Vitor Barrote is a postdoc at the RUB University in Germany where he studies isotopes and resources. He is also the host of the Gneiss Chats podcast, where he adopts the pseudonym of Dr. B. Fieldwork in geology is not always a synonym for long hours of walking under the blazing sun. Very often geologists […]
A sneak peek into the deep crust with Bruna B. Carvalho
Originally from Brazil, Bruna is a research fellow at the University of Padua in Italy. Her research involves the study of anatexis and fluid regime of the deep portions of the continental crust using melt and fluid inclusions. Find out more about her work here.
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 […]
Chasing Ice on Svalbard with Hedda Andersen
Hedda Andersen is from Oslo has a BSc in geosciences and am currently working on her MSc in Glaciology. She has studied in Oslo and on Svalbard in the Arctic, with University of Oslo (UiO) and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). Normally I work as an Environmental Scientist for a high-end Norwegian expedition cruise company, but […]
Traversing through Cambro-Ordivician Eastern North America with Adriana Taylor
Adriana Taylor is a recent graduate of Geology at Queen’s University. As a part of the Geological Science undergraduate degree, fourth-year students complete a trip to Quebec to study the dynamic stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of Cambro-Ordovician Eastern North America. The four-day trip is run by structural geologist, Dr. Laurent Godin and carbonate sedimentologist specialist, […]