Excuse the pun, I know am not the first researcher to write about a prehistoric eruption or to reminisce about how much fun it was to do epic fieldwork, and I did have a Blast! I am now lucky enough to have a faculty position and lovely family in New Zealand at the University of […]
Jonathan Dean is a postdoc at the British Geological Survey. In this post, he travels through the land east of the Sierra Nevada to discover some incredible geology. You can read more of his adventures here. I’d just spent a week in Reno at a conference, and was ready to move on from the so-called […]
Thanks to the Antarctica360 team for this great update from the field. You can follow their adventures at antarctica360.net. Greetings from a cozy Scott Polar tent in the Royal Society Range, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica! As I sit writing this, it’s a balmy -13C outside, there is a 15 knot breeze and the midnight sun is shining (the […]
Ayla Pamukcu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University. As a volcanic petrologist, she is a wide array of tools to investigate how, when, where, and why volcanic eruptions occur with particular interest in supereruptions. You can read more about her research here. I study volcanoes, but I haven’t seen too many live ones. […]
Sam is a regular contributor to TravelingGeologist. He recently completed his PhD at the Camborne School of Mines and is currently postdoc-ing with the same in Cornwall. Rare earth elements (REE) are essential in high-strength permanent magnets for green and digital technologies, yet we know little about how REE ore deposits form. However, driven by […]
