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.In this week's podclast, host Chris Town, Julia the Ethical Palaeontologist and myself demonstate just how wide-ranging the earth sciences can be by starting off with Tongan volcanoes, and finishing on the possibility of feathered sauropods. In between, we even managed to switch geological gears neatly from subduction zones to melting ice caps and climate change, via John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes, a sci-fi classic involving weird blobby things from another planet setting up in the ocean deeps and indulging in a little bit of terraforming. As it turned out, they may just have needed to wait a century or three.
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I suspect Grrlscientist would prefer The Midwich Cuckoos
Posted by: Bob O'H | March 23, 2009 3:08 PM