Ethan Yackulic is currently a data scientist for the USGS in Flagstaff, AZ. He recently completed his master’s degree at Northern Arizona University with Dr. Nicholas McKay in environmental science. Introduction The wind howled and the clouds grew darker as the lake whipped the shoreline with increasingly violent whitecaps. I could sense the anxiety of […]
Scott Hassler works for the common good at The Wilderness Society, focusing renewable energy, climate adaptation, and wild land protection and restoration, primarily in the Western United States. He continues to research the environmental effects of extremely large meteorite impacts and teaches a bit at UC Berkeley. Possibly too many of his travels, geologic and […]
Andreas Petersson recently finished his PhD at Lund University and is starting a joint fellowship between the University of Western Australia in Perth and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. You can follow his research here. During the Fall of 2012, all the Ph.D students from the Geology Department (bedrock sub-dept.) at Lund University were […]
Excuse the pun, I know am not the first researcher to write about a prehistoric eruption or to reminisce about how much fun it was to do epic fieldwork, and I did have a Blast! I am now lucky enough to have a faculty position and lovely family in New Zealand at the University of […]
Something that has always struck me about petroleum geology is that our petroleum resources nearly always seem to be in the most remote parts of the planet. For the most part, gone are the days of the Esso exploration geologists that first discovered much of the petroleum in these remote areas. These days petroleum companies […]
