ARRIVING IN IGALIKO AND SETTING UP BASE CAMP We got picked up at Itilleq by a Landrover to transport our tents, food, tables, chairs and gun over to Igaliko. The gun we are carrying is for polar bear protection, however it is rare to get a polar bear this far south, particularly in the summer […]
Mammoth Cave with Garrecht Metzger
Garrecht recently completed his PhD in the Fike Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Research group at Washington University of St Louis. You can read more about his research here. Mammoth Cave, located in central Kentucky, USA, earned its name for its size, a near unfathomable length currently mapped at over 640km (~400 miles). This makes it, by far, the longest […]
Fig Rolls, Bedouin and rear differentials in the Red Sea Hills, Egypt with Laura Fielding
This post is a continuation from “An Ethiopian Road Trip” and forms part of my PhD studying the palaeodrainage of the Nile and the delta cone sediments. One of our first tasks in undertaking this provenance study was to characterise each source area of the river Nile in order to identify its signature down-stream in […]
Caves of the Matienzo valley of northern Spain with Andi Smith
Andi recently finished a PhD at Lancaster University, UK and is a now a postdoc in the Stable Isotope Group at NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory. Throughout my PhD project I have been on numerous field trips to the Matienzo valley in northern Spain. This valley is in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountain range about 30 […]
San Andreas Fault, Santa Cruz, California with Chris Spencer
Chris has recently taken a position as a research fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. You can see more of his current research here. The San Andreas Fault is likely the most well-known fault in North America. Its notoriety likely comes from the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake that devastated the city. Following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, fire broke […]