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.
Geoblog readers are truly amazing. Between you, you gave $8660, making earth science a hands-on reality for 1270 students. Forty-three of you, with a little help from HP, gave more than readers of any other ScienceBlog. Thank you. Your generosity humbles me.
A few weeks ago, during Earth Science Week, I offered up posts by Chris and I on topics of our readers' choice. Then Kim willingly jumped in to help. We promised to write one post for each project completely funded during the week with help from geoblogs readers. By the end of the week, you all had funded five amazing projects:
- Healthy Water
- First Hand Look at Rocks
- How salty is the sea?
- Widespread Weather Wisdom for English Language Learners
- Let's Dig A Little Deeper
In the comment thread below, make your requests, and Chris, Kim, and I will look through them and select five topics that we feel most able to answer. Then we'll get to work fulfilling them as we can manage in our busy schedules. Maybe we'll get inspired and pick up even more of your ideas for future posts.
Education
Physical Science
Comments
Update on Lusi mud volcano?
or
End-Permian extinction (& any relevance to present day climate change)
Posted by: Matt | November 4, 2009 9:42 AM
Please tell us what the major open problems in geology are.
Posted by: Jr | November 6, 2009 3:07 PM
If you could both put together "How I got tenure" posts once the necessary background work is done, that would rock.
Posted by: Lab Lemming | November 8, 2009 3:07 PM