WE ROCK Geomedia

From pebbles to geothermal energy: Michel Meyer, Director of Thermal & Geothermal Solutions at SIG (Geneva), tells how a geologist became Cantonal Geologist, then led the GeoThermie2020 programme. We discuss PhD choices, working in public administration, social acceptance of geothermal energy, mountains buried under Geneva, and why geologists are “composite people”. 🌍 Full episode on YouTube...

He went to a presentation evening to follow a friend, not to discover a career. Then a palaeontologist teacher showed him that everything he aspired to could be found behind the job of geologist. 🪨Full episode available Sunday 18 October at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍 #GeoCareers #WEROCKGeomedia #Geology #Geoscience #Geothermal

Palaeontologist and museum curator Lionel Cavin explains why a coelacanth is closer to you than a trout is — and why rewilding isn't really about dinosaurs at all. Lionel Cavin | Palaeontologist | Curator, Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this seventh episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Lionel Cavin, curator of the Geolo...

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 al...

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...

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 turne...

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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this fifth episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Jérôme Faessler, Director of Géothermie-Suisse, Switzerland's national association...

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 Ge...

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. 🌍 📺 YouTube: werockgeomedia 🎙️ Spotify ·...

🛢️ 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 glaci...

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 Genev...

If a dinosaur ever stepped into the water, she could tell you the exact temperature of that water — 150 million years later. In this second episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, Sam-Bien Sogle sits down with Clémentine Colpaert, micropalaeontologist at the University of Geneva. Her field of study: microscopic fossils called foraminifera, sometimes smaller than a grain of sand, that recorded the exact oce...

"FIND ANCIENT OCEAN TEMPERATURES FROM MICROFOSSILS" Clémentine Colpaert | Micropaléontologue | Maître assistante, Université de Genève Dans ce deuxième épisode de WE ROCK GeoCareers, je reçois Clémentine Colpaert, micropaléontologue à l'Université de Genève. Son terrain de jeu : des fossiles microscopiques appelés foraminifères, parfois plus petits qu'un grain de sable, qui ont enregistré dans leu...

Les plus grands gisements de cuivre du monde sont des volcans qui n'ont pas explosé. Luca Caricchi | Professeur de volcanologie | Chef du Département des Sciences de la Terre, UNIGE