WE ROCK — The Earth Sciences Media.
Where Earth Sciences Meet Society.
Geology is everywhere — in the water you drink, in your phone, in the disasters that make the headlines. Yet geoscientists remain invisible.
We make Earth Sciences accessible to everyone.
Every episode, we sit down with geoscientists — geologists, volcanologists, geophysicists, hydrogeologists, geochemists and more — for honest, unfiltered conversations about their work, their journey and why it matters to all of us.
THE HEAT UNDER GENEVA — MICHEL MEYER | GEOCAREERS EP08
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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17 Oct 2026
Trailer Episode 8 — Michel Meyer
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 (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/geocareers/shorts) #WEROCKGeomedia (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/werockgeomedia/shorts) #Geology (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/geology/shorts) #Geoscience (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/geoscience/shorts) #Geothermal (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/geothermal/shorts)
27 Sept 2026
REWILDING BEYOND THE DINOSAURS — LIONEL CAVIN | GEOCAREERS EP07
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.
23 Sept 2026
Trailer Episode 7 — Lionel Cavin
He wasn't the best student — until the subjects got interesting. Then came a degree in palaeontology, a stint on unemployment, and a career built on patience in a field where positions are scarce.
Lionel Cavin, palaeontologist and curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva, explains why coelacanths are closer to us than a trout is — and why rewilding isn't really about dinosaurs at all.
Full episode available Sunday 27 September at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍
#GeoCareers #WEROCKGeomedia #Geoscience #Palaeontology #Rewilding
13 Sept 2026
NEPAL AGAINST EARTHQUAKES — GYÖRGY HETÉNY | GEOCAREERS EP. 06
From an orienteering club to imaging the deep structure of the Alps and the Himalaya, György Hetényi, professor of geophysics at the University of Lausanne, shares a career built on curiosity rather than a plan.
A conversation on large-scale seismic imaging, why predicting earthquakes isn't the same as forecasting them, and a project born after the 2015 Nepal earthquake: training teachers and installing seismometers in schools to prepare children for the next big one.
Where Earth Sciences Meet Society.
9 Sept 2026
Trailer Episode 6.— György Hetényi
Before the Alps, before the Himalaya, there was an orienteering club — and a question that follows him still: "Would the teenager you were be proud of the adult you've become?"
György Hetényi, professor of geophysics at the University of Lausanne, has spent his career imaging what lies beneath mountain belts — and after the devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake, one of his students turned that science into something else: seismometers in classrooms, teachers trained to prepare children for the next big one.
Full episode available Sunday 13 September at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍
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2 Aug 2026
SWISS GEOTHERMAL ENERGY — JÉRÔME FAESSLER | GEOCAREERS EP. 05
From composting waste to leading Switzerland's national geothermal association — Jérôme Faessler's path was anything but a straight line.
Jérôme Faessler | Energy Specialist | Director, Geothermie-Suisse
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In this fifth episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Jérôme Faessler, Director of Géothermie-Suisse, Switzerland's national association promoting geothermal energy. His path: environmental sciences at the University of Geneva, years spent optimising waste and composting treatment in Geneva, an applied PhD on renewable energy in the Franco-Valdo-Genevois region, a strategic role at Lausanne's industrial services (SIL), and now, for the past four years, leading the national voice of Swiss geothermal energy.
JÉRÔME FAESSLER
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faessler/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/faessler/)
Géothermie-Suisse: https://geothermie-schweiz.ch/fr/ (https://geothermie-schweiz.ch/fr/)
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CREDITS
Author, producer, director, filming & publishing: Sam-Bien Sogle
Victoria Garcia
SOURCES IMAGES
Photos: Jérôme Faessler
Illustration: GenAI
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1 Aug 2026
Trailer Episode 5. — Jérôme Faessler
From composting waste to leading Switzerland's national geothermal association — Jérôme Faessler's path was anything but a straight line.
