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Friday, 11 March 2016

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Beautiful Antarctica 

polar soils blog [2016-03-11 02:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (418 visits) info

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We’ve been moving right along with our sampling. Our original schedule was to sample five locations, with two additional sites that we could sample if we had time. We’re so far ahead of schedule that we’ve already sampled six of those sites, and we’re on our way to the seventh. Since we’re doing so well, we asked permission to sample sites even further south, so that’s where we’ll be headed next!One of the fun things about this field season is that we get to sample at so many [...]

A Thai field season in 90 seconds (+Video) 

Quake Hunters [2016-02-17 13:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info

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Kruawun Jankaew (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Evelien Boes (Ghent University, Belgium) and I have been exploring lakes and lowlands along the coast of Thailand for the last couple of weeks. Following on from my last post on our first couple of days, we've condensed the rest of the field season into less than 90 seconds of video...Focussing on the coastline north of Phuket, we've been coring coastal lakes to uncover layers of sand left by the 2004 tsunami. We've been working from a small [...]

Get ready... Get set... 

polar soils blog [2016-02-02 15:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (295 visits) info

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It’s almost time to start our next field season! Our field season begins when we fly south on February 18. That’s just a couple of weeks away!This year, we will complete our “latitudinal gradient” along the Antarctic Peninsula. For this project, we are exploring the diversity of soil biological communities along the entire Antarctic Peninsula. We will discover what species live in all of the places we visit. We will also compare who lives at each site with the plants and soil chemistry [...]

Preparing for the next field season 

polar soils blog [2015-12-09 18:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (238 visits) info

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Usually, by this time of the year, I'm already on my way to Antarctica. This season, we're leaving for Antarctica a bit later than usual. We won't be heading down for our next field season until February of 2016. (That's usually when we're coming home!)Even though we don't leave for another couple of months, we've still been busy preparing for the field season. I built some equipment that we'll need while we're in the field. You might remember from last season's photos that we built a [...]

Polar Ice, Penguin Tracks and Phytoplankton 

State of the Planet [2015-11-10 21:30:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info

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Jeff Bowman, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is in Antarctica for the field season studying how phytoplankton and bacteria interact. Follow his reports from Palmer

Why it's Nice to Teach in California: It's Field Season All Year! 

Geotripper [2015-02-12 18:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info

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I'm not sure when or why being in California became a "negative" thing. Sure, we have our urban areas and horrible traffic and air pollution, wildfires, and long droughts. But on the other hand, we have the most diverse set of geological landscapes to be found anywhere on the planet. One can quite seriously work on a tan at the beach, jump in a car and go skiing, and then slide down a sand

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Donnell Vista and Sonora Pass 

Geotripper [2015-01-25 05:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (653 visits) info

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It's gloomy and foggy, and I haven't seen the sun for days. It's a few more weeks before field season (Death Valley!), but I can't help exploring the sunnier places from warmer times. I'm looking back at the pics from our fall semester where we explored a lot of places in the Sierra Nevada that aren't Yosemite. That's the thing. Say "Sierra Nevada", and a lot of people will immediately

Wrapping up the Field Season 

polar soils blog [2015-01-07 01:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info

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We've been spending a lot of time on the microscopes looking at our samples. We are interested in the invertebrates living in the soil. At Rothera, we've only been able to look at the larger invertebrates, such as Springtails and mites. The smaller invertebrates (the nematodes and rotifers) require higher power microscopes, so we will look at those from our labs at home.Here's some of what we've seen:Collembola, also known as SpringtailsWe've found a LOT of springtails. Many of the samples from [...]

Sculpting Tropical Peaks 

State of the Planet [2014-09-30 14:21:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info

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Max Cunningham, a graduate student at Lamont-Doherty, traveled to Costa Rica's Mount Chirripó this past summer to test the idea that mountain glaciers carved the summit we see today. He and his colleagues hope to eventually pin down when Chirripó's high-elevation valleys eroded into their current form. Check out a recap of their 2014 field

Coring, coring, coring 

Quake Hunters [2014-02-06 14:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info

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Much of our last field season was spent coring tidal marsh sediments. See previous posts for more details on what we do both in the field and back in the labs. In order to sample sediments several metres below the ground surface we use a sediment corer - either a gouge corer (for reasonably consolidated sediments) or a Russian corer (in peats or more unconsolidated sediments). Here is a short video showing us using a gouge corer at Chaihuin, with the invaluable help of Bill Austin from St [...]

