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 October, we happily took part in the DonorsChoose Social Media Challenge, teaming up with All of My Faults are Stress-Related and Eruptions to create a geoblog generosity trifecta. We got amazing results, with geoblogs readers giving $8660 to our challenge.
Part of that money was contributed by a generous match from HP, and they have distributed giving codes to all challenge donors. If you gave to a DonorsChoose challenge in October, check your email for a link to put that HP match into action. All you have to do is follow the link, select the project(s) of your choice, and spend HP's money.
Chris, Kim, and I also promised you that we would write 5 posts of you choice, but so far we've only gotten suggestions from three people. Suggest away and give us some inspiration to post here.
Finally, I wanted to share with you the most wonderful thanks I've gotten for contributing to the challenge. Donors who give $100 to a single project, or contribute the amount needed to fully fund the project, get a packet of thank you letters from the students. I helped complete a project that gave copies of Seymour Simon's book Mountains to a classroom in Utah. Here are a sampling of the thank you letters I received:
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Education
Physical Science
Comments
WOOHOO!! You know, between Oceanbloggers and Geobloggers, we raised over $13,300 and impacted more than 3,300 students!!!
Posted by: Kevin Z | November 26, 2009 9:26 AM
Outstanding. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Art | November 26, 2009 11:57 AM
I've added a bunch more projects to the giving page, so for anyone who wants help finding projects dealing with weather, water, or rocks & minerals, there are more projects there now.
(Most of the projects that we initially selected were funded! Wow!)
Posted by: Kim | November 27, 2009 12:31 PM