Author Archives: Anne Jefferson

Hope Jahren, isotope detective

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

The waning days of the academic year seem like an apt time to recognize the mentors who have had an important influences on my careers. I could wax lyrical about my Ph.D. advisor, but he reads the blog and I’ll … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Upper Mississippi Islands

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

The last few weeks have seen me overwhelmingly busy with #sciwrite, #gradingjail, #proposalpurgatory, and #deathbydataanalysis, and it doesn’t look like I’ll come up for air for a little while longer. But to give the blog a little freshening, and help … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, photos

Scenic Saturday: The Temple

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

Right now I have a graduate student working on a project to understand the effects of stream restoration in altering patterns of groundwater-stream exchange. She’s working in four stream reaches with varying restoration patterns and watershed land uses. In one … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, fieldwork, geomorphology, hydrology, photos

Where on Google Earth #329 – Now with 100% fewer coordinates*

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

Where has Anne’s wandering eye taken her on Google Earth this time? Continue reading →

Categories: geopuzzling

Scenic Saturday: The pretty side of stream restoration

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

Some days, working in restored urban streams is quite enjoyable. The picture below is one of our field sites for a multi-year study of the downstream effects of stormwater management. This is Edwards Branch, and it is one of the … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, fieldwork, geomorphology, photos

Scenic Saturday: Year End Reflections

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The last day of the year saw me doing field work in my very favorite spot in North Carolina, a short drive from Charlotte which takes me to a place that feels worlds away. I was collecting the final dataset … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, fieldwork, photos

Scenic Saturday: Mammoth Cave, where surface water and groundwater meet

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

It’s that wonderful time of year, as one semester finally gives up the fight and a new one waits in the shadows, pouncing on unsuspecting students and faculty just as they breathe a sigh of that they’ve won the first … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, hydrology

Writing Challenge: The end, or is it?

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams I’m a week overdue for my final sciwrite check in, and I didn’t make my goal of submitting the manuscript by the time … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, publication

Writing Challenge, Week 3: Slow and steady

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

It’s been three weeks since I issued the initial challenge to join me in a month-ish of intense writing activity. Last week I needed to redefine what I meant by making satisfactory progress, and several of you shared your own … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, publication

Dear Nature, You got a sexist story, but when you published it, you gave it your stamp of approval and became sexist too.

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Dear Nature, “Womanspace” by Ed Rybicki is the most appalling thing I have ever read in a scientific journal. When I read the Futures (science fiction) piece you published on 29 September 2011, about how the hero and a man … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, publication, ranting, society