One of my teaching roles over the last 4 years has been setting up a Geophysics with Professional Placement degree route where students take a placement sandwiched between their 3rd and 4th years. The lag time between starting this initiative and seeing the results has been long, just because of how long it takes for students […]

The Fourier transform is a core, but abstract concept and tool. It can be viewed from several different perspectives, so I think it is helpful to see how different authors describe it. O’Reilly have a good introduction with Python code. I think that the videos linked below are helpful in understanding various properties. Hope you […]

As an academic, my work balances both delivering face to face teaching and the leadership and management of research in equal measure. COVID has had a profound impact on the way we can work and forced us to make decisions about how to best deliver high quality teaching and foster a community where researchers feel […]

This week I was excited to discover a new tool called MathKey that allows you to write math by hand using a stylus or finger on an iPad and it gives you a latex, MathML or computer rendered image of the equation back. It works surprisingly well! Really good for making presentations, lecture notes, writing […]

  Professional grade seismometers are expensive, which is unfortunate because I would like to get a small network to experiment with. Thankfully – there is a potential solution. The Raspberry Shake team have been developing low cost seismometer using a Raspberry Pi to manage the software side. There are various flavours of Raspberry Shake. The 1D […]