Visiting Siccar Point in Scotland with Chang Xu

Chang Xu recently completed her undergraduate degree in Geology at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She is now a Masters degree candidate in Sun Yat-sen University studying structural geology in South China. Initially Chang wasn’t interested in geology, but learned to love geology during her first […]

How planet Earth became a pale blue dot with Janne Liebmann

Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University working with Chris Spencer and Chris Kirkland studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. Janne completed her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees at Freie Universität of Berlin. The early Earth was a very different world to what we know today. With […]

Birth of an island arc: insights from St Barthélemy island (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Mélody Philippon

Mélody is an Assistant Professor at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe. You can see more about Mélo’s research here. The eastern boundary of the Caribbean plate is a subduction zone along which the North and South American plates are subducted. In the course of this subduction, the paleogeography of the downgoing plate was such that […]