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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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November 29, 2007
Category: planets
Anyone interested in Venus will be very happy with this week's issue of Nature, which has published a raft of papers detailing the latest findings of the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe, which has been orbiting our inner planetary...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:26 PM • •
November 28, 2007
Category: geohazards
The latest from Lusi It's been some time since I last checked in on Lusi, the mad-made mud volcano, but this account of conditions on the ground in the Christian Science Monitor prompted me to check out the latest satellite...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:55 AM • 2 Comments •
November 27, 2007
Category: environment
We're not even building enough reactors to replace the ones we've got...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:09 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: antiscience
This NY Times account of the "First Conference in Creation Geology" should ring a few bells, because I blogged about it way back at the beginning of September. Take that, mainstream media. As I said at the time, the idea...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:08 AM • 10 Comments •
November 26, 2007
Category: geohazards
This is the Global Sesimic Hazard Assessment Program's global hazard map: Andrew Alden of About.com geology has produced a nice little resource by taking the high-resolution data freely available on the GSHAP website and breaking it down into a series...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:30 PM • 8 Comments •
November 23, 2007
Category: general science
It's nothing to do with Noah.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:53 AM • 8 Comments •
November 22, 2007
Category: links
...complete your dissertation. Look at Brian. ...actually make progress in the academic job market. Look at Propter Doc, soon to be "I Lecture, Therefore I Am". Hearty congratulations to them both....
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:32 AM • 1 Comments •
November 20, 2007
Category: geohazards
Fellow Sciblings Sheril and Chris have done a sterling job of covering the impact of Cyclone Sidr, which struck Bangladesh at the end of last week. Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to the large storm surges generated by such events, thanks...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:55 AM • •
November 19, 2007
Category: public science
Regulars in the science blogosphere have probably already heard about the Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting (BPR3) Initiative, which aims to provide a means of highlighting blog entries which eschew regurgitation of press releases about recently published research and instead...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:19 AM • •
November 16, 2007
Category: links
The theme is 'between a rock and a squishy face' and is all about the intimate ties between things biological and the planet they call home. Some excellent posts from both sides of the disciplinary fence await your perusal at...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:00 AM • •
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