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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: environment
The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: public science
It's about more than passing tests - if we do it right.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: ranting
breathless reporting from the AAAS conference is starting to annoy me.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: environment
Science doesn't need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:54 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: bloggery
I managed to fly directly into Raleigh-Durham yesterday. The flight arrived on time, I hadn't checked any baggage, and I was feeling even more optimistic about getting to the hotel before the evening kicked off when I realised that most...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:43 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: antiscience
I say official, because, just like the Queen's, the date does not actually mean much from a natal perspective. Nonetheless, the night preceding, or the morning of, October 23rd, 4004 BC is the date that Archbishop Ussher, after a bit...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:31 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: ranting
The human foibles behind the credit crunch are very familiar to this scientist.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:58 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: ranting
I preface these comments with the following two disclaimers: (1) PZ Myers has the right to write what he likes on his blog, and he certainly has the right to dispose of items in his possession, be they (supposedly) edible...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:19 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: academic life
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology weighs in on accusations of intellectual thievery
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:32 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: bloggery
My readers may or may not have heard about the xenophobic attacks that have been taking place in some of the poorer districts of Johannesburg over the past week or so, which have claimed almost 50 lives so far and...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:48 AM • 2 Comments •
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