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 on March 27, 2008 12:46 PM • 5 Comments •
How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...
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Posted on March 7, 2008 12:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?
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Posted on December 12, 2007 10:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Why lightning may be my new mortal enemy
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Posted on November 8, 2007 10:44 AM • 8 Comments •
A new magnetic anomaly map illustrates the differences between oceanic and continental crust
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Posted on November 7, 2007 11:44 AM • 5 Comments •
Does the thickness of a tectonic plate control its speed?
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Posted on October 24, 2007 12:30 PM • 7 Comments •
From ye olde blog, November 2006: A barely remembered anecdote, the buzz about the North Korean "nuclear" test, and a Web of Knowledge search combined to bring this paper up on my screen: Seismic tomographic inversion of Russian PNE data...
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Posted on May 18, 2007 12:45 PM • 3 Comments •
Some interesting data from Mars Odyssey about the distribution of sub-surface ice on Mars were published in Nature last week by Joshua Bandfield at Arizona State University (see also here and here). Mars Odyssey had already detected the presence of...
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Posted on May 11, 2007 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Even the best measurements are meaningless if you muck up your corrections
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Posted on May 7, 2007 12:15 PM • 1 Comments •
If I'm ever going to talk about my own research in any detail, I'm first going to have to explain a little (or a lot) about the field I fell into almost by accident, paleomagnetism. Literally 'ancient magnetism', paleomagnetism is...
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Posted on May 4, 2007 8:55 AM • 5 Comments •
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, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg. 
