Sarah Jacquet is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She completed her doctorate in 2016 at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia; her thesis focused on unravelling the early evolution and radiation of the phylum Mollusca from the lower Cambrian of East Gondwana. This broad focus was channeled into various fields of […]
How planet Earth became a pale blue dot with Janne Liebmann
Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University working with Chris Spencer and Chris Kirkland studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. Janne completed her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees at Freie Universität of Berlin. The early Earth was a very different world to what we know today. With […]
Birth of an island arc: insights from St Barthélemy island (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Mélody Philippon
Mélody is an Assistant Professor at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe. You can see more about Mélo’s research here. The eastern boundary of the Caribbean plate is a subduction zone along which the North and South American plates are subducted. In the course of this subduction, the paleogeography of the downgoing plate was such that […]
The Tuff of Skelton Lake: A Record of Triassic Caldera Volcanism in California’s Sierra Nevada with Derek Field
Derek Field (M.Sc) is a geologist from Calgary, Canada. After getting his B.Sc in Geology from California Lutheran University and working as a volcanology intern for the University of Colima, Mexico, he migrated to Flagstaff, Arizona, to pursue Sierra Nevada research under Nancy Riggs at Northern Arizona University. Derek specializes in doing fieldwork in remote, […]
A Record of the Evolving Eocene Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest in the Swauk Formation, Central Washington
Introduction As I hiked up to the tallest point in my field area, I looked to the south in awe, observing thousands of feet of sedimentary rocks that make up the Swauk Formation. And as I turned to the north, I tilted my head up to see the very top of the even higher mountains, […]