Sarah is a volcanologist hailing from Western Australia. After a brief career in gold mining and exploration, she moved to Iceland to complete her MSc degree focussing on the vesicularity of tephra from rootless cones. At present, Sarah is working on her PhD candidature in New Zealand looking into the sedimentation and plume dynamics of […]
History of Destruction The infamous Krakatoa (Fig. 1) continues to live up to its legacy as one of the most volatile volcanoes on the planet. Its 1883 eruption is legendary for producing the largest explosion in historic times. The sound it made was heard 5000 km (3000 miles) away. Imagine hearing an explosion in Boston […]
Gino is a Dutch geologist, who obtained his PhD from the IPGP, Paris, and is now a postdoc at ISTerre in Grenoble. His current research aims at understanding sea-level history from tectonically uplifting coastlines worldwide. Here he shares his experiences from a recent fieldwork in Cuba. When I tell people I have to spend a […]
Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. You can read more about Janne’s Proterozoic adventures here. Our home planet went through a number of dramatic changes during its 4.5 billion year history. The young Earth was very different than today. It was […]
Chang Xu recently completed her undergraduate degree in Geology at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She is now a Masters degree candidate in Sun Yat-sen University studying structural geology in South China. Initially Chang wasn’t interested in geology, but learned to love geology during her first […]
