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.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas supply chain

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

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic - Advanced geomechanics: hot, dehydrated and shaken

David Allen

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'.

Sustainable Gas Institute Annual Lecture 2015 - Dr David Allen 

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)

Parasite mystery  

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)

When sponges ruled the Earth 

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)

Expedition to sample the Chicxulub crater  

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)

Earth’s unloved neighbour 

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)

Explosive eruptions 

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)

From lab to legislature 

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)

Braced for impact 

Earth Science and Engineering

Junior Research Fellow Susannah Maidment explains how the geographical distribution of fossils from the Jurassic period could offer clues about how biodiversity will vary around the world in the future.

Dinosaur diversity

Dr Gareth Collins’s (Earth Science &amp; Engineering) research looks at what happens when the Earth is hit by two asteroids orbiting each other. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 27 February 2013)

Asteroid strike: Double trouble

Fifty million years ago, the continent we know as icy and inhospitable basked in a warm subtropical climate, explains Dr Tina van de Flierdt. (Extract 3 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 22 August 2012)

Reconstructing Antarctica’s ancient history

Dr Jenny Collier from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering gives a talk showing how a catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history.

Megaflood: how Britain became an island

Charles Soothill, Chief Technology Officer of Alstom Power, presents the Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture 2012. More info and slides: http://goo.gl/bn7Uu

Charles Soothill, Chief Technology Officer of Alstom Power, presents the Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture 2012. More info and slides: <a href="http://goo.gl/bn7Uu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/bn7Uu</a>

Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture, 'More Sustainable Power Generation Technologies'

Dr Tom Pike explains why his data cast doubt on the possibility of life having existed on the Martian surface, but Professor Mark Sephton hasn't given up the search.

Is there life on Mars?

Lorraine Craig and students in ESE talk about her role as Admissions Tutor and its relationship to other jobs that she does.

Meet Lorraine Craig, Academic Tutor at ESE

Dr Jenny Collier delivers the 2012 Annual Christmas Demonstration Lecture, which this year is about exploring the deepest parts of our earth's oceans

Exploring the deep

Dr Tina Van de Flierdt talks about her course in ESE which provides students with the facts and data surrounding ‘climate’ to allow them to have an informed opinion on climate change.

Dr Tina van de Flierdt - Year one lecturer at ESE

Professor Ann Muggeridge speaks about her course on physics in ESE, and in particular how physics can be applied to interpretation of the processes on the earth.

Professor Ann Muggeridge - Year one lecturer at ESE

Investigating new ways of storing C02 in rock reservoirs

Dr Gareth Collins from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering talks about an ancient asteroid impact

Asteroid impact

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