TravelingGeologist is expanding our reach to the world of short films about our adventures in the field. Our first instalment of TGTV is from a recent trip that Chris Spencer, Carl Hoiland, Martin Danišík, and Hisatoshi Ito took to the Japanese Alps. Enjoy!
Eleanore Blereau is nearing the end of her PhD at Curtin University, Australia (expected completion early 2017). Eleanore likes to work on metamorphic rocks, especially interesting and challenging rocks with minerals such as sapphirine and osumilite. She has experience using multidisciplinary data to evaluate the P–T–t evolution of high-grade metamorphic rocks (petrography, SIMS U–Pb, LA-ICP-MS REE, THERMOCALC) from places […]
Letícia Betezek is an undergraduate student studying geology at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. Clique aqui para a versão em Português. The region called Aparados da Serra located on the border of the Brazilian cities of Cambará do Sul – Rio Grande do Sul and Praia Grande – Santa Catarina, was the main destination […]
Sheree is a PhD candidate at The University of Adelaide researching the plate tectonics of supercontinent Gondwana in Madagascar and India. You can stay up to date with her research here and follow her on twitter @geoSheree. Understanding how the Earth’s plate tectonics have evolved and changed over time has always fascinated me. When I was […]
Matthew Nikitczuk is a graduate student at Brock University exploring subsurface microbial activity in hydrovolcanic rocks. You can read more about Matthew’s research here. I find that one of the most interesting applications of geology is in that of planetary science. Of course, the focus of geology itself is to study the planet which we […]
