Vitor Barrote is a postdoc at the RUB University in Germany where he studies isotopes and resources. He is also the host of the Gneiss Chats podcast, where he adopts the pseudonym of Dr. B. Fieldwork in geology is not always a synonym for long hours of walking under the blazing sun. Very often geologists […]
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Cambrian Palaeobiology of South Australia with Sarah Jacquet
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 […]
Ancient Mud at the End of the World with Brooke Johnson
“Brooke received his BSc in Geology from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2015 after collecting rocks and fossils for most of his life. He is currently a PhD student at Hertford College, University of Oxford where he is studying the co-evolution of early eukaryotes and the earth surface environment with Dr’s Nick Tosca, Stuart […]
The Cambrian Conundrum: piecing together a half-billion old tectonic jigsaw with Marissa Betts
Marissa Betts is a post-doctoral scholar focused on understanding the evolution of early-Cambrian fauna around the world. Marissa splits her time between the University of New England in Queensland, Australia and Northwest University in Xi’an, China. You can follow Marissa’s adventures on Instagram @200micron. Click here for the Chinese translation. The Flinders Ranges in outback […]
Arkaroola Field Camp, South Australia with Sheree Armistead
Sheree is a PhD candidate at The University of Adelaide researching the plate tectonics of supercontinent Gondwana in Madagascar and India. She recently demonstrated for an undergraduate field trip to Arkaroola in the Flinders Ranges. You can stay up to date with her research here and follow her on twitter @geoSheree The Flinders Ranges would have […]