News from the Department of Earth Science & Engineering, a world leading centre for geoscience & engineering at Imperial College London.https://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3mhayfircqc2c🗣️ ESE's Prof Chris Pain will be giving a presentation on how AI tools can benefit physics-based modelling, as part of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference, tomorrow at 10am (GMT), followed by a live Q&A. 👉 Find out more, including how to tune in: https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-catalog/sessions/gtc26-s81927/17 Mar 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhayfircqc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3mf2u27qcis2w🌊 An international team co-led by ESE at Imperial has obtained the longest ever core of ancient mud and rock from beneath the Antarctic ice – a multimillion-year record that will help predict critical sea level rise in our rapidly warming world! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/engineering/earth-science/2026/imperial-researchers-help-unlock-antarcticas-deep-past-with-record-breaking-drill-into-the-ice/17 Feb 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf2u27qcis2whttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3m7zhppxrgs26❄️ESE-led research is rewriting the history of Antarctica's ancient landscape & revealing insights about the stability of its ice sheets in a warming world. 🧊This comes as the international @swais2c.bsky.social project (involving Imperial scientists) gets underway https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/engineering/earth-science/2025/ancientantarcticrivers-challengetheory-of-aflatlandscape-as-mission-for-climatecluesbeneath-antarctic-icegets-underway-/15 Dec 2025 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zhppxrgs26https://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3m5gl7iypvk2b🌱🏙️ A new collaborative network, @ai4urban-health.bsky.social, led by ESE, aims to explore how AI might revolutionise the design & management of urban environments to improve health & sustainability. Read more: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/271613/new-network-artificial-intelligence-tackle-urban/ @bibresearch.bsky.social12 Nov 2025 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5gl7iypvk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3m2owtgla3s2c🎉 ESE Class of 2025! 🎉 A massive congratulations to our BSc and MSci students, who are graduating today at the Royal Albert Hall! We are so proud to call you our alumni. Thank you for being part of ESE! #OurImperial08 Oct 2025 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2owtgla3s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3m2jx3u45yc2a⚠️ A @nature.com review article led by ESE has concluded that urgent policy intervention is needed to prevent a large-scale resurgence of #lead exposure, with severe economic impact estimates. Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02735-x06 Oct 2025 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jx3u45yc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lzy7oqgpys2q🔋 Research by ESE & the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial has found that waste mine tailings (the fine waste material left over from mineral extraction) can be repurposed for #LithiumIonBatteries, with little to no processing required! ⬇️ Read more: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/269113/mine-waste-shows-promise-battery-material/29 Sep 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzy7oqgpys2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lwoi7bo42c22⛰️ An ESE-led study has reconstructed the early evolution and history of a ‘baby’ normal fault in the Aysen Fjord, Chile (~13,000 years old), using seismic reflection data – holding the potential for better earthquake forecasts on individual faults! https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025TC00883518 Aug 2025 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwoi7bo42c22https://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lwbmb5u6cs26🔎 Detecting signs of recent life on Mars! 🌱 PhD student Solomon Hirsch and Prof Mark Sephton from ESE have discovered a simple and cheap way to test for active life on #Mars and other planets – using an existing instrument on the #CuriosityRover! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267393/signs-recent-life-mars-could-detected/13 Aug 2025 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbmb5u6cs26https://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lvktfnzxmk2k🚀 A new study led by ESE that analysed the ancient asteroid #Ryugu has proposed that the building blocks of life may have originated in a turbulent region near Jupiter, not exclusively deep out in space. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266754/lifes-ingredients-could-have-formed-near/04 Aug 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvktfnzxmk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3ltotsfzaas2l⚒️ Our Msc students from Responsible Mining and Metals Finance recently travelled through Sweden and Finland as part of the annual European mines field trip, where they visited projects at various stages from pre-feasibility through to operational! #FieldTrip #Mining11 Jul 2025 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltotsfzaas2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lstgqwgfgs2z🏆 A team led by a Jordan Stone, a PhD student at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, have received this year’s Schweickart Prize! ☄️Congratulations to Jordan and team for winning this coveted award established to enhance protection efforts against asteroid impacts! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265593/imperial-students-honoured-with-planetary-defence/30 Jun 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lstgqwgfgs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lsbtpibdq22r 👩‍🔬 It's International Women in Engineering Day! ⚒️ 💬 ESE MSc Applied Computational Science and Engineering student, Tyana Tshiota, spoke about the importance of #IWEID2025 and shared her advice for young aspiring engineers! 👉 Check out Tyana's profile in full: https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/2025/06/23/ese-spotlight-tyana-tshiota-on-iwied/23 Jun 2025 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbtpibdq22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lrickpaydk2n🏅 Congratulations to ESE's Professor Jenny Collier, who this week was awarded the prestigious Murchison Medal of @geolsoc.bsky.social for significant contribution to 'hard' rock studies! ⛰️ 👉 Read more about Professor Collier's career & achievements: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265033/ese-professor-awarded-prestigious-geology-medal/13 Jun 2025 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrickpaydk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eseimperial.bsky.social/post/3lqppsc4hdk2b🎉Congratulations to our brilliant 2025 cohort of ESE postgrads who graduated today from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, at the stunning Royal Albert Hall! 🧑‍🎓 #OurImperial #Graduation #Graduation202503 Jun 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:kjn3dcfsyvwcqrfjef7swjap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqppsc4hdk2b