Hello, welcome to an episode of the Naked Scientists recorded live at the Cambridge Science

Center.

Welcome everybody!

It's great to see so many people here and what we're going to talk about this week is

extreme geology. Now extreme

geologists as we have with us this evening.

There are also extreme o-files.

These are things that can love and tolerate extreme environments,

rather like the crowd at a Justin Bieber concert.

We're not going to talk about

extremophiles so much as what mother nature does by way of extremes this week and

we have with us an amazing panel of scientists from Cambridge University. I'm going

to introduce you to them.

Please welcome Professor James Jackson.

Tineukkah Elanco and Arwin Duse.

If I could ask each of you in turn just to tell everybody a little bit about yourself and what you do

James go first please. I study big earthquakes and see what happens in them.

There have been a lot in the news the last few years if you've noticed and the reason

we're interested in what happens in big earthquakes is that you can learn from them.

You can learn something about how the planet works which we live on,

but also if you understand what goes on in them, you can prepare for them.

We can't stop them happening, but we can try and prepare

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