Scott Hassler works for the common good at The Wilderness Society, focusing renewable energy, climate adaptation, and wild land protection and restoration, primarily in the Western United States. He continues to research the environmental effects of extremely large meteorite impacts and teaches a bit at UC Berkeley. Possibly too many of his travels, geologic and […]
Shelby Brewster is from Columbus, Ohio and is currently in her final year of undergrad in geological sciences at The Ohio University. My interest in geology was sparked by a family vacation to Utah and Arizona when I was 15. Coming from Ohio, I had never seen massive exposed outcrops of rock. The towering, red sandstones captivated me. I had […]
Andreas Petersson recently finished his PhD at Lund University and is starting a joint fellowship between the University of Western Australia in Perth and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. You can follow his research here. During the Fall of 2012, all the Ph.D students from the Geology Department (bedrock sub-dept.) at Lund University were […]
Great Salt Lake, Jordan River, and mapping in my backyard
As a geology student, I lived for field trips. It didn’t matter whether we walked up Rock Canyon or flew over the Himalaya, being amongst the rocks was the paramount experience of every class. Although I have now ended my student phase, nothing has changed. I belong in the field. As I transition from the […]
