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 […]
Author: Christopher Spencer
On the scent of the rising continents in the jungle of West Africa with Janne Liebmann
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 […]
Visiting Siccar Point in Scotland with Chang Xu
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 […]
Cambrian Palaeobiology of South Australia with Sarah Jacquet
Sarah Jacquet is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She completed her doctorate in 2016 at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia; her thesis focused on unravelling the early evolution and radiation of the phylum Mollusca from the lower Cambrian of East Gondwana. This broad focus was channeled into various fields of […]
How planet Earth became a pale blue dot with Janne Liebmann
Janne is a PhD candidate at Curtin University working with Chris Spencer and Chris Kirkland studying the interaction between the atmosphere and lithosphere during the Archean/Paleoproterozoic boundary. Janne completed her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees at Freie Universität of Berlin. The early Earth was a very different world to what we know today. With […]