Originally from Brazil, Bruna is a research fellow at the University of Padua in Italy. Her research involves the study of anatexis and fluid regime of the deep portions of the continental crust using melt and fluid inclusions. Find out more about her work here.
A journey to the Proterozoic geo-wonders of the Kunene, northwestern Namibia with Viktor Bertrandsson Erlandsson
Viktor Bertrandsson Erlandsson is originally from Gothenburg, Sweden, where he did his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He is currently a PhD student in economic geology at the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria. His PhD project brought him to Namibia to collect samples from a sediment-hosted copper-cobalt deposit, which he now studies back in the labs. He […]
Chasing Ice on Svalbard with Hedda Andersen
Hedda Andersen is from Oslo has a BSc in geosciences and am currently working on her MSc in Glaciology. She has studied in Oslo and on Svalbard in the Arctic, with University of Oslo (UiO) and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). Normally I work as an Environmental Scientist for a high-end Norwegian expedition cruise company, but […]
Traversing through Cambro-Ordivician Eastern North America with Adriana Taylor
Adriana Taylor is a recent graduate of Geology at Queen’s University. As a part of the Geological Science undergraduate degree, fourth-year students complete a trip to Quebec to study the dynamic stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of Cambro-Ordovician Eastern North America. The four-day trip is run by structural geologist, Dr. Laurent Godin and carbonate sedimentologist specialist, […]
Geology of a Caribbean gem: Antigua (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Brechtje Brons and Koen van der Looij
Brechtje and Koen are bachelor graduates in Earth Sciences at Utrecht University. They will continue their studies in Utrecht and start in september with the Masters program Earth Structure and Dynamics. The islands of Saint Martin, St. Barthelemy, and Antigua form an Eocene to late Oligocene paleo arc. This inactive remnant arc is the product […]