Zoe Shipton's guest appearances

Zoe Shipton

The Life Scientific

Steven Pinker

David Eagleman

Jared Diamond

Molly Stevens

Carlo Rovelli

David Spiegelhalter

Jane Goodall

Sean Carroll

Brian Cox

Brian Greene

Richard Dawkins

Lawrence Krauss

Carlos Frenk

Venki Ramakrishnan

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

OwlTail

Zoe Shipton's fascination with rocks started when she was a child and her father took her camping on a volcano. Now a professor of geology at Strathclyde University she talks to Jim al-Khalili about her research into the way that the earth faults. This has lead her to studying the aftermath of a major earthquake in Taiwan and drilling into rocks in remote parts of Utah. Recently she has been part of a Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering committee that has produced a report on the potential impact of fracking for gas on the UK.

Zoe Shipton on fracking