Alexandra Gerea

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Together with my team in Romania - GeoEduLab/National Institute for Earth Physics, and with Dr. Vasile Diaconu - archaeologist just published our latest research together about beautiful hidden fortresses in the woodlands of North-East Romania. journals.ur.edu.pl/anarres/arti...

At Earth Rover Program, we're looking for new team members to join us in our beautiful challenge of understanding agricultural soils with the help of geophysical surveys! www.earthroverprogram.org/job-opportun...

A PhD opportunity graphic for 'integrating land surface and groundwater models to assess the impacts of land use change on the British water cycle. The BGS logo is top left and to the right is a bucolic image of the English countryside with a river, fields, trees and country roads.

📢 PhD opportunity: deadline 12 Jan

We're inviting applications for a fully funded PhD to investigate how land-use change affects the UK water cycle using national-scale models.

Apply:
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Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature The British-Turkish writer was elected after a vote among the society’s fellows, with outgoing president Bernardine Evaristo describing her selection as ‘terrifically inspired’

So happy for Elif Shafak's newest role. Such an incredibly talented writer, I am simply obsessed with her books. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

“What started as a dedicated group of community members has grown into an immense collaboration between fishers, scientists, NGOs, and regulators, and their combined efforts have sent ripple effects of positive change across the globe,”

UK Claims 38% of Its Seas are Protected. Thousands of Hours of Apparent Trawling and Dredging Suggest Otherwise A new analysis suggests industrial fishing in allegedly protected areas.

You can also read our previous large-scale analysis of trawling in UK MPas (www.zmescience.com/feature-post....

The UK says its sea are protected. We Built an App to Track Fishing in 'Protected' Seas Our new data-driven investigation reveals how “protected” UK waters are still being heavily trawled—and invites anyone to explore the evidence for themselves.

For months, we've worked on an app to monitor fishing in UK's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

The UK claims to be a leader in marine conservation, yet plenty of "protected areas" remain open to destructive fishing.

With a grant from the @earthjournalism.bsky.social, we finally did it. 🧵👇

Thank you for sharing about our project.

This is really nice, thank you.

Thank you Hilary for sharing about our project 🤗.

Aww thanks for sharing your point of view, it's interesting to see how different people see our project through a different lense.

Thanks for sharing your point of view and I appreciate your feedback. See my other comments where I hope I am answering these issues. Otherwise I'll be more than happy to answer if you have any questions.

Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und... We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...

4. If you're interested to find out more you can join our launch today via zoom by registering here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

3. As of now our major developments and focus are on seismic data where we managed to lower the costs down to 10$ per sensor compared to thousands of $.

2. GPR is great (my fav. method actually) but has its limitations like any other method. That's why we have a brilliant team of interdisciplinary researchers to reduce uncertainities and look at the soil from every possible aspect that it is possible.

1. Thanks for your reply and for the support. Geophysical equipment is insanely expensive, not every farmer can afford that, we are trying to make the sensors and data as close to 0$ as possible and available to everybody on the planet.

Hi satellite data, even though great they lack resolution and depth of sampling. Whereas we look dirrectly in the subsurface with geophysical surveys on the ground with 10 cm resolution. The next stages and more details about the platform will also be available soon. :)

We currently have research hubs in UK, Kenya, Colombia, Germany and France and looking to expand in the following years :)

As of now we are looking into agricultural soils (crops, pasture etc) but maybe in the future when we advance with the research and launch the database platform, scientists might use the data for case studies like the one you mentioned. Thanks for the support :)

thank you for sharing about this 🤩

thanks for the support 🤩

Thanks for the support 🤩

I think you're grossly minimising the complexity of the physical parameters of the soils and their complex interactions. If it were that easy to be done by an archaeologist, Earth Rover Program wouldn't exist. But thanks for sharing and for the support. Cheers!

It's not just the volume of topsoil, is about looking into all the other soil parameters (as highlighted in the article) which are helpful for the farmers to know about, without having to dig holes anymore. Plus the database will be open and free for everyone, nothing to be upset about.

We’re launching the Earth Rover Program - trying to make geophysics actually usable for farmers. That means tackling the ridiculous price of equipment and opening up a global, easy-to-use dataset so anyone, anywhere around the globe, can understand what’s happening under their feet.