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 […]
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Visiting Siccar Point in Scotland with Chang Xu
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 […]
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 […]
How planet Earth became a pale blue dot with Janne Liebmann
Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University working with Chris Spencer and Chris Kirkland studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. Janne completed her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees at Freie Universität of Berlin. The early Earth was a very different world to what we know today. With […]
Birth of an island arc: insights from St Barthélemy island (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Mélody Philippon
Mélody is an Assistant Professor at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe. You can see more about Mélo’s research here. The eastern boundary of the Caribbean plate is a subduction zone along which the North and South American plates are subducted. In the course of this subduction, the paleogeography of the downgoing plate was such that […]