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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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Category: by Anne
Some notes on the hydrogeology and geomorphology sessions and activities at the Geological Society of America meeting
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Category: by Anne
My first day at the Geological Society of America conference included lots of beautiful volcano and river photos...and good wine. All in the name of basalt.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 10:55 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: conferences
Does it work? Can it work?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:50 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: public science
Bloggers get together and get excited about webby stuff.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:20 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: academic life
What if you added a bit of unconference dust to the scientific meeting?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:16 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Sessions attended: Nature blogging: a lot of discussion time was spent on what exactly a "nature blog" was, with a clear division between those who viewed nature blogging as a broad church, with the more science-oriented blogs as a subset...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:53 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Since I've yet to develop the sort of mind that can blog the last sentence whilst listening to the next one, I've mainly kept the laptop closed and just listened and/or pontificated in most of today's sessions. But I thought...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:10 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: bloggery
The 'Adventures in Blogging' session has taken a rather surreal turn - we're in the dark, being told to imagine we're liveblogging from a submarine. Complete with shaken chairs, attacks from cuddly angler fish, and... sea shanties. I haven't been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:14 PM • 19 Comments •
Category: academic life
Spot the odd one out, and meet me below the fold: Tilt-Depth Method: A Simple Depth Estimation Method using First Order Magnetic Derivatives. The Use of Multi-Level Potential Field Data in Regional, Geophysical Modelling Satellite Gravity and Geoid Studies Reveal...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:46 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Was the mud volcano drilling or earthquake-triggered? The AAPG decides...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:42 AM • 8 Comments •
