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You're not missing much 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.

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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river 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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Casting a Wider Net: Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences

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In the United States, we have a diversity problem in the geosciences. Less than 5% of BS degrees in geosciences go to minorities. NSF's OEDG program seeks innovative ways to cast a wider net for future geo-professionals.

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Blogging, tweeting and conferences

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Does it work? Can it work?

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Last call for women geoscientists reading or writing blogs to take our Survey

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The GSA meeting is ~6 weeks away - it must be time to start trying to make sense of the data, right? I'm helping Kim, Zuska, and Pat with a survey of women geoscientists and how they use blogs, and...

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Surfing the Google Wave

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Google Wave is growing on me - but will it change how I do science?

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A question of time management

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How should I most efficiently chop up my day?

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Survey: women geoscientists, blogs and recruitment

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Whilst I continue my struggles to regain the blogging muse, here's a much better use of your time: Over the past several years, the geoscience blogosphere has blossomed so much that this fall, the Geological Society of America (GSA) will...

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Death to the outline slide

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Don't tell me what you're going to say - tell me why I should care.

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The responsibilities of the English-speaking co-author

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Should they be blamed for poorly written papers from non-English speaking lead authors?

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Weird Circularity

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About 15 months ago my current boss visited South Africa to sample the Neoproterozoic and early Cambrian rocks near the Namibian border, and I ended spending a week or so out in the field helping with the drilling - at...

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Scientific Unconferencing

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What if you added a bit of unconference dust to the scientific meeting?

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