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.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 - see if you can spot it. I also fully agree with the contention at the end that everyone - not just those wanting to become geologists - should learn a bit about how the planet works. Of course, since you're here, you probably already agree with that...
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Posted by: Ole | January 31, 2009 5:36 AM
Thanks for the tip. I will link to this video from our Department's web site, as information for prospective college students and earth science majors (and even for already declared majors).
Posted by: Rob Sternberg | January 31, 2009 5:24 PM