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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: ranting
On this hot, hot day, when much of the eastern United States is beset by a record-breaking heat wave, what could be more refreshing than a nice cold, fresh bottle of water? After all, that's exactly what is recommended by...
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:37 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: ranting
Do immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes? Of course not.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 6:07 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: environment
I'm sure recycling prose is good for the environment somehow.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: ranting
"we have got a storm scope and weather radar and they were looking straight through it."
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:35 AM • 21 Comments •
Category: academic life
In which I wonder whether I'm any good at lecturing or not.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:35 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: ranting
I bet more people currently know the name of a valiant little Mars rover than know the names of the current astronauts on the ISS.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:40 PM • 29 Comments •
Category: general science
I'd prefer churnalism to gratuitous insertion of wrong.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:50 AM • 24 Comments •
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 •
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