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 […]
Makgadikgadi: The story of a lake with Sallie Burrough
Sallie Burrough is Trapnell Fellow of African Environments in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. By a strange twist of chance, in the dry July months of 2005 I found myself in a remote corner of Botswana asking my brother (who lived there and probably went there to escape the irritations of […]
An Ethiopian Road Trip with Laura Fielding
Laura Fielding is a PhD student at Lancaster University documenting the palaeodrainage history of the Nile River. You can read more about her research here. In January 2011 I set off on what was to be the first of four field trips as part of my PhD studying the provenance of the Nile delta cone sediments. Modern […]
Life in the Slip Stream, New Zealand with Simon Cook
Dr. Simon Cook is a Lecturer in Physical Geography at the School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University (S.J.Cook@mmu.ac.uk). You can follow him on Twitter @glacio_cook. Life in the Slip Stream, New Zealand: using high-octane data collection to keep up with rapid landscape change One of the most impressive places I’ve been during my […]