From pebbles to geothermal energy: Michel Meyer, Director of Thermal & Geothermal Solutions at SIG (Geneva), tells how a geologist became Cantonal Geologist, then led the GeoThermie2020 programme. We discuss PhD choices, working in public administration, social acceptance of geothermal energy, mountains buried under Geneva, and why geologists are “composite people”. 🌍

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He went to a presentation evening to follow a friend, not to discover a career. Then a palaeontologist teacher showed him that everything he aspired to could be found behind the job of geologist. 🪨Full episode available Sunday 18 October at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍#GeoCareers #WEROCKGeomedia #Geology #Geoscience #Geothermal

Palaeontologist and museum curator Lionel Cavin explains why a coelacanth is closer to you than a trout is — and why rewilding isn't really about dinosaurs at all.Lionel Cavin | Palaeontologist | Curator, Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this seventh episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Lionel Cavin, curator of the Geology and Palaeontology department at Geneva's Natural History Museum. His path: a childhood passion for dinosaurs, a PhD on fossil fish in Morocco, a period on unemployment, postdocs in Thailand and at the Natural History Museum in London, fieldwork in Lebanon, and now, for nearly two decades, curating one of Switzerland's major fossil collections — while training a new generation of palaeontologists in Thailand.