Kit Marie and Conor Rutland are on the UEA campus with their brews chatting about PhD’s, tectonic activity, origami, higher education, amongst other things!

Conor is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, researching seismic hazards in the Tibetan Plateau. He has a background in teaching high-school physics and as an outreach officer helping to support under-represented young people into higher and further education.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

-   What is a PhD? https://www.prospects.ac.uk/postgraduate-study/phd-study/what-is-a-phd

-   An example of ground deformation in Hawaiian from the USGS https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hawaiian-volcano-observatory/deformation-monitoring-tracks-moving-magma-and-faults

-   Interferograms (examples from NASA) https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/get-to-know-sar/interferometry/ 

-   Make an origami dinosaur! http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-dinosaur.html

-   UEA Outreach https://www.uea.ac.uk/study/information-for/teachers/services-for-schools/year-6-11/what-is-outreach

-   neaco Take Your Place https://www.takeyourplace.ac.uk/

Expand your geography network and connect with Conor on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RutlandConor

==About Coffee & Geography==

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