19 Jul 2026
WAR ZONES. AI. SATELLITES. WATER SCIENCE. — SAEED MHANNA | GEOCAREERS EP. 04
During the Syrian war, millions fled. The fields were abandoned. And from space, the ground started to rise — a silent signal that the aquifers were refilling. Saeed Mhanna detected it from Switzerland, using satellites.Saeed Mhanna | Hydrogeologist | PhD, University of Neuchâtel | Postdoctoral Researcher, EAWAG Dübendorf━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this fourth episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, I sit down with Saeed Mhanna, Lebanese hydrogeologist and freshly minted PhD.He started in petroleum studies in Beirut — because Lebanon needed oil. He ended up drilling wells for Syrian refugees instead. Then he came to Switzerland to do a PhD on how war affects groundwater — using satellites and AI to read what's happening underground in conflict zones he couldn't physically visit. His paper went viral on Al Arabiya. He won Ma Thèse en 180 Secondes — in French, as a non-French speaker. And now he's a postdoc at EAWAG, studying how mining affects water resources worldwide.In this episode:— From petroleum dreams to drilling wells for Syrian refugees— How a satellite detects groundwater recovery in a war zone— The Kakhovka dam disaster in Ukraine — and the wetlands that came back— His paper going viral on Al Arabiya — and being misrepresented— "Touching grass" — what happens when a researcher leaves academia and goes on Facebook— Winning MT180 in French as a non-French speaker— Mining vs water: the dilemma of resources we can't live without— What kept him going during the hardest moments of his PhD— His final message: find hope even in the darkest places━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SAEED MHANNALinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saeed-mhanna-154569a1/EAWAG: eawag.chCHYN UniNE: unine.ch/chynMT180 UNINE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEOd6gZpXUcMT180 Suisse : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkC-qlQzJA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WE ROCKYouTube: @werockgeomediaSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033pzISIs9qaFcxsXkQAu9Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-rock-geomedia/id1896890768YouTube Music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAoKvUnH4Uqbt2-5ZuROWdYApP5V3PLGZAmazon Music: https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/6331c5cb-3724-4252-bc61-52ce3154c065/we-rock-geomediaInstagram: @werockgeomediaLinkedIn: WE ROCK GeomediaTikTok: @werockgeomediaFacebook: WE ROCK GeomediaEmail: werock.geomedia@gmail.comWhere Earth Sciences Meet Society.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CREDITSAuthor, producer, director, filming & publishing: Sam-Bien SogleProduction assistance: Victoria GarciaSOURCES IMAGESPhotos MT180 UniNe : Mario CafisoPhotos MT180 Suisse : Alain HerzogVideos & Photos Kakhovka : Reuters, BBC, ACTI-Framework : Saeed Mahnna━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GeoCareers #WEROCK #Hydrogeology #EarthSciences #Syria #WaterSciences #Podcast #Geosciences #RemoteSensing #WaterCrisis
18 Jul 2026
Trailer Episode 4. — Saeed Mahnna
Saeed Mahnna, our next WE ROCK GeoCareers guest, started knowing nothing about geology. 🪨❌ Today he uses remote sensing and machine learning to track how conflict transforms water systems — in #Syria (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/syria/) 🇸🇾, in #Ukraine (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ukraine/) 🇺🇦. 🏆 Winner of the Swiss @MT180 (https://www.instagram.com/MT180/) competition!
Full episode available on 19 July at 7:30 AM UTC on YouTube and all podcast platforms. 🌍
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5 Jul 2026
FROM OIL AND GAS FIELDS TO CLASSROOMS. ONE GEOLOGIST'S JOURNEY - ANDREA MOSCARIELLO | EP.3
🛢️ He spent over ten years with Shell — in oil and gas industry in the North Sea, in the Netherland and Aberdeen. Then he walked away from it all to join the University of Geneva.
In this episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, Andrea Moscariello, Full Professor of Sedimentary Geology and Geo-energy at UNIGE, shares the story of a career built on chance, opportunity, and a few difficult choices.
