Professor Phil Bland is a ARC Laureate Fellow at Curtin University and lead scientist of the Desert Fireball Network. Him and his team use cutting edge ground-based camera systems to identifying and recovering meteorites with the goal of calculating the orbits of recovered meteorites to their source regions and parent bodies in the Solar System. […]
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Understanding the eruptive history of Volcán Manantial Pelado, Chile with Heather Winslow
Heather Winslow completed her BA in environmental science at Willamette University followed by a year of post-baccalaureate work at Oregon State University. She’s in her first year of graduate school at the University of Nevada, Reno pursuing her MS in geology. Heather is interested in using geochemistry and igneous petrology to understand the internal plumbing […]
Tectonic geomorphology in New Zealand with Sarah Boulton
Sarah completed her MSci Geology degree at University College London and her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. She has been a lecturer at the University of Plymouth since 2006. Although trained in classical geology (sedimentology and structural geology), her recent research has mostly focussed on active tectonics and tectonic geomorphology. As a lecturer it […]
Into the Goat Rocks Volcano, Washington with Kellie Wall
Kellie Wall is a second-year graduate student at Oregon State University working toward her PhD in geology. The daughter of a rock collector and a master rock wall stacker, Kellie has the rock gene in her blood—though it took a college science class to activate it! Abandoning initial career plans, she pursued an undergraduate […]
The Volcanic Island of Isla Socorro with Pep Cabré
Pep Cabré is a geologist from Barcelona, Spain who studied his final year of undergrad in Iceland. Afterwards, he was part of INVOGE, a master programme in volcanology between Michigan Technological University and Universitée Blaise Pascal in France. For his master thesis, he studied the textural characteristics of pyroclasts from different sizes. He also worked […]