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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Hydrologist + professor = Anne’s answers to career profile questions
A few weeks ago, I was asked to answer some questions for a career profile section of a website aimed at students looking at college degree options. The website creators wanted to use me as their profile of a hydrologist, … Continue reading
Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week
Volcanoes It’s been 1 year since Eyjafjallajokull closed European airspace. Here’s a great retrospective from Erik Klemetti: http://bigthink.com/ideas/37870 Meanwhile, over at volcano1010, John Stevenson reports on the latest results from scientists who are studying the eruption, especially the tough problem … Continue reading
Not to scale
Like all geologists, I’m a great fan of scale bars. Except, it seems, on some of my figures… Continue reading
Backyard science: isotope hydrology style
A few days ago, someone asked me whether I’d done any Citizen Science projects with my 4 year old daughter. I said “no”, but then spouted off a couple of projects I was looking forward to starting in the next … Continue reading
Earthquake location matters, part eleventy
It’s been a month since the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami rattled then swamped northern Honshu, and Japan continues to be rattled by sizeable aftershocks. A magnitude 7.1 shock last Thursday initially set off further tsunami alerts but the rupture turned … Continue reading
