Death to the outline slide
Category: academic life
Don't tell me what you're going to say - tell me why I should care.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:15 AM • 24 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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It's official: we really have saved the ozone layer
Category: climatology
In a parallel universe without the Montreal Protocol, mankind is gearing up for some major sunburn.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:13 PM • 40 Comments •
A new podclast for your listening pleasure
Category: bloggery
Volcanoes and dinosaurs and 50's sci-fi, oh my!
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:52 PM • 1 Comments •
March 22, 2009
An Arizona field trip diary
Category: links
Ryan of the Martian Chronicles has been on a field trip around the geological sights of the Arizona region, including beautiful red sandstones; volcanic cinder cones; the Grand Canyon; Meteor Crater; columnar basalts and sand dunes (with the former looking...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:08 PM • 2 Comments •
March 18, 2009
Peak coal?
Category: environment
Not hundreds of years' worth left, as is claimed?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:47 AM • 7 Comments •
March 17, 2009
A properly British celebration of Darwin
Category: bloggery
Commemorative beer. What else?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:30 AM • 6 Comments •
March 16, 2009
The geologist invasion of Scienceblogs continues
Category: bloggery
Well, well, well. No sooner have I finished celebrating Kim's arrival, than the geological output of Scienceblogs is further bolstered by the arrival of Erik Klemetti, whose blog, Eruptions, does exactly what it says on the tin, keeping you well-informed...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:21 AM • 1 Comments •
March 13, 2009
More than hot Jupiters
Category: geology
A fair number of extra-solar planets would fit right into our own solar system.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:31 AM • 9 Comments •
March 12, 2009
Kepler and the Rare Earth hypothesis
Category: geology
Kepler is not designed to directly find life-bearing worlds, but may give us some hints about their abundance.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:00 PM • 13 Comments •
March 11, 2009
Climate variability and climate change: some semantics
Category: climatology
What these terms actually mean - and the distinction between them.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:45 AM • 1 Comments •
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