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Alessandra Marino interviews IOCOSE

Do you ever sit and wonder about the type of person that has written an article that you have been engrossed in or a book you couldn't put down?

You may wonder what their background is? Why they have written that particular article and what their favourite food might be? 

In most films, geologists are portrayed as being outdoor types who love to have a few drinks after a successful field day. It also turns out that most geologists are predominantly good guys who tend to die quite frequently in movies 

Formed in global collaboration and agreed upon by 193 of the worlds 195 countries, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a united vision of equality, justice, and sustainability for the future. 

19 August 2020 is the date of the letter in the Prologue to Fred Hoyle’s first space science fiction novel, The Black Cloud, published in 1957. Born myself in 1957, I have been waiting all my life for an opportunity to write about The Black Cloud on this very date. 

Peer-reviewed journal articles, or scientific papers, are the bread-and-butter of scientific research. They are the primary means by which scientists communicate a ‘finding’ – a new piece of scientific knowledge- to others across the world and into future generations. 

Mars is usually depicted as a dry, cold, and inhospitable world… but plenty of evidence tells the story of a more benign planet: a Mars spotted with lakes and rivers.

This blog post is not riddled with pseudoscience, and its aim is not to convince you that your chakras are blocked. 

The Earth is teeming with life and yet we are only one planet, orbiting one star, in a galaxy of over 250 billion stars.The Earth is teeming with life and yet we are only one planet, orbiting one star, in a galaxy of over 250 billion stars.
 

That’s what happened to me throughout my time as a PhD student (which is still ongoing, by the way). I started my academic journey as an undergrad at the University of Derby with the sole aim of one day attaining a PhD and working in academia as an astrobiology researcher. Now, though, that is far from how I want to live my life.