The problem of geovandalism
Category: geology
If the rocks are irreplaceable, should you hammer them?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:20 AM • 11 Comments •
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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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December 19, 2007
Category: geology
If the rocks are irreplaceable, should you hammer them?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:20 AM • 11 Comments •
December 18, 2007
Category: bloggery
As I'm going through a memetic phase, Julia tagged me with a 7 things meme last week (Update: through the magic of post scheduling, Bob also tagged me after I wrote this but before it appeared) . Here goes: Despite...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:38 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: bloggery
I'm (probably) going to post some thoughts on the past year at some point before we lurch into 2008, but as everyone else is doing this 'post the first sentence of each month's first post' exercise, I thought I might...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:55 AM • 2 Comments •
December 16, 2007
Category: links
For those who don't keep an eye on the side-bar, the latest geoblogging extravaganza is up at GoodSchist. Go and find out about the pretty, pretty rocks that we all keep on our desks along with the unread papers, unmarked...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:32 AM • 0 Comments •
December 14, 2007
Category: links
It's been a somewhat frustrating week for this geoblogger, with many potentially interesting stories popping up containing some variant of "presented this week at AGU in San Francisco". With 15,000+ Earth Scientists collected in the same place, it's no surprise...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:49 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: geology
I have on my desk evidence for a hotter mantle 3 billion years ago. Nifty, eh?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:03 AM • 4 Comments •
December 13, 2007
Category: climatology
Reports of a Maunder-like minimum are somewhat premature
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:20 PM • 5 Comments •
December 12, 2007
Category: bloggery
When I saw that one of my Facebook friend's status was 'very upset about Terry Pratchett', my blood ran cold. Fortunately, I was wrong to fear the worst, but there's still bad news: he's been diagnosed with "a very rare...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:55 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: planets
Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments •
December 11, 2007
Category: bloggery
I've just been finishing off my final piece for the Nature Post-doc Journal, and it occurred to me that they're probably looking for people to replace me next year. Sure enough, they are: The Postdoc Journal gives four postdoctoral fellows...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:23 AM • 0 Comments •
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