This post is a continuation from “An Ethiopian Road Trip” and forms part of my PhD studying the palaeodrainage of the Nile and the delta cone sediments. One of our first tasks in undertaking this provenance study was to characterise each source area of the river Nile in order to identify its signature down-stream in […]
Andi recently finished a PhD at Lancaster University, UK and is a now a postdoc in the Stable Isotope Group at NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory. Throughout my PhD project I have been on numerous field trips to the Matienzo valley in northern Spain. This valley is in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountain range about 30 […]
Chris has recently taken a position as a research fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. You can see more of his current research here. The San Andreas Fault is likely the most well-known fault in North America. Its notoriety likely comes from the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake that devastated the city. Following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, fire broke […]
Sallie Burrough is Trapnell Fellow of African Environments in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. By a strange twist of chance, in the dry July months of 2005 I found myself in a remote corner of Botswana asking my brother (who lived there and probably went there to escape the irritations of […]
Laura Fielding is a PhD student at Lancaster University documenting the palaeodrainage history of the Nile River. You can read more about her research here. In January 2011 I set off on what was to be the first of four field trips as part of my PhD studying the provenance of the Nile delta cone sediments. Modern […]
