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Helen Quinn on How TV Documentaries Like Rise of The GeoscientistThe Fellowship magazine of The Geological Society of London | www.geolsoc.org.uk | Volume 23 No 10 | November 2013 MOVING EXPERIENCE Can tectonic stress affect the way humans behave? MAPPING FUTURES Fellows flock to the defence of student mapping society on facebook [www.facebook.com/geolsoc] STORY BOARDING Helen Quinn on how TV documentaries like Rise of the Continents are commissioned and made Collect planar and lineation data, photos and annotations Online Google Maps and PGnJOFNBQTVQQPSUGPS EJTDPOOFDUFENBQQJOH Export CSV data and then JNQPSUZPVSEBUBTUSBJHIU into FieldMove or Move CONTENTS GEOSCIENTIST IN THIS ISSUE NOVEMBER 2013 FEATURES 10 TAKING THE STRAIN Can the buildup of tectonic stress actually affect human behaviour? REGULARS 05 WELCOME Ted Nield revisits his memory map 06 SOCIETY NEWS What your Society is doing at home and abroad, in London and the regions 16 09 SOAPBOX Undergraduate geological mapping needs COVER FEATURE: TELL US A STORY beefing up, says Stuart Harker (see Letters also) Helen Quinn, TV producer and geologist, 21 LETTERS We welcome your thoughts Rise of the Continents on the making of 22 BOOK & ARTS Four new books reviewed by Mike Rosenbaum, Pete Webb, Brian Marker and Lewis McCaffrey 24 PEOPLE Geoscientists in the news and on the move 26 OBITUARY Two distinguished Fellows remembered 27 CALENDAR Society activities this month 29 CROSSWORD Win a special publication of your choice ONLINE SPECIALS n OPENNESS AND PRIVACY Jonathan Cowie worries that new online submissions systems collect too much 07 10 personal information NOVEMBER 2013 03 ~ EDITOR’S COMMENT GEOSCIENTIST HELEN QUINN, WHO WORKED WITH PROF. IAIN STEWART HON FGS ON THE BBC SERIES RISE OF THE CONTINENTS, DESCRIBES HOW IT’S DONE Front cover image ~ OUT OF LOVE? ugust’s Soapbox (Geoscientist 23.07) Geoscientist is the E enquiries@centuryone has kicked up a merry storm over Fellowship magazine of publishing.ltd.uk the suggestion that the traditional the Geological Society W www.centuryone of London publishing.ltd.uk undergraduate field mapping project might have had its day (see Letters The Geological Society, ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE p.21, Soapbox, p.9). Academics have Burlington House, Piccadilly, Jonathan Knight London W1J 0BG T 01727 739 193 protested, and industry geologists T +44 (0)20 7434 9944 E jonathan@centuryone Aqueued up to affirm that experience in the field is F +44 (0)20 7439 8975 publishing.ltd.uk E [email protected] any geologist’s most prized possession, and that far (Not for Editorial) ART EDITOR from watering it down, universities should be Heena Gudka Publishing House doing all they can to beef it up. The Geological Society DESIGN & PRODUCTION Concern over the fieldwork content of Publishing House, Unit 7, Sarah Astington Brassmill Enterprise Centre, undergraduate courses, and of the quality of the Brassmill Lane, Bath PRINTED BY contact hours spent in the field, underpins the BA1 3JN Century One Publishing Ltd. Society’s highly successful accreditation scheme. T 01225 445046 F 01225 442836 Copyright Some might say that it was that scheme’s primum The Geological Society of mobile, and remains an important reason why any Library London is a Registered Charity, T +44 (0)20 7432 0999 number 210161. student who emerges qualified from such a course F +44 (0)20 7439 3470 ISSN (print) 0961-5628 need answer no more questions about his or her E [email protected] ISSN (online) 2045-1784 education when applying for Chartership. But, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF more viscerally, I struggle to understand why Professor Peter Styles FGS The Geological Society of London someone would want not to map. accepts no responsibility for the EDITOR views expressed in any article in I recently paid a nostalgic visit to the Isle of Man Dr Ted Nield NUJ FGS this publication. All views (the southern third of which I mapped for my E [email protected] expressed, except where explicitly stated otherwise, degree). This experience revealed several things. represent those of the author, and EDITORIAL BOARD not The Geological Society of First, mapping for nine weeks during the glorious Dr Sue Bowler FGS London. All rights reserved. No Mr Steve Branch FGS paragraph of this publication may summer of 1976 was simply my happiest time. Dr Robin Cocks FGS be reproduced, copied or This may explain why what I learned there stuck: I Prof. Tony Harris FGS transmitted save with written permission. 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