Hello everyone!
As part of my ongoing project, Geoscientists' Voices (supported by the AGU Voices for Science program), I sat down with Prof. Daniel Le Heron, Professor of Sedimentology at the University of Vienna and Vice President of Publications for The Geological Society of London.
🎥 Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/sC0_9Piw9Es
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In our conversation, Daniel unpacks the evidence and misconceptions surrounding "Snowball Earth," the urgent race to ground-truth rapidly vanishing Alpine glaciers before their climate archives disappear, and shares extraordinary specimens from his personal rock collection-including 700-million-year-old glacial diamictites and Siberian petrified wood. We also address critical systemic challenges: debunking the "geology is dying" narrative behind UK department closures, the ethical impacts of AI in scientific publishing, rising tuition barriers, and why interdisciplinary field skills make the future of geosciences truly "excellent."
Aleksei Nelaev
AGU Voices for Science cohort member
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseinelaev/