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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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October 30, 2007
Category: bloggery
I've been asked to go and help out with some fieldwork in Northern Cape. It was on quite short notice, and I was feeling a little bit flu-ridden over the weekend, so this blog will probably be quiet for the...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:40 AM • 0 Comments •
October 29, 2007
Category: academic life
I have to make a troubling admission: when it comes to gender issues in academia, my internal monologue has often been rather silent. What is more, until relatively recently, I didn't see this as a problem: given that a person's...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments •
October 26, 2007
Category: antiscience
A few weeks ago, I was wondering about the attitudes to the teaching of evolution here in South Africa - it's now in the curriculum, but in a form which sounds disturbingly familiar to those of us who have encountered...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:40 AM • 7 Comments •
October 25, 2007
Category: bloggery
David Ng at the World's Fair has come up with a new game for net-enabled procrastinators everywhere: the "I rank number one on google" meme: I'd like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:34 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: bloggery
After this month's fiesta of epic death and destruction, Kevin Z of The Other 95% has chosen a more cuddly theme for the next geoblogging extravaganza: I will be hosting a special edition of the geology carnival, The Accretionary Wedge...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:59 AM • 2 Comments •
October 24, 2007
Category: tectonics
Does the thickness of a tectonic plate control its speed?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:30 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: bloggery
How could I forget the Earth's birthday? For a geologist, I'm fairly sure that's an unforgivable sin. Of course, October the 23rd only has geochronological significance if you believe the biblical calculations of Archbishop Ussher (or possibly one of his...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:30 AM • 4 Comments •
October 23, 2007
Category: geohazards
The latest from Lusi It seems that a certain mud volcano is situated less than a 100 km away from the grumbling Mount Kelud, and it is not responding well to the increased geological activity in the area: Separately, a...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:23 PM • 0 Comments •
October 22, 2007
Category: rugby
Even if I hadn't been watching on TV, the cheers and hooting which rose into the Jo'burg night from around 10:45 pm on Saturday would have informed me that the result of the Rugby World Cup final was far more...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:30 AM • 9 Comments •
October 18, 2007
Category: volcanoes
I seem to be having a fairly volcanic week, so whilst we're on the subject of volcanoes in the news, someone over at Nasa's Earth Observatory got a satellite to snap Jabal al-Tair in the Red Sea, which erupted at...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:11 PM • 2 Comments •
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