Ultra-temperature metamorphism in Madagascar with Catherine Wheller

Catherine Wheller is at the pointy end of her PhD at The University of Melbourne, Australia (excepted completion early 2017). Her research involves using phase equilibria modelling of mineral assemblages to investigate the formation conditions of high-grade metamorphic rocks. She produced a new thermodynamic model for sapphirine and is applying this model to rocks collected […]

Reflections on Tibet with Jess Kapp

Jess Kapp is a senior lecturer and the associate department head in the department of geosciences at the University of Arizona.  In addition to teaching geology, she writes fiction and non fiction, and is currently finishing a memoir about her high altitude field adventures in Tibet.  You can find her at http://jesskapp.com, on Twitter @jess_kapp, […]

Walking and Laughing in the Himalaya with Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson is an Assistant Professor a the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. He has spent the past 12 years using a variety of techniques to understand the structural and tectonometamorphic evolution of the Himalaya and (more recently) other collisional zones. You can find more about his research on his website, ResearchGate, or Google […]