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. 🌍

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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. 🌍

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From composting waste to leading Switzerland's national geothermal association — Jérôme Faessler's path was anything but a straight line.

Jérôme Faessler | Energy Specialist | Director, Geothermie-Suisse

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In this fifth episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Jérôme Faessler, Director of Géothermie-Suisse, Switzerland's national association promoting geothermal energy. His path: environmental sciences at the University of Geneva, years spent optimising waste and composting treatment in Geneva, an applied PhD on renewable energy in the Franco-Valdo-Genevois region, a strategic role at Lausanne's industrial services (SIL), and now, for the past four years, leading the national voice of Swiss geothermal energy.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faessler/
Géothermie-Suisse: https://geothermie-schweiz.ch/fr/
Proxicompost: https://www.proxicompost.ch/

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From composting waste to leading Switzerland's national geothermal association — Jérôme Faessler's path was anything but a straight line.

During the Syrian war, millions fled. The fields were abandoned. And from space, the ground started to rise — a silent signal that the aquifers were refilling. Saeed Mhanna detected it from Switzerland, using satellites.Saeed Mhanna | Hydrogeologist | PhD, University of Neuchâtel | Postdoctoral Researcher, EAWAG Dübendorf━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this fourth episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Saeed Mhanna, Lebanese hydrogeologist and freshly minted PhD.He started in petroleum studies in Beirut — because Lebanon needed oil. He ended up drilling wells for Syrian refugees instead. Then he came to Switzerland to do a PhD on how war affects groundwater — using satellites and AI to read what's happening underground in conflict zones he couldn't physically visit. His paper went viral on Al Arabiya. He won Ma Thèse en 180 Secondes — in French, as a non-French speaker. And now he's a postdoc at EAWAG, studying how mining affects water resources worldwide.In this episode:— From petroleum dreams to drilling wells for Syrian refugees— How a satellite detects groundwater recovery in a war zone— The Kakhovka dam disaster in Ukraine — and the wetlands that came back— His paper going viral on Al Arabiya — and being misrepresented— "Touching grass" — what happens when a researcher leaves academia and goes on Facebook— Winning MT180 in French as a non-French speaker— Mining vs water: the dilemma of resources we can't live without— What kept him going during the hardest moments of his PhD— His final message: find hope even in the darkest places━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SAEED MHANNALinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saeed-mhanna-154569a1/EAWAG: eawag.chCHYN UniNE: unine.ch/chynMT180 UNINE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEOd6gZpXUcMT180 Suisse : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkC-qlQzJA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WE ROCKYouTube: @werockgeomediaSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033pzISIs9qaFcxsXkQAu9Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-rock-geomedia/id1896890768YouTube Music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAoKvUnH4Uqbt2-5ZuROWdYApP5V3PLGZAmazon Music: https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/6331c5cb-3724-4252-bc61-52ce3154c065/we-rock-geomediaInstagram: @werockgeomediaLinkedIn: WE ROCK GeomediaTikTok: @werockgeomediaFacebook: WE ROCK GeomediaEmail: werock.geomedia@gmail.comWhere Earth Sciences Meet Society.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CREDITSAuthor, producer, director, filming & publishing: Sam-Bien SogleProduction assistance: Victoria GarciaSOURCES IMAGESPhotos MT180 UniNe : Mario CafisoPhotos MT180 Suisse : Alain HerzogVideos & Photos Kakhovka : Reuters, BBC, ACTI-Framework : Saeed Mahnna━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GeoCareers #WEROCK #Hydrogeology #EarthSciences #Syria #WaterSciences #Podcast #Geosciences #RemoteSensing #WaterCrisis

Saeed Mahnna, our next WE ROCK GeoCareers guest, started knowing nothing about geology. 🪨❌ Today he uses remote sensing and machine learning to track how conflict transforms water systems — in #Syria 🇸🇾, in #Ukraine 🇺🇦. 🏆 Winner of the Swiss @MT180 competition!
Full episode available on 19 July at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍
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🛢️ He spent over ten years with Shell — in oil and gas industry in the North Sea, in the Netherland and Aberdeen. Then he walked away from it all to join the University of Geneva.

In this episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, Andrea Moscariello, Full Professor of Sedimentary Geology and Geo-energy at UNIGE, shares the story of a career built on chance, opportunity, and a few difficult choices.

From glacial deposits in the Dolomites to oil reservoirs in Algeria, Libya and Saudi Arabia. From Shell to SGS. From consulting back to the lecture hall. And now — geothermal energy in Geneva, and the geology of the future CERN tunnel.

He also answers the WE ROCK signature questions — including which rock he most resembles. His answer: a diamicton. Heterogeneous, different origins, solid matrix — but add a little water, and it trembles.

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