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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: deep time
Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago - but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:40 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: climate science
If we're going to sequester carbon, is it better to do it under land or under the ocean? A grad student examines the pros and cons of each, in this guest blog post.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 3:41 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 1:26 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Recently published hydrogeology and geomorphology papers that make my heart sing
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 5:28 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: climate science
On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:30 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: climate science
At SEEDMAGAZINE.com, Chris offers up a geologist's perspective on the latest assessment of geo-engineering schemes to use technology to deter on-going climate change.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 4:51 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: environment
including mine.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:46 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Though the scientific story of anthropogenic global warming is familiar to many of us, Kolbert's book is still an excellent read. And for those unfamiliar with the causes and consequences of on-going climate change, Kolbert's book is an essential read.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:34 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: climate science
In a parallel universe without the Montreal Protocol, mankind is gearing up for some major sunburn.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:13 PM • 44 Comments •
Category: climate science
What these terms actually mean - and the distinction between them.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:45 AM • 2 Comments •
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