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.
Another set of interesting links for you.
BBC video: inside a destroyed village in Sumatra. Scary quake damage.
The podClast - episode 14 - The Geobloggers in the Pub: San Francisco episode.
(via @Yorrike)
Hey geology bloggers! ... take this survey.
(via @clasticdetritus)
David Mitchell's Observer piece on the impoance of curiosity-led research is brilliant.
(via @markgfh)
BBC NEWS: Malawi windmill boy with big fans. A real scrapheap challenge!
'Planned recession' could avoid catastrophic climate change. Good idea, will never happen.
(via @geographile, @Eah_News)
Large distant quakes increase number of small quakes on San Andreas.
(via @NatureNews)
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program does exist, although seems less active than IODP...
(From conversation with @stressrelated, @geologyclaire)
Experts draw up ocean-drilling wish list. Including renewing the quest to drill down to the Moho.
(via @NatureNews)
Is the Global Oil Tank Half-Full, Is It Half-Empty ...or Are We Running on Fumes?
from (via
Viking 2 missed Maian water by just inches. Possibly, anyway.
(via @Eah2larryo)
Reviews and the junior faculty member. How many is too many?
(via @ScienceBlogs)
Sichuan quake: rupture along multiple segments takes place "approximately once in 4,000 years".
Updated 500+ science types on Twitter; now it's much easier to follow the Scientwists.
(via @sciencebase)
For those who were asking, you can quite easily perform a custom Twitter search (either using this form or by a direct query) that returns posts containing a link by a particular user within a particular time period. I'm working on a script which then takes that output and does some basic reformatting to make the items more readable.
Comments
test (trying to post directly without going to preview)
Posted by: Divalent | October 5, 2009 10:18 PM
Doh!
just to 'splain to others, apparently the preview does not work (you get an error message that doesn't help you do anything), but you can post by just hitting the post button (as I just found out with my test above). [Chris fixed the error I was going to point out.]
Posted by: Divalent | October 5, 2009 10:23 PM