Chris has recently taken a position as a research fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. You can see more of his current research here. The San Andreas Fault is likely the most well-known fault in North America. Its notoriety likely comes from the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake that devastated the city. Following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, fire broke […]
Sallie Burrough is Trapnell Fellow of African Environments in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. By a strange twist of chance, in the dry July months of 2005 I found myself in a remote corner of Botswana asking my brother (who lived there and probably went there to escape the irritations of […]
Laura Fielding is a PhD student at Lancaster University documenting the palaeodrainage history of the Nile River. You can read more about her research here. In January 2011 I set off on what was to be the first of four field trips as part of my PhD studying the provenance of the Nile delta cone sediments. Modern […]
Dr. Simon Cook is a Lecturer in Physical Geography at the School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University (S.J.Cook@mmu.ac.uk). You can follow him on Twitter @glacio_cook. Life in the Slip Stream, New Zealand: using high-octane data collection to keep up with rapid landscape change One of the most impressive places I’ve been during my […]
Jaroslaw Majka is a researcher and electron microprobe lab manager at Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Uppsala. You can read more about his research here. The Svalbard Archipelago is located in the northwestern corner of the Barents Shelf, at the latitudes similar to northernmost Greenland. This Arctic archipelago shows a geological record since Archean […]
