In this episode we have a bit of a freaky Friday thing going. Gneiss Chats producer and occasional co-host Dr Silvia Volante is the host of the game Newly Grad (formerly known as Twinning). She interviews Dr B and his co-author, producer of the Gneiss Chats podcast and also BEST FRIEND…or just FRIEND? No, BEST […]