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.
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 […]
Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. You can read more about Janne’s Proterozoic adventures here. Our home planet went through a number of dramatic changes during its 4.5 billion year history. The young Earth was very different than today. It was […]
Chang Xu recently completed her undergraduate degree in Geology at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She is now a Masters degree candidate in Sun Yat-sen University studying structural geology in South China. Initially Chang wasn’t interested in geology, but learned to love geology during her first […]
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 […]
