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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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Macro rock photography with the iPhone

Category: fieldwork

and a little help from a hand lens...

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Gifts for future hydrologists

Category: by Anne

Five excellent books about water for ages three and up.

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Surfing the Google Wave

Category: academic life

Google Wave is growing on me - but will it change how I do science?

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Could an iPhone be a useful field tool?

Category: field gear

Help us brainstorm the ultimate geological mapping app

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Christmas gifts for geologists: the emergency option

Category: gifts and gadgets

It might seem pathetic, but...

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Christmas gifts for geologists: maps

Category: gifts and gadgets

Maps are cool. Even non geological ones.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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