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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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April 24, 2009
Category: fieldwork
Apologies for the unannounced hiatus in my blogging. Basically, I'm out in Oman doing some fieldwork, a trip that went from 'happening at some point' to 'why don't you leave next Monday?' in a length of time rather too ridiculously...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:59 AM • 6 Comments •
April 7, 2009
Category: geohazards
Monday's earthquake did not occur in isolation - what do the smaller earthquakes tell us?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:30 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Any geologist would be celebrating a genuine, proven, method of earthquake prediction: but we're clearly not there yet.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:44 PM • 4 Comments •
April 6, 2009
Category: geology
Some geological background on the 6.3 near L'Aquila, Italy.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:43 PM • 15 Comments •
April 1, 2009
Category: bloggery
[Update: It should come as no surprise that W. Haldanei comes not from southern China but some rather extreme photoshopping of a picture of a cute (and very much alive) bunny rabbit. The 'biomarkers' are all found in chocolate. And...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:06 AM • 21 Comments •
