Abi is a Quaternary Scientist, Dryland Geomorphologist and Hydrogeologist, based at the Geography department in SEED at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in Physical Geography.
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Hainan Island, South China with Yajun Xu
Yajun Xu is a geologist and an associate professor at China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. His current research focuses mainly on the location of the South China Craton in Gondwana Supercontinent and Early Paleozoic Orogenesis in South China.
Fossils of Denmark with Karsten Eig
When God had finished creating the Earth, He had some sand and gravel in excess. To get rid of it, the story goes, He dumped it in the southern North Sea, and that became Denmark. On closer inspection, this gravel heap reflects a varied range of deposition environments from the Lower Cretaceous through the Pliocene. […]
Iron Ore in the Pilbara, Australia with Lisa Gillespie
Originally from the UK, Lisa is an exploration geologist working in northern Western Australia. You can read more about her adventures here. The Pilbara region of north-western Australia, approximately 1,100 km north of Perth, is one of the world’s major iron ore provinces. Over 500 Mt (millons of tons) are exported annually from Western Australia’s […]
Fieldwork on the Roof of the World with Owen Weller
Owen completed a PhD from Oxford in July 2014, he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University, Japan as part of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and will be starting as a visiting fellow at the Geologic Survey of Canada in January 2015.