Amelia Penny is a second-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences. She is working on the palaeoecology of early calcified animals in the Nama Group, and redox conditions across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. She occasionally blogs at Life in Deep Time about geology, deep time and science in general. The late Ediacaran Period […]
Giant Asteroid Impacts with Prof. Don Lowe
Searching for Evidence of Giant Asteroid Impacts on the Early Earth Don Lowe is the Max Steineke Professor in Earth Sciences at Stanford University. Much of his research focuses on rocks older than 3.0 billion-years-old and aims to use sedimentary principles to investigate early surface environments, the nature and role of early organisms, the role of […]
Geology and particle physics in Macedonia
Pieter is a geochronologist at University College London with interests in thermochronology, cosmogenic nuclides, provenance studies and aeolian geomorphology. You can read more about his research here.
The Alpine Fault with Andrew Cross
Andrew is a postdoc in the Experimental Studies of Planetary Materials (ESPM) group at Washington University in St. Louis. You can find him on Twitter @TectonoAndy and learn more about his research here.
Part 2: Geological mapping in the Gardar Province, south-west Greenland
This is part 2 of Anna Bidgood‘s adventure in the Gardar Province. You can read part 1 here. NARSAQ AND A BREAK! After 3 weeks of mapping we took a boat to Narsaq where we planned to spend 3 days relaxing in the hostel and restocking our food supplies. Narsaq is a town of 1800 people […]