Background As a 4th year undergraduate geologist at Oxford University, I really relish the opportunity to work abroad and gain the experience of working as an exploration geologist. It’s fantastic that there are opportunities for me and my peers that send us half way across the world for 3 months in the summer. We are […]
Albany-Fraser Orogeny in SW Australia with Chris Spencer
Having recently accepted a research fellowship at Curtin University, my family and are in the process of immigrating to sunny Western Australia. In preparation for this transition, I traveled to Perth to get the lay of the land. My perusing took me to the southwest corner of Australia near the town of Albany. This corner of Australia […]
Granitic magmatism of Cornwall, UK with Beth Simons
Beth is a PhD student at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. You can follow her on twitter @thegeogirl. In a PhD office of people studying rocks in Liberia, Senegal, South Africa and Brazil, my study, centering on the so-called “critical metals” (Li, Be, Nb, Ta, In, Sb, Sn, W and Bi) in the granites […]
The D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea with Joel DesOrmeau
Joel is a PhD candidate at the University of Reno. You can read more about his research here. New Guinea: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea In plan view, the mountainous island of New Guinea has been referred to as a bird flying west. This allows for the distinction of three geographical regions: the Bird’s Head […]
Wittenoom impact spherules of Western Australia with Scott Hassler
Scott Hassler works for the common good at The Wilderness Society, focusing renewable energy, climate adaptation, and wild land protection and restoration, primarily in the Western United States. He continues to research the environmental effects of extremely large meteorite impacts and teaches a bit at UC Berkeley. Possibly too many of his travels, geologic and […]