Amelia Penny is a second-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences. She is working on the palaeoecology of early calcified animals in the Nama Group, and redox conditions across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. She occasionally blogs at Life in Deep Time about geology, deep time and science in general. The late Ediacaran Period […]
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Giant Asteroid Impacts with Prof. Don Lowe
Searching for Evidence of Giant Asteroid Impacts on the Early Earth Don Lowe is the Max Steineke Professor in Earth Sciences at Stanford University. Much of his research focuses on rocks older than 3.0 billion-years-old and aims to use sedimentary principles to investigate early surface environments, the nature and role of early organisms, the role of […]
The Alpine Fault with Andrew Cross
Andrew is a postdoc in the Experimental Studies of Planetary Materials (ESPM) group at Washington University in St. Louis. You can find him on Twitter @TectonoAndy and learn more about his research here.
Mineral deposits in Morocco with Kathryn Goodenough
Kathryn Goodenough is a Senior Geologist at the British Geological Survey (BGS), where she works on research in the Ore Deposits and Commodities Team and also acts as Deputy to the Director of BGS Global. Her work takes her all over the world, including fieldwork in places ranging from the centre of Singapore to the […]
Tales from IODP Expedition 353: reconstructing the ancient Indian Monsoon with Kate Littler
Kate is a lecturer in Geology at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. She is interested in applying both organic and inorganic proxies, (such as TEX86, compound-specific techniques, and stable isotopes) to various paleoclimate conundrums from the Cretaceous to the Pliocene. She has sailed twice with IODP, so is now officially a salty old sea-dog. She loves […]