Overview

Gillian has appeared in documentary films and on television, and been interviewed for radio programmes in relation to her expertise on volcanoes, earthquakes, natural hazards and general Earth science. Her special area of expertise is Icelandic volcanoes and geothermal energy. She produced her own film "The Iceland Hotspot Seismic Project" for teaching purposes, has written several popular articles on volcanoes and consulted on scientific films, articles and books. She has edited both scientific and childrens books and has written her own book on the controversy surrounding the origin of volcanic islands such as Iceland and Hawaii.

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Films:

• Draining the Oceans (National Geographic film, 2008)
• Earth's Black Hole (History Channel, 2006)
• Supervolcano (Discovery Channel/BBC, scientific advisor, script consultant, 2005)
• Earth's Core (National Geographic film, 2004)

Self-produced film:

• The Iceland Hotspot Seismic Project (Documents earthquake seismology project in Iceland, filmed for teaching purposes, 1998, ©University of Durham)

Television appearances:

• CNN International News, on the 2011 Grimsvotn, Iceland, volcanic eruption
• FM Associated Press
• Look North (BBC 1)
• CNN International News, on the 2010 Icelandic volcanic ash plume
• How do they do that? (BBC 1 TV: monitoring earthquakes)
• BBC TV News interviews, including:
  • The 2011 Icelandic volcanic eruption
  • The Merapai volcanic eruption
  • The 1996 subglacial Icelandic eruption

Radio interviews:

• BBC Radio Tees
• You & Yours (BBC Radio 4)
• The Naked Scientists radio/podcast show
• Science Today
• BBC Radio news programmes:
  • monitoring the 1996 subglacial Icelandic eruption
  • the 2005 Boxing Day tsunami
  • the October 2005 Pakistan earthquake
• Radio Newcastle
  • volcanic unrest at Mt. St. Helens

Magazine articles:

• Little things can have big effects, Troitsky Variant, Russian Federation, 2010
• Too hot to handle, Planet Earth, 2006
• Towards Supervolcano technology, Science Magazine, 2006
• Plumes, Plate Tectonics and Popper, Geoscientist, 2003

Newspapers:

Gillian's research on earthquakes, volcanoes and GPS technology has been widely covered in national, regional and local newspapers in several countries, including:

• The London Times
• The Times Higher Education Supplement
• The San Franciscio Chronicle
• Morgunbladid (Iceland)
• Reuters

Books:

Gillian's research on earthquakes, volcanoes and GPS technology has been widely covered in national and regional British newspapers, and foreign publications including:

• Volcanoes (Usborne Beginners book)
• Planet Earth (Usborne Beginners book)
• Planet Earth (Usborne Discovery Series)
• Editor of two scientific books:
  • Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms
  • Plates, Plumes and Planetary Processes
• Single-author book:
  • Plates vs Plumes: A Geological Controversy (Wiley-Blackwell)

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