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A week in the life of a scientist – Anne’s first week of summer 

Spring semester 2016 is over! Grades were submitted Saturday night, and my research group was eager to get started with our summer research. Since I'm semi-participating in the #365scienceselfies project, I have some fun documentation of our adventures this week. Continue reading

A week in the life of a scientist – first week of summer! 

Spring semester 2016 is over! Grades were submitted Saturday night, and my research group was eager to get started with our summer research. Since I'm semi-participating in the #365scienceselfies project, I have some fun documentation of our adventures this

Four new GIGAmacro images of sedimentary rocks 

It’s been a week and a half since Mountain Beltway has seen any publishing action, given the overlapping timesucks of the AGU Fall Meeting and the end of the semester. But now I’m back in the Appalachian mountain belt, and my grades are all in, and I have time to think about indulgences like blogging again. Let me make up for it now with a suite of four new macro

Ryocarhynchus tumidus brachiopod from Belgium 

From the Ardennes region of Belgium comes this Ryocarhynchus tumidus brachiopod fossil. It was found in the Matagne Limestone (Fransian stage, Devonian) near the town of Robechies. The shell is round and wider than it is long. The brachial valve is very convex while the pedicle valve is slightly convex at the umbo and grades down to slightly concave in the sulcus. A single, gently dipping sulcus is present but is most pronounced at the anterior margin.Brachial valveAnteriorPedicle [...]

Is There a Golden Age of Teaching? Ruminations on Moving and Great Students 

It's a busy week to say the least. There was the hectic rush through finals and the posting of grades, and the deadline, only three days later, of having an entire Science Building packed and ready to move to another building. That's happening tomorrow. I am happy to say I had a lot of help from more than a dozen students who helped us get everything into the moving boxes. Sifting through