Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. You can read more about Janne’s Proterozoic adventures here. Our home planet went through a number of dramatic changes during its 4.5 billion year history. The young Earth was very different than today. It was […]
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Get to the Chopper! Rock Hopping in Northern Quebec with Will Smith
After finishing his BSc and MRes in Geology, specialising in ore deposits, at the University of Portsmouth, Will went onto read for a PhD in Mineral Exploration at Cardiff University, with a focus on optimizing exploration programmes for Ni-Cu-PGE deposits with Northern Shield Resources in Northern Quebec The world’s need for new resources demands that […]
Gold, Grit and Glory in Brazil with Connor Allen
Connor completed his Masters from the University of Portsmouth in 2017. He worked in the UK Geotechnical sector for a time, before emigrating to the emerald Isle to a position with the Geological Survey Ireland. Here I share some of my experiences during my Undergraduate mapping trip and Masters fieldwork programme in the Brazilian winters […]
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 […]
Cambrian Palaeobiology of South Australia with Sarah Jacquet
Sarah Jacquet is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She completed her doctorate in 2016 at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia; her thesis focused on unravelling the early evolution and radiation of the phylum Mollusca from the lower Cambrian of East Gondwana. This broad focus was channeled into various fields of […]