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Category Archives: fieldwork
Scenic Saturday: Year End Reflections
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
Our Highly Allochthonous travels in 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, ’tis the season for retrospectives, and we’re surprised that no-one this year seems to have started up the travel meme that has been so popular in the geoblogosphere in the past. After all, it … 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
Categories: academic life, by Anne, fieldwork, hydrology
When it rains a lot and the mountains fall down
Warm heavy rainfall + glaciers + steep mountain flanks + exposed unconsolidated sediments are a recipe for debris flows in the Cascades Range. Let me tell you the story of one.
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Macro rock photography with the iPhone
and a little help from a hand lens…
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Oman’s view of the Snowball Earth
Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago – but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
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Geospatial data and the web (#scio10 preparation)
What’s available, what should be available, what tools do we need to use them?
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Field Trip Diary: Part 3
More photos and commentary from my field trip to Oman
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Inspiration in ancient rocks and simple physics
[a post by Anne Jefferson] If you ask my mom how I got started in geology, she’d tell you that it began with her taking 3-year-old me to see landslides coming off steep hillslopes during the spring thaw. That makes … Continue reading
Field trip diary: Part 2
More pretty photos from my Oman trip
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