Back in Chile 

Quake Hunters [2014-01-13 02:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info

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A year on from our last field season, and we’re back in Chile continuing our search for evidence of earthquakes and tsunamis. So far we’ve visited two new sites – Pucatrihue (west of Osorno) and Llico (3 hours further south). We are working on the salt marshes at these sites and are interested in the sequence of sediments which have accumulated in the marshes over time. As the environment (or elevation of the land relative to the sea) changes, the nature of the sediment which is deposited [...]

Wooster Geologists Present at AGU 2013 

Wooster Geologists [2013-12-13 00:02:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (45 visits) info

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today was a big day for Wooster Geologists Alex Hiatt (’14) and Mary Reinthal (’16). They presented their work on subglacial volcanic ridges, along with Ellie Was (’14, Dickinson College). You may remember these fantastic undergraduate researchers from last summer’s field season. They’ve been hard at work since then, processing the

Summer's End 

Daily Fossil [2013-08-27 23:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
So today marks the end of field season for us summer staff! For most of us, school starts next week (!), so it's time to pack up our fossil gear and get back into the swing of doing essays and lab reports. Joe, our curator, will still be outside digging fossils and giving tours until the end of October, so don't worry, there's still lots of time to get a personal tour of the CFDC.It seems like we've only been here a month, but there's a lot we've accomplished; doing tons of plaster jackets [...]

Field season in full swing 

RMDRC paleo lab [2013-07-25 17:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We've been in South Dakota and Montana working the Hell Creek and Judith River Formations respectively.Jacob for scale before we open a Triceratops siteSouth Dakota had seen its fair share of rain, where we got rained out more in two weeks there than in my entire previous decade of Hell Creek digging combined. We pulled a few Triceratops bones and finished evaluating a few sites before moving on north.Nanotyrannus teeth collected from a single lag depositIn [...]

Geology Photo of the Week #39 

GeoSphere [2013-07-25 15:33:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
I have been a bit lax with the photo’s of the week lately. Sorry about that! Here is a nice one from last year’s field season showing a cute little marmot sitting on an erratic with a great vista behind him. Cheers,

Field blog: Welcome to a field season at Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia! by Erin DiMaggio 

Active Tectonics Blog [2013-07-09 12:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
Erin DiMaggio was invited to write a field blog for the GeoPrisms Spring 2013 newsletter. She presents a nice set of highlights from our recent field season at Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. The link is here:

Ed heads North 

Quake Hunters [2013-01-30 03:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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Ben, Daria and Isobel investigate the stratigraphyFollowing Emma's departure back to the UK, I headed north from Valdivia for part 2 of my field season in Chile. Three buses, each slower and more decrepit than the last took me to Temuco, then Carahue and finally Tirua. Here, I met up with Marco Cisternas again, along with Lisa Ely, Alan Nelson, Rob Wesson and Isobel Hong from the US. Ben Horton and Daria Nikitina swelled our numbers to 8 when they arrived yesterday. We've spent the last [...]

As the end of the first field season approaches 

Quake Hunters [2013-01-23 21:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (51 visits) info
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After almost three weeks in Chile, the end of the first part of our field campaign is approaching. Emma is leaving tomorrow and Ed is travelling around the Arauco area (further north) and then Chiloe (further south) for another couple of weeks of field work with colleagues from the US and Chile.All in all it's been a successful first field season - we've been to 6 new sites, collected 225 modern marsh samples, and nearly 4 metres of sediment to analyse when we get back. That's going to be a lot [...]

The 2012 Paleo Project Challenge 

The Open Source Paleontologist [2012-11-14 17:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (31 visits) info
Everyone has an unfinished project. Most of us have at least a half dozen. Those partly finished manuscripts, paintings, data sets, and preparation projects. Oh, we started out with good intentions. Maybe we even poured a productive week into it. But then, the honeymoon glow faded. Something else got in the way. The field season, or teaching duties, or another more pressing project, or a

When will the heat end? 

RMDRC paleo lab [2012-08-31 21:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info

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Over 110 degrees on the outcrop. Ouch.We are back, finishing our Hell Creek Formation field season and starting our Judith River Formation work in South Dakota and Montana. The fires are pretty bad out there due tot he drought, and silly high temperatures are the norm for now.Not quite a dinosaurWe located a few specimens including a juvenile ceratopsian in a pretty tough sandstone, and we will be returning in a few weeks to collect the rest. Enjoy the photos!Oh look! A Pachycephalosaurus!Heat [...]
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