Marissa Betts is a post-doctoral scholar focused on understanding the evolution of early-Cambrian fauna around the world. Marissa splits her time between the University of New England in Queensland, Australia and Northwest University in Xi’an, China. You can follow Marissa’s adventures on Instagram @200micron. Click here for the Chinese translation. The Flinders Ranges in outback […]
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Lifting the lid of a mountain: field mapping among Precambrian eclogites in southern Sweden with Lorraine Tual
Lorraine is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. She completed a PhD at Lund University, Sweden and a MSc at Rennes 1 University, France. She has a general fascination for mountains, enjoys fieldwork and is thrilled by the sight of high-pressure rocks. The first time I landed on Swedish […]
What’s in a Name? Investigating the effect of name change on citations with Erin Martin
Erin Martin is a PhD student studying at Curtin University in Perth with Professor Bill Collins and Professor Zheng-Xiang Li. Her work employs zircon geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope geochemistry to evaluate plate tectonic processes and paleogeography of the Neoproterozoic, with a focus on the orogens of Argentina and southern Brazil. Read more about her work […]
Arkaroola Field Camp, South Australia with Sheree Armistead
Sheree is a PhD candidate at The University of Adelaide researching the plate tectonics of supercontinent Gondwana in Madagascar and India. She recently demonstrated for an undergraduate field trip to Arkaroola in the Flinders Ranges. You can stay up to date with her research here and follow her on twitter @geoSheree The Flinders Ranges would have […]
Chasing an early bird of extension from Turkey with Derya Gürer
Derya Gürer has recently finished her PhD research at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where she worked on a tectonic reconstruction of Central and Eastern Anatolia (present day Turkey) – as part of the Alpine-Himalayan orogen. You can read more about Derya’s research here and see her other TravelingGeologist adventures here. Back in the spring of 2013, […]