Field Trip Diary: Part 3
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More photos and commentary from my field trip to Oman
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:22 AM • 2 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, 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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fieldwork:
Inspiration in ancient rocks and simple physics
Category: fieldwork
[a post by Anne Jefferson] If you ask my mom how I got started in geology, she'd tell you that it began with her taking 3-year-old me to see landslides coming off steep hillslopes during the spring thaw. That makes...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:02 AM • 6 Comments •
Field trip diary: Part 2
Category: fieldwork
More pretty photos from my Oman trip
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
Could an iPhone be a useful field tool?
Category: field gear
Help us brainstorm the ultimate geological mapping app
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:25 PM • 17 Comments •
Field trip diary: Part 1
Category: fieldwork
What I did on my fieldwork....with pretty photos.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:06 AM • 4 Comments •
Field Pack Amenities
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[a post by Anne Jefferson] Adding to the meme begun by Short Geologist (requirements for a field hotel) and followed on by Maria (requirements for a field vehicle), I'll present my requirements for a field pack. The topic has been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:36 PM • 12 Comments •
Not dead - just in Oman
Category: fieldwork
Apologies for the unannounced hiatus in my blogging. Basically, I'm out in Oman doing some fieldwork, a trip that went from 'happening at some point' to 'why don't you leave next Monday?' in a length of time rather too ridiculously...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:59 AM • 6 Comments •
An Arizona field trip diary
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Ryan of the Martian Chronicles has been on a field trip around the geological sights of the Arizona region, including beautiful red sandstones; volcanic cinder cones; the Grand Canyon; Meteor Crater; columnar basalts and sand dunes (with the former looking...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:08 PM • 2 Comments •
Countries visited meme
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Blame Julia and/or Brian for this one: go to this site and click on all the countries you've visited. Here's my world map: visited 23 states (10.2%)Create your own visited map of The World or try another Douwe Osinga project...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Christmas gifts for geologists: toughen up your gear
Category: fieldwork
Other suggestions: [Beverages] [Cameras] [Maps] The field is no place for equipment that needs to be coddled; anything that is not at least moderately proof against rain, dust, and drops is going to quickly become dead weight. One option is...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:08 PM • 3 Comments •
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