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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Sebastián Ramírez is a Ph.D. student at UT Austin. You can read more about his research here. I have been at the University of Texas at Austin working towards a Ph.D. degree in geology since 2011. I moved here after completing my M.Sc. (also in geology) at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). My co-advisor […]
Chris is a regular contributor for the TravelingGeologist and you can see his other posts here. Of all the things quintessentially China, the terra cotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang are definitely at the near the top of the list. The first broken fragments of the sculptures were discovered in 1974 by a farmer in the Shaanxi […]
