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You're not missing much 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.

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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river 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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5 focal mechanisms

Category: geology

On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

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3 Helmholtz coils

Category: geology

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

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The amazing disappearing asymmetric magnetic reversals

Category: geology

Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.

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Is the Earth's magnetic field about to flip?

Category: geology

No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath

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AAPG Day 2: industrial seismologists get all the cool toys.

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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Seismology@home

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...

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Where the Earth's magnetic field comes from

Category: basics

How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...

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Martian plate tectonics

Category: planets

Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?

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The Palaeomagician's bane

Category: in the lab

Why lightning may be my new mortal enemy

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A map of wonderful magnetic things

Category: geology

A new magnetic anomaly map illustrates the differences between oceanic and continental crust

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