Outreach

Outreach by MINSC fellows

MINSC fellows will all engage in outreach activities targeting the public. As these events take place, more information will be posted here. MINSC fellows have created a news feed/blog which can be found here: http://mineralscaleformation.wordpress.com/

Outreach activities by MINSC fellows

Giulia Montanari, University of Copenhagen

• Mentoring high school students in calcite precipitation experiments
• Science slam competition
• Materials chemistry course: exercises, lab activities, presentation about my project
• Geochemistry course Exercises for young students
• Monitored visiting PhD student from UK
• Teaching geochemistry and general chemistry exercises to young students, 2-3 times per week for 5 months

Stan Jelavic, University of Copenhagen

• Mentoring high-school students and interns

Diwaker Jha, University of Copenhagen

• Supervision of young students
• Workshop on embedded systems, hands on training for 90 people
• Introducing high school graduates to AFM and its functionality during university open day
• To view a brief description of an outreach event presented by MINSC fellow Diwaker JHA from Uni Copenhagen, please visit this link: http://chem.ku.dk/om/news/newslist/slam/
• Talk to students about tomography during Uni Copenhagen open day
• Article in popular science newspaper: Videnskab db. For more information: http://videnskab.dk/miljo-naturvidenskab/rontgenstraler-afslorer-svamp-i-historisk-dokument

Jan Prikryl, University of Iceland

• Talk to high school students
• Open day at university
• Blog post: http://mineralscaleformation.wordpress.com/

Thomas Rinder, CNRS Toulouse

• Talk to approx. 20 people at GET seminar introducing students to colorimetry, experimental flow setup, general labwork, high temperature closed system reactors

Nik Berninger, CNRS Toulouse

• Presentation of Nano-Laboratory to international student visitors
• Being shadowed by foreign work experience student

Taher Rabizadeh, University of Leeds

• Participated in SEE Behind the scenes: an open lab day at Uni Leeds
• Presentation to undergrads and other research groups at Uni Leeds about principles of crystallization

Tomasz Stawski, University of Leeds

• School demonstrations at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School in Huddersfield within the "Science Week" (demonstrations for children 6-11 y.)
• Participated in SEE Behind the scenes: an open lab day at Uni Leeds
• YES Environmental competition. I was a member of a team taking part in a Young Entrepreneur Scheme competition for the science-based business plan. We won the regional semi-finals in Scotland and took part in the national final
• Tutor at soil lab course at Uni Huddersfield

Daniela Meier, University of Leeds

• Visit to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School to participate in science week event sponsored by school
• Participated in SEE Behind the scenes: an open lab day at Uni Leeds
• Demonstration of mineral formation experiments to undergrads and other research groups
• Lab tours
• Writing of blog posts
• Volunteer at the Yorkshire Fossil Festival, Scarborough talking about ocean anoxic events and the fossils from this period of earth history
• Participation in Leeds Science Festival Activity: Fossil Detectives with pupils in grades 3&4

Fernando Berro Jimenez, West Systems

• Demonstration of prototype developed within MINSC project to visitors to West Systems

Prathap Moola, Reykjavik Energy

• Student fair: Motivated high school students to study geochemistry and explained to students about ongoing research in earth sciences

Biyun Zhen Wu, Maersk Oil and Gas

• Mineral precipitation in nature with interactive activity and experiments
• Mineral precipitation in nature: blog post
• Unforgettabe time in Fuerteventura: blog post
• A small world: blog post
• Enchanting Firenze: blog post
• Blog posts following field sampling in Iceland
• Discovering the tiny world of ceramics. More info here.
• Video of outreach activity in Costa Rica

Cristina Ruiz Agudo, University of Münster

• Outreach interview which can be viewed here: http://caminahora.com/cristina-ruiz-phd-con-beca-marie-curie-en-alemania-el-trabajo-como-investigador-es-creativo-original-y-nada-rutinario/
• First prize for young scientists awarded by Spanish Mineralogical Society. To view the certificate, please click here.
• My PhD in three minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvOtbUOt8Ks

Progress reports:

MINSC fellows must provide bi annual progress reports. To consult the reports, please click here.

Publications

MINSC fellows contribute regularly to conference proceedings and journals. To view a list of publications produced by the MINSC network, please visit our publications page.

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All MINSC fellows are requested to reference their work on MINSC by using the MINSC logo and/or the following sentence:

This research was made possible by a Marie Curie grant from the European Commission in the framework of the MINSC ITN (Initial Training Research network), Project number 290040

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