The One Show - Volcanic Crisis in Iceland The One Show (BBC1) Two Live appearances as ‘Dr Volcano’ reporting about volcanic crisis in Iceland. When a volcano erupts and shuts off the whole of Europe’s air space, who ya gonna call? Well I got the call up as the One Shows ‘Dr Volcano’ to [...]
The Birth of Europe
Martin Abel2016-11-09T11:48:42+00:00The Birth of Europe (National Geographic) BIRTH OF EUROPE (National Geographic) On screen earth scientist for water episode This was a really fun shoot involving a salt mine in Poland and some caves in Slovenia. Deep in the salt mine we explored how the sea’s dried up in earths past giving us this valuable [...]
Ancient X-Files – Bosnian Pyramids
Martin Abel2016-11-09T11:35:24+00:00Ancient X-Files - Bosnian Pyramids (National Geographic) ANCIENT X FILES – BOSNIAN PYRIMIDS (National Geographic) On-screen expert/presenter investigating reported pyramids in Bosnia. (Aired through 2012) Myself and archaeologist Henry Chapman (Birmingham Uni), went to Bosnia to investigate the claims that there are man-made pyramids there. We found some pointy hills, cool geology and a [...]
How the Earth was made
Martin Abel2016-11-09T12:04:22+00:00How the Earth was made (10 Episodes) How the earth was made (10 episodes) Earth Science expert (script advisor) and on-screen expert for Vesuvius episode (produced by PIONEER PRODUCTIONS). Advised and appeared on this series, with Liz Bonin, which looked at a number of aspects of the Earth. I helped with the Vesuvius/Herculaneum episode [...]