Pep Cabré is a geologist from Barcelona, Spain who studied his final year of undergrad in Iceland. Afterwards, he was part of INVOGE, a master programme in volcanology between Michigan Technological University and Universitée Blaise Pascal in France. For his master thesis, he studied the textural characteristics of pyroclasts from different sizes. He also worked […]
The Eburnean Orogeny of SW Ghana with Helen McFarlane
Helen is a PhD student at Monash University in collaboration with University of Toulouse. Her PhD work is part of the West African Exploration Intiative (WAXI). You can read more about her work here. It occurred whilst I was sweating away in a cocoa plantation on the hunt for outcrop, in the hope of furthering our understanding […]
Pillow basalts in Oecusse, Timor with Jeremy Lee
Jeremy recently completed his M.Sc (Geology) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys using geochemistry to provide insight into large scale tectonic processes and is planning to commence a PhD in 2017. In September – October 2015, I was given a rare chance to do 6 weeks of fieldwork in Timor-Leste in order to […]
Exploring the Geology of Big Bend National Park with Kellen Gunderson
Part of what is means to be a Traveling Geologist is that your curiosity and desire for discovery never stops, even when you are on holiday. For those brave souls who are coupled to us Traveling Geologists, this means that many of our family vacations are actually just well disguised geologic expeditions. This became apparent […]
The Big Island of Hawaii with Gary Lewis and GEOetc
Gary Lewis trained as a geologist and then became a teacher by trade. He has taught in the classroom and has a great understanding of what motivates students (and their teachers). He is the author of over 30 Earth science related resources covering a plethora of topics from volcanoes to gold and has been running […]