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You've seen Phoenix descending in close-up, but have you seen the wide-view?
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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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May 30, 2008
Lusi sinking into its own caldera
Category: geohazards
Study highlights subsidence of the Indonesian mud volcano, and also bolsters case for a human cause.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:45 AM • 4 Comments •
May 29, 2008
Survivor: Geologist
Category: bloggery
I was just forwarded this, although I'd actually got some chuckles out of it already; it's one of the columns written by James Clarke for the Johannesburg paper, The Star (a tad more upmarket than the UK version). He titled...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:37 AM • 9 Comments •
May 28, 2008
Aetogate: the final round?
Category: academic life
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology weighs in on accusations of intellectual thievery
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:32 AM • 2 Comments •
May 27, 2008
Chinese army go into the geoengineering business
Category: geohazards
As a follow-up to Anne's post yesterday, it seems that the state of the Tangjiashan 'quake lake', near Biechaun - formed by landslide damming in the aftermath of the Sichaun earthquake - is rapidly becoming the focus of major concern....
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:43 AM • 2 Comments •
May 26, 2008
What will Phoenix tell us about Martian geology?
Category: planets
It's not just about the search for life, you know...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:59 AM • 2 Comments •
Flood risks in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake
Category: geohazards
This is a guest post from Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She's a hydrogeologist who likes to play in rivers, and I let her post this on the condition that she not...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:29 AM • 5 Comments •
May 23, 2008
Accretionary Wedge #9
Category: bloggery
This month's collection of geoblogospheric musings, concerning Geological Events of Unusual Significance, is being hosted by Julian over at Harmonic Tremors. Shamefully, I didn't write anything, but given the quality on offer, I don't think you'll miss my witterings too...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:55 AM • 2 Comments •
May 22, 2008
Fear and loathing in Johannesburg (but some hope too)
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My readers may or may not have heard about the xenophobic attacks that have been taking place in some of the poorer districts of Johannesburg over the past week or so, which have claimed almost 50 lives so far and...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:48 AM • 2 Comments •
May 15, 2008
The business of research
Category: academic life
There was an interesting article in Science last week, which argues that a successful career in research requires much the same skills as running a successful business. The author, Peter Fiske, argues that a number of business strategy ideas can...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:34 AM • 7 Comments •
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