Ria is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Natural History Museum in London who uses new physical and chemical analytical methods to characterize modern-day primitive soils and mineral substrates associated with cryptogamic ground covers – You can read more about here research here.
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Menengai Caldera in Kenya with Helen Robinson
Helen is working on a PhD at the University of Glasgow with a focus on geothermal energy in the East African Rift. Read more about Helen here.
Guerrero Arc, Mexico with Lydian Boschman
Lydian is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University working with Douwe van Hinsbergen on the the Mesozoic (252-66 million years ago) plate tectonic evolution of the paleo-Pacific Ocean. You can read more about her research here.
Iron Ore in the Pilbara, Australia with Lisa Gillespie
Originally from the UK, Lisa is an exploration geologist working in northern Western Australia. You can read more about her adventures here. The Pilbara region of north-western Australia, approximately 1,100 km north of Perth, is one of the world’s major iron ore provinces. Over 500 Mt (millons of tons) are exported annually from Western Australia’s […]
South Georgia with Mel Leng
Professor Melanie Leng is the Director of the Centre of Environmental Geochemistry (a collaboration between the BGS and the University of Nottingham) and a Science Director at the British Geological Survey where she manages the Stable Isotope Facility. You can read more about her research here. The Travelling Geologist asked me to write a blog on the most spectacular fieldwork […]