Macro rock photography with the iPhone
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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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Category: fieldwork
and a little help from a hand lens...
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Five excellent books about water for ages three and up.
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Category: academic life
Google Wave is growing on me - but will it change how I do science?
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Category: field gear
Help us brainstorm the ultimate geological mapping app
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Category: gifts and gadgets
It might seem pathetic, but...
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Category: gifts and gadgets
Maps are cool. Even non geological ones.
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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 •
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 •
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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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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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