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 words just vanish - it's not like, most of the time, I have any shortage of things to see, and opinions to impart. That said, perhaps you've enjoyed the silence...
Anyway, as I sort out the rest of the my life, my good friend (and semi-regular) guest blogger Anne Jefferson has provided a couple of posts for you to enjoy, which will go up presently.

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.

