Adriana Taylor is a recent graduate of Geology at Queen’s University. As a part of the Geological Science undergraduate degree, fourth-year students complete a trip to Quebec to study the dynamic stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of Cambro-Ordovician Eastern North America. The four-day trip is run by structural geologist, Dr. Laurent Godin and carbonate sedimentologist specialist, […]
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Geology of a Caribbean gem: Antigua (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Brechtje Brons and Koen van der Looij
Brechtje and Koen are bachelor graduates in Earth Sciences at Utrecht University. They will continue their studies in Utrecht and start in september with the Masters program Earth Structure and Dynamics. The islands of Saint Martin, St. Barthelemy, and Antigua form an Eocene to late Oligocene paleo arc. This inactive remnant arc is the product […]
Working in the high and dry Andes of Chile, South America with Stephanie Sykora
Stephanie is an exploration geologists working globally for copper exploration. She write her own blog www.exploringtheearth.com on geology of various places she has worked in or been to.
Searching for lost plates of the paleo-Pacific in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo with Suzanna van de Lagemaat
Suzanna van de Lagemaat is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, working with Douwe van Hinsbergen on plate tectonic reconstructions of the (paleo-)Pacific realm in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Her main interest is the evolution and destruction of the Phoenix plate, which is completely lost to subduction.
From Small Town Western Australia to a World of Volcanoes with Sarah Tapscott
Sarah is a volcanologist hailing from Western Australia. After a brief career in gold mining and exploration, she moved to Iceland to complete her MSc degree focussing on the vesicularity of tephra from rootless cones. At present, Sarah is working on her PhD candidature in New Zealand looking into the sedimentation and plume dynamics of […]