Miocene Climatic Optima in the Central Andes with Sarah WM George

Sarah WM George is a postdoc in the Arizona LaserChron Center at University of Arizona.  She is a tectonic sedimentologist who is interested in integrating records of tectonics, magmatism, and climate, and likes to tinker with new developments in petrochronology. It’s hard to beat the Central Andes when studying Cordilleran processes—with protracted shortening since the latest […]

History, present day, and future of Niagara Falls and the surrounding area, Canada’s greatest natural wonder with Josie Di Maurizio

Josephine DiMaurizio grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. As of September 2021, she will be completing her final year at Queens University with a BSc Honours and a Specialization in Geology. She will be working under Chris Spencer to complete her honours thesis in the characterization of metamorphic history and geochemical characteristics of what […]

A journey to the Proterozoic geo-wonders of the Kunene, northwestern Namibia with Viktor Bertrandsson Erlandsson

Viktor Bertrandsson Erlandsson is originally from Gothenburg, Sweden, where he did his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He is currently a PhD student in economic geology at the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria. His PhD project brought him to Namibia to collect samples from a sediment-hosted copper-cobalt deposit, which he now studies back in the labs. He […]