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Category: geology
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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: geology
On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: geology
Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geology
No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:02 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: academic life
I don't need a wall-sized touchscreen, but that doesn't mean I don't want one...
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Category: geohazards
There's an interesting news story in Nature* about a distributed computing project with a seismological twist. The proposed aim of the Quake-Catcher project is to hack and collate data from laptop accelerometers - designed to protect the hard drive when...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:46 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: basics
How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: planets
Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: in the lab
Why lightning may be my new mortal enemy
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:44 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: geology
A new magnetic anomaly map illustrates the differences between oceanic and continental crust
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:44 AM • 5 Comments •