More fuss over Enceladus
Category: geology
Big subsurface ocean? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:58 PM • 1 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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Field trip diary: Part 2
Category: fieldwork
More pretty photos from my Oman trip
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
June 24, 2009
Could an iPhone be a useful field tool?
Category: field gear
Help us brainstorm the ultimate geological mapping app
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:25 PM • 17 Comments •
Field trip diary: Part 1
Category: fieldwork
What I did on my fieldwork....with pretty photos.
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June 14, 2009
The Lake Missoula megafloods
Category: outcrops
the massive floods that shaped the topography, soils, and agriculture of the Pacific Northwest.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:50 AM • 13 Comments •
June 3, 2009
Field Pack Amenities
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[a post by Anne Jefferson] Adding to the meme begun by Short Geologist (requirements for a field hotel) and followed on by Maria (requirements for a field vehicle), I'll present my requirements for a field pack. The topic has been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:36 PM • 12 Comments •
June 2, 2009
Where rocks, water, and history intertwine
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[a post by Anne Jefferson] "Ten thousand rocks and grassy islets meet the traveler's eye, ten thousand murmuring streams meander through them. During low water the cattle delight to graze upon the islets...at such times they furnish a curious spectacle...
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Back to work
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Apologies for the silence over the last few weeks: after a lot of dashing around to various places for various reasons, I managed to leave my muse somewhere, and just haven't felt like writing anything. It's strange how sometimes, the...
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