He wasn't the best student — until the subjects got interesting. Then came a degree in palaeontology, a stint on unemployment, and a career built on patience in a field where positions are scarce.

Lionel Cavin, palaeontologist and curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva, explains why coelacanths are closer to us than a trout is — and why rewilding isn't really about dinosaurs at all.

Full episode available Sunday 27 September at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍

#GeoCareers #WEROCKGeomedia #Geoscience #Palaeontology #Rewilding

From an orienteering club to imaging the deep structure of the Alps and the Himalaya, György Hetényi, professor of geophysics at the University of Lausanne, shares a career built on curiosity rather than a plan.

A conversation on large-scale seismic imaging, why predicting earthquakes isn't the same as forecasting them, and a project born after the 2015 Nepal earthquake: training teachers and installing seismometers in schools to prepare children for the next big one.

Where Earth Sciences Meet Society.

Before the Alps, before the Himalaya, there was an orienteering club — and a question that follows him still: "Would the teenager you were be proud of the adult you've become?"

György Hetényi, professor of geophysics at the University of Lausanne, has spent his career imaging what lies beneath mountain belts — and after the devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake, one of his students turned that science into something else: seismometers in classrooms, teachers trained to prepare children for the next big one.

Full episode available Sunday 13 September at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍

#GeoCareers #WEROCK #Geoscience #Earthquakes #Nepal