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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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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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Some notes on the hydrogeology and geomorphology sessions and activities at the Geological Society of America meeting
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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.
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One last push for geoblog readers to fund earth science projects that rattle the classroom windows.
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Will the geoblog readers put rocks in elementary kids' stockings?
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Trying to rally the geologists to fund a weather project through DonorsChoose.
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Here in the US, we're celebrating Earth Science Week and the lead-up to the Geological Society of America meeting. What better time to inspire the next generation of earth scientists and earth science aficionados by helping make sure that good,...
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Meandering rivers are the most common river form on Earth, yet building a meandering river in a laboratory flume eluded scientists for decades. A new paper in PNAS shows the first results of a self-maintaining, coarse-bedded meandering river in a flume.
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This year the collective of geo-bloggers is getting in on the DonorsChoose challenge and trying to fund projects that bring Earth Science into the classroom (or bring classrooms outside onto the Earth).
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The two isolated mountains in Crowders Mountain State Park (NC) have withstood 500 million years of erosion, will they survive a gray and drizzly day with a hydrologist?
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