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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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A brief history of Chris
When I arrived at Cambridge in 1997 to study Natural Sciences, I was intending to specialise in Physics. But, lured by the attraction of field trips and more beer, I signed up for a first year geology course, and I was as surprised as anyone when I discovered how much more fun the science bit was too. My PhD at the University of Southampton took me to New Zealand, then after a 15-month stint as a lecturing lab technician (which was as weird and annoying as it sounds), I took up a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. I am now a Marie Curie Fellow (which is more impressive than it sounds) at the University of Edinburgh.
My main research interests are tectonics and continental deformation, using the arcane and mysterious tools of palaeomagnetism. My overiding ambition is to make it as a geoscientist without having to grow a beard.
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A short piece about my PhD Research for the in-house publication of my funding council (PDF).
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Monthly musings about life as a post-doc for Naturejobs.February 2007 | March | April |May | June | September | October | November | December| January 2008
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First-authored papers.- Rowan CJ, Roberts, AP and Broadbent, T (2009). Reductive diagenesis, magnetite dissolution, greigite growth and paleomagnetic smoothing in marine sediments: A new view. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 277, p223-235. doi
- Rowan, CJ and Roberts, AP (2008). Widespread remagnetizations and a new view of Neogene tectonic rotations within the Australia-Pacific plate boundary zone, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, B03103, doi
- Rowan, CJ and Roberts, AP (2006). Magnetite dissolution, diachronous greigite formation, and secondary magnetizations from pyrite oxidation: Unravelling complex magnetizations in Neogene marine sediments from New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 241(1-2), p119-137. doi
- Rowan, CJ and Roberts, AP (2005). Tectonic and geochronological implications of variably timed magnetizations carried by authigenic greigite in marine sediments from New Zealand. Geology 33(7), p553-556. doi
- Rowan, CJ, Roberts, AP and Rait, GJ (2005). Relocation of the tectonic boundary between the Raukumara and Wairoa Domains (East Coast, North Island, New Zealand): implications for the rotation history of the Hikurangi margin. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 48(1), p185-196. Abstract
