Karin Sant is a PhD student at Utrecht University focused on understanding of paleogeographic changes that occurred in the West and Central Paratethys during the Miocene. You can read more about her research here. It is a very sunny autumn day and we are driving in our Lada Niva 4×4 on a muddy road in […]
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Volcanic supereruptions with Ayla Pamukcu
Ayla Pamukcu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University. As a volcanic petrologist, she is a wide array of tools to investigate how, when, where, and why volcanic eruptions occur with particular interest in supereruptions. You can read more about her research here. I study volcanoes, but I haven’t seen too many live ones. […]
The Neuquén Andes, northern Patagonia, Argentina with Derya Gürer
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 […]
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 […]