Karin Sant is a PhD student at Utrecht University focused on understanding of paleogeographic changes that occurred in the West and Central Paratethys during the Miocene. You can read more about her research here. It is a very sunny autumn day and we are driving in our Lada Niva 4×4 on a muddy road in […]
A blast from the past at the Lake City Caldera with Ben Kennedy
Excuse the pun, I know am not the first researcher to write about a prehistoric eruption or to reminisce about how much fun it was to do epic fieldwork, and I did have a Blast! I am now lucky enough to have a faculty position and lovely family in New Zealand at the University of […]
Adventures around Mono Lake and Death Valley
Jonathan Dean is a postdoc at the British Geological Survey. In this post, he travels through the land east of the Sierra Nevada to discover some incredible geology. You can read more of his adventures here. I’d just spent a week in Reno at a conference, and was ready to move on from the so-called […]
Geology in the Freezer with the Antarctica360 team
Thanks to the Antarctica360 team for this great update from the field. You can follow their adventures at antarctica360.net. Greetings from a cozy Scott Polar tent in the Royal Society Range, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica! As I sit writing this, it’s a balmy -13C outside, there is a 15 knot breeze and the midnight sun is shining (the […]
Volcanic supereruptions with Ayla Pamukcu
Ayla Pamukcu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University. As a volcanic petrologist, she is a wide array of tools to investigate how, when, where, and why volcanic eruptions occur with particular interest in supereruptions. You can read more about her research here. I study volcanoes, but I haven’t seen too many live ones. […]