UK based students looking for a PhD in magmatic sulfides? We have a NERC funded project with Amaroq Minerals Ltd through TARGET program target.le.ac.uk Start Oct 2024! Exciting opportunity to work a newly discovered Ni-Cu project with fieldwork in Greenland Leicester Geography

Conglomerate or not? ... that's not really a question here but how have these deposits formed and where are individual components from is? Fantastic images from Arran group A and sunny days. #Arran2024 continues University of Leicester Leicester Geography

Gunung Ruang, Indonesia has started to erupt. Rising ash plumes and pyroclastic density currents from the volcano can be seen following a powerful eruption.

Great news! Congratulations to our MI TechTALENT partner University of Leicester on this award. 👇

🎨 Don't forget to visit our art exhibition, First Imprints, which explores the story of the rise of animal life, told by the Oxford Printmakers.

🏛️ You can see it, free of charge, at the Balcony Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall

📅 Wednesdays: 10am-4pm
📅 Saturdays: 10am-3pm

Many congratulations to Sarah Lee! Sarah completed the London Marathon 2024 in support of bladder cancer Fight Bladder Cancer. We are immensely proud of her achievement in not only completing the gruelling 26.2 miles but also raising money for a great cause in the process. Well done!

Arran group A has made 'contact' with the geology on Arran! Here's a lots of findings and developing geological field skills. The weather is also very kind 😃 #Arran2024 University of Leicester Leicester Geography

Congratulations to Alistair Drape MGeol graduate University of Leicester for being welcomed to the team at SLR! He joint the Bristol team to pursue a career in the UK Extractive Industry. We wish him the best of luck in this new role! Leicester Geography

And the 1st Group has made the crossing and arrived on Arran for their field based training. #Arran2024 Leicester Geography University of Leicester

Please join us on Thu 9th May for a presentation via Teams: ‘From Swamp to Sea: the fate of tropical peatland carbon in the coastal ocean’ by Dr Patrick Martin, Ass Prof in the Asian School of the Environment at Nanyang Technological University To Join👉le.ac.uk/gge/events/res…

New research from Bowen Wei in collaboration with our staff addressing whether we can determine the final depth of storage of recycled carbon and the role of recycled carbonate in mantle melting? Open access! see link below

Research highlight on #EarthDay2024 Prof Jens Zinke applies geochemical study of corals and sedimentary archives from the tropical oceans as recorders of environmental and climate change over the past 300 years

The largest and most complete ichthyosaur ever found in the UK! We can't wait to see the science coming from this specimen. Proud to be part of the research team #EarthDay2024

Manlin Zhang, PhD researcher University of Leicester is focusing on Unlocking Western Tropical Indian Ocean temperature and hydroclimate back to the Little Ice Age and the Holocene. This reconstruction is based on using geochemistry obtain from corals #EarthDay2024

We're very proud to have been awarded Gold in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Meaning the experience students have at the University of Leicester and the outcomes it leads to are outstanding!

More about awards, rankings, facts, and figures👌 le.ac.uk/about/info/fac…

This #EarthDay 's theme is Plant v Plastics.

Take a read about Leicester's Dr Catherine Russell, who led a study that found plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave.

👉nature.com/articles/s4324…

#CitizensOfChange | Dr Catherine Russell Penn State Leicester Geography Geology at Leicester

Our researcher wrapped up their visit and presentations for this year's EGU.

Amazing images from the field class to Anglesey. #geology #EarthDay2024 University of Leicester Leicester Geography

A huge thank you to year 5 scholars at Woodland Grange Primary Woodland Grange for their amazing thank you letters! We are very moved and impressed to get letters of feedback. Thank you so much for taking the time & of doing that. It was an absolute pleasure to host you.

All sorts of compressional #tectonic features today: thrusts, shear zones with kinematic indicators and c-s fabrics, two generations of folds and cleavage along with some later normal faults and dykes. Prof Gawen Jenkin Geology at Leicester