Andreas Petersson recently finished his PhD at Lund University and is starting a joint fellowship between the University of Western Australia in Perth and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. You can follow his research here. During the Fall of 2012, all the Ph.D students from the Geology Department (bedrock sub-dept.) at Lund University were […]
Allie Baczynski is an organic geochemist interested in using the chemical signatures of biomarkers derived from ancient plants to reconstruct past landscapes and climate. She is currently a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State working to lower biomarker sample size requirements for isotope analysis. Today, the Bighorn Basin in north-central Wyoming is mostly badlands – dusty hills home to […]
Claudio Scarpati is currently aggregate professor of Physical Volcanology and Volcanology at University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and a visiting professor of Volcanology at Brigham Young University (USA). Using a series of detailed case studies Professor Scarpati’s research centres around identifying and quantifying the processes involved in explosive volcanism. His main research interests include: evaluation of […]
This is part 3 of 3. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 3 of 3: Yosemite to Las Vegas Two years ago we decided, as a family, […]
This is part 2 of 3. You can read part 1 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 2 of 3: Los Angeles to Yosemite It was two years ago that we agreed to have an extra-special […]
