Derya Gürer is a PhD candidate at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Together with Douwe van Hinsbergen she works on a tectonic reconstruction of Central and Eastern Anatolia. Read more about her ongoing research here. For her MSc. research she was at “Physics of Geological Processes” (PGP) in Oslo, where she, together with Olivier […]
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The Ediacaran of Namibia with Amelia Penny
Amelia Penny is a second-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences. She is working on the palaeoecology of early calcified animals in the Nama Group, and redox conditions across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. She occasionally blogs at Life in Deep Time about geology, deep time and science in general. The late Ediacaran Period […]
Part 2: Geological mapping in the Gardar Province, south-west Greenland
This is part 2 of Anna Bidgood‘s adventure in the Gardar Province. You can read part 1 here. NARSAQ AND A BREAK! After 3 weeks of mapping we took a boat to Narsaq where we planned to spend 3 days relaxing in the hostel and restocking our food supplies. Narsaq is a town of 1800 people […]
Mineral deposits in Morocco with Kathryn Goodenough
Kathryn Goodenough is a Senior Geologist at the British Geological Survey (BGS), where she works on research in the Ore Deposits and Commodities Team and also acts as Deputy to the Director of BGS Global. Her work takes her all over the world, including fieldwork in places ranging from the centre of Singapore to the […]
Tales from IODP Expedition 353: reconstructing the ancient Indian Monsoon with Kate Littler
Kate is a lecturer in Geology at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. She is interested in applying both organic and inorganic proxies, (such as TEX86, compound-specific techniques, and stable isotopes) to various paleoclimate conundrums from the Cretaceous to the Pliocene. She has sailed twice with IODP, so is now officially a salty old sea-dog. She loves […]