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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: geohazards
The location of yesterday's earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:00 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Warm heavy rainfall + glaciers + steep mountain flanks + exposed unconsolidated sediments are a recipe for debris flows in the Cascades Range. Let me tell you the story of one.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:48 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: environment
How injecting drilling mud can hopefully stem the well leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:20 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: environment
Our unabated demand for oil is driving drilling in places where accidents of this sort - major, hard to stem leaks - are going to be a major risk.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:35 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Why seismically, 2010 is not as out of the ordinary as some people think - and why the question is actually the wrong one to be asking anyway.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:30 PM • 11 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: geohazards
Is a pet toad the new must-have earthquake detector?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:40 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geohazards
On sections of the fault adjacent to January's rupture, strain built up by plate motions is still there, waiting to be released. The only question is when, and how.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Lusi
Was big muddy pool with a steaming vent in the middle. Now big muddy pool with steaming hill in the middle.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:55 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Is Haiti safe yet? Will there be another devastating earthquake in the future - and if so, when?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:50 PM • 6 Comments •