From glacial deposits in the Dolomites to oil reservoirs in Algeria, Libya and Saudi Arabia. From Shell to SGS. From consulting back to the lecture hall. And now — geothermal energy in Geneva, and the geology of the future CERN tunnel.
He also answers the WE ROCK signature questions — including which rock he most resembles. His answer: a diamicton. Heterogeneous, different origins, solid matrix — but add a little water, and it trembles.
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4 Jul 2026
Trailer Episode 3 - Andrea Moscariello
In this episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, Andrea Moscariello, Full Professor of Sedimentary Geology and Geo-energy at UNIGE, shares the story of a career built on chance, opportunity, and a few difficult choices.
From glacial deposits in the Dolomites to oil reservoirs in Algeria, Libya and Saudi Arabia. From Shell to SGS. From consulting back to the lecture hall. And now — geothermal energy in Geneva, and the geology of the future CERN tunnel.
He also answers the WE ROCK signature questions — including which rock he most resembles. His answer: a diamicton. Heterogeneous, different origins, solid matrix — but add a little water, and it trembles.
🎙️ WE ROCK GeoCareers — Where Earth Sciences Meet Society.
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21 Jun 2026
SHE CAN READ ANCIENT OCEAN TEMPERATURES FROM MICROFOSSILS. — CLÉMENTINE COLPAERT | EP. 2
If a dinosaur ever stepped into the water, she could tell you the exact temperature of that water — 150 million years later.
In this second episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, Sam-Bien Sogle sits down with Clémentine Colpaert, micropalaeontologist at the University of Geneva.
Her field of study: microscopic fossils called foraminifera, sometimes smaller than a grain of sand, that recorded the exact ocean temperatures from the age of the dinosaurs in their shells. Her path: a degree in France, a PhD completed in Russian in Siberia, a postdoc in China, another in Germany — and now, Geneva.
In this episode:
— Her journey: from Lille to Siberia, from China to Germany, to Geneva
— Micropalaeontology explained simply
— How a microscopic fossil tells the story of the climate 150 million years ago
— Her work on foraminifera from Normandy and Tibet
— The real cost of international mobility in research
— The truth about academic careers
— The WE ROCK signature question: which foraminifera species feels most like her?
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17 Jun 2026
Trailer Episode 2 - Clémentine Colpaert
"FIND ANCIENT OCEAN TEMPERATURES FROM MICROFOSSILS"
Clémentine Colpaert | Micropaléontologue | Maître assistante, Université de Genève
Dans ce deuxième épisode de WE ROCK GeoCareers, je reçois Clémentine Colpaert, micropaléontologue à l'Université de Genève.
Son terrain de jeu : des fossiles microscopiques appelés foraminifères, parfois plus petits qu'un grain de sable, qui ont enregistré dans leur coquille la température exacte des océans à l'époque des dinosaures. Son parcours : une licence en France, un doctorat en Sibérie rédigé en russe, un postdoc en Chine, un autre en Allemagne — et aujourd'hui, Genève.
Dans cet épisode :
— Son parcours : de Lille à la Sibérie, de la Chine à l'Allemagne, jusqu'à Genève
— La micropaléontologie expliquée simplement
— Comment un fossile microscopique raconte le climat d'il y a 150 millions d'années
— Son travail sur les foraminifères de Normandie et du Tibet
— Le prix de la mobilité internationale en recherche
— La vérité sur les carrières académiques
— La question signature WE ROCK : quel foraminifère lui ressemble le plus ?
7 Jun 2026
HE WANTED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER. HE BECAME A VOLCANOLOGIST. — LUCA CARICCHI | EP.01
7 Jun 2026
Trailer Episode 1 - Luca Caricchi
Les plus grands gisements de cuivre du monde sont des volcans qui n'ont pas explosé. Luca Caricchi | Professeur de volcanologie | Chef du Département des Sciences de la Terre, UNIGE
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