Anna is a PhD student at Oxford University. You can read more about her adventures here. When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, he replied “because it is there”. This approach to mountains and the ‘sublime’ has been present since the Victorian era when the infatuation with the Alps and glaciers truely […]
Jani Radebaugh is a professor of planetary science at Brigham Young University. After completing her PhD at the University of Arizona working with images of Jupiter’s moon Io from the Galileo spacecraft, she has been researching Saturn’s moon Titan using images from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft and lander. What follows are Jani’s day-by-day thoughts as the […]
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 […]
Xiaofang He is a Ph.D. student at China University of Geoscience Beijing, also doing joint Ph.D. study at the University of Adelaide. Her project is using a series of methods to invesitgate the Neoproterozoic crustal evolution of Sri Lanka associated with the amalgamation of Gondwana. Read more about Xiaofang’s research here. You can also find Chinese version […]
Morgan Blades is just finishing her PhD at The University of Adelaide on the Tectonic Evolution of the Western Shield, Ethiopia. She has also worked on the Neoproterozoic evolution of Oman and the Sahara Metacraton. She is a rock enthusiast having wanted to be a geologist since she was very little. Ethiopia is unique – […]
