Archean bacterial mats under the hammer
Geovandalism rears it's ugly head once more.Posted on May 6, 2008 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •
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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, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.
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A planet is for life, not just for Earth Day
Connect a bit more with the planet: not just today, but every day.Posted on April 22, 2008 10:08 AM • 6 Comments •
Geologists in the movies: the myth of the maverick
[submitted for The Accretionary Wedge #7] It's a fact of life that scientific accuracy is not generally at the top of Hollywood's to-do list when making a movie. Any scientist can no doubt recall multiple occasions when their ability to...Posted on March 21, 2008 10:59 AM • 5 Comments •
Napalm is not a good fire extinguisher
How not to look innocent when you're accused of academic misconductPosted on February 29, 2008 8:47 AM • 2 Comments •
It's our language and we want it back!
It's English. You can't change it without our say-so.Posted on February 20, 2008 12:17 PM • 28 Comments •
AGU? Bah, humbug
Anyone who has noticed my latest Nature column will be aware that I have had to forgo the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco for yet another year. I suppose I can feel virtuous about not ramping up my already...Posted on December 7, 2007 9:52 AM • 4 Comments •
The postdoc is willing, but the lab equipment is weak
Devotees of Star Wars will remember those classic scenes in the Empire Strikes back where the Millennium Falcon, having cleverly jinked and dodged around its Imperial pursuers, makes to leave them in its dust trails by engaging the hyperdrive...Posted on August 8, 2007 10:36 AM • 4 Comments •
Is getting tenure Mission Impossible?
Over at Galactic Interactions, fellow Scibling Rob Knop has announced that he's leaving academia for a job at Linden Labs, the people who run Second Life. Even though that particular phenomenon leaves me a little bemused - I have enough...Posted on July 17, 2007 1:00 PM • 8 Comments •
A recommendation from your friendly neighbourhood field trip instructor
Dear geology students everywhere, Should you be out on a field mapping exercise, and one of the teaching staff does any of the following: (1) Sits pointedly on or near a particular outcrop as you wander past; (2) Deliberately wanders...Posted on July 11, 2007 9:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Six things I have learnt from my Namibian fieldwork
1) Never let yourself be talked into using a Mahindra as a field vehicle. They may almost look the part: but they're about as tough as a chocolate teapot in a blast furnace....Posted on June 15, 2007 10:05 AM • 3 Comments •
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