Living in Arbroath Hunor Deak with fish Arbroath is a small town situated between Dundee and Montrose on the Scottish east coast. I might be biased a bit since I lived there for the past 5 years. However I travelled Scotland quite extensively from the geological wonders of the Isle of Skye to the multicultural streets of Edinburgh. Even so I couldn’t find any place similar to Arbroath. Arbroath is a brilliant mixture of geology, history, cuisine and beautiful beaches (if you know where to go). The place provides something for everybody. Arbroath is a treasure trove of history. It contains buildings and museums showcasing the entire history of Scotland. St Vigeans offers us a window to the ancient past of Scotland when the Picts roamed the land. Digs from the nearby sites provided evidence of human inhabitants going back as 3500 BC. The Arbroath Abbey tells a tale of Scotland as a free nation. It is pleasant to know that the US Constitution can be traced back to Arbroath to a time...

  Hunor Deak Fourth Year University with Hunor Deak I attended a weekend geology field excursion as part of the course: Evolution of the Modern Earth and Cyprus Excursion for Geologists (EASC10120). I visited the area around Ballantrae. I studied mass scale folding, deep sea sediments, pillow lavas and deep crustal igneous rocks. The aims of the field trip were to improve our note taking skills and have us learn more about ophiolites. Hunor Deak public outreach I undertook in lots of university outreach! As part of a team I helped to run different workshops demonstrating geological processes and the university’s research to the public. I participated in venues like the Volcano Day at Holyrood Park, STEM Learning & Teaching Day at the Hudson Beare Building (KB), Midlothian Science Festival and university Open Days at King’s Buildings. This volunteering job allowed me to work with children of all ages and with prospective students. Website:  https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences ...

Geology and Us, Hydrogeology in Africa, Supervolcanoes, L.I.P.s and the Year Without Summer Inspiration for this segment Geology teaching needs to be done right. And it is not. I noticed that in Scotland there is a massive problem at promoting geology to school children. There is very little presence. This video explains how to teach geology and why to teach geology. It is a great intro to how to teach geology. How people respond to the forces of nature A supernatural start which gets corrected with science by the 18th century Originally we used to connect explaining the world with religion. Whenever we needed to explain something, we reached for a moral explanation. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the progress of science was slow. We had nothing but suspicion of the world. When the plagues came we went to the local healer, who could not fix the problems. This only changed in the 19th century with the Enlightenment, both political and scientific changed the outlay of the world....

  Poems Inspecting a Puzzle of an Ore under a Petrological Microscope Inspiration This was inspired by my Ores and Mining Course. We used the Ores petrological microscopes to study the different types of ores. There is a nice aspect of geology, where the grey rocks can be sliced open into thin slides, through which light is projected through the minerals. This creates a great range of colours and patterns. There is some artistry in science! Amphibole fragments in mica groundmass in a thin sample from Siilinjärvi apatite ore. Photomicrograph in cross and plane polarised light. Inspecting a Puzzle of an Ore under a Petrological Microscope Inspecting a Puzzle of an Ore under a Petrological Microscope There are many ways to travel around the world, Seeing many words, worlds, different weather. There are many ways to go back in time, You just need a telescope, look up in the sky, the starlight of today was emitted 1000s of years ago! But there is only one way to travel back in time, and...

  Part 2: Part 2 of the Scottish Enlightenment, where I focus on how Hutton used ideas from his time, to incorporate  them into his own theories on geology. Here I try to show, that Hutton couldn’t have succeeded without the aide of his friends and how the work of David Hume and James Hutton influenced each other in such a crucial manner. Hutton took the end products of industrial processes just emerging in Scotland and imagined them in the context of nature, such as a volcano being a giant furnace. This segment was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 broadcast: Early Geology (In Our Time). The reasoning of James Hutton – Observing Nature away from the texts One of the key defining features of Hutton, was his interest in individual observation. He was against the idea that one should rely on old texts such as the Bible to come up with theories on how the Earth came to be. He advocated for observing the world in the the present as it is, not as described in old texts. He got this idea fr...