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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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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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The Indian plate's days as a Cretaceous boy-racer

Category: tectonics

Does the thickness of a tectonic plate control its speed?

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Nuclear Seismology

Category: geophysics

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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Bumpy ice: proof of a Martian water cycle?

Category: planets

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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