The secret life of a geologist | Professor Chris Jackson | TEDxWinchester

Geologists just look at rocks, right? In this talk, Chris invites you to reimagine the almost unimaginable ways in which geology shapes our lives and livelihoods. Chris Jackson is Director of Sustainable Geoscience at the engineering consultancy Jacobs and Visiting Professor of Basin Analysis at Imperial College London. Chris works in the general area of sedimentary basin analysis. When not studying rocks, Chris gives geoscience lectures to the public and in schools, having appeared on several, Earth Science-focused, television productions and podcasts. Chris is engaged in efforts to improve equality, diversity, and inclusivity in Higher Education. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@Geo_Babe]

Thank you Prof Jackson ❤ this was epic

[@leoayerakwa9381]

Nice talk. Thanks for the insights, Prof. Big ups.

[@jancarlyle8548]

This talk covers a lot in a short time! Climate crisis, energy crisis, academic research and superheros.

[@kukekuruatjiimbi1895]

That's the professor's voice. Very fluent, wooow ❤.

[@michaelamoo7462]

End Cretaceous Mass Extinction is 65 Ma not 95 Ma.

[@tommyirish-jones1564]

He may have been talking about the start of the decline perhaps.

[@lucaskin1]

@@tommyirish-jones1564 no he does not. He clearly points to a spike in temperature that, he said, is correlated to the mass extinction. He is just flat wrong!

[@Geo_Babe]

It was just a spoken error clearly he knows it’s 65 mya Jesus

[@KimPhilipDalanon]

[@geoffgeoff143]

Sounds like he is trying to justify his career choice.

[@lucaskin1]

WOW, go back to school "professor". The end of the Cretaceous 95 My ago? Seriously? What a shame for our profession...

[@Geo_Babe]

It was a simple verbal error - clearly he knows it’s 65 mya

[@lucaskin1]

@@Geo_Babenope, he points to a spike in the graph (which I don’t know where is coming from), and the spike is at about 95 million years.