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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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January 29, 2009
Category: links
Whilst we're on the subject of listening to what geology can teach us, Grrlscientist has uncovered a pretty cool video, entitled 'Why Geology?', from the American Geological Institute. There's something that might be a magnetometer hidden in there somewhere -...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:45 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: environment
Science doesn't need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:54 AM • 10 Comments •
January 27, 2009
Category: bloggery
Is this: What's Your Favorite Toy?Brickfish cuter than this? Of course it is. So help Amanda the Self-Designed Student fund her foray into full-time education by ensuring that her Brontosaurus is voted as the Internet's Favorite Toy. It may be...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:24 PM • 1 Comments •
January 26, 2009
Category: academic life
What if you added a bit of unconference dust to the scientific meeting?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:16 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: publication
It turns out that Sciencedirect do have subdiscipline RSS feeds - they're just a little hidden away.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:06 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: bloggery
The silence that fell on this blog last week was unplanned; I was struck down by a rather evil bout of flu, which kept me bid-ridden for much of last week. Given that at certain delirious points I was half...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:30 AM • 6 Comments •
January 19, 2009
Category: bloggery
Sessions attended: Nature blogging: a lot of discussion time was spent on what exactly a "nature blog" was, with a clear division between those who viewed nature blogging as a broad church, with the more science-oriented blogs as a subset...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:53 AM • 4 Comments •
January 18, 2009
Category: bloggery
Since I've yet to develop the sort of mind that can blog the last sentence whilst listening to the next one, I've mainly kept the laptop closed and just listened and/or pontificated in most of today's sessions. But I thought...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:10 AM • 1 Comments •
January 17, 2009
Category: bloggery
The 'Adventures in Blogging' session has taken a rather surreal turn - we're in the dark, being told to imagine we're liveblogging from a submarine. Complete with shaken chairs, attacks from cuddly angler fish, and... sea shanties. I haven't been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:14 PM • 19 Comments •
Category: bloggery
I managed to fly directly into Raleigh-Durham yesterday. The flight arrived on time, I hadn't checked any baggage, and I was feeling even more optimistic about getting to the hotel before the evening kicked off when I realised that most...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:43 AM • 7 Comments •
