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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

Head on over to the EGU Booth! 

You can find the EGU Booth in Hall X2 on the Brown Level. This is the place to come if you’d like to meet members of EGU Council and Committees (Meet EGU) and find out more about EGU activities. Here you can discover the EGU’s 17 open access journals, browse the EGU blogs (GeoLog, the EGU Blog Network and the EGU Division Blogs), catch up on the conference Twitter feed, and more! We will also be giving away beautiful geosciences postcards, which the EGU will post for you free of [...]

"free" conference 

I was still technically part of a research group after I'd finished grad school. The primary grant that I had worked under had a few stipulations, one of which was that the research group would present the findings of the work at x number of national/international conferences. The grant-giving organization had money set aside specifically for the conference attendance, and to make a long

Help! I’m appearing as a scientific expert on TV 

At the beginning of the year, the small village of Rutland, in the heart of the UK, was hit by a 3.8 Magnitude earthquake. The quake didn’t cause any significant damage or injuries, but hit the headlines as seismic activity is a bit of a novelty in the UK! In the wake of the quake, the UK press and media picked up the story and sought the opinions of experts to take part in interviews and give their views on the ground motions. Amongst those approached was my colleague and friend, Steve [...]

Geology Photo of the Week #45 

This weeks photo is once again related to permafrost and the Arctic….something tells me I miss being there. Anyway, the gorgeous photo below shows a terrific example of polygonal patterned ground from Siberia. Patterned ground is a phenomenon that occurs frequently in cold regions and is caused by the seasonal freeze-thaw of the active layer/soil. This process can produce a phenomenon called ice wedges that extend deep into the permafrost (see my photo of a large ice wedge below) as [...]

AGU Abstract: Dynamic Hydraulic Conductivity, Streambed Sediment, and Biogeochemistry Following Stream Restoration 

Finishing MS student Stuart Baker will be representing our research group at the AGU Fall Meeting in December. Here’s what he’ll be presenting in the session on “Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: Identifying and Integrating Physical, Biological, and Chemical Processes” Dynamic Hydraulic Conductivity, Streambed Sediment, and Biogeochemistry Following Stream Restoration Anne Jefferson

post-doc position is available in the Programme for Palaeobiology, Uppsala University 

Post-doc position available in the Programme for Palaeobiology, Dept of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.A two-year post-doc position is available in the Programme for Palaeobiology, Earth Sciences, Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden, starting in the autumn of 2015 (negotiable date). We encourage applicants from all palaeobiological subjects (NB: including molecular studies of evolution of development). However, it should be noted that internal research funds for the position are likely to be limited [...]

Head on over to the EGU Booth! 

You can find the EGU Booth in Hall X on the Blue Level. This is the place to come if you’d like to meet members of EGU Council and Committees (Meet EGU) and find out more about EGU activities. Here you can discover the EGU’s 17 open access journals, browse the EGU blogs (GeoLog, the EGU Blog Network and the EGU Division Blogs), catch up on the conference Twitter feed, and more! We will also be giving away beautiful geosciences postcards, which the EGU will post for you free of charge. [...]

Going Green (Infrastructure): Opportunities to join Anne’s research group 

I’m thrilled to announce that my research group will be expanding this summer. I’ve received a couple of pieces of funding that enable me to continue and expand the work I’ve been doing related to the hydrologic and water quality … Continue reading

Postdoctoral Position in Marine Micropalaeontology at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University 

Postdoctoral Position in Marine Micropalaeontology at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, (ID 688420)The Centre for Past Climate Studies at the Department of Geoscience at the Aarhus University, Denmark, invites applications for a position in marine micropalaeontology at the postdoctoral level. The successful candidate will be part of a research group studying late Quaternary and Holocene palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography of the larger North Atlantic region. He/she will partake [...]

UA plots of Duncan earthquake seismograms 

The University of Arizona's Global Seismology and Tectonics group in the Geosciences Dept. created a webpage for the magnitude 5.2 Duncan (southeast Arizona) earthquake of June 28. One of the graduate students in the research group, Jon Delph, put together plots of the earthquake record from the Tucson permanent station [right] as well as several other North American permanent

Para hacer la tesis en la Universidad de Viena 

The research group of Prof. Martin Zuschin, Department of Paleontology at the University of Vienna, Austria, has an open PhD position for candidates with a strong focus on palaeoecology of marine invertebrates. The successful applicant will be hired for 4 years as University Assistant (“prae doc”). The topics investigated in our group include the molluscan palaeodiversity and faunal gradients in the marine fossil record of Europe, temporal and environmental trends in the intensity of [...]

Spatial variations of effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere in Central America and surrounding regions 

Alberto Jiménez-Díaz (link to his page), a Ph.D. candidate of our research group, has published an excellent work with the title: “Spatial variations of effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere in Central America and surrounding regions” on Earth and Planetary … Continue reading

PhD Assistantship in lidar feature extraction at Utah State University 

Via the Gilbert Club email list, a PhD assistantship position at Utah State University working with Patrick Belmont on feature extraction from lidar topography data: I have an open PhD assistantship for a project focused on feature extraction and analysis of lidar topography data. The student will be involved in an NSF/USGS Powell Center Synthesis Working Group and will have the opportunity to work closely with leaders in the field from across the US and France, including Paola Passalacqua, [...]

Tectonic setting of the recent damaging seismic series in the Southeastern Betic Cordillera, Spain 

Recently we have published a review of the tectonic setting of recent seismic series in the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula. The work has been done by part of our research group, but mainly by our Ph. D. student Emilio Rodríguez Escudero,who … Continue reading

Mid-crustal processes in the Himalaya 

Micah J Jessup, University of Tennessee–Knoxville It is a privilege to share some of my ongoing research with the structural geology and tectonics community in celebration of the 125th Anniversary for the Geological Society of America. My research group’s interests in structural geology and tectonics are aimed at continent- and micro-scale processes of deformation, metamorphism,

Climate and Conquest: How Did Genghis Khan Rise? 

Eight hundred years ago, relatively small armies of mounted warriors suddenly exploded outward from the cold, arid high-elevation grasslands of Mongolia and conquered the largest contiguous empire in history. They reshaped world geography, culture and history in ways that still resound today. How did they do it? Among the forces at work: the Mongols’ fast horses and brilliant cavalry tactics; their openness to new technologies; and the political genius of Genghis Khan. Now, a research group [...]

Fresh Water Mosasaur Paper Out 

The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids Authors: 1. Attila Ősi (a) 2. Michael W. Caldwell (b) 3. László Makádi (c) Affiliations: a. MTA-ELTE Lendület Dinosaur Research Group, Eötvös University Department of Physical and Applied Geology, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Budapest, Hungary b. Department of Biological

Delayed in New Zealand 

Well, our flight never left Christchurch last night. We've been delayed for "at least" 24 hours, which means we get to spend another 24 hours in the beautiful summer weather. That could be fun, except we're anxious to get started on our field work!What do you do during an unexpected 24-hour delay? Well, mostly we're sitting in our hotel room working from our computers. However, we did venture out for a short drive along the coast. This is a picture of the three of us on Lyttleton Harbor. This [...]