Svalbard. What comes to mind? Polar bears that eat kids alive if they don’t carry guns in the settlement. Which they do. At least the parents. Dark as a coal mine half the year, even outside the coal mines. Bright as sun 24/7 the other half because…well, there is sun 24/7. Cheap booze. Cute, cuddly […]
Lopu Range, Tibet with Andrew Laskowski
Andrew K Laskowski is a PhD Candidate, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona working with Prof. Paul Kapp. You can read more about his research here. I moved to Tucson, AZ in fall, 2010 to begin my graduate study in Geology at the University of Arizona. I had always been fascinated with Himalayan-Tibetan tectonics, and I […]
A shocking discovery in Scotland with Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson is a metamorphic petrologist and Lecturer at Curtin University, Western Australia. He is currently working on rocks from a range of places, including northwest and northeast Scotland, Norway, southern and eastern India, southwestern Australia and outer space. He is particularly interested in early Earth geodynamics and in the metamorphism of stony meteorites. You […]
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 […]
Pine horizons in Northern Ireland Peat Bogs with Max Torbenson
Max is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on dendrochronology and paleoclimatology. He and his colleagues recently published a paper in Geology that can be found here. You can read more about his research here. Some 12,000 years ago, the Emerald Isle was […]