What is our current understanding of greenhouse gas emissions released during the production of natural gas? How can we reduce these emissions? Dr Paul Balcombe discusses the context for the Sustainable Gas Institute's first White Paper.

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas supply chain

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic delivers her inaugural lecture on computationally modelling soils under extreme conditions to overcome our key geotechnical engineering challenges.

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic - Advanced geomechanics: hot, dehydrated and shaken

This is the first annual lecture by the Sustainable Gas Institute from Dr David Allen, a chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin. Title: 'Increased Natural Gas Production, Methane Emissions and Change, A US Perspective'.

Sustainable Gas Institute Annual Lecture 2015 - Dr David Allen

Pentastomids, which live inside vertebrates, have been around for much longer than their hosts – so how did they live before? Dr Mark Sutton explains the latest findings. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 June 2015)

Parasite mystery

Naomi Jordan explains what newly found fossils tell us about the creatures that dominated in the Ordovician period, 480 million years ago. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 13 May 2015)

When sponges ruled the Earth

Dr Joanna Morgan is part of an international team that will drill into the seabed off the coast of Mexico to take samples from the crater of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast)

Expedition to sample the Chicxulub crater

Dr Richard Ghail and Dr Philippa Mason make the case for further exploration of Venus and outline their plans for a new mission. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 December 2014)

Earth’s unloved neighbour

Dr James Hammond tells us about a recent trip to a volcano in North Korea which was responsible for one of the largest eruptions in the last 2000 years. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 5 February 2014)

Explosive eruptions

James Hammond and Stepan Lucyszyn spent a week in Westminster as part of the Royal Society’s pairing scheme. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 15 January 2014)

From lab to legislature

Dr Matthew Genge explains how astronomers monitor the sky for objects like the Chelyabinsk meteor that could collide with Earth. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 11 December 2013)

Braced for impact

Dr Gareth Collins’s (Earth Science & Engineering) research looks at what happens when the Earth is hit by two asteroids orbiting each other. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 27 February 2013)

Asteroid strike: Double trouble

Junior Research Fellow Susannah Maidment explains how the geographical distribution of fossils from the Jurassic period could offer clues about how biodiversity will vary around the world in the future.

Dinosaur diversity

Fifty million years ago, the continent we know as icy and inhospitable basked in a warm subtropical climate, explains Dr Tina van de Flierdt. (Extract 3 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 22 August 2012)

Reconstructing Antarctica’s ancient history

Dr Jenny Collier from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering gives a talk showing how a catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history.

Megaflood: how Britain became an island

Charles Soothill, Chief Technology Officer of Alstom Power, presents the Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture 2012. More info and slides: http://goo.gl/bn7Uu

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