Surfing the Google Wave
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Google Wave is growing on me - but will it change how I do science?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:05 PM • 5 Comments •
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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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gifts and gadgets:
Could an iPhone be a useful field tool?
Category: field gear
Help us brainstorm the ultimate geological mapping app
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:25 PM • 17 Comments •
Christmas gifts for geologists: the emergency option
Category: gifts and gadgets
It might seem pathetic, but...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:17 PM • 6 Comments •
Christmas gifts for geologists: maps
Category: gifts and gadgets
Maps are cool. Even non geological ones.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:56 PM • 4 Comments •
Christmas gifts for geologists: toughen up your gear
Category: fieldwork
Other suggestions: [Beverages] [Cameras] [Maps] The field is no place for equipment that needs to be coddled; anything that is not at least moderately proof against rain, dust, and drops is going to quickly become dead weight. One option is...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:08 PM • 3 Comments •
Christmas gifts for geologists: cameras
Category: fieldwork
Other suggestions: [Beverages] [Tough Gear] [Maps] The arrival of digital photography is one area where technology has really changed the geological fieldwork experience. Of course, photos will never completely replace a good sketch, but when there's only so much time...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:25 PM • 5 Comments •
Christmas gifts for geologists: field beverages
Category: fieldwork
Other suggestions: [Cameras] [Tough Gear] [Maps] Finding an appropriately rock-orientated present for a geologist might seem a daunting task to the outsider. Raiding an outdoors shop can be risky, since they already seem to own more field gear than normal...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:05 PM • 9 Comments •
Electronic field notebooks: useful, or pain in the posterior?
Category: fieldwork
The UJ mapping class this year were piloting electronic field notebooks, with each group being given a PDA in which they could enter a locality, a description, and any structural data they were measuring. Especially with the structual data, this...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:40 AM • 15 Comments •
I like rocks and whisky...
Category: bloggery
...but rocks with whisky might be taking it a little too far.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:15 PM • 7 Comments •
