Ethan Yackulic is currently a data scientist for the USGS in Flagstaff, AZ. He recently completed his master’s degree at Northern Arizona University with Dr. Nicholas McKay in environmental science. Introduction The wind howled and the clouds grew darker as the lake whipped the shoreline with increasingly violent whitecaps. I could sense the anxiety of […]
Dr. Thomas Ronge is a Marine Geologist currently working for the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. You can read more about his research here and follow him on Twitter @remotelongitude In the light of the massive, 6000 km2 sized iceberg – A-68 – that broke off the Antarctic Peninsulas Larsen C ice shelf in July, should we worry […]
Dr. Thomas Ronge is a Marine Geologist currently working for the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. You can read more about his research here. The Drake Passage and the Antarctic Peninsula are key regions for our climate as well as for it’s past evolution. Propelled by strong, perpetual Southern Westerly Winds, the dominant force in the […]
Allie Baczynski is an organic geochemist interested in using the chemical signatures of biomarkers derived from ancient plants to reconstruct past landscapes and climate. She is currently a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State working to lower biomarker sample size requirements for isotope analysis. Today, the Bighorn Basin in north-central Wyoming is mostly badlands – dusty hills home to […]
